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Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: July 16, 2003 02:57PM
And you would soon egret it if you did. I tell you what, let's stork about waders instead, but you'll have to speak up. I'm a little hard of heron. (OK, I'll stop before I get sniped at).
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: KT (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 16, 2003 03:16PM
I avocet of awful wader puns if you'll let me have a little stint. Ok, I'll flamingo.
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: July 16, 2003 03:18PM
Perhaps we'd better knot; it could get a little ruff (but then it could be smoothed down with sandpiper).
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 16, 2003 03:37PM
*groans* What have I started here?
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 16, 2003 05:06PM
Blame me, Sarah - your idea was simply to have duck-related posts in one place (and a very good idea that was too!). Sadly I led it astray almost immediately - and have been suffering the consequences ever since...
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:43AM
Someone take Ptolemy out and shoot him! He has confessed!
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:44AM
Surely that should be "take Ptolemy out and place him in the comfy chair"?
Otherwise I'me sure we could find a ducking stool for him.
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Otherwise I'me sure we could find a ducking stool for him.
PSD
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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: KT (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 10:12AM
If some of these puns are making your toes curlew just have to dowitcher can to ignore them.
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 10:18AM
KT! Try and resist the urge to pun! Do not indulge your every whimbrel!
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: July 17, 2003 10:42AM
KT, don't quack under the pressure not to pun!
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Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Simon (193.82.99.---)
Date: July 17, 2003 02:40PM
How many of you have noticed that in Thursday's world ducks would seem to be either extinct by her lifetime or purely mythical/fictional?
LIAGB, ch.34, when she and her father are discussing the differences between that world and the alternative Earth to which he's suggested sending her for safety:
'What about mammoths?'
'No - but there will be ducks.'
and WOLP, ch.1, when she's settling into Caversham Heights.
(I don't think that that's enough of a spoiler to need placing in the WOLP sub-fforum rather than here...)
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LIAGB, ch.34, when she and her father are discussing the differences between that world and the alternative Earth to which he's suggested sending her for safety:
'What about mammoths?'
'No - but there will be ducks.'
and WOLP, ch.1, when she's settling into Caversham Heights.
(I don't think that that's enough of a spoiler to need placing in the WOLP sub-fforum rather than here...)
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Warning! Product may contain Newts!
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 04:32PM
On the subject of ducks, does anyone know why nearly all toy ducks, children's pictures of ducks, and so on, are yellow? I have never actually seen a yellow duck in real life. The commonest duck here in Britain is the mallard, and that's anything but yellow.
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 04:46PM
Perhaps they're all supposed to be ducklings? (I rescued a ducklng once. It crapped on me, the ungrateful little bastard).
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: KT (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 04:47PM
Aylesbury ducklings (the common farmyard duck) are yellow. And increadibly cute.
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Holly Daze (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:23PM
aren't they actually more a l'orange than yellow?
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:34PM
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA>BUMP<
*falls off chair laughing, clutching at the sides of his lederhosen to stop it from splitting*
Good one Holly!
Try this for size.
A duck walks into a chemist and asks for lip-salve.
"Cash or cheque?" asks the salesman.
"Just put it on my bill...." says the duck....
*falls off chair laughing, clutching at the sides of his lederhosen to stop it from splitting*
Good one Holly!
Try this for size.
A duck walks into a chemist and asks for lip-salve.
"Cash or cheque?" asks the salesman.
"Just put it on my bill...." says the duck....
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: splat21 (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:49PM
*groans*
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 09:20PM
Mallard ducklings are yellow too. And cute.
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 09:39PM
Yes indeed, definitely cute, but I've never seen a full-grown yellow duck. I know that not all toy ducks are meant to be ducklings because you can get mother and baby rubber duck sets, and the mother is yellow too.
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
Re: Quack, quack!
Posted by: Guy (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 10:18PM
Mallard ducklings are beige and brown actually. But yes very very cute.
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