# The Usenet Clam

> Subject: Re: Clam diggers
> From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
> Date: 1996/08/22
> Message-ID: <4vj5f6$2gb@fugue.clari.net>
> Newsgroups: ba.personals,alt.folklore.urban

    In article <321C063F.1BD7@garlic.com>, Steve Mueller  <shm@garlic.com> wrote:
    >Sonya & Marie wrote:
    >>
    >> In article <321a9d37.236444076@news.ricochet.net>, dncm@ricochet.net says...
    >>
    >> What is a clam digger?
    >
    >   A clam digger is somebody who *wants* to contract the clam.  The clam
    >supposedly kicks your libido into overdrive, and some people think this
    >would be a good thing.
    >
    >   They had better hope that the clam doesn't have any long term effects.
    >
    >   Steve

    It has zero long term effects, other than making you look silly on the net,
    since it is, from all appearances, a hoax, not a disease.   The web of
    carriers and studiers doesn't exist except on the hoaxer's web site.
    The supposed scientific name of the "disease" is "mollusca" which is
    a *phylum* -- no biologist would create a disease's scientific name using an
    existing phylum or other major taxonomic classification.   It's like
    calling a disease "mammal."
    --
    Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp.	 info@clari.net
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