A Kinder, Gentler Nation
A Kinder, Gentler Nation
The United States Secret Service, which is charged with protecting the president and other dignitaries, has been proud to assume the temporary duty of guarding this mother duck and her 9 eggs.
The duck nested on a mulch pile outside the Treasury Building in Washington, DC. The eggs are expected to hatch at the end of the month, at which time the family will be relocated nearer water.
The duck nested on a mulch pile outside the Treasury Building in Washington, DC. The eggs are expected to hatch at the end of the month, at which time the family will be relocated nearer water.
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Reminds me of the duck who hatched her eggs in my tiny garden, and I had to carry the ducklings in a bucket down to a pond in the park.
I got some curious looks parading down the road with a squeaking bucket and a duck following a few yards behind, but my dignity was never tarnished.
I got some curious looks parading down the road with a squeaking bucket and a duck following a few yards behind, but my dignity was never tarnished.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing
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There's gotta be a new tune name or two in there somewhere.Martin Milner wrote:Reminds me of the duck who hatched her eggs in my tiny garden, and I had to carry the ducklings in a bucket down to a pond in the park.
I got some curious looks parading down the road with a squeaking bucket and a duck following a few yards behind, but my dignity was never tarnished.
May the joy of music be ever thine.
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Looks like a mallard hen. I wonder if the drake is allowed to visit. Given that she's utilizing Federal property without authorization and is possibly from another country, I expect that upon hatching she'll likely be evicted and either deported or detained for further questioning. Ducks are notorious and known to fly throughout rural America inspiring other wise law abiding citizens to take up arms.
She looks very cute, but these are uncertain times.
She looks very cute, but these are uncertain times.
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Bucket Full of Ducks?jbarter wrote:There's gotta be a new tune name or two in there somewhere.Martin Milner wrote:Reminds me of the duck who hatched her eggs in my tiny garden, and I had to carry the ducklings in a bucket down to a pond in the park.
I got some curious looks parading down the road with a squeaking bucket and a duck following a few yards behind, but my dignity was never tarnished.
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Sounds good. It should go in a set with Geese in the Bog.spittin_in_the_wind wrote:Bucket Full of Ducks?jbarter wrote:There's gotta be a new tune name or two in there somewhere.Martin Milner wrote:Reminds me of the duck who hatched her eggs in my tiny garden, and I had to carry the ducklings in a bucket down to a pond in the park.
I got some curious looks parading down the road with a squeaking bucket and a duck following a few yards behind, but my dignity was never tarnished.
Robin
Here's a bit of Latin for you. Can anyone translate?
Si imbili si imgo
fortibuses i naro
O nobili demis trux
vadis inem caus an dux
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They thought you were Roy Mallard?Martin Milner wrote:Reminds me of the duck who hatched her eggs in my tiny garden, and I had to carry the ducklings in a bucket down to a pond in the park.
I got some curious looks parading down the road with a squeaking bucket and a duck following a few yards behind, but my dignity was never tarnished.
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Dux
That is no ordinary Mallard - you are looking at the Mallard Imaginaire, a play by Moliere. In it he quoted Cicero -
"Caesar adsum jam forti
Brutus aderat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at"
Which inspired Carolan's deaf brother Niall "Pardon"Carolan to set the verse, not to music, but to a painting. The wall in question was pulled down as part of the Sanitary Purges of the late 19th Century, round about the time of the Tuileries (fr. meaning, literally, toiletries) and long before Roger Basement, the underground fighter, started the Easter Rising or "Raison D'Etre". Enough yet?
"Caesar adsum jam forti
Brutus aderat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at"
Which inspired Carolan's deaf brother Niall "Pardon"Carolan to set the verse, not to music, but to a painting. The wall in question was pulled down as part of the Sanitary Purges of the late 19th Century, round about the time of the Tuileries (fr. meaning, literally, toiletries) and long before Roger Basement, the underground fighter, started the Easter Rising or "Raison D'Etre". Enough yet?