Did you know (yeah, YOU!) that in an ordinary park, in the city of Freiburg, in Germany, a monument is erected in honour of a telepathic duck who saved the lives of thousands of people by going berserk with its quacking, just before the worst of the Allied bombing raids in WW2? The duck would renew its unique alarm every 15 minutes as the planes grew closer, and Germans would scuttle gratefully off to their air raid shelters, 19 to the dozen. The duck itself got left in the park, quacking hysterically, and thus was unceremoniously blown up by an Allied bomb. But there's a lovely monument in the park where it quacked to remember this beautiful creature's rare talent, a fitting tribute to its service to mankind. Now, my question is, WHY didn't any of those Germans carry this jewel of a psychic duck into one of their air~raid shelters? I mean, aren't people selfish?

By TobyZ on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 12:24 pm:

What do you expect from Nazi's!?!

And celebrating a duck that saved Nazi lives so they could kill more Jews? No offence, but are you out of your butter~fried mind? Maybe they made the monument out of the bones and teeth of the 6 million Jews they killed?

Sorry, I'm sure you are only concerned for the poor duck, but, oh don't get me started on Nazi's.

By ~Ryers~ on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 12:36 pm:

Why exactly is this conversation going on? I mean, there must be something better to talk about e.g the Toby fanclub. We all love Toby yes.
Well back to the Nazis, it seems as if it would be rather risky to atrt TobyZ on Nazis. We shall keep the ever loving Toby in a good mood.

By Fried~Butter on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 01:28 pm:

The conversation is going so you can talk about that poor duck and exchange backstage "goss" on Blur, if indeed you have any. I do!!!1 (she said, like the cat that had the cream, and ate it too.)
And Mr Toby Z ~ of course I'm not giving thanks for a Nazi~saving duck. Not all Germans were Nazi's. Plenty were civilians ~ many were only children. A lot were probably members of the resistance ~ protecting Jews in hiding, ala Anne Frank.
Admittedly the telepathic duck contains limited scope, as a topic. But it didn't seem to fit anywhere else.

By ~Ryers~ on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 02:06 pm:

Sorry, maybe I misread but shouldn't you include some stuff about the latter part of your topic then? Nice duck.

By BakeSale on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 02:42 pm:

Maybe they could have figured out the source of that ducks abilities and trained up a whole army of them.

By TobyZ on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 07:31 pm:

Greaaaaaaaat. Then we all might be speaking German right now.

Incidentally, I've heard rumors that Stalin always kept a mallard on his shoulder "Just in case".


Well, it the spirit of it all, a big Heil Hitler to everybody

By schmee on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 04:50 am:

So who's all Jewish then?

By Anonymous on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 08:43 am:

Hey, if you're so fond of ducks, check this out:

Foul Play

I know it's about geese but I'm sure it will adapt to your duck like needs.

By Edgy on Sunday, March 25, 2001 - 06:35 pm:

I'm not sure I can stomach this topic.

By TobyZ on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 01:58 pm:

schmee, if you were Jewish, would you announce it on a board where somebody wants to start an army of Nazi Superducks?

By The Occifer on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 03:19 pm:

I don't see anything wrong with an a load of Superducks deciding to become Nazis and forming an army. I may not believe in what they are quacking but I'll fight to the death for their right to quack it. Anyway, my best friend Oliver is from (surprise, surprise!) that very South-West German town of Freiburg, and I am currently well pissed off that he never related that stirring anecdote to me. Bastard, I thought we were close.

By shellie on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 10:18 pm:

sorry but enough already. this is a totally stupid topic *rolls eyes*
sorry I am not normally mean

By TobyZ on Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 05:14 am:

Does anybody know if the Illinois Nazi's have Superducks?

By Arresting Occifer on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 03:00 am:

I met a nice young German couple, Marcel & Miriam, earlier this morning and somehow or other, as our conversation twisted & turned, I thought it wise to impress them with my knowledge of heroic ducks, ala Butter~Wagon's original post. Now, do you know what happened? Can you take a guess at what happened? Well, I'll tell you... They laughed at me! Did you get that? They laughed AT me, not WITH me! "Who told you that?" asked Miriam. "Don't tell me - Joseph Goebbels came to you in a dream?"
"No, no, no, it was Adolf himself!" shouted Marcel in his thick German accent. "Adolf trained an army of the most intelligent, blonde-haired, blue-eyed ducks to save his children from bombs!"
"Shut up!" I said, "No! Butter~Wagon told me!"
"A butter wagon?" said Marcel. "How odd."

By Butter~Twirré on Thursday, June 28, 2001 - 09:50 pm:

Ha! You brought one of my less successful topics back to life, Attesting~Occifer. What am I talking about? They're all unsuccessful. They usually stay alive just long enough for a snide comment or two about how stupid the topic is. Except for the one about movies.

It really is a true story though, Occifer. The book, in spite of the rather bogus sounding title ("The Unknown") is very sober and intelligently written. By far the most fascinating, if VERY spooky true story in it is the case of 'The Bell Witch'. Yes, BELL Witch, not Blair Witch. That's another story, though, which I'm sure no one would give a toss about.