How have plastic ducks revolutionized the world?
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On social science:
In January of 2001, a friend gave me a rubber duck for my birthday. Everyone thought it was cute and it became a fixture of the office (then, a pod at a callcenter). I was downsized and by the end of 2001 was working for a different company. January 2002 comes around, and for my birthday, I get from a coworker another rubber duck. Naturally, I didn't think anything of it, but they sat side by side on, well, my desk.
I upgrade my job to another callcenter and December 2002 participated in a secret santa, and got, you may have guessed, a rubber duck. I laughed at my little collection. The lady who gave it to me said, "I thought you liked them!", and I admitted that I did.
It's now 2010 and I have 64 rubber ducks. I didn't buy a single one of them, and people would go out of their way to buy ones that I didn't have. They're not all yellow, either. One's dead, a number of them are devils, some light up (still), but all of them just sit on top of the current cube I reside in.
What does it say socially? People bought into an unspoken competition, and as Sally Field once said, "You like me, you REALLY like me!"
I say thanks to these people.
Now, in environmental science, I'm sourcing two articles involving the sinking of a container ship off the coast of Washington state that held rubber ducks that floated from the Pacific Ocean and made their way all the way to the English coast. Simply amazing journey, and I would love to have one of those for my collection.
Cheers!
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What ever the answer is, don't ever tell a child that 'FUC*', is a female duck. Just wait to hear what the teacher says after they have seen a female duck.
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