# The Usenet Clam

> Subject: Re: The Clam
> From: Steve Mueller
> Date: 1996/08/19
> Message-ID: <32182933.1B43@garlic.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.personals.ads,alt.personals.misc,alt.personals.poly,alt.personals,ba.personals

    Brad Templeton wrote:
    >
    > From what I recall, it's a hoax STD that some guy has invented and is
    > trying to turn into an urban legend.   The alleged disease has no
    > symptoms other than increasing your sex drive (ie. to help itself spread)
    > and part of the hoax is that some people actually want to catch it.

       Actually, there is another symptom claimed -- small, clam-like bumps
    that appear occasionally.  In one post made by this woman, she cited a
    Web page for the Chowder Club.  (I'm assuming for this discussion
    that this person is a woman since she posted as a SWF even though the
    E-mail address at the Web site lists David K. Colroom -- more than one
    person *could* share an E-mail address.)

       Thinking it was about Clam Chowder, I checked it out.  It was about
    the clam.  There were many links to other references, and I read a
    "paper" on it.  It seemed real, but I wasn't looking to expose it as a
    scam, just trying to find out more about it.

       I have attached a post from ba.dance that includes the Web site I saw
    (thanks to Deja News).

       At first, I assumed "the clam" was short for chlamydia, too.

       Steve

    >>> Posting from ba.dance <<<

    : The City Chowder Club is holding a joing benefit for the
    : CCC and the Mollusca Information Center (for more info:
    : http://www.nepenthes.com/Sex/mollusca.html).  Come to
    : Scooters, August 24 from 9PM to 4AM for a pro-sex, safe-
    : sex extravaganza of clam diggin', education, and support.
    : Safe sex supplies will be provided; a $7.50 donation is
    : requested.  Non-alcoholic drinks will be available.

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