Comments on: Dig a Duck a Day!

Dig a Duck a Day!

evilcupcakes — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:36:59 -0800

Geoducks! Pronounced "gooey-duck"!
Go, Geoducks go! Through the mud and the sand! Let's go! Siphon high, Squirt it out! Swivel all about! Let it all hang out!
~from the Evergreen State College Fight song. Everything about that Pacific Rim anomaly the glorious Geoduck. Happy Friday!

By: xmutex

xmutex — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:37:55 -0800

hah, I remember wondering just WTF a geoduck was when I started eating sushi.

By: cinderful

cinderful — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:45:37 -0800

We used to try to 'hunt' them on the beach when I was younger. Those buggers can dig FAST. (or maybe they just had really long necks. whatever)

By: Witty

Witty — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:46:29 -0800

Geoducks! Pronounced "gooey-duck"! I don't believe you.

By: car_bomb

car_bomb — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:48:35 -0800

Bivalvefilter.

By: cinderful

cinderful — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:51:14 -0800

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:54:14 -0800

And they squirt you as well when you step near them on the beach.

By: Captain_Tenille

Captain_Tenille — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:08:28 -0800

Witty: It's true, it's really pronounced that way. No, I don't understand either, and I've lived here for years.

By: crank

crank — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:16:42 -0800

Those things look like the giant colon I saw at the Mutter Museum in Philly...

By: ssmith

ssmith — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:26:23 -0800

I can't be the only Greener Alum on Metafilter. Speak up people!

By: Captain_Tenille

Captain_Tenille — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:35:46 -0800

I went to Evergreen for a year, and I live on the busline to Evergreen (yay Route #41!). Does that count?

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:43:48 -0800

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.

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:52:47 -0800

We called em "Peckerclams" when I was younger.

By: ukamikanasi

ukamikanasi — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:03:31 -0800

A dear friend of mine went to Evergreen... does that count? :D He was an industrial design major. He now works in the shop that makes the blown glass and paper lamps for Starbucks. Oh yeah, and geoducks are cool!

By: cnx

cnx — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:10:43 -0800

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.

By: Wizzle

Wizzle — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:27:15 -0800

I was kinda hoping that someone would post something about this one day...

By: grefo

grefo — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:48:24 -0800

I don't know which is funnier: geoducks or Evergreen State College....

By: jengod

jengod — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:00:07 -0800

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?

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:18:24 -0800

Ahh Geoduck, the one word that helped me googlewhack more times than I could count...

By: stonerose

stonerose — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:20:58 -0800

Long-necked, spitting ocean-dwellers? Yarr... 'tis the mythical sea-llama of yore. Yarr. /premature-talk-like-a-pirate-day

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:25:11 -0800

So it's pronounced Gooey-cities?

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:35:10 -0800

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.

By: wells

wells — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:27:27 -0800

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!

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:51:39 -0800

some people call them love mussels