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AmyStrange

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10. What the hell is a cockle?!

Tue Feb 9, 2021, 10:51 AM

Feb 2021

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This is what I got from Wikipedia, but it doesn't sound right:

A cockle is an edible, marine bivalve mollusc. Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called cockles, true cockles are species in the family Cardiidae. True cockles live in sandy, sheltered beaches throughout the world. The distinctive rounded shells are bilaterally symmetrical, and are heart-shaped when viewed from the end...

Shouldn't the def of cockles be something funny, like the crazy part of your brain that thinks everything is funny?
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You know what warms my cockles? [View all] Aviation Pro Feb 2021 OP

Cockles mezame Feb 2021 #1

In my case... ChazInAz Feb 2021 #11

I should've put my glasses on. Harker Feb 2021 #2

I'm just here for the cookies. Nevilledog Feb 2021 #20

And you might stay for the cockles. Harker Feb 2021 #21

RepubliQons don't understand big words like "cockles" Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #3

Etymology, now that warms my cockles. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #4

"This change in status has increased the molecular activity in my cardiac ventricles" simply doesn't Hugin Feb 2021 #7

Awesome! geardaddy Feb 2021 #15

Cockles and mussels... Harker Feb 2021 #23

Such Language! At THIS Time of Day! Nocturnowl Feb 2021 #5

I thought this would be spam selling Chinese-manufactured cockle warmers. FSogol Feb 2021 #6

YUUUMM cockle soup randr Feb 2021 #8

"Cockles and muscles, alive, alive, Ho." Zoonart Feb 2021 #9

Yes! geardaddy Feb 2021 #18

Cockles and Laverbread Celerity Feb 2021 #27

Bingo! geardaddy Feb 2021 #36

What the hell is a cockle?! AmyStrange Feb 2021 #10

I ate cockles on a trip to England. MineralMan Feb 2021 #13

You can't help but learn new things here in the DU! AmyStrange Feb 2021 #14

LOL! MineralMan Feb 2021 #16

Yeah, that's one kind of cockle, but does it explain "the cockles of my heart?" nt LAS14 Feb 2021 #19

Well, a cockle shell is heart-shaped. MineralMan Feb 2021 #22

Please see my post #3 earlier in the thread Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #31

Thanks for taking the trouble to point that out! nt LAS14 Feb 2021 #34

It can also be that special place randr Feb 2021 #26

I'll take that over crazy any day AmyStrange Feb 2021 #28

Explained in my post #3 in this thread Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #30

Thank you, but... AmyStrange Feb 2021 #32

What's thrilling me... spinbaby Feb 2021 #12

+1 million zillion treestar Feb 2021 #35

Speaking of which, what ARE "the cockles of my heart?" nt LAS14 Feb 2021 #17

Whenever I hear cockles, I think of Arya from Game of Thrones Vivienne235729 Feb 2021 #24

My wife North Shore Chicago Feb 2021 #25

anyone else think he was gonna say.....hearts? Skittles Feb 2021 #29

A steam pot? JHB Feb 2021 #33