Surprising. One would have expected them to send in the flamethrowers. Let us hope the duck's brood grow to full maturity and don't fall down a drain or something. Heartwarming.
I fully expect to hear Dick 'war profiteer' Cheney has gone and blasted them with a shotgun.
Rumor has it that will be drilling for oil and deforesting that mulch pile any day now.
I wonder if ducks will become a fixture out there, like they are at the Peabody Memphis (awesomest hotel in the mid-south, for the record), and they have to hire a professional duckmaster.
I hear they found out the duck's a Democrat so they're going to force her into one of those Work Experience Programs and take away her chicks.
DC must have a soft spot for ducks. I recall an NPR interview with a woman in 2003 who helped a mother duck and several duckling through rush hour traffic to a suitable location with water. She received a lot of help from passersby, and I think the largest obstacle turned out to be a sewer grate.
The duck is going to convince China to stop valuing our T-bills, and then it'll all be over for America.
You laugh? The Romans had ducks in their Capital, too.
Well, the Romans had Jesus Christ. Who'll save our sorry asses?
Satan?
*hikikimori's comment should be read with echo effect set to "maximum".
This is the most substantial thing that the administration has done for the environment.
I am going to use the word "kudos."
Kudos.
rocket, I was so thinking of the church lady when I wrote that.
Just wait until 'er 'usband starts humpin' another mallard. We'll see about them ducks then.
Washington D.C. is full of quackheads, but I never expected the Treasury to be turned into a quack house.
For fuck's sake, people, lighten up! This is a very nice, whimsical story about a cute little duck and the efforts of a few kind people to help the duck. You don't need to be politicizing it -- just enjoy it and think of how cute the duck is.
Relax.
I wonder waddle happen next.
This story quacks me up.
David- I don't think we can get any lighter. Jesus. Making fun of the president is what Americans do. You lighten up.
How can you avoid politicising it?
Ach, down with duck-tatorial decrees!
(Down will stuff a coat when it's minus degrees!)
Applause for the efforts of Treasury employees
To protect this nest from tourists acting like thuggees.
I thought maybe the yellow stuff was scraps the duck had collected while constructing its nest, but the second photo with this article makes it look more like the equivalent of caution tape for landscaping crew or indicator marks to let the tourists know where to look.
there's two ducks flying over belfast.
one says "quack! quack!"
the other says "fuck ye! i'm flying as quack as i can!"
Dame Quackly is a mallard duck
whose eggs have hatched
in a mulchy nest
away from river edge or marchy muck.
Soon they'll go
to the countryside
where duck and ducklings
can live satisfied, and tourist-free
from clumsy photographers like me.
Ahhh.
Listen to the music of the children of the march.
--Count Duckula
The Count can't say marsh very well, can he?
ooh I'd forgotten all about Count Duckula! I loved that programme! Greatest theme song ever! Thanks, bees!
*happily goes and rootles through old videos*
10 little ducks went swimming one day
Over the hills and far away
When momma duck said "quack quack quack quack"
Only nine little ducks came back!
oh dear...I'm "quacking" up here!!
In spring the whole world
goes quackers
and in summer grasshoppers spit
some say
they spits terbacker
Count Duckula, hehehe.
Nanny: "I'll get it!" *crash*
Crossing
Through the greener suburbs, my brain
full of stops, I came upon a yellow sign
announcing, pictorially, that just ahead
was a duck crossing. [*] You can't imagine
my sudden happiness, to be reminded
simply of ducks, that ducks are with us,
and what's more, they might, this very moment,
duckwalk, single file across my path, that I
would need to yield, use unusual care.
What else makes a person
turn off the radio and quack the rest of the way home?
-- Mike White
*what I've chosen to present as a single line is broken here, with the second half of this deeply indented: this is a typographical issue I am too ignorant to be able to reproduce in HTML.
May the duck be with us!
My little friend said "duck!" because he wanted us all to put our heads under the table to watch him, but instead we all quacked. He was confused and a little annoyed but the grownups had a fine old time.
Bees, I recommend the PRE tag.
you can make your line as long as you
like with
as
many breaks as you wanttttttt
oooooooooooh, spiffy!
Yes, but hows it work?
(No I'm not going to view your source, I'm not that kind of username!)
wow
as long as I like with as many
breaks as I like?
How delightful!
Why has no one told me about this before?!? It's what I've wanted for over two years now.
If you write poetry, you absolutely need to be able to use white space -- layout of text mat ters.
Thank you, muteboy!
Bees! I can't believe you haven't posted this yet!
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
Ducks' tails, drakes' tails,
Yellow feet a-quiver,
Yellow bills all out of sight
Busy in the river!
Slushy green undergrowth
Where the roach swim--
Here we keep our larder,
Cool and full and dim.
Everyone for what he likes!
WE like to be
Heads down, tails up,
Dabbling free!
High in the blue above
Swifts whirl and call--
WE are down a-dabbling
Up tails all!
A monkey smooch to the first one who posts the author and the book this is taken from!
wow as long as I like with as many breaks as I like? How delightful!Why has no one told me about this before?!? It's what I've wanted for over two years now. If you write poetry, you absolutely need to be able to use white space -- layout of text mat ters. Thank you, muteboy!Quack! Quack!they never tell us any thing/whine, whinge, snivel