He looks delicious.

There's a pair of mallards that settle down in the creek by my apartment every spring to raise a family. I am very fond of them.

Happy Cinco De Mayo - Travel Arizona!

There are a bunch of ducks who live outside my window in the Delaware River. I never see them eat anything. I mean they gotta be eating something, but what can it be?

Got orange sauce?

re: #4 stevemcg

There are a bunch of ducks who live outside my window in the Delaware River. I never see them eat anything. I mean they gotta be eating something, but what can it be?

Algae? Abandoned Doritos?

re: #1 Killgore Trout

He looks delicious.

I make a mean crisp peppered duck.

Ducks are f***ing evil animals, you can see it in that bastard's eyes, do you know what their mating rituals are like?

I didn't think Mallard drakes would be molting this early in the year.

Duck Soup

rabbit season!

We are getting the Canadian Geese heading north.. They stop to rest on the pool cover and swim and cool themselves..And fly on..Winston goes crazy when they land here...
Pssss.Winston don't bark..I just say orange sauce and they disappear in the sky...
/

1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

True story.

The Oakland PD shot a deer in some lady's back yard yesterday. The neighbors are NOT pleased.

re: #12 HoosierHoops

We are getting the Canadian Geese heading north.. They stop to rest on the pool cover and swim and cool themselves..And fly on..Winston goes crazy when they land here...
Psss.Winston don't bark..I just say orange sauce and they disappear in the sky...
/

growing up we would always have a Christmas goose... My dad would hand me a putter & send me over to the golf course...

re: #13 JasonA

1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

True story.

Two thirds involve duck consent? How is consent defined in a duck?

(My mallards seem to be in a consensual and supportive relationship. How can I tell if I need to take one of them to a duck shelter?)

re: #11 brookly red

I was in the butcher shop yesterday and saw rabbit for the first time in 15 years. I asked about it and the guy said several people were asking for rabbit. Maybe it's just the latest craze. Is there some special way of preparing it?

re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist

The Oakland PD shot a deer in some lady's back yard yesterday. The neighbors are NOT pleased.

They're welcome to come and shoot the deer in my backyard. The bastards eat my garden up every year.

re: #17 Firstinla
Just pretend it's chicken.

re: #15 brookly red

growing up we would always have a Christmas goose... My dad would hand me a putter & send me over to the golf course...

Goose is so greasy..I don't like it..It's just dark meat with sauce on it...

re: #16 SanFranciscoZionist

Two thirds involve duck consent? How is consent defined in a duck?

(My mallards seem to be in a consensual and supportive relationship. How can I tell if I need to take one of them to a duck shelter?)

If they're reproducing then it's probably a healthy relationship. Only 2% of duck pregnancies are the result of rape. You see, their's something of an arms race going on between Male and female duck genitalia.

I'm not making this stuff up.

re: #17 Firstinla

I was in the butcher shop yesterday and saw rabbit for the first time in 15 years. I asked about it and the guy said several people were asking for rabbit. Maybe it's just the latest craze. Is there some special way of preparing it?

I gave up meat many years ago so I am not the best person to ask... but I am guessing stewed.

OT
There is so much wrong with this story I don't even know where to start.

Slain teen wanted to be coyote, worked as stripper

The Sugar Land high school senior found beaten to death in Mexico last weekend wanted to be a coyote who smuggled illegal immigrants across the border and also worked as a stripper, according to her mother’s statement to police, a Houston Police Department missing persons report reveals.

Elisabeth Mandala, 18, a Kempner High School senior in the Fort Bend Independent School District, was found dead Saturday along with the bodies of two other men on the highway to Monclova, just west of Mina, a town of 6,000 near Monterrey. The pickup had been staged to look as if it had been involved in an accident, but investigators found evidence the truck’s accelerator may have been jammed with a rock, according to the Monterrey newspapers, Milenio and El Norte.

"It’s pretty apparent she was doing stuff down there she shouldn’t have been," said a law enforcement source close to the investigation who asked not to be identified by name.

A different story quoted an acquaintance of the dead girl saying that Elisabeth was "one of the brightest kids in the school."

re: #11 brookly red

rabbit season!

Duck Season!

re: #17 Firstinla

I was in the butcher shop yesterday and saw rabbit for the first time in 15 years. I asked about it and the guy said several people were asking for rabbit. Maybe it's just the latest craze. Is there some special way of preparing it?

I had rabbit at the King's Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg once. It was very tasty.

re: #21 JasonA

If they're reproducing then it's probably a healthy relationship. Only 2% of duck pregnancies are the result of rape. You see, their's something of an arms race going on between Male and female duck genitalia.

I'm not making this stuff up.

So I'm not the only one here who reads Cracked!

re: #21 JasonA

If they're reproducing then it's probably a healthy relationship. Only 2% of duck pregnancies are the result of rape. You see, their's something of an arms race going on between Male and female duck genitalia.

I'm not making this stuff up.

Yikes.

re: #27 SanFranciscoZionist

Yikes.

Here's a very informative article: [Link: www.cracked.com...]

Oh, and sorry if I ruined the cutesy image of ducks for anyone.

I won't get started on swans...

re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist

The Oakland PD shot a deer in some lady's back yard yesterday. The neighbors are NOT pleased.

Tall rats with hooves, a friend calls them!

re: #11 brookly red

rabbit season!

re: #24 Dark_Falcon

Duck Season!

You're both wrong. It's clearly Elmer Season. ;)

re: #24 Dark_Falcon

Duck Season!

re: #24 Dark_Falcon

Duck Season!

mid term elections!

Think I'll stick with chicken. I'd have nightmares that I was eating some kid's easter bunny.

Looks like the poor bird is suffering from a serious mallardy.

No you've done it. All this crispy duck talk forced me to order a pizza.

re: #35 lostlakehiker

Looks like the poor bird is suffering from a serious mallardy.

You quack me up.

re: #29 JasonA

Oh, and sorry if I ruined the cutesy image of ducks for anyone.

I won't get started on swans...

Sawns are okay as long as you don't get in their way.

Just keep in mind that there are rowing teams, people with arms built like tree trunks who will call of practice if there is a Swan in the water....

re: #31 Lidane

You're both wrong. It's clearly Elmer Season. ;)

there is so much truth to that...

re: #33 brookly red

mid term elections!

Lame duck season!

re: #13 JasonA

1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

True story.

I'm just surprised you can get two out of three to agree.
///
Okay, that was bad, but I couldn't resist.

re: #36 Gus 802

No you've done it. All this crispy duck talk forced me to order a pizza.

Pepperoni, mushrooms, and duck pizza?

re: #23 Shiplord Kirel

OT
There is so much wrong with this story I don't even know where to start.

Slain teen wanted to be coyote, worked as stripper

A different story quoted an acquaintance of the dead girl saying that Elisabeth was "one of the brightest kids in the school."

She got involved with some very dangerous people. I'm sad for her and her family, but she ran a stupid risk and it got her killed.

re: #36 Gus 802

No you've done it. All this crispy duck talk forced me to order a pizza.

I make a pizza with carmelized onions, smoked duck breast, and gruyer cheese...it's fuckin' awesome.

Just remember.

The duck is watching.

re: #13 JasonA

1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

True story.

so that is why they call it duck tape....

re: #42 NJDhockeyfan

Pepperoni, mushrooms, and duck pizza?

Ha! I ordered a pepperoni and mushrooms. No duck though. Just this one here.

re: #33 brookly red

mid term elections!

Wolf Season!

/Sarah Palin

re: #45 Charles

Just remember.

The duck is watching.

So is Lamb.

re: #14 SanFranciscoZionist

The Oakland PD shot a deer in some lady's back yard yesterday. The neighbors are NOT pleased.

I once wrote a satirical article on "Urban Varmint Hunting" for a local weekly. I advised would-be hunters to get dark blue or black camouflage for that environment, and arm themselves with .177 airguns or .22s at the most. The best tactic would be to stake out the dumpsters behind fast food places in the local malls, since that is where the biggest rats are known to congregate. Night vision scopes would be a welcome addition to every kit, since this kind of thing attracted, er, unfavorable attention in daylight. It was obviously a spoof but we got dozens of letters condemning me as a maniac for advocating reckless and illegal conduct.

re: #44 darthstar

I make a pizza with carmelized onions, smoked duck breast, and gruyer cheese...it's fuckin' awesome.

I'm coming over! Be there in about 24 hours.

/

re: #45 Charles

Just remember.

The duck is watching.

So we have a Canvassing Canvasback?

re: #45 Charles

Just remember.

The duck is watching.

Booga!! Quack!!

Pink Floyd. Fearless

re: #45 Charles

Just remember.

The duck is watching.

Ceiling duck.

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

Wolf Season!

/Sarah Palin

Only if they're foreign wolves.

/Sarah Palin's Twitter feed

re: #45 Charles

Just remember.

The duck is watching.

Who let the duck out?
Who? Who?

re: #32 freetoken

[Video]

How do you do a Google cache? I've got an article from PJM Ludwig should see.

re: #43 Dark_Falcon

She got involved with some very dangerous people. I'm sad for her and her family, but she ran a stupid risk and it got her killed.

Sad story. What a dumb move on her part. This makes her intelligible for a Darwin Award.

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

re: #55 Gus 802

Ceiling duck.

Huh, guess that's what happens if you don't build very high walls...

(You bump your head on the ceiling unless you....)

re: #47 Gus 802

Ha! I ordered a pepperoni and mushrooms. No duck though. Just this one here.

I am doing spinach, onion, olive, peppers & mushroom... pizza is good.

re: #50 Shiplord Kirel

Members of a certain swat team used to go out with silenced .22 (Ruger 10-22) and go rat hunting in abandoned buildings. "Extra entry/room clearing drills" they called it. Heh.

re: #34 Firstinla

Think I'll stick with chicken. I'd have nightmares that I was eating some kid's easter bunny.

I BBQ'd a rabbit exactly once in my life..Poured all sorts of sauce over it..It tasted like a rabbit..Gamey.. I took about 2 bites...
This tastes like rabbit!
It is rabbit..
OK when you eat a hamburger does it taste like a Cow?
No
Then Shut the hell up.. This tastes like a rabbit..

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

Ducks are tenacious adversaries.

re: #63 Rightwingconspirator

Members of a certain swat team used to go out with silenced .22 (Ruger 10-22) and go rat hunting in abandoned buildings. "Extra entry/room clearing drills" they called it. Heh.

Not a bad training exercise...those little suckers are fast.

re: #62 brookly red

I am doing spinach, onion, olive, peppers & mushroom... pizza is good.

Yeah, it was either that or the twice cooked pork, pan fried dumplings and two spring rolls.

Nom, nom, nom, nom...

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

You probably deserved it. ;)
/
/ducks!

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

My sister was bitten by a moose once....

re: #65 Charles

Ducks are tenacious adversaries.

Yea? Well I'm older now!!
/ducks
//wait, what?

Aflac... ka-chick, motherjumpas I said Aflac!

re: #56 Lidane

Only if they're foreign wolves.

/Sarah Palin's Twitter feed

Dear Sarah,

You keep quoting Ronald Reagan when you say "Trust but verify", but I do not think you know what he meant. I'd say you don't really know Reagan at all. Please take a history lesson.

Thank you,

Dark_Falcon

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

Luckily it didn't lead to duckophobia.

/

re: #58 Dark_Falcon

How do you do a Google cache? I've got an article from PJM Ludwig should see.

The VDH essay on Gore?

re: #67 Gus 802

Yeah, it was either that or the twice cooked pork, pan fried dumplings and two spring rolls.

Nom, nom, nom, nom...

have you ever noticed that pizza joints & Chinese take out are never far apart? Hmmmmm?

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

Didja have to go see the duckter?

re: #76 Macha

Didja have to go see the duckter?

That guy was a quack

re: #59 NJDhockeyfan

Sad story. What a dumb move on her part. This makes her intelligible eligible for a Darwin Award.

Agreed and undinged, but PIYF.

re: #76 Macha

Didja have to go see the duckter?

Yes. He was a quack.

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

I once got bit real good by a swan. I think I got too close to the nest. Luckily, I was wearing jeans. The swan was not kidding.

I have also had hot dogs taken away from me by both flamingos and seagulls. One seagull took the entire, unbitten hot dog out of the bun at San Diego Seaworld, and flew off with it.

My grandfather went back to the hot dog booth and reported the theft. The guy gave him a new hot dog and said, "Yeah, they're good at that."

re: #77 darthstar

re: #79 Cannadian Club Akbar

Damn spinning wheel!!!

re: #75 brookly red

have you ever noticed that pizza joints & Chinese take out are never far apart? Hmmm?

It's the pasta-noodles connection. Plus Italians and Chinese both love the color red.

/

re: #79 Cannadian Club Akbar

Yes. He was a quack.

Did you pay the bill?
(with a chicken?)

My brother and I were fishing in a pond one time. My brother casted his line out in the pond over the head of a duck. The duck saw it coming, raised his head up and caught the hook in it's beak and swallowed. Damnest thing I ever saw a duck do.

re: #38 jamesfirecat

Sawns are okay as long as you don't get in their way.

Just keep in mind that there are rowing teams, people with arms built like tree trunks who will call of practice if there is a Swan in the water...

They're well known for their swannish appetites.

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

I once found myself trapped on a park picnic table while a giant swan slept right next to me. I never realized just how big those things were until I saw one up close.

re: #74 freetoken

The VDH essay on Gore?

No, something else that criticizes the idea of a smart power grid. I wanted Ludwig to see it and reply.

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

ducks don't bite, they make like the IRS & bill you...

re: #65 Charles

Ducks are tenacious adversaries.

That's a fowl canard.

re: #83 darthstar

Did you pay the bill?
(with a chicken?)

And a pie!!
(Little house on the prarie!!)

re: #65 Charles

Ducks are tenacious adversaries.

"Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot. I must find a way to make them fear me. I know! I will become… a Bat!” - Bruce Wayne

re: #82 Gus 802

It's the pasta-noodles connection. Plus Italians and Chinese both love the color red.

/

what ever just keep it coming

re: #84 NJDhockeyfan

My brother and I were fishing in a pond one time. My brother casted his line out in the pond over the head of a duck. The duck saw it coming, raised his head up and caught the hook in it's beak and swallowed. Damnest thing I ever saw a duck do.

Must have been one of those S&M ducks, it starts with simple duck tape bondage and before long they're getting off on jamming hooks into their own bodies...

BTW, The Great Recession accomplished what the UNFCC could never do: cause a record reduction in US carbon emissions:

U.S. carbon emissions fell record 7 percent in 2009: EIA

U.S. emissions of the main greenhouse gas from fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas fell a record 7 percent in 2009 due to the recession and more efficient use of fuels, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Carbon dioxide emissions from energy sources, which make up about 80 percent of the country's output of gases blamed for warming the planet, fell more than 400 million tonnes last year, the EIA said.

re: #45 Charles
That must have been one helluva lens..... most of them wouldn't let ya get anywhere near that close.
Nice shot.
The photographic kind, I mean.

re: #84 NJDhockeyfan

My brother and I were fishing in a pond one time. My brother casted his line out in the pond over the head of a duck. The duck saw it coming, raised his head up and caught the hook in it's beak and swallowed. Damnest thing I ever saw a duck do.

Well, what happened to your brother?

re: #94 freetoken

BTW, The Great Recession accomplished what the UNFCC could never do: cause a record reduction in US carbon emissions:

U.S. carbon emissions fell record 7 percent in 2009: EIA

Dark Cloud, meet Silver Lining.

True story, and duck related. I was in Basel, Switzerland for a consulting gig a few years back. After eating at a restaurant, I pulled out my English-German dictionary to look up how to ask for the bill. I called the waitress over, and confidently asked, "Kan ich bitter einer schnabel haben?" She laughed. She called another waitress over. I repeated. She also laughed. I guestured for the bill, and she said, "oh, qvittum!"(sorry, my German spelling is bad)...she then gestured and said schnabel, then said 'quack, quack' to explain that THAT bill is what's on the face of a duck.

Major facepalm.

Gotta go. Time to rustle up some dinner. Have a good evening everyone.

re: #97 Dark_Falcon

Dark Cloud, meet Silver Lining.

well that is the plan... make us so poor we can't do shit.

re: #84 NJDhockeyfan

My brother and I were fishing in a pond one time. My brother casted his line out in the pond over the head of a duck. The duck saw it coming, raised his head up and caught the hook in it's beak and swallowed. Damnest thing I ever saw a duck do.

That's what I call fly fishing.

re: #72 Dark_Falcon

Dear Sarah,

You keep quoting Ronald Reagan when you say "Trust but verify", but I do not think you know what he meant. I'd say you don't really know Reagan at all. Please take a history lesson.

Thank you,

Dark_Falcon

Here's Ron Reagan saying exactly that, while Pamela Geller insists "your father would have loved Sarah" (on the Joy Behar show)

Duck season!

re: #98 darthstar

The password is Tab. Tab.
/

re: #45 Charles

Just remember.

The duck is watching.

So? Cover the windows with duck tape.

re: #96 Firstinla

Well, what happened to your brother?

He got his hook back. The duck didn't win that battle. Poor SOB gave his life for my brother's hook.

re: #104 Cannadian Club Akbar

The password is Tab. Tab.
/

Best. Commercial. Ever.

re: #100 brookly red

well that is the plan... make us so poor we can't do shit.

Fiber pills! They work wonders!

re: #97 Dark_Falcon

I'm not so naive enough to believe that our carbon emissions will continue to be reduced without a concerted effort, or that 400 million tonnes is significant in the big picture.

Yet the recession has made Americans more aware of their patterns, and changed the debt-building orgasm in which Americans were partaking. If more Americans lived as my grandparents' generation did - frugally, we'd be better off in the long run.

I won't link to Pajamas media.

However, there is a truly remarkable bit of garbage posted there that attempts to "debunk" the idea of a smart grid. I should point out that the author is a former poster here who has written remarkable gems of anti-science foolishness and stupidity.

I shall enjoy debunking the "debunking"

It is important to not that the article never actually defines or describes what a smart grid is or how it is supposed to work or what the key components are. Some key components are more effective long range transmission, more intelligent switching capacity to send energy from low load areas to high load ares and the deployment of battery systems to store and accumulate energy which could be fed back into the grid if the owners demand is low. These things would then allow more remote plants, like windfarms to send energy when needed and store it when not.

The increased transmission and switching would cut down on emissions tremendously in of itself, particularly during regional hotspells by not forcing off peak areas to waste energy when idling, while forcing other regions to run at peak capacity.

Some Gems:

“Aging technology” is a nonsensical term, because the technology can’t get old unless there’s a new technology in the wings to replace it, and the argument that there’s not enough money in R&D undercuts the implication that there has to be newer technology waiting.

Nothing ever breaks down and entropy stopped in the US?

Do certain pieces need to be replaced? Probably. But the financial mechanism for that should already be in place... should be a routine matter of finance. This is basically an internal matter that their maintenance departments should be dealing with on an ongoing basis.

The author already established that it did not know what entropy was, however as is always the case with these sorts of fools, th should be about the science and the technology, not a bunch of political and economic clap trap. The studies already show that smart grids would be tremendously profitable. Since he does not take the time to link to such a study and back up his claims with facts, I will.

Some actual science from a non-wingnut...

[Link: www.sciencedirect.com...]

Abstract

If Europe is serious about reaching its target to keep global mean temperature increase below 2 °C, it must strive for a 100% renewable electricity system by 2050. The SuperSmart Grid approach combines what is often perceived as two exclusive alternatives: wide area power generation and decentralised power generation. We argue that by combining these, in fact, complementary measures, it is possible to address the crucial issue of renewable generation—fluctuating supply—in a comprehensive as well as in a technologically and economically viable manner. Thus, the SuperSmart Grid simultaneously can contribute to energy security, climate security, social security, and national security.

And here is some actual economics from MIT

[Link: web.mit.edu...]

The bottom line is that such technologies exist or are in development (the PJM article does not bother to discuss this properly) and actual economists and scientists have demonstrated they would be beneficial both environmentally and financially. They would most importantly reduce costs to customers - that's you and me.

To be continued...

re: #98 darthstar

True story, and duck related. I was in Basel, Switzerland for a consulting gig a few years back. After eating at a restaurant, I pulled out my English-German dictionary to look up how to ask for the bill. I called the waitress over, and confidently asked, "Kan ich bitter einer schnabel haben?" She laughed. She called another waitress over. I repeated. She also laughed. I guestured for the bill, and she said, "oh, qvittum!"(sorry, my German spelling is bad)...she then gestured and said schnabel, then said 'quack, quack' to explain that THAT bill is what's on the face of a duck.

Major facepalm.

Good audio memory. Quittung, pronounced Kvituung, is the word. Means your "quits" with the restaurant---even steven, books balanced, you ate and they got paid.

re: #110 LudwigVanQuixote

so in plain English what is a smart grid?

re: #109 freetoken

...orgasm in which Americans were partaking.

Warn a guy next time! I need to put the kids to bed!

//

Hockey fight in the Chicago/Vancouver game.

Take a look at the duck in this photo. This is no coddled Pennsylvania highlands duck. This is a hardened Los Angeles duck.

Probably knows some gang signs.

re: #60 Cannadian Club Akbar

I was bitten by a duck at a Zoo once. Was trying to feed it. I cried. I was around 7 years old. Fucker.

They don't like touching. And how can you blame them? After all, 1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

re: #112 brookly red

so in plain English what is a smart grid?

An educated grid?

A grid with a diploma?

re: #98 darthstar

True story, not duck related. Years ago I was backpacking Europe and while in Germany I went into a pharmacy and, in my best high school German asked for something for mosquito bites. When I got back to my tent I read the box and discovered I had bought a tube of hemorrhoid cream. I took it back and the nice lady had a good laugh.

re: #114 NJDhockeyfan

Hockey fight in the Chicago/Vancouver game.

One of the Sedin twins even!

re: #116 Nimed

They don't like touching. And how can you blame them? After all, 1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

When there's trouble you call DW!

re: #115 Charles

Take a look at the duck in this photo. This is no coddled Pennsylvania highlands duck. This is a hardened Los Angeles duck.

Probably knows some gang signs.

Probably banged some bitches...

Which of course brings us right back to duck rape....

re: #116 Nimed

They don't like touching. And how can you blame them? After all, 1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

So you're saying this duck remembered CCA?
/

re: #115 Charles

Take a look at the duck in this photo. This is no coddled Pennsylvania highlands duck. This is a hardened Los Angeles duck.

Probably knows some gang signs.

Looks like a Crips duck.

re: #120 SteveC

When there's trouble you call DW!

Lets get dangerous!

re: #118 Firstinla

True story, not duck related. Years ago I was backpacking Europe and while in Germany I went into a pharmacy and, in my best high school German asked for something for mosquito bites. When I got back to my tent I read the box and discovered I had bought a tube of hemorrhoid cream. I took it back and the nice lady had a good laugh.

You're supposed to rub that on your quack

re: #116 Nimed

They don't like touching. And how can you blame them? After all, 1/3rd of all duck sex is rape.

OMG!! I am laughing so hard right now. I'm pretty sure it's about half.
/

re: #115 Charles

The Wereduck walks?

P.S All joking aside the author of this article has actually witnessed attempted duck rape. A goose with no connection to the victim swam over and chased the attacker off, it was one of the most amazing things he has ever seen.

re: #110 LudwigVanQuixote

I should point out that the author is a former poster here who has written remarkable gems of anti-science foolishness and stupidity.

I've concluded that Simon promotes people from an LGF stalker blog just to get back at Charles.

As for anything to do with science, PJM is about as messed up as WND.

re: #122 darthstar

So you're saying this duck remembered CCA?
/

I was wearing a mask!!
/

re: #125 darthstar

Oh, it was duck related after all!

re: #128 SanFranciscoZionist

P.S All joking aside the author of this article has actually witnessed attempted duck rape. A goose with no connection to the victim swam over and chased the attacker off, it was one of the most amazing things he has ever seen.

/so exactly how does something that can fly away get raped?

re: #131 Firstinla

Oh, it was duck related after all!

Get thee behind me duck!

re: #128 SanFranciscoZionist

P.S All joking aside the author of this article has actually witnessed attempted duck rape. A goose with no connection to the victim swam over and chased the attacker off, it was one of the most amazing things he has ever seen.

It's not so easy for the male ducks, either...their penises are long corkscrew things that don't retract immediately...other ducks (male and female alike) will attack them like they're free worms at a feeding frenzy.

re: #124 jamesfirecat

Lets get dangerous!

Me and my 4 year old niece, 4:30 PM every weekday - it was a ritual. Good times, good times!

The girl just got her drivers license! Gosh, I'm an ol' man!

Resurrection of the Red-Legged Black Duck

re: #24 Dark_Falcon

Duck Season!

Here we go again!

You people quack me up. Geez.

The only duck that matters.

(I still love you, Rick!)

re: #127 Floral Giraffe

The Wereduck walks?

Quuuack, wereducks of London!

re: #124 jamesfirecat

Lets get dangerous!

Speaking of which, new Darkwing Duck comics are coming. :)

re: #139 MandyManners

Disco Duck killed disco.

re: #127 Floral Giraffe

The Wereduck walks?

Is that like Duckenstein and Count Duckula?

/

re: #139 MandyManners

That song always quacks me up!

re: #142 darthstar

Disco Duck killed disco.

For which we are eternally grateful.

re: #132 brookly red

/so exactly how does something that can fly away get raped?

Apparently, among other things, rapist ducks work in packs.

Count Duckula!

re: #143 Gus 802

Is that like Duckenstein and Count Duckula?

/

re: #115 Charles

That's duckist.
/

re: #146 SanFranciscoZionist

Apparently, among other things, rapist ducks work in packs.

I just can't picture it... I mean fight or flight with the emphasis on flight.

re: #146 SanFranciscoZionist

Apparently, among other things, rapist ducks work in packs.

I learn some, well, interesting, things here...
Please tell me, there is no quiz on duck sex! Please!

re: #149 darthstar

That's duckist.
/

I'm just sayin'.

re: #121 jamesfirecat

Probably banged some bitches...

Which of course brings us right back to duck rape...

jamesfirecat, you're like the 10th person that mentions duck rape in the last 30 minutes. Sounds like a pretty serious issue.

Of course, I don't really expect our MSM will cover it. Since when do they care about the concerns of Real America?

re: #150 brookly red

I just can't picture it... I mean fight or flight with the emphasis on flight.

Read
[Link: www.cracked.com...]

Regret reading...

re: #151 Floral Giraffe

I learn some, well, interesting, things here...
Please tell me, there is no quiz on duck sex! Please!

Duck rhymes with....luck.

Duckenstein

To continue debunking an idiot... about smart grids.

One should not be surprised that this fellow is also an avid AGW denier. It would make sense that attacking smart grids would be part of its passion. In many ways this is the same unreasoning obsessive compulsive BS that goes on in AGW only now applied to engineering.

It's pretty obvious that the auhor isn't much of an engineer either given that it can not be bothered to discuss actual engineering... But let's illustrate the stupid some more.

This doesn’t merely suggest that “smart grid” technology will improve energy efficiency; it outright claims that it will “vastly” do so. This is nonsense.

Really, did he ever read any of the studies or define what he was even talking about? Well he claims to explain himself on page 2.

After a page of his notions of supply and demand he simply states:

Myth #5: The “smart grid” will “vastly improve efficiency.”

All this will do, under the best of circumstances, is move the demand to a different time of day. It won’t eliminate or even reduce it. Energy savings result in the generating and transmission systems, but they’re at best marginal.

No further proof, no explanation. Yet a simple explanation of a smart grid shunts power to where it is needed and pays the consumer back for energy he supplies quickly shows through common sense that operating costs are cut down for the utility and the consumer, because it costs more to run one generator it idle and another at peak than too allow them to share the load through a distributed network.

Of course that would require actually thinking.

He concludes with:

Adding a layer of intelligence on top of the current aluminum/copper system is like adding computers to automobile engines — it’s an improvement, but it’s still an internal combustion engine, not something completely new and “vastly” more efficient.

Once again proving how utterly he missed the point he preaches the false and unsubstantiated. The smart grid is independent of the power in the sense that you can plug whatever sort of plant you want into it. But, more importantly, by distributing load with an intelligent algorithm you waste less energy and reduce costs. All the math and numbers are in the links in the previous post. This is math that anyone who would care to even brush up on the subject would look at first.

Well, what do you expect from morons?

It does entertain me that the fool claims to be an engineer - a chemical engineer.

Well we know why places like Bhopal blow up now.

Donald Duck - Toy Tinkers
1949, high quality. Marvelous episode with Chip and Dale.

re: #155 Cannadian Club Akbar

Duck rhymes with...luck.

and it also rhymes with... never mind.

re: #145 sagehen

For which we are eternally grateful.

"No! Disco is NOT dead! Disco is life!"

/Guess which movie that's from.

re: #153 Nimed

jamesfirecat, you're like the 10th person that mentions duck rape in the last 30 minutes. Sounds like a pretty serious issue.

Of course, I don't really expect our MSM will cover it. Since when do they care about the concerns of Real America?

Can you picture Andy Rooney doing a piece on "Duck Rape"?

Duck season, fire!

re: #17 Firstinla

I was in the butcher shop yesterday and saw rabbit for the first time in 15 years. I asked about it and the guy said several people were asking for rabbit. Maybe it's just the latest craze. Is there some special way of preparing it?

I don't know.
But the LGF Cookbook has some yummy alligator recipes!

We're up to 22 books sold.
Check it out, folks!
I got my copy today, and the covers are spectacular. Lots of great recipes inside, plus even MORE of Jaunte's artwork, and a special Killgore's Very Own Gardening Section.

And priced less than Volume 1!
Great deal, all the way around.

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

"No! Disco is NOT dead! Disco is life!"

/Guess which movie that's from.

Saturday Night Fever?

re: #161 Cannadian Club Akbar

Can you picture Andy Rooney doing a piece on "Duck Rape"?

actually yes...

Uptown West Toluca Lake Ducks likely scared to death of Charles gangster duck.
[Link: picasaweb.google.com...]

This is for the birds. 'Nite, all.

re: #153 Nimed

jamesfirecat, you're like the 10th person that mentions duck rape in the last 30 minutes. Sounds like a pretty serious issue.

Of course, I don't really expect our MSM will cover it. Since when do they care about the concerns of Real America?

Well.... it does happen in flyover country. Nuttin' important happens out there!

re: #89 Decatur Deb
My great great uncle went hunting one day with some buddies and there were copious amounts of alcohol consumed at their duck club. One of the hunters had loved (and lost ) a girl who was getting married at a hotel that night in town, and he got more and more angry the more he drank. They all decided to come back early to crash the wedding at the hotel, and they snuck two live mallards into the lobby fountain thinking that would be pretty damn funny. Long story short,
the ducks stayed, and they've been there for about 80 years. They live on the hotel roof, and have their own bellman who marches them down an elevator to the lobby every day at five pm to swim a while in the fountain. The story's been sanitized over the years, but the truth is , they first landed in the fountain because a jilted duck hunter had way too much bourbon.

re: #142 darthstar

Disco Duck killed disco.

It goes deeper than that. I was but a child.

re: #166 Rightwingconspirator

Uptown West Toluca Lake Ducks likely scared to death of Charles gangster duck.
[Link: picasaweb.google.com...]

They look like they're in a swimming pool!

re: #167 Decatur Deb

This is for the birds. 'Nite, all.

Not all it's quacked up to be huh?

re: #112 brookly red

so in plain English what is a smart grid?

Some key components of a smart grid are more effective long range transmission, more intelligent switching capacity to send energy from low load areas to high load ares and the deployment of battery systems to store and accumulate energy which could be fed back into the grid if the owners demand is low. These things would then allow more remote plants, like windfarms to send energy when needed and store it when not.

The increased transmission and switching would cut down on emissions tremendously in of itself, particularly during regional hotspells by not forcing off peak areas to waste energy when idling, while forcing other regions to run at peak capacity.

Heh.

re: #144 sngnsgt

That song always quacks me up!

I'm all out of puns, sgt!

And Canadian Geese that Migrate through Indiana are completely protected..If you shoot one of them you go to jail...
You know what? All they do is shit on my car..They could go anywhere..I feel like I'm being targeted every day...I swear..Those bastard Canadian Geese have it out for cars..

re: #171 Floral Giraffe

They are. In mine. Photos courtesy Dragon_Lady.

re: #171 Floral Giraffe

They look like they're in a swimming pool!

Scroll through - they are!
Those are pretty photos, RWC!

re: #161 Cannadian Club Akbar

Can you picture Andy Rooney doing a piece on "Duck Rape"?

LOL
I just did. Diet Coke tried to come out of my nose.

re: #175 MandyManners

I'm all out of puns, sgt!

Get out of there, Marine! Shake your tailfeather!

re: #176 HoosierHoops

And Canadian Geese that Migrate through Indiana are completely protected..If you shoot one of them you go to jail...
You know what? All they do is shit on my car..They could go anywhere..I feel like I'm being targeted every day...I swear..Those bastard Canadian Geese have it out for cars..

Heard a story on the radio, about a guy with herding dogs, who rents them out, to chase away Canadian Geese. Business opportunity!

Tony Soprano - Ducks

re: #171 Floral Giraffe

They look like they're in a swimming pool!

Here's the one I like.

re: #176 HoosierHoops

And Canadian Geese that Migrate through Indiana are completely protected..If you shoot one of them you go to jail...
You know what? All they do is shit on my car..They could go anywhere..I feel like I'm being targeted every day...I swear..Those bastard Canadian Geese have it out for cars..

Makes me thinks of "The Far Side".

re: #178 reine.de.tout

D_L is pretty good with her Canon Elf.

re: #183 reine.de.tout

Here's the one I like.

That cat can almost taste the duck! Except for the water...

re: #145 sagehen

For which we are eternally grateful.

*whack*

I'm a former majorette. Donna Summer is one of my idols from that period.

re: #186 Floral Giraffe

That cat can almost taste the duck! Except for the water...

hehe.
There are 30 all in all, Flo.
Use the arrows and scroll through. There are several with the cat.

re: #186 Floral Giraffe

D-L was just waiting for our coon cat to take the leap. Now that would have been a picture!

re: #185 Rightwingconspirator

D_L is pretty good with her Canon Elf.

I got your cannon right here!

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

"No! Disco is NOT dead! Disco is life!"

/Guess which movie that's from.

One that I probably didn't see, as it doesn't sound familiar.

re: #165 brookly red
Yeah, and you just know who he'd tie it back in to somehow...

re: #189 Rightwingconspirator

D-L was just waiting for our coon cat to take the leap. Now that would have been a picture!

He was thinking about it....
Does he swim?

re: #169 tradewind

I know the hotel. the "Porter" or something in Memphis?

re: #190 SteveC

They had big balls back then!

re: #183 reine.de.tout

LOL!

If anyone wants to meet me later for a challenge with a baton or flag or rifle to the tune of Donna Summers, GET YOUR GAME UP!

re: #195 Rightwingconspirator

They had big balls back then!

They go with the buns of steel!

re: #176 HoosierHoops
We had guard geese at the farm. Not on purpose.
Mean as a snake. They chase you and bite!

re: #183 reine.de.tout

Now that one quacked me up!

Look into the fixed red eye of the duck.

And now, the really important news - Joe the Plumber takes his first step to being an apparatchik:

Joe the Plumber is elected to party office in Ohio

re: #199 tradewind

We had guard geese at the farm. Not on purpose.
Mean as a snake. They chase you and bite!

the Romans used then too

re: #193 Floral Giraffe

Not anymore. Took a stab at it as a kitten. Changed her mind about it.

re: #194 Decatur Deb
The Peabody. Close.

re: #201 Charles

Look into the fixed red eye of the duck.

He's dead, Jim.

re: #205 tradewind

The Peabody. Close.

Also in Orlando.

re: #186 Floral Giraffe

That cat can almost taste the duck! Except for the water...

I Swear Floral...The geese aim for cars...In the morning when you go outside and you are expecting shit everywhere..No..Just on the Red frigging car!
It's like a target to them..If it wasn't against the law I'd put up 88mm anti artillery posts outside and smoke those bastards!
/

re: #201 Charles

You certainly have the tougher duck!

re: #202 freetoken

And now, the really important news - Joe the Plumber takes his first step to being an apparatchik:

Joe the Plumber is elected to party office in Ohio

/don't laugh when he is President.

re: #2 SanFranciscoZionist

There's a pair of mallards that settle down in the creek by my apartment every spring to raise a family. I am very fond of them.

There's a bunch that poop in my pool every spring. I am not fond of them.

re: #201 Charles

Look into the fixed red eye of the duck.

Terminator Duck?

This duck means business.

re: #209 Rightwingconspirator

You certainly have the tougher duck!

"You're right... the duck is dry."

Dining on Duck Balls in San Francisco

To Gridskipper's recent list of Eclectic & Exotic San Francisco Dining Destinations, I must add one restaurant: Incanto in the Noe Valley neighborhood. While Incanto could most easily be described as Italian or rustic Italian, Chef Chris Cosentino (who was recently named one of Grist magazine's 15 "green" chefs) has a thing for using the whole animal in his cooking. Some have referred to it as offal cooking, meaning you're likely to find fun stuff like sweatbreads, tripe and the benign-sounding "duck fries" that graced the menu when I was there last week. Note: duck fries are not fries of any sort. They are duck balls. No, not balls of duck. They are duck testicles. Didn't know ducks even had testicles? Join the club. I will say that I was told what I was eating long before popping the testes into my mouth. Interesting. Anyway, this is one restaurant that should most definitely be included on any adventurous diner's list of San Francisco restaurants. And even if you stick to the tamer options, the menu is filled with unexpected combinations, and the setting is quite romantic.

re: #163 reine.de.tout

I don't know.
But the LGF Cookbook has some yummy alligator recipes!

We're up to 22 books sold.
Check it out, folks!
I got my copy today, and the covers are spectacular. Lots of great recipes inside, plus even MORE of Jaunte's artwork, and a special Killgore's Very Own Gardening Section.

And priced less than Volume 1!
Great deal, all the way around.

My insurance premium cleared today. I'm ordering my cookbook tomorrow!

re: #212 Cannadian Club Akbar

Terminator Duck?

Terminator Duck!
LOL
The Duck That Could Not Be Trusted.

re: #205 tradewind

The Peabody. Close.

Oh, my goodness. I'm wearing a Peabody T-shirt right now!

re: #207 Cannadian Club Akbar
There's a Peabody Hotel in FL?
Yeah, ... sniff...but it's not the Peabody.//

re: #216 Killgore Trout

My insurance premium cleared today. I'm ordering my cookbook tomorrow!

You'll love, I think.
So will your Mom?

re: #212 Cannadian Club Akbar

Terminator Duck?

your dessspicable! BLAM BLAM BLAM!

Little green duck

re: #208 HoosierHoops

I Swear Floral...The geese aim for cars...In the morning when you go outside and you are expecting shit everywhere..No..Just on the Red frigging car!
It's like a target to them..If it wasn't against the law I'd put up 88mm anti artillery posts outside and smoke those bastards!
/

Knew a guy in college who carried a photo canister in his pocket. Had it full of birdseed, which he used to "call in the bombers."

God help you if you were on his (s)hit list and you had a convertible....

re: #201 Charles

Look into the fixed red eye of the duck.

Oh yeah? Top this!

re: #212 Cannadian Club Akbar

Terminator Duck?

With lasers shooting out of his eyes!

re: #212 Cannadian Club Akbar

Terminator Duck?

He'll be QUAAACK!

re: #206 MandyManners
Is this a trick of taxidermy? He does look a little stiff.....

re: #220 reine.de.tout

You'll love it, I think.
So will your Mom?

It, it, dammit!
You'll love it.

*sigh*

re: #207 Cannadian Club Akbar

Also in Orlando.

Orlando?

I call "bullshit".

Peabody.

Ain't no imitation.

re: #217 reine.de.tout

Terminator Duck!

Go with him if you want to quack.

re: #218 MandyManners

Oh, my goodness. I'm wearing a Peabody T-shirt right now!

Yeah. I know.

You should have that mole looked at.

re: #224 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh yeah? Top this!

OK, is that gonna be 9 minutes of that toad's eyes going all funky?

re: #224 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
That should come with a seizure warning./

The point of that long post about smart grids is:

1. They are a key component to things we can do now to reverse AGW.

2. They would be very profitable as opposed to the false claims of morons like Larry Reisinger who wrote that article at PJM under his full name.

There are many fools and despite claims to be "a licensed professional engineer in Chemical, Control Systems, and Electrical Engineering, with a Masters in Chemical." We only have yet another fraud who so hates the notion of doing anything about AGW that he would shoot something that has merits of its own, independent of AGW in the foot.

It is terrible when people of supposed technical acumen allow ideology to cloud their perceptions so completely. The mark of someone who knows what they are talking about is always providing evidence and explaining the evidence clearly.

Yet this is what we, as scientists, are up against as a community.

The average person will not look at the evidence. They will go for appeals to authority based on the degree to which the authority agree with their views.

The APS, NASA, MIT, Princeton are not authorities on these topics to them - but Lord Monckton is seen as a brilliant scientist. At no point does actual discussion of science or technology enter the picture or the whispers in their echo-chamber.

I love the lizards even the ones who argue with me, because most of you will take the time to look at the facts and think. It doesn't matter who LVQ is as a scientist. It matters if he brings the science. This is why I need all of your help. Please continue to get as educated as you can with the actual facts and please spread what you have learned.

re: #229 MandyManners

Orlando?

I call "bullshit".

Peabody.

Ain't no imitation.

[Link: www.peabodyorlando.com...]

re: #213 Charles

This duck means business.

Dickhead thought the same thing.

duck and cover

re: #207 Cannadian Club Akbar

Also in Orlando.

I stayed at that one once. Priceline. $60.00.

Was very lovely.

re: #224 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh yeah? Top this!

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

re: #232 reine.de.tout

OK, is that gonna be 9 minutes of that toad's eyes going all funky?

re: #233 tradewind

That should come with a seizure warning./

Obey.

re: #157 LudwigVanQuixote

To continue debunking an idiot... about smart grids.

One should not be surprised that this fellow is also an avid AGW denier. It would make sense that attacking smart grids would be part of its passion. In many ways this is the same unreasoning obsessive compulsive BS that goes on in AGW only now applied to engineering.

It's pretty obvious that the auhor isn't much of an engineer either given that it can not be bothered to discuss actual engineering... But let's illustrate the stupid some more.

Once again proving how utterly he missed the point he preaches the false and unsubstantiated. The smart grid is independent of the power in the sense that you can plug whatever sort of plant you want into it. But, more importantly, by distributing load with an intelligent algorithm you waste less energy and reduce costs. All the math and numbers are in the links in the previous post. This is math that anyone who would care to even brush up on the subject would look at first.

Well, what do you expect from morons?

It does entertain me that the fool claims to be an engineer - a chemical engineer.

Well we know why places like Bhopal blow up now.

Adding a layer of intelligence on top of the current aluminum/copper system is like adding computers to automobile engines — it’s an improvement, but it’s still an internal combustion engine, not something completely new and “vastly” more efficient.

Man, this is one crappy attempt at misdirection. Where do the discussions about a smart grid claim the hardware, the aluminum/copper infrastructure, will be completely new and vastly more efficient? Increased efficiency, in this context, would be a decrease in cost per kilowatt delivered to the end user. On the other hand, adding computers to car engines has helped to dramatically increase power while significantly decreasing fuel usage, which I do believe can be called 'efficiency'.

re: #218 MandyManners
Whoo hoo!
Pretty great little bunch of shops there.
But they don't serve duck in the restaurants, even the haute cuisine one, and ya better not ask.

re: #223 SteveC

Knew a guy in college who carried a photo canister in his pocket. Had it full of birdseed, which he used to "call in the bombers."

God help you if you were on his (s)hit list and you had a convertible...

The meanest thing I know a girl did in College was to buy just hundreds of crickets from a bait shop and dump them in her ex-boyfriends car...It took forever to get those crickets out...Constant chirping from under the dashboard for months...and nothing you can do about it...

re: #231 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yeah. I know.

You should have that mole looked at.

I did my best to remove those moles nicely from my property.

re: #241 b_sharp

You lost me at "Man,".

re: #241 b_sharp

Man, this is one crappy attempt at misdirection. Where do the discussions about a smart grid claim the hardware, the aluminum/copper infrastructure, will be completely new and vastly more efficient? Increased efficiency, in this context, would be a decrease in cost per kilowatt delivered to the end user. On the other hand, adding computers to car engines has helped to dramatically increase power while significantly decreasing fuel usage, which I do believe can be called 'efficiency'.

It's a fraud perpetrated by a fraud to fool the stupid. You are spot on.

re: #235 Cannadian Club Akbar

[Link: www.peabodyorlando.com...]

IT AIN'T THE SAME FUCKING THING!!!

re: #243 HoosierHoops

The meanest thing I know a girl did in College was to buy just hundreds of crickets from a bait shop and dump them in her ex-boyfriends car...It took forever to get those crickets out...Constant chirping from under the dashboard for months...and nothing you can do about it...

Could have been worse. I know someone who put stinky cheese in her ex-boyfriend's heater.

re: #229 MandyManners
Some damn fine new years' eves there. And other eves.
I think the ownership group has a hotel in a few other places.... I sure didn't know it was called the Peabody.
Heresy.

re: #247 MandyManners
I bet their corn sticks suck./

More hockey fights. Heh.

re: #251 NJDhockeyfan

More hockey fights. Heh.

Well, almost.

[Link: www.wisegeek.com...]
From link:

In the case of the French dish, known in French as canard au sang, or “duck in its blood,” the process for making pressed duck is quite complex. It starts with partially roasting a duck which has been strangled to retain maximum blood volume. Next, the breasts, liver, and thighs of the bird are removed. The liver is chopped and seasoned while the breasts and thighs are roasted separately. Meanwhile, the body of the duck is pressed in a special device called a duck press, which is modeled after a wine press.

Yuk.