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i wombat - 2005-07-12 14:09:45
well, I'd say Quacker(a)y, as in Thackeray, but he was a novelist, and it's not that close a match.
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Ucalagon - 2005-07-12 14:57:42
Ezra Pond?
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Paula - 2005-07-12 15:09:53
Those are both good, but no one's got it yet.
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i wombat - 2005-07-13 09:40:06
Well, if the river was whisley, and I was a duck, I'd swim to the bottom, and listen to Elvis Costello, while reading Saramago, but that's just me, I don't actually read much poetry.
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Alan - 2005-07-13 11:02:36
In the far too obvious to be correct category would be Emily Duckinson. Only other thing I can think of is Edna St. Vincent Mallard.
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Paula - 2005-07-13 11:21:14
Since most (I'm excluding one) of the above answers are all good, let's just say there is no one answer. But I'm waiting til more people chime in.
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Chris - 2005-07-13 12:44:49
I know ducks(thanks to my kids interest in birds) , not poetry. My two favorite duck terms that sound kind of poetic
1) Scapulars
2) Badelynge (a group of ducks on land)
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i wombat - 2005-07-13 14:54:13
I know a guy named Chuck Quackenbush, I don't know if he writes poetry, last I heard, he was an ADA in Manhattan, but he moved up to the country, he would probably change his first name to "Duck" ,in fact, that's probably his nom de plume ( sort of a water fowlian idea right there, to have quill, to write...) so I guess him.
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Alan - 2005-07-13 15:52:44
Okay, if I take that as a hint, I'm going to guess T. S. Eliot. Incredibly torturous reasoning chain will be revealed upon request.
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Paula - 2005-07-13 16:37:01
I love torturous reasoning, lay it on us.
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Alan - 2005-07-13 18:52:53
T. S. Eliot wrote, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". If you assume "flock" as the collective noun for ducks (which I do not believe is correct, but the one I thought it was, covey, also apparently isn't it), then the joke would somehow turn around the pun Pruflock. and your new favorite word could be Prufrockian. I didn't say it was clever, just torturous.
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2fs - 2005-07-13 21:44:38
Googling the terms "collective noun ducks," the following terms come up: raft, paddling (on water only), flush. The phrase "a flush of ducks" is rife with peril for spoonerists.
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Janet - 2005-07-13 21:48:32
A dush of flux?
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