Just the other day, I came across this article about the wife of a Lebanese restaurateur who discovered 26 pearls in an oyster she was preparing for lunch. My initial reaction was to call bullshit and then check the Indian papers for any stories about our Anadaman friend Ajai Sonkar moving to Lebanon.Well, I sure am glad I held my pen! The story may be true. A picture of the mollusk finally appeared today. While I can’t count 26 pearls there, someone with a microscope may have. There they are, all nestled in against the byssus threads like bubbles. The location seems strange, that’s sure. But from where I am sitting they look like they really could be pearls!
I don’t really know whether the shell is going to make it into the Guiness Book of World Records. Hell, the Chinese have shown us that a lot more than 26 pearls are possible. But natural pearls? That is a rare find indeed. Way to go Amal Salha of Lebanon!
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I'm turning 26 and maybe that is a sign...
here's the link of the story and I have to warn about the comments there since it has a lot of sense of humor...
http://comments.breitbart.com/080909172541b0pkz03b/
Just like the age old question "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop" the new question is "how many nuclei can the chinese pearl farmer wedger into a standard neclated akoya oyster before it dies?"
One may never know.
WISDOM OF PEARLS
NEWSWIRE--A woman working in a restaurant found 26 pearls in an oyster she was preparing. She hopes to be in the Guinness Book of Records.
If you find in shellfish cloister
The housing of some selfish oyster,
Excavate, but don't be reckless:
Twenty-six would string a necklace.
The bivalve that for movement, swam
Could leave you happy as a clam.
www.newsandverse.com
Light verse, ripped from the headlines
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