“You sure them’s ducks — and not, say, some other kind of water fowl?”
“No, those are definitely ducks.” Billy cocked his shotgun. “You can tell by the beak. And the little sailor suits.”
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I’ll have to take Billy’s word for it.
That cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh.
This just in from Daily Kos: Billy used to belong to a secessionist group!
Please email this information to at minimum 10 friends!
No! Billy! Those are domestic ducks!
There’s no limits on those.
And they can’t fly!
Where’s my bat.
Who is the first speaker?
Some guy from Missouri.
Joe bin Biden
BSU Broncos, 37. OU Ducks, 32.
finis
[peeks from under desk]
Billy Beane. It’s gotta be.
“So what about them over there, in the hockey outfits?”
You know what has beaks is squid. Sdferr learned me about that.
And the little sailor suits.
Barney Frank?
The shotgun blasts tore into the flock. Many died, but several got airborne and began desperate ‘strafing’ runs…
Sure it wasn’t octopus?
But…But…But…those ducks must be veterans…Or, on shore leave…
Billy must be in the Corps !
OO-RAH !
“some other kind of water fowl?â€Â
John F. Kerry
Soon the whole duck naval airforce appeared on the horizon. Suddenly Billy was filled with dread. He knew the whole waterfowl navy was closeby. And that meant,…………… suicide mergansers.
John Kerry would be water foul.
They got their uniforms at the induction center.
No, you moron, them’s coots!
You can tell by the wrinkles.
You know if Daffy Duck wasn’t a black duck I’d say Daffy’s speech patterns remind me of O! off the teleprompter but I denounce myself for the thought and I am writing this to let you know.
No for real. It was this scary big squid here. I read that and I thought there’s just no talking to something like that. Much of nature is this same way. psycho told me once about mountain lions. Same thing.
And no pants. Dirty little buggers.
Duxelles
* 1 pound whole mushrooms),very finely minced, wrung hard in towel
* 6 Tbs unsalted butter
* 1/2 cup very finely minced yellow onion
* 4 medium-size shallots , very finely minced
* salt
* freshly ground black pepper
Melt butter and onions/shallots, don’t brown. Add mushrooms, cook, stirring occasionally until thick and pastelike. Add salt/pepper.
Finis
Before Billy could open fire, a Navy seal appeared behind him and snapped his neck.
hf Duck is greasey
Duck!
Where?
No. Duck down. Somebody’s thrown a squid.
The crunching sound behind Billy got louder. Then it stopped.
“Doc, you are absolutely keeeerect. It’s DUCK season, without a doubt!”
Billy turned around.
“You ain’t seen a fat little guy with a speech imp imp imp shotgun what talks funny and wears a silly hat around here, have ye?”
Billy never looked up at a rabbit before.
Duck grease is the best grease there is. God Bless Duck Grease. Sooooo tasty.
“Sssshhhh! Be vewwy vewwy quiet…”
If I were a Rethuglican I’d line up these sitting ducks: Dodd, Chuck U. Shumer, Pelosi, Murtha, Barney the Frank.
They looked about the sky, at the formations. The waggling wingtips spoke silently of the intentions of the foe. Billy thumbed shells into his Remington and said, “What? Did you expect to live forever?”
He raised his weapon as the first formation winged over into its dive. He had never seen ducks dive so perfectly before. He would carry that image in his mind’s eye forever.
I was going to make a cassoulet with duck confit but it looked disgusting.
All that congealed duck goop.
Greasey duck I had once at Mediterranean. I didn’t feel good after. I think that’s the last time I had duck really. I got over the kind you get at Chinese a long time ago. This last duck was in Chicago, and it was early fall and rainy. I never get to see rain and I remember it was hard to get a cab but I didn’t mind very much.
Mikey — did it go down like this?
*QUACK* today is a good day to die *QUACK*
I didn’t know ducks wore wingtips. Learn something new every day.
I like cooking ducks but its mostly the frozen ducklings I get. There is a Vietnamese place here that has roast ducks in the window, which I’m gonna get soon enough
Barney Frank kind of talks like Daffy Duck but in an Excitable Andy sort of way.
But its the Canadian Geese that drive me nuts. They’re all over the place, esp malls. I figure they would be great for folks to kill and eat, but since you can’t discharge firearms in the city limits, I think you’d have to sneak up on ’em with a baseball bat or something like that. Maybe a boomerang, which has some appeal in a weird way.
“I guarantee you, Daffy Duck ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey,” Billy said angrily. “They’re going to start peddling that to you.
Low driven (skulled) golfballs work, urthshu, I’ve seen it done. And the finest eating there is that goose.
Fennel grows wild here I know cause one time on a wine tour our bus broke down and we had to wait on the side of the road for a new one and I remember munching on fennel. We were pretty toasted.
Jeez ACME may be getting a big order soon. Who let Wiley E. Coyote loose?
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/voting-your-hat.html#more
#12 Hf:
by the way, the Navy/military terminology for “sailor” is “squid”. All this talk of ducks in sailors suits made me remember that for some reason.
MR DUCKS
MR NOT DUCKS
OSAR
CM BDI’S?
Sullivan cracks me up.
Does he really still think he’s a conservative? Generally, votes for Kerry and Obama rule that out. Generally.
“AHA! Pronoun trouble…”
Ducks, redux
Biden sucks.
I think you’d have to sneak up on ‘em with a baseball bat or something like that
I’ll bet this would work.
Wabbit season.
“Generally, votes for Kerry and Obama”
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck….”
@ #48:
LIB! MR2 DUCKS!
@55
I knew someone would get it.
Thanks.
:-)
Oo, a grass whip. Maybe the golf trick too. Thing is, we got herons what hang out with the geese, so maybe not the golf balls. Herons being cool and whatnot.
OK gotta go eat soft food and watch heroes. l8r
DUCK!
from the base to the intelligentsia … destroying this Republican party is essential
I wonder if he was posing in front of a 3-way mirror in his ass-less Schutzstaffel uniform.
Charles Austin #53
THpthat sir, is and umitigated FabriCAshun! It’s RABBIT SEASON!
Duck!
Especially if Cheney’s fingerin’ the trigger.
Duck! Sarah shoots, she KILLS
How is Baracky like a duck? (Baracky Season!)
Oh, and speaking of shoots….
It’s hard not to think that maybe if Newt had kept his pudgy little dick stump in his pants maybe his opinion would count for something and he wouldn’t have to slum it on NPR like an associate professor from a state college or something. He makes me fear middle age is mostly the message I get when he speaks.
Comment by Darleen on 9/22 @ 6:50 pm #
Why do you think I was under the desk?
hf
Stop listening to “the greasey NPR”. Newt ROCKS.
NEWT, NEWT on Greta
#37 Saltlick:
Thanks for the clip! I hadn’t seen that before.
#59 Darleen:
I thought it was the Sturm Abteilung who were into that.
NTTAWWT
Newt says dogma dogma dogma me and my pudgy stumpy penis hate teh big government and thank you state radio socialism so much for letting us come on your show.
Shotgun-Cock?
RACIST~!~!!
hf answer pending greasey duck
Or guacamole and greasey union members.
Serve the Duck. Kill the Democrat gov’. All programs.
Kill ACORN, NOW, ACLU, NAACP, Sierra Club, Earth First; now,now,now
You left off NPR. That’s just spiteful.
Just tell me where the real leadership is in Washington. All I hear is a giant sucking sound, from the hundred or so vacuum-filled skulls trying to save what’s already burning.
John McCain wants Cuomo? WTF?
Waste the others and NPR will slowly starve, happyfeet. Much more enjoyable to watch.
You’re right, you know — the reason Gingrich is allowed on NPR is precisely that he is not credible. He allows other listeners to think to themselves (or say to others) “Gosh, hard to credit that anybody ever actually listened to this miserable asshole.” The fact that he goes along with it reduces my already-less-than-lofty opinion of him.
Regards,
Ric
Thank you for saying that so much better than I could.
You both rendered some aptness there.
Picturesque, and pointed
“Serve the Duck. Kill the Democrat gov’. ”
That is very Godfather I
“Hmm. Well, yes, small aquatic fowl. Family anatidae.”
“S’what I said,” Billy reminded them, and worked the cocking slide. “Ducks.”
RE: Cuomo –
Every admin needs a fall guy…
#70 Mikey
But those uniforms weren’t quite so pretty.
mr2 puppies cmpn?
Win first. Bitch second.
urthshu, Cuomo’s fallen already. He’s a big reason this is happening.
McCain is an idiot.
“suicide mergansers.”
– Kamakazi Kwackers?
Rocking back on his left heel, and pulling the Winchester double barrel stock tight to his cheek, Billy drew down on a fat waddler astride a grassy bog patch…”
“Wait!…..hold it a sec…Is our ticket punched for Ducks?”
“Wha…..Well ain’t this some shit…. a trillion and half in the pooper, and hes worried about bagging limits…Now shut up and get ready to catch the bill……If I remember right they always end up on the back of their heads when you blast ’em.”
Plain abalone buttons up the duck
You’re dethspicable…
– Sarah….you might look into learning the banjo…
– Maybe cultivate a monobrow.
“his ass-less Schutzstaffel uniform.”
Oh, that’s enough of that now. And positively no trampolines.
Maybee is NOT growing a monobrow!
But here’s myfirst lesson. That’s me down front, in a Lester scruggs suit.
How can a nice story about man vs nature vs Disney not get 100 comments?
You people disappoint me.
Guilty as charged.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
I’m still traumatized by the bad duck puns I had to endure while walking the dog yesterday.
(the usual route is through a park with a couple ponds and of course ducks and of course once RTO saw them he started riffing. I couldn’t even tell you what he said now, I just remember groaning. a lot.)
YAY!
w007! w007!
Duck soup for everybody.
“Wha’, little sailor suits?”, exclaimed Billy. “Well then, ok, you win: First, kill all the ducks.”
Why a Duck
Look Joe,
There they go,
A million buses in a row.
Ah shucks,
Some are trucks,
And some are geese and some are ducks.
m r dux
m r not
s a r, c m wings
l i b, m r dux
Indiana finally passed a law that lets you mess with Canada geese.
I fear it’s too late.
Jeff,
vs. Disney?! I have 210 rounds of 5.56mm, 45 of 9mm and an undisclosed amount of grenades….
Oh, why couldn’t it have been Howard the Duck rustling around in the underbrush?
I think this post is someting of a cannard.
#109:
WAUGH!
Whale oil beef hooked. M R ducks!
#106 – At least that’s how I heard it Al. :)
“Indiana finally passed a law that lets you mess with Canada geese.”
Do you have to get them drunk/slip them a roofie first?
I love Canadian geeses. I remember when I was little they would land sometimes on our lawn across from this river in Minnesota. They were so big and scary and I liked making them charge at me and running away. It was very primal little dorky Minnesota kid vs. nature. In Texas later I would hear them squawkering along in the sky getting to wherever the go in the winter and I knew those were my ones I used to play with.
*they go* I meant. I feel melancholy now but my boss just walked in and I better not waste a good melancholy with him about. He tends to step all over stuff like that.
M R Ducks
M R not
O S M R
C M Beaks
M R Ducks
A friend of mine owns MR Ducks in Ocean City, MD. Or at least he did, last I heard.
When you start talking about Maryland usually you are round or about a melancholy place too.
Did Sully just declare war on the gop?
Tony
That would be gopsmackingly vile.
#98
Are you referring to an African or European Swallow?
Maybe it was a nicepeople swallow.