While doing my morning Twitter check, an avatar caught my eye.
Not only was it someone I don’t usually follow — their post had been re-tweeted — but it was a yellow rubber duckie.
I love rubber duckies.
They’re cute and sunny and silly and playful. I kinda wished for a second that my avatar was a rubber duckie (instead of of an egg with a crooked grin).
Funny thing — I’ve never owned a rubber duckie. We all know Ernie on Sesame Street had one; he used to sing to it. And Queen Elizabeth II was rumored to have one in her bathroom that wore a crown. (A workman saw it when he was doing some painting and told a tabloid, of course.)
There’s even a Guinness World Record for Largest Rubber Duckie Collection — 2,583 unique rubber ducks, awarded to Charlotte Lee in 2007.
Greedy woman. She’s got my duck.
As an Oregon Duck, this post title caught my eye. I actually have a little hippie rubber ducky on the right side of my work monitor, to remind me where I came from.
I can’t find the exact duck, but it turns out the University of Oregon offers many alternatives:
http://spiritduck.uoduckstore.com/category_s/140.htm
WOW — there are awesome! I will share with my sis who has already added ‘duck’ to my xmas list.