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Submitted by Sarah on Wed, 01/04/2006 - 9:13pm.

While reading Steve's great Evergroove Trivia stories, a story of my own keeps knocking at my mind and insisting on being told, so I'll concede and write it.

Mid 1990s or so, I'm at TESC, enjoying my studies. One day on a break during some sort of group activity, several of us fell into chit chat, nothing important being said, just idle conversation.

Somehow we ended up talking about food poisoning. Stories of various food poisoning episodes were shared, we laughed a lot and competed to tell the worst story. I piped up with my story of getting very sick on clam chowder, two different times at two different restaurants in Port Townsend.

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I said that both times I felt like I was gonna die. Before I could start the next sentence, one of my fellow class members pronounced sternly......"You should have.".

My brilliant response was "Huh?".

He continued. "You should have. Died. You should have died. Clams are fellow living creatures with souls.......".

My ability to hear and comprehend somehow switched off I guess in shock. The group of us were walking up stairs at this point, he was ahead and half turned towards me. He wasn't smiling. He wasn't doing a parody of anyone. He really meant it. I should have died.

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That was very shellfish of yo

That was very shellfish of you to live at the expense of that creature!
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Best way to handle that would

Best way to handle that would have been to keep clam.
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That's what I get for coming

That's what I get for coming out of my shell.
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Well, look at you now though.

Well, look at you now though. Happy as a clam at high tide!
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You'll most likely burn in sh

You'll most likely burn in shell.
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Unless I get chowdered, I'm p

Unless I get chowdered, I'm probably safe, the high tide will extinguish any fires of shell. I'm quite clam now.
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Can you dig it, man? The worl

Can you dig it, man? The world is your oyster. Do you know where oysters shop around here? At the Capital Mall-usk! Aw shucks, I have no more pearls of wisdom.
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Now that we're putting some m

Now that we're putting some mussel into this comment thread, I find myself getting a bit crabby over the shellfish puns.
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The best cure for feeling raw

The best cure for feeling raw and crabby is a nice hot steam and melted butter.
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I can sea at this point we ar

I can sea at this point we are becoming real bottom feeders when it comes to puns. Water you going to think of next? These bad puns oar hard for me to fathom. Some of them are knot even finny.
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