This is why the duck is taped

[Major Nikon]

[seabeyond]

1. lol. nt

[Still Sensible]

2. Now I know where "Fuck a Duck" came from! n/t

[pinboy3niner]

3. OOPS!

(Don't tell graywarrior.)

[LiberalEsto]

4. What is it trying to write?

I think it's "Help, I'm imprisoned in the body of a duck."

[csziggy]

6. I think it's the silhouette of the Aflack duck!

The top of his head is at the wall, beak going to the right, then down to the neck and off the side.

The duck is just walking across to begin a new artistic effort.

[Cracklin Charlie]

31. He is injured!

He has a broken beak.

[pinboy3niner]

9. It's a pic of MFM au naturel

He's even got the ducks working for him!

[Major Nikon]

19. "Fuck You" would be my guess

[petronius]

5. I hope they left it - that would be a pretty cool sidewalk to have...

[KatyMan]

8. Agree! :)

That would be awesome. Somebody wrote their initials in our driveway when the house was built in '09, and I think it's kind of cool to have them there. Wish I would've thought of that.
We did spraypaint a message or two on the concrete of our floor when we replaced the carpet with bamboo. Also had to build a subfloor in one room, and left messages and a beer in the framing.

[OriginalGeek]

14. Cool!

not to get the thread side-tracked but how do you like the bamboo flooring? I have been thinking about it - I like the the look and I'm getting tired of dull, boring tile.

And I'm stealing the beer idea when we do remodel.

[Hamlette]

25. I am be the only person in the world who is not that fond of bamboo. . .

we put it in our kitchen, we have an island with stools, they kind of scuff up the bamboo. Not so much that anyone notices but in the morning when the sun shines in you can see all the shine is gone off of the places where the stools are.

I'm not sure I'd use it again unless I was assured it wouldn't happen again. If I were doing it over, I'd consider the tile that looks like wood. I've seen some pretty ones. Or, the cool tile I put in my bathroom, has a bit of a texture to it, very high tech. I'd also not do shale again. It is very hard to keep clean and trust me, I'm not a clean freak by any stretch of the imagination.

Did I tell you I love the tile in my bathroom

[OriginalGeek]

28. Heh, I'm thinking about growing some bamboo outside too

for privacy around the pool area and because I think it looks neat....but that's good to know about the area around the island...we don't have one now but it's on the wishlist.

[spinbaby]

32. Be careful with bamboo

Some varieties send out runners and become invasive weeds.

[formercia]

83. Those underground runners

can destroy your House Foundation too.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

53. Have you considered what the neighborhood brats

will do with bamboo spears?

Trust me on this one.

Sincerely,
Former neighborhood brat

[OriginalGeek]

56. noooope

I didn't even know there were spears to consider!


All I thought of was shoots. I was hoping to get some free shoots for cooking lol....

I drove by a bamboo farm in Savannah one time and all I remember is that they looked neat and wondered if they'd make good plants in lieu of hedges or other plant life around the lot...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

61. I guess it depends on the type of bamboo.

Some varieties make excellent projectiles.

[OriginalGeek]

63. I'll definitely research before planting anything

spears plus the runaway runners weeding up the joint would make it much less desirable...

[pinboy3niner]

73. There are some miniature varieties that are beautiful

A friend had regular bambo in his yard and it grew out of control. He ended up paneling his basement with foot-square boards with lengths of bamboo attached to them. It turned out very nicely.

My friend had served with the Marines as a Corpsman in Vietnam, so he was kinda nuts anyway--but very creative.

[spinbaby]

86. Consider ornamental grass

We use something called oriental feather grass as a screen between our house and the road. In the spring, it quickly grows into a dense hedge and it puts out tall seed stalks in the fall. In November, we cut it down with hedge clippers and dump it on the compost pile. Next spring, it grows up again. It does seed itself into the lawn, but is easily kept in line with a lawn mower.

Best of all, we started the whole hedge from about $5.00 worth of seed.

[OriginalGeek]

88. 5 dollars?!

That's my kinda landscaping budget! Thanks for the tips.

[Hamlette]

85. A friend of mine used to install liner swimming pools

they would not install them if the house had EVER had bamboo growing in the yard.

Things might have changed, this was a few years ago. Sounds bad.

[Hamlette]

26. oh, and reminded of the op, I'd consider cement

my mom's generation did cement floors and stained them. That was 50-60 years ago. They are still beautiful. I'd also do cement counter tops. Of course, I'd have to divorce my husband to do it...easy come, easy go (kidding, we'd done our whole house and had to compromise on everything. Neither of us got what we wanted and it is all kinda blah as a result)

[OriginalGeek]

35. Yeah I have seen some pretty great looking cement things

on the HGTV....I think I'd have to be a gazillionaire to do all the neat stuff I've seen on just that channel...

We haven't gotten to the bargaining/compromising stage yet - still all in the wishful thinking stage...I imagine I will save all my credits for gadgets and let her have all the decorating wants. All I ask is that the family room be made so I can put in a good surround system and I want a gas stove in the kitchen...

[KatyMan]

87. Our bamboo is great

we really love it. It does scratch, so you have to be careful when moving furniture around. We don't have young kids or dogs either (only grownups and cats in the house), so it doesn't get the wear and tear a lot of floors get. We did all of the non-wet areas of the house in it, and tile in the bathrooms and kitchen. Really happy with it, easy to maintain, wasn't too difficult to put in, cheap and sustainable. Wins all around. Having no carpet in your house makes you realize how dirty carpet gets!

Another beer can story--my brother and his wife had a painting party at their house one year, and my friend and I were painting some built-in bookshelves that were on either side of the fireplace (a typical late 70s/early 80s sort of fireplace). The shelves went all the way to the ceiling so we painted an empty beer can the same color as the back wall of the shelves and put it at the back of the top shelf. It was there for something like 3 years before they noticed it. Pretty funny to get a phone call from my brother asking "did you put that beer can there?".

[OriginalGeek]

89. Another thing that lets you know

how dirty carpets get is renting a steam cleaner. Bleah. And yeah, that's exactly why we are looking at wood. We'll probably get a couple good sized area rugs just for coziness though - I already have a pretty cool Persian rug my brother brought back from the middle east years ago but we've never had a good place to put it...

[JHB]

90. It's a thread about a duck walking on wet cement... it's all side-track

Don't sweat it

[dmr]

7. graywarrior's secret's out - or is it?

[Javaman]

22. I'm still wondering how "the thread that would never die" died.

I think it was the duck seeking revenge.

[Bucky]

71. The technical term is "euthanasia"

But don't say that around Gray Warrior. She'll start taping up some Youth in Asia next.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Leaving some quacks in the cement.

[pinboy3niner]

11. They're going to bill him for that

[Robb]

15. Waddle they do to fix it?

[pinboy3niner]

17. Feather out the tracks

Until they're no longer Peking out.

[kurtzapril4]

23. Wow! That's going to make a large bill.

Or they'll just have to wing it.

[pinboy3niner]

24. But what a tail he'll have to tell

[kurtzapril4]

39. Ms. Duck is weaving

a tangled web in that cement. It's another feather in her cap, though.

[pinboy3niner]

45. She'd better duck and cover...

...'cause the way that guy is looking at her, her goose is cooked!

[kurtzapril4]

46. I hope he knows how

to repair that cement, otherwise he's just another quack.

[pinboy3niner]

49. He's hoping his boss isn't in a fowl mood

[kurtzapril4]

50. I bet if a pretty lady

gave him a goose, he'd feel okay about it.

[pinboy3niner]

51. I'm sure he'd give her a gander

[kurtzapril4]

54. I hope she wouldn't fly off the handle, though.

[pinboy3niner]

55. No, as they say...

...love is (a duck) blind.

[kurtzapril4]

62. It's special when two people

flock together. Migrateful response is always "Awwwww."

[Bucky]

72. STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP IT!!

Or I'm going to have to put you down.










(on edit) Damn it, you've pulled me into the web of your puns. Now I'm suffering from the same mallardy as you!

[pinboy3niner]

75. Are you ill? Eider know--you seem okay to me. nt

[Arugula Latte]

78. I hope they don't paddle the duck for that.

[StrictlyRockers]

84. You guys are quacking me up! LOL

I'm glad I decided to take a gander at this thread.

[BlueStreak]

58. I'm down with all these bad puns.

[pinboy3niner]

60. Welcome to the club

[madokie]

12. Old concrete finisher here

Been there and done that. One day we were doing a parking lot for the local hospital and this older gentleman drove about 50 feet across our freshly placed concrete and then when the boss hollered at him to get his blankity blank ass and car of there he got in the boss's face. I still don't know if the man ever knew what he did. Luckily for us the concrete was just freshly lain so we were able to remove the car tracks. When the sun is just right and if the concrete is wet you can still see the indention of where he drove.

[pinboy3niner]

16. I was having a bad day

I'm sorry.

[kentauros]

27. Did it look something like this?

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2011/08/lexus_meet_concrete_how_not_to.php




(Typical Houston driver, by the way...)

[pinboy3niner]

29. My car!

Um, I mean...what a jerk!

[kentauros]

33. You're a woman lawyer in Houston?

I didn't know that...

Thanks for the laughs

[pinboy3niner]

41. Only when I'm indercover

Shhhhh!

[kentauros]

42. Or "inderconcrete"

[pinboy3niner]

64. We're trained to deeply cement our cover identities

Does it work? Hardly.

[madokie]

34. Exactly

only there were a good fifty feet of tracks all total. When the gentleman left he backed up and made new tracks. Luckily for us the concrete was fresh so we were able to screed it back level and continue on with our work

[kentauros]

38. I'm guessing with this one

that they probably had to re-do the pour, what with having to tow her out of it before they could get to the ruined concrete...

[madokie]

68. more than likely just cut out the part that was damaged and replace only it

Most tow truck drivers wouldn't make any more of a mess than what was already there. If they were worth their salt that is
concrete is pretty forgiving up to a point then from then on its a lost cause. At any rate someone had to work their asses off more than they already were going to have to that day.

[kentauros]

69. Okay, thanks.

I mostly only know that there's a short window between mixing and pouring (as I recall, 45 minutes.) I don't know if the newer formulas take longer to begin setting up, though.

[pinboy3niner]

77. My bad

From now on I'll stick to driving only on fully-cured pavement. Pinky swear!

At any rate, you know I have a good excuse. It was the Twinkies!

[kentauros]

80. The Bimbo Twinkies?

[pinboy3niner]

81. The Twinkie defense was used for the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense

[kentauros]

82. Or,

Bimbo, the Mexican bakery company, that was looking to take over Hostess. I don't recall if they got any of the former Twinkie-maker or not. Seems like someone else beat 'em to it.

Now, there's also the Ghostbusters' Twinkie:

[Fumesucker]

13. Duck Amuck!

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

18. And so it is written, on the 49th day of the thirteenth year a duck will appear

and it will spell out a message of great importance.

Unfortunately the message will do us no good as humanity cannot speak duck. The duck will be later eaten for defacing a new sidewalk.

-From the Book of Daffy 6:42-44

[Solly Mack]

20. He did his own profile.

I see his head and his bill and his neck.

[Chellee]

74. That's a really artistic duck.

nt

[Solly Mack]

76. It is! :)

[CrispyQ]

21. But once the cement is dry we can release him, right?

[awoke_in_2003]

30. Defiance...

[patrice]

36. I'm glad she is FREE anyway. And I think that's improved concrete. nt

[patrice]

37. Somebody go tell graywarrior!!

[graywarrior]

40. Thanks for the laugh

I need that today.

[Dash87]

43. Duck: Problem?

Trollface.jpg

[treestar]

44. LOL

[DrewFlorida]

47. I predict orange sauce is in this duck's future.

[rurallib]

48. Why did the duck cross the (wet) sidewalk?

[ChazInAz]

57. Obvious:

If it feels like mud, it's MEANT to be walked (Or waddled) on.

[pinboy3niner]

59. graywarrior was in hot pursuit

Duh!

[midnight]

52. Natures stamped concrete...

[MineralMan]

65. After they put in a new walk in my empty neighboring house's yard,

the concrete guys left. I wasn't outside. Later that evening, I went outside and noticed that another neighbor's 4-year-old boy had walked the length of the new walkway just before the concrete set. A neat row of very shallow tennis shoe tracks were left, and it was too late for me to get a trowel out and fix it. The concrete had set up fully.

Those tracks are still there. The person who bought the house just shrugged and thought they were cute. I think so too, and would have left them if it had been my walk, too.

Kids and wet concrete have a strange attraction for each other, somehow.

[Gorp]

66. That might just piss me off too, except for one thing...

On the 20th anniversary MLK march on DC in 1983, we walked 10 miles down Rt. 1 to get there. On a corner near DC we found a sidewalk block that someone had "ducked" with "Jesus shit; God shit". (We found the semicolon to be significant, but then again we were stoned).

The only thing that bested it was the spray paint on a lock-down door that said "RECTAL HORROR". I don't even want to know what inspired someone to write that.

The walk down wasn't bad. The walk back was terrible. Ten miles is a LONG way to walk. Twenty is double that and much worse. I think I slept for three or four days after that trip.

[longship]

67. Now I know "why a duck?".

[Bucky]

70. Wait, I think that duck is spelling something.

Capital A, then the next letter is an F... Looks like he only has room for another three letters after that. Hmmm... Any guesses what this duck is spelling out?

[leeroysphitz]

79. If that were MY drivewsy I would leave it just like that. Very cute. n/t