Posted on 03/03/2005 10:23:50 AM PST by Right Wing It
I was unaware up until this point that there was a German word meaning "happiness at the misfortune of others" The Word is "SCHADENFREUDE". What makes it ironic is that it is the only national language in the world to have a word for such a subject. Who else thinks there should be an American word for this?
I always thought they were tougher, chewier and less flavorful than the Pacific razorback clams, which were the ones I liked best ~ but I know others who swear by them.
I know.
*checking trousers*
naw, one's enough
yeah - commercial harvesting has taken a toll.
sardines used to be a LOT bigger, but they just don't escape the nets often enough to live long enough to grow to their full size anymore
Yeahbut, the Geoduck's club is bigger!
Especially its fan club!
Tougher I don't care for. Tell me please, how many make a meal?
The might be handy to use to scare people with, though.
They - not the
Hi Heels doesn't like them.
I've traveled all over this country
Prospecting and digging for gold
I've tunneled, hydraulicked and cradled
And I have been frequently sold
For each man who got rich by mining
Perceiving that hundreds grew poor
I made up my mind to try farming
The only pursuit that was sure
So, rolling my grub in my blanket
I left all my tools on the ground
I started one morning to shank it
For the country they call Puget Sound
Arriving flat broke in midwinter
I found it enveloped in fog
And covered all over with timber
Thick as hair on the back of a dog
When I looked on the prospects so gloomy
The tears trickled over my face
And I thought that my travels had brought me
To the end of the jumping-off place
I staked me a claim in the forest
And sat myself down to hard toil
For two years I chopped and I struggled
But I never got down to the soil
I tried to get out of the country
But poverty forced me to stay
Until I became an old settler
Then nothing could drive me away
And now that I'm used to the climate
I think that if a man ever found
A place to live easy and happy
That Eden is on Puget Sound
No longer the slave of ambition
I laugh at the world and its shams
As I think of my pleasant condition
Surrounded by acres of clams
like I said... one's enough ;)
American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God!
I love clams. My daughter has orders to make sure there are fresh clams for everybody at my post-funeral bash.
How to you know all these fussy eaters?
One's enough to scare people?
BTW, my aunts way of fixing them made them alot more tender.....much more so than if you just chopped them and made a chowder or fritters.
Hi Heels thinks they look like sea penises. Come to think of it, she thinks everything looks like some kind of penis.
makes 'em gasp and their eyes go all round and glazed, yeah
I think the fresh seafood is the thing I miss most about no longer living in the Pacific Northwest. Up there the availablity of fresh clams, salmon, crab and oysters was heaven for me! I sure miss that - I actually ate fresh seafood almost everyday. I don't miss the weather from up there but I do miss that seafood!
That's how I feel about New England - I don't miss the cold, snow, or Democrats, but I miss the fish and shellfish.
In the Midwest, there was just catfish.
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