Critique Welcomed a duck

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

 

[Rense Haveman]

Yes, thank you for the remark...

 

[John Allen]

Nice shot. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it's probably an eider.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Nice shot. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it's probably an eider.

Or Donald Trump.

 

[John Allen]

Or Donald Trump.

No, Donald Trump looks like a clown and talks like a clown, so he can't be a duck.

 

[Rense Haveman]

No comment....

But I am puzzled by the eider, John. I think it is what we call an eidereend (so an eider duck).... It looks like a kind of international name, which is quite rare for animals....

 

[John Allen]

No comment....

But I am puzzled by the eider, John. I think it is what we call an eidereend (so an eider duck).... It looks like a kind of international name, which is quite rare for animals....

What little I can make out from the markings makes me think it is a common eider, which, as I'm sure you know, a pretty common sea duck. Hence the "if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck" part of my comment. Even though eiders are sea ducks a few manage to make it to the Great Lakes occasionally. I've also observed them along the eastern seaboard of NA.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Eider or!

 

[Rense Haveman]

So, it's either a eider or a duck....

 

[John Allen]

So, it's either a eider or a duck....

Both... and... You are a botanist so I'll put it this way. An eider is to duck as a tulip is to lily. That's not a perfect analogy, but close enough.

 

[John Allen]

Better, but still far from perfect analogy. Eider is to duck as wheat is to grain crop. One last one. Eider is to duck as Saab is to car.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Grain? Crop? Sounds like old film days...

 

[John Allen]

Grain? Crop? Sounds like old film days...

Did you know that ducks, unlike many other birds, do not have a crop? They do, however, eat crops, mainly grain. I'm not sure whether that means they should like 3200 ASA B&W film.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Well seeing all these remarks, I think I'll duck now

 

[John Holland]

I am just going to get the flock out of here ...

 

[John Allen]

Well seeing all these remarks, I think I'll duck now

So now, after starting all of this with that provocative title, you are going to duck out.

 

[John Allen]

I am just going to get the flock out of here ...

Why bring sheep into it?

 

[Aaron J. Heiner]

Duck's on quack

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I certainly did not expect all the folks on the other side of the dam to go haywire on account of this title. Albeit the image, is entirely a different story We here in the old world have a more ambivalent and calm attitude to such an image, as we are accustomed to ducks.

 

[Pete Askew]

No, Donald Trump looks like a clown and talks like a clown, so he can't be a duck.

But I can think of a word that would do instead!

Nice shot, Ivar. :0