oooo, dont get sand in there!

sulzer24 said:
oooo, dont get sand in there!

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."

sulzer24 said:
oooo, dont get sand in there!

On second thought, isn't that how pearls are made? A grain of sand stuck in a clam?

furryranch said:
On second thought, isn't that how pearls are made? A grain of sand stuck in a clam?

Different kind of clam; but yes, that is indeed how pearls are formed.

furryranch said:
On second thought, isn't that how pearls are made? A grain of sand stuck in a clam?

Ankh-Morpork was a pearl of a city — pearl as in a piece of debris covered in the secretions of a dying mollusk.

Or something to that effect, I don't remember the exact quote...

quotationmark said:
Ankh-Morpork was a pearl of a city — pearl as in a piece of debris covered in the secretions of a dying mollusk.

Or something to that effect, I don't remember the exact quote...

I'll admit, i had to look that up. Then i had to look up what Disc World was. Looks interesting, i'll have to check it out.