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#1 Jul 13 2007 at 6:38 AM Rating: Excellent
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You make the estuary lots of fun....

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...in some European news media, mirth-provoking photos have been popping up in the past few days of an object - a big object - that has quickly become the signature attraction of "Loire Estuary 2007," an outdoor, contemporary-art exhibition in France featuring works by 30 artists from around the world. Their creations have been installed along a 40-mile corridor at the mouth of the Loire River, stretching from Saint-Nazaire, on France's Atlantic coast, to Nantes, which lies inland.

The smile-provoking concoction that's responsible for this little shot of joy in a global-warming-heated summer, against a backdrop of war chaos and political cant, is a giant rubber duckie created by the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman. After wrestling with some air-inflating problems, his 105-foot-tall, 85-foot-wide "Rubber Duck" finally took to the sea (that is, to the estuary) last weekend....


That's a big rubber ducky.
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#2 Jul 13 2007 at 6:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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You know, not only is that the largest rubber duck I've ever seen, it's somehow also the cutest.

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#3 Jul 13 2007 at 6:50 AM Rating: Good
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#4 Jul 13 2007 at 6:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, they're cute when they're babies. Just wait until you have a 300' tall inflatable duck walking around, quacking loudly and shitting everywhere.
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#5 Jul 13 2007 at 7:24 AM Rating: Decent
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Kind of reminds me of an incident around here last week. It was the local 'Whatever' Days; the capitol cities yearly summer festival. One of the events is a rubber ducky race down a little stretch of the Kennebec River.

Just so happens, a local business with a couple of old manifolded oil tanks sprung an oil leak. The oil ended up in the river at about the same time as the rubber duckies. Yes, we had oiled rubber duckies.






Edited, Jul 13th 2007 5:28pm by Elinda
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#6 Jul 13 2007 at 7:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
Kind of reminds me of an incident around here last week. It was the local 'Whatever' Days; the capitol cities yearly summer festival. One of the events is a rubber ducky race down a little stretch of the Kennebec River.

Just so happens, a local business with a couple of old manifolded oil tanks sprung an oil leak. The oil ended up in the river at about the same time as the rubber duckies. Yes, we had oiled rubber duckies.


The Whatever Race was so much better when I was a kid. Everyone designed their own float. One year, there was a Christmas float with a snow machine. I got hit with a snowball in June.

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#7 Jul 13 2007 at 7:52 AM Rating: Decent
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Nexa wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Kind of reminds me of an incident around here last week. It was the local 'Whatever' Days; the capitol cities yearly summer festival. One of the events is a rubber ducky race down a little stretch of the Kennebec River.

Just so happens, a local business with a couple of old manifolded oil tanks sprung an oil leak. The oil ended up in the river at about the same time as the rubber duckies. Yes, we had oiled rubber duckies.


The Whatever Race was so much better when I was a kid. Everyone designed their own float. One year, there was a Christmas float with a snow machine. I got hit with a snowball in June.

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I've heard that from many people. Did someone drown or something to force the change?

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#8 Jul 13 2007 at 7:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
I've heard that from many people. Did someone drown or something to force the change?


I've no idea, to be honest. Someone probably had some bright idea that killed it.

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#9 Jul 13 2007 at 9:19 AM Rating: Decent
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Nexa wrote:
Elinda wrote:
I've heard that from many people. Did someone drown or something to force the change?


I've no idea, to be honest. Someone liberal had some bright idea that killed it.

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Agreed.
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#10 Jul 13 2007 at 10:04 AM Rating: Good
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This is what I thought the thread was going to be about.
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#11 Jul 13 2007 at 10:06 AM Rating: Decent
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This is what I thought the thread was going to be about.
Darkflame Duck...Let's get dangerous.
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#12 Jul 13 2007 at 10:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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Darkwing Duck?
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#13 Jul 13 2007 at 10:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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Friar Katie wrote:
This is what I thought the thread was going to be about.


I should get Hannah one of those and send it over to her dad's.

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