# A duck's quack does not echo

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 28, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813 "2001-05-28T21:57:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![gpurv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@gpurv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gpurv)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813/1 "2001-05-28T21:57:47Z")

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I have been tying to determine if this statement was true, or not, ever since I first read it.

Sounds interesting. Does anyone have a duck and an echo chamber?

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813/2 "2001-05-28T22:03:09Z")

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Go to the Straight Dope archive search page and search on “duck quack echo.”

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813/3 "2001-05-28T22:04:47Z")

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[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_071.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html)

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**Author:** ![gpurv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@gpurv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gpurv)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813/4 "2001-05-28T22:08:09Z")

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Wow, what an active board!

Thanks for the replys and the answer. Just a silly thing I had once read and wondered about.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813/5 "2001-05-28T22:11:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Doug Bowe \*  
> \*\*[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_071.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html) \*\*

**Doug,** I thought about providing a link, but I’ve always been of the “teach a man to fish” school. 😛

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813/6 "2001-05-29T00:48:41Z")

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[QUOTE]  
\*Originally posted by Scarlett67 \*  
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> **Doug,** I thought about providing a link, but I’ve always been of the “teach a man to fish” school. 😛 \*\*

Or the “set a man on fire school”, Scarlett? 😃

Quasi

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ducks-quack-does-not-echo/66813/7 "2001-05-29T01:18:58Z")

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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you

1. Ladies version: “have the weekend to yourself.”
2. Other version: “have a guy who spends all day in a boat drinking beer.”