The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #3078956
Posted By: Ed T
20-Jan-11 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
HAPPY AS A CLAM
A clam has only two goals in life: to eat and to have sex, hence the phrase "happy as a clam". Unfortunately, as the clam has no brain, it derives no real pleasure from either food or sex. The clam is a chemically driven shell full of salty flesh that exists to procreate. The clam's remarable fruitfulness serves not only to reproduce itself, bit also to feed countless organisms in the seaside food chain.
A clam two or three inches in diameter would probably be three to five years old.
It takes about 25 to 28 months for clam larvae to reach a market size clam.
Undisturbed, clams live to the thirty-three to thirty-six year old range.
Clams feed year-round, though they feed less in winter because they need less energy.
(accoring to Mac's Back Door Oyster Bar and Grill, anyway).