Talk:Rubber duck
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the rubber duck is a rele kul toy.i previously have no friends but the duck talks to me at nite and even sleeps ina hoe box at the end of my bed.i recoomend that people invest in a personal rubber duck today!
- Your Internet license has been revoked. Please report to your nearest Internet center for reeducation and reintegration. silsor 17:13, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
- Those words are soo cute :'( <3<3<3<3 must, obtain, rubber duck. :*( <3<3<3<3<3<3<3 --84.249.255.169 22:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Rubber ducks travelling the Seas
I have added the following to the talk pages for Rubber duck and North Pacific Gyre.
There is a story about yellow plastic ducks travelling the seas, after being lost from a cargo ship in 1992.
- This link is already in the rubber duck article: [1].
- This link involves the North Pacific Gyre: [2].
- Other links to the story include [3], [4], [5], [6].
I think this story deserves to be documented in the Wikipedia — it is amusing, interesting, notorious, and of some scientific significance. Can anyone find a good article title, and write this? --Niels Ø 10:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
- It has now been written; see Friendly Floatees.--Niels Ø 20:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Rubber Ducky history
Did you know that rubber duckies were thrown over bored in sea? People started finding them on the shores in Canada! Cool or what dude?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (By the way I didn't read the article. I just know that.)
[edit] Sorry
I'm sorry for vandalizing this page. It was quite rude of me. I won't do it again.
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- Agreed that this page does need a history section. Just off the top of my head, we need non-squeaker hard rubber ducks, as well as early disney memoribilia (donald duck rubber ducks), italian/japanese brands (vintage), etc. Especially, someone should research the origin of the rubber duck. The article in general is too piecemeal, and needs to be cleaned.
- Santaduck 19:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
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- I agree about a history section. There is a lot of history to any toy and rubber ducks in particular which were sometimes touted as preventing masterbation by boys in the tub.
- Mystic eye 18:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] An unnecessary warning?
"Due to environmental concerns, sites for duck races must be chosen with care." Is this little admonition encyclopedia material? --Wetman 04:13, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
- I don't have a problem with that line as written.
- Mystic eye 18:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Yellow Ducklings?
Does anyone know if it is true that the Pekin duck is the only duck that has a solid yellow duckling? This was reported in Harpers, January 2006, Moby Duck: The Incredible Ocean Voyage or 20,000 Bath Toys" by Donovan Hohn Mystic eye 18:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rubber ducks in movies and popular culture
I reverted User:Deco's deletion of most of the movie/pop culture references, so we could discuss which ones belong here and which don't. His comment was:
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- Remove incredibly obscure, fleeting references - a single subtle appearance of a rubber duck in a fictional work is not of note)
Perhaps that applies to some of the deleted references, but I think at least a few of these are not "obscure", as evidenced by the fact that they are among the most quoted and highlighted lines, e.g., of the Harry Potter movie, and perhaps others.
I realize that Deco is a very experienced and knowledgeable editor, unlike myself, so I could be way off base here, but I wanted to at least have a discussion about this before cutting out all that material. Kestenbaum 14:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
