I think I am going to demand Tamara post a duck picture every day or I revoke her front page status because THAT IS HOW I ROLL.
I had a pet duck when I was a kid. My grandmother gave him to me, and my parents were furious because they knew that while he was young and cute he would soon grow into a full fledged duck and they would have to send him to a farm and I would lose my shit and grandma would not be around to deal with the tears. His name was Jeremy.
Mary G
You had a cool grandma. My grandpa had a part interest in a farm and refused to let me let the lambs the one time I was there.
PaulWartenberg
Did the duck do okay at the farm?
Ohio Mom
I believe it was Margaret Mead who said grandparents and grandchildren are natural allies because they share the same adversary: the parents.
I want ducks pictures because like so many others, I can’t even anymore with the news. I am working on getting out of this slump, my country calls me. A few duck pics will only help.
cain
Huh.. I always thought ducks were kinda assholes. Maybe not as bad as swans though.
James E Powell
Something made me think of National Lampoon’s No-Eyes Hooligan and his seeing eye duck, tapping and quacking for truth & justice.
rikyrah
I would love a duck picture everyday. That duck in the bathtub was too cute for words :)
rikyrah
Reuters: Cohen said he fixed ‘racy photo’ problem for Falwell Jr
Rachel Maddow relays new reporting from Reuters about an audio recording in which Michael Cohen is heard explaining how he helped evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr. over concerns about racy ‘personal’ photos when Cohen was still working for the Trump Organization.
Aleta
I just ordered two for you. They couldn’t say when they’ll arrive, but you have to be there when they do.
Eric U.
We had geese when I was a kid. But the neighborhood kids took care of them, turns out their necks don’t work as well as a handle as one might suppose. That’s probably why geese are such jerks.
At one time we had 6 cats and a dog. I don’t remember ever having more than one dog at a time. I am pretty sure that was my mother’s fault, certainly no grandparents anywhere near to gift pets. Mom thought dogs needed another dog to entertain them, so in later years she always had at least 2.
dedc79
I need closure on this anecdote. What happened to the duck?
catclub
@Aleta:
of course not, they can only quack. well, I guess they can tell you they have aflac.
Aleta
@rikyrah: Sounds like Cohen sincerely intends to turn over a new leaf. What a guy ! I hope he keeps up the good work. ?
Aurona
I had Daffy, the baby Mallard duck, who lived with us for about 10 years. He was a great pet, back when my parents raised chickens as extra money back in the 50s. So when I got a ‘pet chicken’ when I had chicken pox, my dad gave me Blacky, the Banty chicken in an ice cream box when I was sick, I was thrilled. Blacky was bi; she/he layed eggs, had one spur on one leg and sort of a half/comb on the top, and crowed in the morning. She and Daffy, the duck hung out together and roamed the yard with me for years. Along with the canary, parakeet and guinea pig, Dorothy, along with Moxie the dog, life was pretty complete.
JPL
@rikyrah: You can bet that Falwell was thrilled to see that trump was the biggest loser. The news media hasn’t had time to focus on him.
The Moar You Know
One set of the parents live in a lakefront condo in NC. There’s a pair of ducks who have a brood every year. The mama duck has zero compunctions about coming in the house, right into the kitchen, and demanding handouts, which she of course gets. You just gotta stay clear of the beak, they don’t understand “take it gently” like my doggo does.
cmorenc
@cain:
Walt Disney’s iconic “Donald Duck” colored the image many of us formed of duck personalities, especially his losing-my-shit quack-attack when Donald was frustrated over something.
Eric NNY
Daily duck pics – agreed.
skerry
There is a twitter account @duckoftheday
I also like @m_crouton which documents the life of an abandoned calf living in a horse sanctuary. He hangs out with the dogs in the barn.
chopper
@PaulWartenberg:
“wow, we’re having roast duck for dinner?”
Keith P.
I had a couple of female ducks as a kid. Lots of fun. Some friends just got 14 chickens…all heritage. Bantams, silkies, etc. Very entertaining to just watch them.
cope
My folks got two ducklings for the five of us kids one Easter. Strange in and of itself because they were non-believers and because we had a constantly fluctuating population of dogs and cats (and even a pony for one of my sisters at some point). Cute at first, they became teenage quackers and we decided to set them free at a small lake on a golf course across the road. They lived happily until we forgot about them and they eventually found themselves the subject of a newspaper article.
Some young scamps gathered the two now-grown ducks from their watery abode and dropped them into the book deposit slot in the local library. They were discovered the next morning having spent an apparently joyful night wandering the stacks, shitting and peeing.
It was, of course, a much simpler and fun time.
rikyrah
Archie?
Not Archibald?
Archie?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, it has been revealed.
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
Archie? Well, that certainly breaks with tradition.
Prince Archie.
plato
Marion Stokes: The woman who taped 30 years of TV news.
Mike J
Unsolicited duck pics has driven demand for more.
Bruuuuce
@cmorenc: Some of us were more duckified by Daffy than Donald, but it comes down to much the same thing
mrmoshpotato
I, for one, welcome our new daily duck picture open thread.
brantl
@rikyrah: Who really cares? I have nothing against the royals, but really nothing for them, either.
Gin & Tonic
@skerry:
What a difference one letter can make.
mad citizen
My grandparents lived in the country on some land with assorted animals. I liked to visit, but was a suburb boy. I was around 10 goofing on a big white duck with an orange beak. When it clamped onto my finger I thought I was going to lose it. Lesson learned, don’t mess with the ducks.
There was a recent funny Steve Hartman segment on a girl and her pet duck.
satby
@rikyrah: @Brachiator: my niece and nephew named their baby that last year. Dork name. First thing my kids said was “if they have another boy will they name him Jughead?” .
It may be a sign that they intend to decline a royal designation of “prince” for the baby.
trollhattan
@Aurona:
That’s an enviable menagerie to this city kid. I had fish.
kindness
Kinda related. I grew up in Tarrytown NY. A suburb 25 miles up the Hudson River from NYC. When I was 3 my grandfather, who lived in Yonkers, brought us up an adult sheep and gave it to my folks as he thought we lived in the country. So we have cute pics of all of us playing with this poor confused sheep. The next day my father gave the sheep to someone who actually lives in the country. I don’t think we ever even named the poor thing. This was back in the early 60’s so I’ll cut my grandfather some slack but not as much as he thought he merited. My folks laughed about that one for years.
Lavocat
Duck issues. I hear ya, dude.
Lavocat
Ducks, the clowns of the avian world.
Just One More Canuck
The late, wonderful Scully, the gentlest cat ever, had a thing about birds on her property – couldn’t tolerate them, and would go ballistic when she saw one in the yard. She even got into it with a crow one time (until I broke it up). One day, she was looking outside and saw a duck land on our lawn, and looked at me as if to say, “What the hell is that? You know, I’m good staying inside for now”.
mg_65
This is why I love you, John.
Ohio Mom
@rikyrah: Is that the trans-Atlantic, USian homage we were told to expect, they named the newest Royal after an American comic book character? Are they saving Jughead for a little brother?
Just joking. If the name passed muster with the Queen, that’s all that matters. It’s a breezy, playful name, and the baby will be lucky to have a personality to match. The world needs more happy people.
Ohio Mom
@satby: Oh, you beat me to the Jughead joke. Great minds and all that.
Gravie
We have an irrigation canal behind our house. Lots of mallards and Canada geese. We’ve never had any trouble with the ducks, other than them coming into our yard to gobble up the cracked corn I leave out for our resident quail. But the other morning at 6:00 a.m. a Canada goose landed on our bedroom roof and was strutting around honking for quite some time. I slept through it all, but it woke Mr. Gravie up and he was not amused.
EthylEster
@dedc79: I need closure on this anecdote. What happened to the duck?
Exactly. Maybe down thread.
Original Lee
People are posting photos of the kid in Denver who sacrificed himself to save the other kids in his classroom, just like they posted photos of the young man in NC who sacrificed himself last week. WTAF is this????? It’s one thing when teachers and staff do it – brave and horrible at the same time that it’s necessary – but I’m appalled that we are already at the point where the kids are saving each other from school shooters because THE FUCKING ADULTS ARE FAILING THEM.
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
Duck Therapy is good: Lebanon County boy with autism can keep his therapy ducks, county judge decides
Ruckus
@Original Lee:
It’s not exactly new that adults fail kids all the time, in a variety of ways. Not new even in life and death matters.
What is new is that we hear about it now. What’s not new is how shitty it is.
RAM
Come on, Cole! Finish the damned story!