Those are my people. Well intentioned and with hammers at the ready.
ETA:
Make Way for Ducklings is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941 by the Viking Press, the book centers on a pair of mallards who raise their brood of ducklings on an island in the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden. It won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's illustrations, executed in charcoal then lithographed on zinc plates. As of 2003, the book had sold over two million copies. The book's popularity led to the cons The bo...
Since 1978, the city has hosted an annual Duckling Day parade each spring, with children and their parents dressed as ducklings. Part of the route retraces the path taken by Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings to get to the Public Garden
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FGD135
June 30, 2018, 6:02am
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What do we want?
Precise figures!
When do we want them?
5 minutes and 32 seconds from now!
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If you listen closely, you can tell that they’re actually all saying “rhubarb rhubarb”.
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Walla ducks?
In American radio, film, television, and video games, walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. A group of actors brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group. According to one story, walla received its name during the early days of radio, when it was discovered that having several people repeat the sound walla in the background was sufficient to mimic the indistinct chatter of a crowd. Nowadays, ...
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RickMycroft:
Walla ducks?
Exactly!
Hmm…now Google is telling me that Ducks Unlimited has a chapter in Walla Walla…
Good link, btw, it covers the range from walla to rhubarb to peas and carrots to natter natter/grommish grommish, and more!
And now I’m wondering what a crowd “court”, “mob”, or “troupe” of wallabies sounds like.
It’d be fun to have a mob chanting “Peas and carrots!” in unison. Few people would get the joke, but the ones that did would be falling down.
Aha! This is how we catch and round up all those thespians in hiding!
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anon30760835:
I counted one duckload
More like a metric duckton.
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[nods to FGD135, above]
What do we want?
Peas and carrots!
What will we eat them with?
Sporks!
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More of a buzzing sound I’d think.
Well, here’s a wallaby saying something , but I don’t know what that something is
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FGD135
June 30, 2018, 8:56pm
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(Relevant bit after the 2:05 mark if you’re in a hurry.)
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anon30760835:
a buzzing sound
Oh! I get it! finally
:why-is-there-no-emoji-for-a-wall?-seems-like-we-could-use-one: o’
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July 3, 2018, 5:34pm
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