Of course, Tom, but if you were a Marine, you'd have to sleep WITH them IN
the bed!
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Clenche <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: Tongue-in-Cheek


>Hi;
>
>Doesn't everyone store their shells under the bed for those sleepless
>nights????
>
>Thomas Clenche
>Petley, Random Island, Newfoundland
>
>
>>From: Linda Bush <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Tongue-in-Cheek
>>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:35:06 -0500
>>
>>"You say you don`t have enough space for storing  your shells?  You say
you
>>can`t find some of them since you dismantled that last exhibit?  Is this
>>what`s getting you down, little old buddy?  Well, never fear!  Hold your
>>head down lower and go look among the "dust bunnies" under the beds in
your
>>house, AND....you might do what yours truly did this morning.  She found a
>>whole box of pectens hiding under the bed in the master bedroom!   I
wonder
>>why I thought I was missing a pecten or two.  Egads, I must be getting
>>old(er?)  It`s a good thing I have been recataloguing.  (Don`t be as dumb
>>as I was!)  Have you found some of your shells in odd places?   At least,
I
>>was able to laugh at myself and reaquanted myself with some of my lovely
>>Chlamys senatoria!    Linda
>
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