On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:29:26 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:10:38 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:19:21 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:57:08 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

Conch shells are everywhere in such quantities as to be difficult to
get rid of.

They take them to Nassau and sell them to cruise boat passengers for
$5 each. $10 if they knock the tip off and make a horn.
Old oars go for $20 if you know Sargent Johnson ;-)

If you'll walk behind any of the little food places, you'll find piles of conch
shells with the tips knocked off. They do that to get the conch out so they can
cook up some conch stew.

At least it was that way back in the mid-60's.


In our case we were really paying for the show. It was some old guy in
a boat who spun a yarn while he was making the horn. I probably could
have talked him down to a buck or two but in the grand scheme of
things $10 isn't enough to argue about for 20 minutes of
entertainment.

Well, there's a big difference in the way they knock the tip off to get the
conch out and the way they cut it off to make a horn. In the first case they use
a hammer. These would feel nice on your lips as you blew them:

http://www.blujay.com/1/115/1820066_s1_i1.jpg

The others wouldn't!