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#51515 01/02/2002 3:59 PM
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Linebacker for the University of Oregon Ducks: Wesly Mallard.

http://goducks.fansonly.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/mallard_wesly01.html


#51516 01/03/2002 12:04 PM
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Poor chap! Wouldn't it be terrible if he received an injury that made it difficult for him to walk?

And could you keep a straight face whilst you invited him to play whist?

However, if he ever feels unwanted or unloved, he can come to the UK and join a Steam Locomotive preservation society!


#51517 01/03/2002 12:20 PM
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Poor chap! Wouldn't it be terrible if he received an injury that made it difficult for him to walk?
Oh, to him it'd prolly be like water off a duck's back...



#51518 01/03/2002 12:27 PM
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I dunno - I think it might give him a deceitful walk.
It seems probable that he would weave his way on tangled webs . . .



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...or you might say "wimble-wamble". [no whiter than the average duck] (hi dubious!) [/unwhitened]


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wambling seems appropriate, but I'm not so sure about wimbling - that sounds like a boring occupation to me.

Perhaps ducking and diving would be a better description?


#51521 01/03/2002 3:30 PM
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>not so sure about wimbling - that sounds like a boring occupation

yeahbut, in wimble-wamble it's supposedly a reduplication of wamble and nothing to do with wimbling atall.
OED gives it as Brit. dialect meaning to roll about in walking; evidently not where you are.


#51522 01/03/2002 4:04 PM
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Nay, lad; reaund 'ere tha's mo' like to 'ear 'em say, "weighvin."


#51523 01/03/2002 8:12 PM
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Mallard

He must be a mean quackler! so go ahead and shoot me, quackle instead of tackle, get it?


#51524 01/04/2002 3:36 AM
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It seems probable that he would weave his way on tangled webs . . .
Well, if his webs got tangled (good one!), he'd weeble and he'd wobble and he would fall down. Hmm...how much wood could a wood duck duck if a wood duck could and would duck wood? (Oh my stars, folks, she's gone to stream-of-consciousness again!)

What does one wood duck say to another? "Wood you like to go out with me?" What does a wood duck say to a wood duck decoy? "Why don't you answer me? What are you, a wooden-head?" What does a wood duck do to ward off bad luck? Knocks on wood, of course!


#51525 01/05/2002 7:07 PM
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How did the mallard cross the road?

Via duct.Not via an elephant.



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