What rhymes with "oyster"? Ah, I have it! As you sit within your cloister, Dipping sauce onto an oyster, Think of all the years and eons Needed to evolve these bivalve peons. Stenzel says the O-stre-ina Had a Late Trias begina. And Newell says the Bi-val-via Started in the mid Cam-bria. But I say these learned Ph.D.'s, Despite their much-deserved degrees, Have strayed from truth in their great mission: The oysters must be Hors-d'oeuvrician. Andrew K. Rindsberg Geological Survey of Alabama