And they squirt you as well when you step near them on the beach. posted by Razzle Bathbone at 1:54 PM on February 6, 2004
Witty: It's true, it's really pronounced that way.
No, I don't understand either, and I've lived here for years. posted by Captain_Tenille at 2:08 PM on February 6, 2004
Those things look like the giant colon I saw at the Mutter Museum in Philly... posted by crank at 2:16 PM on February 6, 2004
I can't be the only Greener Alum on Metafilter. Speak up people! posted by ssmith at 2:26 PM on February 6, 2004
I went to Evergreen for a year, and I live on the busline to Evergreen (yay Route #41!). Does that count? posted by Captain_Tenille at 2:35 PM on February 6, 2004
I've seen them being sold at my local Chinese super store. I, for a long
time, wondered what they were -- they looked totally alien to me. posted by NewBornHippy at 2:43 PM on February 6, 2004
We called em "Peckerclams" when I was younger. posted by Eekacat at 3:52 PM on February 6, 2004
Oh yeah, and geoducks are cool! posted by ukamikanasi at 4:03 PM on February 6, 2004
Before it was changed to the Flexidollar (or whatever), the Evergreen student food service credit system was called Geobucks. I heard about that before I ever knew about the geoducks thing, so you can understand my being disturbed at people paying for food with "Gooey Bucks". Yech. posted by cnx at 4:10 PM on February 6, 2004
I was kinda hoping that someone would post something about this one day... posted by Wizzle at 4:27 PM on February 6, 2004
I don't know which is funnier: geoducks or Evergreen State College.... posted by grefo at 4:48 PM on February 6, 2004
We called em "Peckerclams" when I was younger.
Thank god. I thought I was the only one finding these things incredibly phallic.
If you really fancy 'em, contribute to the Wikipedia article, wouldja? posted by jengod at 5:00 PM on February 6, 2004
Ahh Geoduck, the one word that helped me googlewhack more times than I could count... posted by Space Coyote at 5:18 PM on February 6, 2004
Long-necked, spitting ocean-dwellers? Yarr... 'tis the mythical sea-llama of yore.
Yarr.
/premature-talk-like-a-pirate-day posted by stonerose at 5:20 PM on February 6, 2004
So it's pronounced Gooey-cities? posted by wendell at 6:25 PM on February 6, 2004
Another Greener here. (Class of '93... well, December '93, so I walked at the '94 graduation. I also attended TESC in 1983-85 before taking a few years off, so if there's anyone here who was at Evergreen then... say hi!)
Evergreen is a funny place. It can be a great education. It can also be 4 years of smoking pot and listening to Phish. For some people it manages to be both. It's quite an experience and I loved going there despite my non-hippiedom (which is why I went back to finish my degree there after 7 years off).
The first week I was at school for orientation they had a guy in a big geoduck suit walking around. Imagine arriving at your first week in college and you see what appears to be a giant penis wandering around Red Square. posted by litlnemo at 6:35 PM on February 6, 2004
Oh, wow, now this song makes so much more sense to me. A friend of mine went through a public library children's music phase whilst unemployed many years back, and would make me these really bizzarro cool mix tapes. He wrote it in the liner as "The Gooey Duck Song," so I never fully understood it.
Thank you so much for clearing up something I never realized was a mystery to me! posted by wells at 7:27 PM on February 6, 2004
posted by xmutex at 1:37 PM on February 6, 2004