# Does a duck's quack echo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 17, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367 "2002-12-17T18:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/21 "2002-12-19T12:53:52Z")
No, nono! Did you guys know that each and every one of us eats exactly 17 ducks in thier sleep? Noone knows why! ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/22 "2002-12-19T13:27:59Z")
So uh, **Sailor** - what exactly keeps ducks from falling over? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/23 "2002-12-19T14:12:02Z")
There are three doors, behind one is a fabulous prize, behind the other two are ducks. You pick a door, Monte Hall shows you a door you did not pick which has a duck in it. Now you are given the opportunity to switch to the closed door you did not pick. So here’s my question: Is it possible to determine which remaining door has a duck behind it by the sound of its quack? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/24 "2002-12-19T15:10:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crafter\_Man \* > So here’s my question: Is it possible to determine which remaining door has a duck behind it by the sound of its quack? \*\* No, because if it echoes, you can’t tell where the quack is coming from! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/25 "2002-12-19T15:22:37Z")
If you quack, fart, and sneeze at the same time, will you die? ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/26 "2002-12-19T20:59:49Z")
Did you know that if you dream about a duck dying, a real duck will actually die? It’s true. No one knows why. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/27 "2002-12-19T23:04:25Z")
When come back bring duck. All your duck are belong to us. etc etc… ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/28 "2002-12-20T00:48:33Z")
How fast would a duck have to fly AGAINST the rotation of the earth to make it spin in the opposite direction and turn back time like in the Superman movie? PS: If she weighs the same as a duck, she’s a witch! (Crowd: BURN HER!) ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/29 "2002-12-20T00:53:49Z")
If all the ducks in the world simultaneous took flight, would they affect the weather in China? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/30 "2002-12-20T01:07:06Z")
What would happen if one year all the ducks said hell with flying north and few east instead? ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/31 "2002-12-20T01:13:33Z")
A duck buys a bottle of asprin at the drugstore. The clerk asks if it that will be cash or charge, and the duck says…put it on my bill. ---
**Author:** ![PolskiKing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@PolskiKing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolskiKing)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/32 "2002-12-20T01:14:16Z")
If a duck quack in a forest and no one is there to hear it does it still make a sound? =PK ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/33 "2002-12-20T02:02:02Z")
To quote the late Country Dick (not Duck) Montana of the eighties country punk band the Beat Farmers in their song “California Kid”…“and everything is just ducky…” ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/34 "2002-12-20T02:30:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ltfire \* > \*\*A duck buys a bottle of asprin at the drugstore. The clerk asks if it that will be cash or charge, and the duck says…put it on my bill. \*\* NO, ltfire, a duck buys a CHAPSTICK at the drugstore… the rest of the joke is the same, but your lead-in got munged. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/35 "2002-12-20T02:48:01Z")
So can you cover yourself with ducks to protect you from an atomic blast? ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/36 "2002-12-20T07:25:09Z")
No no no no NO, The way “a friend” told it to me was that a duck goes into a bar, stop me if you heard this one before, it’s really funny, okay, okay, so the bartender goes up to the duck and the duck says, “I’m looking for the man who shot my webbed foot!” No wait, the duck says, I’ll have a beer. The bartender gets the duck a beer and charges the duck US $4.50. The duck says, “Put it on my -” no wait, the duck pays for the beer and starts drinking the beer. The bartender goes back to cleaning glasses and such and later goes back to the duck and says, “hey, y’know, we don’t get many ducks in here.” And the duck says, “Well, see those three guys outside, I bet each of them US $50.00 that I would come in here waddle up and down on your bar and -” no wait a second. Shoot, have you heard this one before? It’s really good. Okay, the duck says, “Well at U.S. $4.50 a beer, I’m not surprised!” Okay, okay, okay, I got a short one. A guy and two ducks walk into a bar. The guy goes, “OUCH!” The ducks are fine though cause they ducked… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/37 "2002-12-20T07:38:08Z")
Is it reasonable to attempt to prove or disprove the existence of the Christian deity through in-duck-tive logic? :ducks: ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367/38 "2002-12-20T07:44:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by antechinus \* > \*\*So can you cover yourself with ducks to protect you from an atomic blast? \*\* Only white ducks will do, black ones will roast farster. . . . . .What? [sub]_Still waiting for a local duck to show up, maybe we need better decoys! we only have a Finch so far!_[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-ducks-quack-echo/143367.md?page=1)