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OMG, duck porn!
Category: Organisms • Weirdness
Posted on: December 25, 2009 11:37 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: SC OM
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December 25, 2009 11:55 PM
That's just...fascinating.
NAFD
Posted by: Newfie
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December 26, 2009 12:02 AM
*Goose*
/ obligatory "ducks+screw" joke goes here
Posted by: 朴競花/박경화 (Gyeong Hwa)
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December 26, 2009 12:06 AM
At first, I thought someone was throwing porn because I read:
Ah the miracle that is the glottal stop.
Posted by: JD
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December 26, 2009 12:07 AM
quacka-quacka-quacka-quacka...
The 70's are starting to make sense.
Posted by: Riman Butterbur
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December 26, 2009 12:14 AM
So there really is a war between the sexes.
Drakes cry Piece, piece, but there is no piece....
Posted by: Bribase
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December 26, 2009 12:47 AM
I was out in Bushy park in London with my seven year old niece a couple of months ago. We had a fantastic time feeding the ducks, swans, squirrels and pidgeons. The park is incredible and my niece loved learning about animal camoflage and behaviour. This is until we came across what I could only describe as an eight on one, water based, royal park violent gangbang.
It took a lot of tact to explain that to her impressionable ears.
She's eight now. Maybe I'll just send her the link ;)
B
Posted by: acitta1
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December 26, 2009 12:48 AM
I was rather shocked and surprised last spring to witness a duck gang rape. I didn't know that they did such things! There weren't any duck police to report the "crime" to.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck
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December 26, 2009 2:35 AM
And when your drake isn't satisfied with the number of female ducks available to him, you may notice that in certain seasons, the chickens all have bald spots on the back of their necks...
Somewhere, some puritanical type must have passed a law against such goings-on, so children won't embarrass parents with questions. I'm thinking Kansas, maybe.
Posted by: GMM
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December 26, 2009 3:01 AM
msnbc.msn.com — 'When it comes to sex, some female ducks have taken "no" to a new level. They have evolved vaginas with clockwise spirals that keep out the oppositely spiraled penises of undesirable males, scientists have discovered.'
Posted by: shonny
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December 26, 2009 3:16 AM
Oh, so fuck a duck is a bit more complicated than it a sounds!
Posted by: tristan.croll
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December 26, 2009 3:25 AM
True story: when I was a kid we had ducks in our backyard. One night one of the drakes got frightened at an inopportune moment and left a rather large piece of... himself... stuck in the wire fence. He never was the same after that.
Posted by: romyboo
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December 26, 2009 5:07 AM
For some strange reason, I'm willing to duck the click on this one.
Posted by: romyboo
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December 26, 2009 5:26 AM
Hey Darnold, DUCK!
RIP, Will Elder.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, OM
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December 26, 2009 8:08 AM
I will never be able to watch the Howard the Duck movie again.
Not that it's any loss. It's a lousy movie.
Posted by: mmelliott01
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December 26, 2009 10:54 AM
So, when Ernie sings "Rubber Ducky, you're the one"...
Posted by: cafeeine
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December 26, 2009 11:31 AM
I'm surprised no one has yet made a Long Duk Dong reference yet.
Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawncr0FDc8gdl7yJBz0SJ15D0etcTIOtL0s
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December 26, 2009 1:57 PM
#10: Oh, so fuck a duck is a bit more complicated than it a sounds!
It's hard to fuck a duck, but it's even harder to fake a drake.
Ron Sullivan
http://toad.faultline.org
Posted by: Michael Lonergan
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December 26, 2009 4:32 PM
I. Had. To. Watch.
Posted by: ChrisH
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December 26, 2009 5:48 PM
Down where I am on the south coast of the UK there is a significant lack of female Mallard ducks. A lot of this is to do with screwing-based drownings.
Glad I'm not a duck, really.
Posted by: Tim Hough
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December 26, 2009 9:26 PM
Is that what they mean by duck dicks?
Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/a/X7ziURRyn.tPAGsMR3KzeuUsP4NLHEtz3Q--#b6e6c
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December 27, 2009 1:31 PM
Pedantry made me struggle through signing in for the first time. Apparently my name is a string of gibberish. Here we go:
"At first, I thought someone was throwing porn because I read:
OMG, duck, porn!
Ah the miracle that is the glottal stop."
That is not a glottal stop. A glottal stop is not simply a pause in speech; it's the distinctive sound you hear at the beginning of utterances starting with a vowel. It's a sort of "hard start" (or stop). Saying the same thing starting with an "h" gets rid of the glottal stop.
One neat thing you can do is record yourself saying "ha", then playing it in reverse — it will sound the same! But if you reverse the sound "a" (with the "h" removed) it will actually sound like the word "hot"!
Another example of a glottal stop masquerading as a "t" is the famous Cockney pronunciation of words like "bottle". Some New Englanders too, apparently.
Posted by: SQB (fuck death)
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December 27, 2009 3:29 PM
a) Rule 34 in action.
b) The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard anas platyrhynchos (2003 Ig Nobel Prize winner)
Posted by: Matrim
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December 29, 2009 12:54 AM
O.O"