A Slight Delay

Rubber ducks are a bit like Doritos. It seems you can’t have just one. I started with a single duck some years back, and what started off as something to keep in my bathroom became a minor obsession; that duck has multiplied as if by parthenogenesis, and we now have a couple dozen ducks of varying shapes and sizes, complementing a rubber duck shower curtain, plus a duckie wastebasket, toilet brush holder, and soap dispenser. As it turns out, though, there are some people for whom this is more than just a “minor” obsession.

Ernie has nothing on Charlotte Lee of Duckplanet, who has a world-record-holding 2,583 quackers. The little yellow fellow in Runaway Rubber Duckie, meantime, is even more well-traveled than the garden gnome in Amelie. But best in show goes to collector/photographer Colleen Fletcher’s The Duck Show, not only for the variety of the collection, but also for presentation. Her ducks can be found cavorting from NYC to Vegas and beyond, in the company of strangers and celebrities alike.

A few more links for anyone else who’s got a thing for vinyl waterfowl:
A Duck A Day (for your daily duck fix)
RubberDuck.com
Rubber Duck World
Wikipedia on rubber ducks

And, last but not least, two articles on the strange odyssey of tens of thousands of rubber ducks that will one day probably be made into a movie by Disney and Pixar. This one is from 2003, and this one is from 2007.

Tags: ducks and oceanography, Ernie, rubber duckies, Rubber ducks

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