Thanks for the chuckles (you too, Ross and David). Of course, no one will
ever take any of us seriously again.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Karen Vanderven
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 8:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Queen Conch
>
>
> 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
> >
>