The train operator says that the sea gulls drop them from flight so that the shells will breaks open and the bird can eat the animal inside.
LION found it interesting nonetheless.
ROAR
Seashells WERE occasionally used for ballast in some places many years ago. Oyster shells were used on line down to the Delaware Bay in NJ where Oysters were harvested when it was first constructed.
They should drop them on the 3rd rail so they can fry 'em on the half-shell.
I didn’t think they allowed 'em in third-rail territory because of the danger of shell-shock.
Anyone else have any pearls of wisdom?
B-o-o-o-o…
- Erik
X2
There is nothing better than a bad pun!
[;)] Were any trains injured during those events???
Jim
Actually, a good pun is better than a bad pun, but those aren’t easy to dredge out of the oyster bed.
Now That’s a Real “Pearl” of a Joke!
Agree!
With all the replies to my first posting, looks like I should have clammed up and given my typing mussels a rest…
But that would have been shellfish and un-conch-ionable of you.
I really enjoy bad puns; they belong at the top of the humor list. CShaveRR is incurable, is my guess.
But lengthy Spoonerisms as a joke’s tag line are also up there, as in the awfully long joke that ends: ‘He was arrested for transporting gulls across a state lion for immortal porpoises’.
And lengthy alliterations are right up there, too. Somebody on the TRAINS staff is also hooked on 'em. The March 2012 issue has been around a couple of months and I just noticed the cover was loaded with them. ‘Confidential Close Calls’, ‘CSX Cumberland’ (very weak), ‘Crazy Cargoes’, and a 4 banger: ‘Searching for Steam in the Summer of Seventy-one (hiding behind 71)’.
Wonder who the culprit is?
Art
I’m a wordsmith by avocation–what’d you expect? I’m usually hammered (on Diet Dew) and forge for stuff like this. Anvil let it go at that.
Say goodnite, Gracie…
What no one posted the line about:
She sells sea shells by the seashore?
Thx IGN
And so why do mermaids wear sea shells?
'Cause D shells are too large and B shells are too small!
You’d should be ashamed of yourself.
This is turning into one halibut of a serious forum folks, so please, stop carpping around folks!