Russian Duck Whisper. pic.twitter.com/Hn8fBZajm8
— ????Only In Russia ???? (@CrazyinRussia) May 10, 2020
Translation:
Over here i said
Fast run
Over here
Who is told, over here quick
Forward! Home
Follow me i said
Come on— Mark Green (@MarkGrunt) May 10, 2020
Over here, I said! Get a move on — over here! What did I tell you — get over here now! Move it! Home! Follow me, I said! Come ON!
Anything for a bucket of grain. Because I’m bent like that, I keep thinking there’s a metaphor in there somewhere…
japa21
Well, I guessed wrong as to which front pager did this post, based on the title.
Regarding the post, heck, that sounded a lot like Mrs. Japa when she’s trying to get me to do something.
TaMara (HFG)
I think that translation is incorrect. I believe what he said was: Last duck in, loses their head.
japa21
@TaMara (HFG): And it looked like the last one in was a younger duck, barely able to keep up with the rest. Life can be so unfair.
Miss Bianca
@TaMara (HFG): Oh, noes! That’s even worse than the story of Ping!
Realist
We need to stop pretending we can continue to live in the same country as the Red States and partition this country into two Blue nations with a rump Red center and south.
we subsidize them. We provide their wealth. We enable them.
for those who remain in the Red State, population transfers / swaps with the Red residents of our Blue Coastal Republics.
trollhattan
ZOMG, Russian ducks, best ducks!
MomSense
And not a single one with a scarf.
dmsilev
In Soviet Russia, duck herds you.
sanjeevs
https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1259999110188412928
Anne Laurie
@TaMara (HFG): Honestly, TaMara, I felt a little bad about not just forwarding this to you instead of ‘stealing’ it for myself!
Mary G
This bit of the Vanity Fair article on Republicans cheered me up:
Losing Pence’s boy toy to a brown-skinned woman? You know the staff is working hard to keep that from Twitler, so there won’t be another couple of hundreds insane tweets and retweets overnight.
trollhattan
@sanjeevs:
While the comedy aspects of pounding Trump senseless with a 15-pound smoked ham are appealing, doing it to McConnell would be both just and cleansing for the nation and the globe. He’s the biggest monster of our generation.
Steeplejack
@sanjeevs:
Ratio 11:1 and counting. Keep digging, Republicans!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@trollhattan:
Just senseless?
My thoughts tend toward harsher…
SiubhanDuinne
@TaMara (HFG): I was remembering The Story About Ping.
ETA: Miss Bianca got there first. Glad to know the classics live on!
Benw
Comes Then Goes by Pearl Jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke3Vpv7fFKs
TaMara (HFG)
@Anne Laurie: I cannot hog all the duck goodness! It cannot be contained! ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
catching up on the O’Donnell program: Has Chuck Schumer gotten much better at doing TV as he gets angrier? Or do I like him more as he and I both get angrier?
Nancy Pelosi was very good on the Hayes show, too
phdesmond
that translation of the original russian script from the duck video?
that was a poem. worth a re-read, (and re-watching the video.)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Biden and Stacey Abrams doing a joint appearance on the O’Donnell show on Thursday….
interesting
ziggy
Okay, so after watching it several times, here is what I think is happening: he threw something out (a tiny bit of grain?, rock?) ducks go after that, realize there is nothing. or perhaps his throw faked them out. Then he calls them into the barn for the night (for safety). That part is easy, they are super easy to train with any type of treat, probably grain.
Like the teenage giggling in the background.
Miss Bianca
@Realist: Oh, duck off.
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: Great minds, gf, great minds! : )
Kurt Wiese was the illustrator for that story, as I recall – he also did the Freddy the Pig books, some of my all-time favorites growing up!
Mary G
Moar good polling news:
catclub
@Realist: , population transfers / swaps with the Red residents of our Blue Coastal Republics.
Speaking of realism, check out how partition worked in India/Pakistan.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hugh Hewitt sends up a trial balloon (or a… what’s one step beyond trial balloon?) in the Washington Post:
I didn’t read the whole thing, because Hugh Hewitt, but for those of you who want to get out of the boat, the link copied
Duane
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: One step beyond a trial balloon, according to The Great Big Book of Inflatables* is a Baby Trump Blimp.
(* Not sold anywhere.)