Duck Racing

Replies: 44 - Last Post: Mar 2, 2013 5:03 PM Last Post By: Groo

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Drovers_Dog

Feb 22, 2013 2:33 AM
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Nail their feet to a log. hth.

Groo

Feb 22, 2013 2:37 AM
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If we still had the edit function I could have worked in a belated "fowl weather" pun.

RayCCroc

Feb 22, 2013 10:56 AM
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Meh, they've been having plastic Duck Races on Clunie Water in Braemar for years. One of those gimmicks that spreads round the world like Andean buskers or human statues until it reaches saturation point in the last hick town where somebody thinks it's a novelty.

Drovers_Dog

Feb 22, 2013 3:03 PM
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Eider way, it's a good revenue raising exercise for local charities. I still retain a soft spot for cowpat lotto however. Fascinating stuff.

RayCCroc

Feb 22, 2013 3:33 PM
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But cowpat lotto is cruel to animals!

PoppyG

Feb 22, 2013 9:25 PM
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until it reaches saturation point in the last hick town where somebody thinks it's a novelty.

and that would be Wino's town!

Ozziegiraffe

Feb 23, 2013 2:07 AM
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Groo, there is a duck race every August much closer to home, in Ballina. However, I think they should have had it today!. They had to evacuate the RSL there yesterday due to rising flood water.
Meanwhile cowpat lotto is part of Casino's Beef Week in May.

RayCCroc

Feb 23, 2013 5:01 AM
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and that would be Wino's town!

Shurely not! I thought it was full of urban professionals on a Sea Change. Do you mean a dreadlocked unicyclist could still draw a crowd there? I will get my didgjeridu and face paints and hurry down.

Drovers_Dog

Feb 23, 2013 1:11 PM
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I usually head out of town when the annual feral massed drumming and dreadlock workshop jamboree descends. It really is a time to lock up your wheelie bins.

zatopec

Feb 23, 2013 4:52 PM
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Chooks? I suggest the use of superglue and floaties. A thus motivated chook could do it even faster.

Groo

Feb 23, 2013 5:06 PM
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A few years ago a cow was washed down the Macleay, out over the bar, and managed to struggle ashore around Stuarts Point somewhere,

A noble effort to my mind, but one which failed to achieve the recognition that it deserved.

RayCCroc

Feb 23, 2013 5:38 PM
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Surf and turf right there in the one animal!

Groo

Feb 23, 2013 6:00 PM
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A guernsea?

redwhitewine

Feb 23, 2013 9:35 PM
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Apparently we still have the duck race, I just happen to be in other parts of the world when its on. I hate to see the botox bettys and philandering phils sipping latte's and mingling with the coastal folk........and roughing it

PoppyG

Feb 24, 2013 3:02 AM
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heard of a different 'novelty' fundraiser today. Drop 1000 or so golf balls from a helicopter onto a golf green, the nearest to the pin wins.

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