Britain being invaded by plastic ducks

[Anaamika]

Here is the link:

Duck Armada (“Armada” shamefully stolen from a fellow LiveJournalist)

AN “armada” of 10,000 yellow plastic ducks is about to land in Britain after an incredible 14-year journey across the oceans.

The bathtime toys fell off a container ship in the Pacific in 1992 and, after drifting thousands of miles, are due to start washing up on our shores soon.

14 years! Wow!

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

It is thought that at one stage about 10,000 of the ducks were thrown out of the circuit at its northernmost limit and in 1993 were sucked into the Bering Straits between Russia and the US.
**There they became frozen in ice floes and slowly journeyed 2,000 miles to the North Pole, and then 4,000 miles south again to Nova Scotia on the other side of the US. ** --Bolding by Bosda
As the ice began to thaw the ducks floated 2,000 miles down the eastern seaboard of the US. They are now headed south and when they hit the Gulf Stream they will float another 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to Britain.

:dubious: :dubious: :dubious: :dubious:

I have certain doubts about this…

[Zebra]

Now we really need Sir Francis Drake.

[Anaamika]

@Zebra

Now we really need Sir Francis Drake.

Very good! I can see him at the head of his own armada of ducks.

FORWARD!

[934spe]

@Zebra

Now we really need Sir Francis Drake.

Boo Hiss…

It was funny though…

[AncientHumanoid]

>>An armada of 10,000 yellow plastic ducks is about to land in Britain …

Oh no, not again.

[Count_Blucher]

Shouldn’t this story have a Tardis in it…?

[AncientHumanoid]

Quack!

You will comply, quack!

Comply, quack, or be exterminated!

Quack!

QUACK!

QUACK!

(the Ducklecks, don’t you know …)

[Squink]

@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

I have certain doubts about this…

What’s to doubt? This is almost exactly how Captain America spent the years between WWII and the 1960’s.

[Revenant_Threshold]

@Squink

What’s to doubt? This is almost exactly how Captain America spent the years between WWII and the 1960’s.

Are you suggesting he might have trained these ducks during his time with them?

We’re doomed.

[AskNott]

I had a thread about this horde of ducks awhile back. According to one of the articles, the manufacturer was offering some kind of reward for anyone who found one washed up on the shore. Another said there were little tugboats and such among the ducks.

[Mangetout]

When they quack, will it echo?

[AncientHumanoid]

@Mangetout

When they quack, will it echo?

Posts like this make the Baby Jesus gry.

[congodwarf]

Screw the ducks. I want the Legos. Is anyone tracking the progress of the Legos?

[FisherQueen]

This story is useless without pictures.

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

pictures?