# Dead Duck Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 5, 2017, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162 "2017-06-05T10:10:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162/1 "2017-06-05T10:10:44Z")

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I am marking [Dead Duck Day](http://www.deadduckday.com/) with a period of quiet contemplation. Anyone else ?

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162/2 "2017-06-05T13:06:09Z")

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I’ve never heard of this day. Certainly it deserves to be marked on the calendar.

It reminds me of a much less traumatic event. I was being interviewed for a job in one of those mirrored glass-sided buildings when our discussion was interrupted by a bird furiously banging on the wall with its beak. It was seeing its reflection in the mirror glass, and, thinking it a rival, was attacking it. I was told “this happens all the time” (The birds never learn because, apparently, their rivals in the mirror never learn, and refuse to go away).  
I didn’t get the job.

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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162/3 "2017-06-05T15:21:54Z")

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That’s despicable!!! And not at all the way to make proper pressed duck!

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162/4 "2017-06-06T20:07:08Z")

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Could change your luck, ya know.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162/5 "2017-06-07T01:45:14Z")

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And I thought it was Dead Wabbit Day!

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-duck-day/788162/6 "2017-06-07T04:28:33Z")

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So I guess a duck’s whack does echo through the years.