THUS SPAKE DARWIN !!! (on drugs,no doubt!!)

Craig Fisher
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William Bednarzyk, Jr" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: new to group


> Thank you, all that replied with a "real" answer.  I knew Art was "trying"
> to be funny...
>
> Bill
>
> P.S. Art, are you the "Shell Answer Man" ?
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On
> Behalf Of Kev Lamprell
> Sent:   Saturday, June 17, 2000 7:11 PM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Subject:        Re: new to group
>
> Nice one Art
> Kev
>
> Art Weil wrote:
>
> > Dear Bill;-
> >     Your friend is absolutely right. Shells, which are calcarious
> cytoplasm,
> > are created from the  (mostly) large seaweed fronds. The fronds break
off,
> and
> > on their way to the bottom of the sea, curl to the right in the Nothern
> > Hemisphere and to the left (or sinistralia) in the Southern Hemisphere.
> The
> > individual protoblasts are replaced by calcium carbonate molecules which
> > inhabit all salt waters. On reaching the bottom, the new shell-like
> creatures
> > are subjected to tides and tsunamis which wash them ashore in places
such
> as
> > Florida and New Jersey.
> >     The Answer Man
> >
>