Oh CHEERFUL!!!!

[THROBBS]

cheerful_deviant,

I was at Toy Fair in NYC... and I am sorry to say I thought of you.

 

[oggbashan]

When May comes, then come the Duck Races...

We buy a numbered Plastic Duck. The purchase price goes to the charity organising the Duck Race. The charity volunteers also have stalls selling secondhand books, bric-a-brac etc. The best charities also sell home made cakes.

All the ducks are corralled on a stream close to a public house. When enough Ducks (and beer) have been sold the Ducks are released to float downstream to the finishing line.

The person who bought the number on the winning Duck claims a nominal prize.

We all return to the public house for more beer while the charity counts their earnings.

A harmless pastime often spoilt by a demonstration of Morris Dancing. No matter how much beer is drunk I cannot find Morris Dancing to be an entertainment.

Og

 

[Belegon]

*off to Google "Morris Dancing" *

 

[Belegon]

*off to Google "Morris Dancing" *

TEA: I am now imagining Og with a pint, yelling, "Stop that ya blighters or I'll rip your bloody bells off!"

 

[christabelll]

snerk,,

 

[champagne1982]

When May comes, then come the Duck Races...

We buy a numbered Plastic Duck. The purchase price goes to the charity organising the Duck Race. The charity volunteers also have stalls selling secondhand books, bric-a-brac etc. The best charities also sell home made cakes.

All the ducks are corralled on a stream close to a public house. When enough Ducks (and beer) have been sold the Ducks are released to float downstream to the finishing line.

The person who bought the number on the winning Duck claims a nominal prize.

We all return to the public house for more beer while the charity counts their earnings.

A harmless pastime often spoilt by a demonstration of Morris Dancing. No matter how much beer is drunk I cannot find Morris Dancing to be an entertainment.

Og

A small community near here holds a similar event down on the Beaver River. It's a pile of fun and the proceeds are split 50/50 by the winning duck and their village school.

Morris Dancing, fortunately, does not occur, but sometimes the local volunteer fire department gets a little crazy with traffic control blowhorns.

Of Ducks And Men a collaborative effort between myself and a monkey poet.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

cheerful_deviant,

I was at Toy Fair in NYC... and I am sorry to say I thought of you.

Yea! My own thread, and it's about ducks!

Hey, that looks like my collection at home. Well, ok, my collection isn't that big, but it's getting there.

So the question Throbb is: Did you buy a duckie and if you did, what kind?

 

[rgraham666]

I'm afraid when I saw 'Toy Fair in NYC' I thought of something else entirely.

 

[starrkers]

But did they have this one?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/41marrvnz6l_aa280_.jpg

 

[THROBBS]

Yea! My own thread, and it's about ducks!

Hey, that looks like my collection at home. Well, ok, my collection isn't that big, but it's getting there.

So the question Throbb is: Did you buy a duckie and if you did, what kind?

Nope. Not my thing.
It is a wholesale trade show. I was not attending as a "buyer".

 

[THROBBS]

But did they have this one?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/41marrvnz6l_aa280_.jpg

would not be too surprised...I HAVE seen one like that.

 

[DesertPirate]

But did they have this one?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/41marrvnz6l_aa280_.jpg

Now I have to wonder why Starr was looking for this one

 

[Guest]

Now I have to wonder why Starr was looking for this one

It vibrates ya know?



Maharat

 

[rgraham666]

Now we know why Ernie's so happy when he sings "Rubber ducky, you're the one."

 

[Katyusha]

*off to Google "Morris Dancing" *

I know, right? lol