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Karen Vanderven <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 9 Sep 2000 09:04:29 -0400
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Well, Art, one  can at least  make a poem (limerick)  out of your rhyming
words:
( I can't let it pass either :-) )

There was a Benedictine Monk
Who found a gorgeous Queen Conch
When he heard a loud honk
Startled, he dropped it - ker-plonk
At the loss he went into a blue fonk

Karen

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Art Weil wrote:

> Dear Andy;-   (Can't let this pass.)
>     A Conch was discovered, a queen
>     By Andrew who said,"Aint it keen?!
>             I don't do much shellin'
>             But this one, I'm tellin',
>     Is one of the best I have seen."
>                     Art
>
> "Andrew K. Rindsberg" wrote:
>
> > I think that I shall never whonk
> > A poem as pretty as Queen Conch.
> >
> > ...Well, it's a start. There aren't many rhymes for 'conch'. Ker-plonk? Blue
> > fonk? Benedictine monk? You see the problem.
> >
> > Andrew K. Rindsberg
> > Geological Survey of Alabama
>

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