Famous Ducks
Monday, 06.09.08 @ 04:19AM 
One day I was trying to come up with a somewhat comical list for mental_floss and I asked my daughter Princess if she could think of any famous ducks. She thought for a minute and said, “The Ugly Duckling.”
“Is that all you can think of?” I said.
“Yes,” she replied.
“The Ugly Duckling wasn’t even a duck! Have you ever heard of Daffy Duck?”
“No.”
“Have you ever heard of Donald Duck?”
“No.”
“Oh come on, remember the song! Mickey Mouse. Donald Duck! Mickey Mouse. Donald Duck!”
“I’ve heard that!” she said, “I didn’t know what it meant.”
My kids have had a very different child hood from mine. To help bring their cultural education up to snuff, I wrote Ten Famous (or Notorious) Ducks. I caught flack for not including Darkwing Duck, since I'm not familiar with it. He was apparently a duck dear to Gens X and Y, which make up the bulk of mental_floss readers. But I got most of the big ones!
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