Crayfish, crawfish, and crawdads

[eberntson]

@Bailey, Luddite: I won't confuse that.

[melissa]

Eberntson, 9/10. You left out "chickenboner".

Anyway, I'm not sure that geekdom still requires social ineptitude, I've met a few that lack the nerdy aspect that the word used to imply. Or maybe everyone out there has just become more geeky. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[eberntson]

"Geek" is cool now... so time to move on. I'm getting older so I am moving on to "eccentric" with a twist of "steam punk" rubbed on the rim.

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[Perry Lassiter]

Thanks for resurfacing the post. Like many posts, Andrew or someone should enable us to cut and paste the geek part under its own name. Before the geekdom came up, I was about to comment on Lousiana crawfish. You may need a license, but I don't know anyone who ever asked. Come down any spring after a rainstorm, find most any creek or even ditch, and scoop up all you want with a net. Alternatively, a string tied to a piece of bacon will get you one at a time. Avoid snakes.

Suirrels are regular fare down here early in the season, a month before deer are legal. Fried or in stew they're great. At crawfish boils we make huge piles on newspaper and argue ever whether to suck the heads or just pull off the tails. Personally, if there's a choice, I pick shrimp because you get more with less effort. However, my s-i-l's crawfish etouffee is world class!

[Dr. Goodword]

This is my favorite etymology (if you didn't already know). It is a ping-pong game between French and the Germanic languages.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=180
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles ... ology.html (Scroll down to the Cs)