biology nerd

Some times I don’t realize how biologically nerdy I am.

You know that game, Catch Phrase? If not, it gives you a word, and you have to get someone on your team to say the word, without actually saying the word, or part of it, or anything like that. Sort of like Taboo, but easier. There’s a timer, and if it goes off on your turn, the other team gets a point. It’s fun when you’ve got a medium sized group of people.

Well, one time a bunch of friends were playing that game. It came to me, and the word was ‘clam’. And I said “A bivalve!”, and prepared to pass to the next person. But… I couldn’t. Because my team was looking at me with a puzzled look on their faces. “Bivalve?” I started to describe a clam, but the buzzer went off.

I thought everyone knew that clams and oysters and mussels and all those two shelled shellfish were called bivalves. But… apparently, that is a biology nerd thing to think.