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Re: Re: Without re-listening to the song my mind fills in the word "bomb shell"

Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on Feb. 15, 2026, 9:39 p.m.

ChatGPT said that cockleshells are small and delicate so it’s a bit like a china doll breaking (as I’m imagining it).

More interesting, “cockle” and “conch” are cognate, both deriving ultimately from the Greek konkhe, “seashell”.