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DUCK HEADS SOUTH
Duck, duck, duck, duck ... DUCK:
(By Drew G.)
Someone needs to issue a secret press release about this menace.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 13 at 12:33 PM • permalinkAll right, who the hell’s in charge of the Pre-emptive Antipodal Coastal Organization this week? Just look at that line of battle: one craft damning the torpedoes and going full speed ahead, one breaking, panic-stricken, for the open sea, and two - count ‘em, two - apparently returning to base, probably in order to get “reinforcements”. And I suppose the Ginormous Elmer Fudd shore battery is still in grease bags at the warehouse? This is no way to fight giant ducks!
Not “reinforcements”, paco, “refills”. Much more important.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 13 at 12:59 PM • permalinkCan someone with photoshop produce Islamic Rage Duck?
Please.
Thankyou.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 07 13 at 01:03 PM • permalinkI want to know how that thing got from the Jersey Turnpike to Sydney so fast. I mean it was only yesterday it was menacing one of the worst intersections in the whole Philadelphia region, and now, just like that, it’s wallowing in previously gerbil-wormed Oz.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 07 13 at 01:40 PM • permalink#14 paco:
How any naval outfit with roots in the British Navy can operate w/o alcohol is an utter mystery to me. ‘Course they did away the lash, one of the other legs of Churchill’s tripod, to little ill effect… Obviously buggery is the key component of naval competence.
BTW, Drew G., the reflection off the water is a great touch.
paco, those crews are sailing towards certain death. You can’t deny them one last guzzle of grog!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 13 at 02:47 PM • permalinkHow do you fight a duck? Why, with another duck!
17 paco
CHC supports the empowerment of disadvantaged and disenfranchised families and communities in Cocke County, TN.
One County up from Sevier. Know of disadvantaged families, but then ‘they’ are everwhere. On the other hand “disenfranchised” nope, don’t know any of those, ‘ceptin’ thoe that lost their right to vote for makin’ shine or 54 DUI’s with foodstamp money, cause they don’t want to work.
Anyway, us nice gentle folks in Sevier County toss a warning out to those listed on that link….Stay the Fuck Out of Sevier Co., or Your Body Will Never Be Found in the National Park.
Oh, a little joke about Cocke County. This here girl tells Bubba to kiss her where it stinks, so he drove her to Cocke County.
paco
Was down in the (panhandle) to stay for a while, trying to get the place ready for seasonal rental, latter part of last year…plus some personal situations.
THEN the pain from hell…herniated cervical disc. Thought the ‘Kid’ was having a heart attack (OK, OK..everyone can stop applauding).
Anyway long story shorter, when an “appointment with Neurosurgeon” was given to me, I thought hmmmmmm, it’s better to come back to Gatlinburg, where my Doctor of 17 some years practiced.
He fixed my ass up with a series of cervical steroid epidural injections, from 50 paces…:).
No paco. El Cid lives in Gatlinburg (or maybe Pidgeon Forge but won’t admit it—Aussies, don’t bother asking). But he has a beach house in Florida. How do I know that? Because I once had to hand deliver some secret VRWC documents to his Florida place. I rang the door bell, I heard the cocking of a double barrell shot gun (oh, I know that sound well), I dropped to the ground, and he blew a hole about 1 foot in diameter in the door. I will say he did apologize and tried to act friendly. But I wasn’t in the mood to hold a conversation.
Actually, I’m amazed how many commenters here answer their door that way.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 13 at 04:50 PM • permalinkUmmmm, commenters, wronwright is right.
Pigeon Forge….don’t ask, except for Dollywood, home of Dolly Parton (yes, she was born here Sevier County). Dolly just opened ANOTHER wing to our fine medical facilities…notice the word, ANOTHER.
Now I ask, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Disney has a mouse with BIG ears, we have Dolly Parton with BIG…WE WIN!
Here’s a much, much better view of the duck exclusively captured by Nicky on Thursday.
The little quacker has been lurking here for quite a while:
Duckzilla devours Opera House.
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 13 at 06:23 PM • permalinkbrett_l
I still wanna know if y’all have a shrine to ‘A Boy Named Sue’. And if not, now that Johnny and Shel are dead, d’ya think we could set one up and make some money?
Don’t know of any shrine to “A Boy named Sue”, but we do have a big ol bronze statue of Dolly, strumming her guitar, in front of the Sevier County (built 1790).
Damn near anything, if located properly will make money up here. The National Park draws between 8-10 million visitors each year.
One reason, beside the beauty of the Park…The reasons for free entry to the national park date back at least to the 1930s. The land that is today Great Smoky Mountains National Park was once privately owned. The states of Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as local communities, paid to construct Newfound Gap Road (US-441). When the state of Tennessee transferred ownership of Newfound Gap Road to the federal government in 1936, it stipulated that “no toll or license fee shall ever be imposed…” to travel the road.
I guess in the age old question of whether or not it is duck season or rabbit season, we can now confirm that it is duck season.
James Lovelock, of Gaia fame, (@ Adelaide Festival of Ideas c/- Phatty) says he’s not certain GW is man-made but is looking on the Gaia principle for biological solutions, with human assistance.
Here’s the Oz contribution: GM ducks - all-terrain, all-climate: sea level rise, melting glaciers et al - we’re prepared.
#18 Paco
Our Navy doesn’t have a rum ration any more, but they do (most of the time) have a ‘two cans per man per day’ policy, ie: two cans of beer per 24 hour period can be purchased from their stores providing you aren’t on watch.
That could just be the amphib ships, since they are the only ones I have been embarked on, but I’m pretty sure it is up to the CO of the vessel?
That said, I can remember a couple of years ago, at night, most of our Company laying on the flight deck, drinking beer and looking at the stars, while the ship took us home from an exercise.
So those boats were probably heading back for refills, or some condiments for when they BBQ the duck. :)I have a question and it’s kinda on topic—it’s about birds anyway. I’m in Sydney—what are the largish white birds w/ long black bills called? I know I could probably look it up, but I’m feeling lazy, and yes a bird book is on the list of future purchases (I just have to find the right one).
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 09:55 PM • permalinkBe careful not to step in the Duck Krud.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 07 13 at 10:06 PM • permalink#46
Ibis was my first guess, but I’ve been too lazy to confirm it. Yeah, the bill points down, and they have black legs, and make huge poops.
Second bird question. What do y’all call the little brown robin like birds w/ yellow legs, yellow bills, and yellow circles around the eye?
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 10:20 PM • permalink#49
If only I knew what a budgerigar was :) I’m going to hunt thru some websites and see what I can find. Guess I’m going to have to get that bird book before classes start (sigh).Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 10:34 PM • permalinkAha, found the second one: common myna (Acridotheres tristis). They’re native to India. Interesting.
Thanks for your help!
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 10:45 PM • permalink#53 T.I.: Are you getting ready to study ornithology? I’m rather interested in birds myself. I’ve several books on them, including volumes on extinct birds, one of which is dedicated to one of my favorites (and an occasional prop in my comments), the great auk. I think it’s the preposterous names of some of them that most appeals to me. The hudson godwit, for cryin’ out loud. The ula-ai-hawane. Goatsuckers. Highly amusing nomenclature.
Thanks egg
It’s wrong on so many levels that this sentence exists on a .gov website
For more information on the Indian Myna and Noisy Miner, and how u can help, see the attachments below.
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Environmental Health OfficerPosted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 10:51 PM • permalink#56 paco
Master of Conservation Biology. Wasn’t a huge bird person until I spent 6 months in NZ—about the only thing to study over there that’s warm blooded and native are birds. I’m in Sydney for 6 months to finish up and it looks like the bird interest is hanging on. Now I just have to find a good field guide.
And yeah, some of the names are truly amazing. The worst part of studying in NZ was learning brand-spanking new common names + scientific names + Maori names.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 10:54 PM • permalink#60
Very interesting. I can see how they’re confused w/ the myna—the heads shaped differently but that’s about it (from pix anyway). Do the noisy miners hop or run?Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 11:04 PM • permalinkTattooed Intellectual,
the brown birds with yellow feet and yellow eyes are Indian Mynahs. They are VERMIN! Please don’t feed them. They push out our native birds as they are extremely agressive.
If you come across a pretty grey bird the same size as the aforementioned vermin, they are Noisy Miners. Wonderful birds that chatter non stop. They are very funny also.
185600,
I live just out of Camden, south of Sydney and we get Ibis all the time. Especially after heavy rain. They do a great job cleaning up grubs and insects.
We also get the occasional Spoonbill foraging on the edge of our dam on the way to their breeding grounds. Plus Pelicans and once, a magnificent Black Swan. There are several families of Black Swans on the man-made lakes at a housing estate just west of Liverpool.
#62
Don’t tend to feed the birds b/c I’m too poor to keep myself fed. Not that you could tell that by looking at me :)There are/were a pair of black swans in the lake at Victoria Park (?) in the city w/ cygnets, I did share a bit of my roll w/ them. Tho to be honest, swans scare the shit out of me! Which reminds me of my brothers dog (odd connection). She thought that the swans in the pond near home were great play toys to be barked at from the edge (b/c her highness does NOT get wet), until the swans decided they had enough and chased her ass all over the lawn :P
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 11:18 PM • permalink#63
Yeah, the mynas seem to be about as bad as pigeons.
Hopefully we can convince the prof to take us out for some bird watching.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 11:20 PM • permalink#62 Pogria
I live over in the Shire, so I see flocks of Pelicans all the time, but not really any Ibis (too close to the beach?)
I thought it might have been Indian Mynahs, but the ‘size of a Robin’ threw me off.
Actually, there was a bird I remember from my childhood in FNQ, dad used to call them ‘Happy Jacks,’ or L’aughing Jacks’, or, if he was hung over, ‘Lousy Jacks’.
I think they were ‘Noisy Miners’, but FNQ people have their own names for everything. :)#66, 185600,
aaahh you live in a beautiful part of Sydney.
I’m not sure about Ibis’s and saltwater. I know they were a problem at the Botanic gardens over the last few years because of the drought.
#64, TI,
That must have been a scream. I have a dog that swims for hours in the dam chasing ducks. Just as she gets close, they dive and come up a couple of metres away. She’s never been able to get one. he he he.I reckon swans are like geese. Pretty damn tough birds!!! I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of either one!!
#68
There was a bridge over the pond there, and after that she was always a little hesitant to cross if the swans were in range :)
If you can get a handle on them, they aren’t too bad, but those wings hurt! Not to mention those bills.
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 07 13 at 11:47 PM • permalink#68 Pogria
Yes, I just wish I had more time to enjoy it, but I still miss the Cape, people here are great, but I miss the family, and all of my family are up north. :(
Still, the Shire is lovely, and I cannot complain, I live on a large(ish) block (three normal house blocks) so I can have my shed, chookpen, vegie garden, and I have a half dozen fruit trees down one side. And living near the Royal National Park means that the dog has possums to chase (constantly, much to the dismay of said possums.)
Even had a deer (buck) in the front yard last year, staring at the dog (a very wolf - like Malamute) as if to say, ‘I should be running away from this I think?’
And the dog looking a little confused at me as if to say ‘do I chase it? I really want to, for some reason?’
It’s nice here, but the best part is that Dirty Harriet lives here. :)#70, 185600,
sounds like you and Miss Harriet are very fortunate to have each other.I love my vege garden and I’m in the proccess of getting fruit trees. We moved here four years ago and I had to leave my trees behind. I’m starting over. I bought three hazelnut trees just this morning.
Next week I’m getting plums and apples.
#69, TI,
if they get close, throw th dog at them. ;-)
the poor duck
i need not say more..you lot are cruel#56. My favorite name for a bird species is the “Luzon Bleeding-Heart Pigeon”. I am not making this up.
We get quite a few birds visiting the farm I live on, including Brolgas, which are really just boring gray cranes ... until they start dancing.
Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2007 07 14 at 09:37 AM • permalink#57 I shall keep this forever.
The ducks we are erxperiencing now are just a portent.
ISLAMIC RAGE DUCK IS COMING.
ALLAH HU ACKBAR!
Bow to your knees and give thanks, while beating yourselves with sticks!
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 07 14 at 11:13 AM • permalink#89 Blasphemer! You dare to pun with the words of the righteous! The hell of your afterlife will be as a duckpond and your soul as one of those little fishy things you feed to ducks sometimes, maybe, or is that bread?
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 07 14 at 11:48 AM • permalinkOf course when you consider that the Islamic terrorist doctors were likely to have been quacks, the plot thickens….
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 07 14 at 11:51 AM • permalink
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