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Walking home last night I passed a storm drain. Usually empty, there was a small stream running down a channel in the bottom of it. Some kind soul had lobbed a traffic cone in there causing a minor blockage, and mini set of rapids.
I thought nothing of it, until I noticed a family of ducks approaching the rapids. I stopped to watch as they lined themselves up and surfed down the mini-waterfalls one by one.
Surfing ducks. Superb. It made me smile, which can only be a good thing. Isn't nature grand?
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: April 23, 2003 03:54PM
cute....quite the mental picture. You know, there aren't too many cuter things than ducklings being led by their mother. I love how they line up. (I used to raise ducks and it's even funnier when a duckling adopts a cross-species mother...like a pig or a cow. Now THAT'S cute!)
yeah.
now they are just showing bits but during the brazil GP they showed the whole thing, it's mesmerizing even though you know it was mostly done on computers
That Honda ad took over 600 takes before they got the whole thing on one camera in one movement - it's two minutes long in its full form and is one of the most amazing ads I've seen. Great article about it in the Sunday papers the other week
apparently the tyres were weighted inside with stuff so that when they were bumped, it knocked their centre of balance off. If you watch carefully you can see the way they move bears this out...