# It's duck season! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600 "2008-10-19T02:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/21 "2008-10-19T20:03:12Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I’d rather not shoot you at all, instead tagging you and releasing you back into the wild. There is much we don’t know about the migration and mating habits of the robot arm. We **do** , however know why the **Robot Hand** has a hairy palm. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/22 "2008-10-20T00:24:09Z")
> [@Fetchund](#): > > Duck season… How about Sage, a little salt and pepper… orange? Mmmmm. I’m sowwy, fewwas. I’m a vegetawian. I just hunt for the sport of it. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/23 "2008-10-20T04:26:34Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Let’s try that again. Hmm! Pronoun trouble… ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/24 "2008-10-21T03:22:03Z")
You’re a dirty skunk. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/25 "2008-10-21T08:48:05Z")
I’m a dirty skunk? I’M a dirty skunk? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/26 "2008-10-21T12:57:35Z")
It’s dirty skunk season. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/27 "2008-10-21T13:04:33Z")
Elmer Season ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/28 "2008-10-21T13:31:21Z")
It’s everybody’s right to arm the bears. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/29 "2008-10-21T13:50:46Z")
_“Be vewwy, vewwy quiet… We’re hunting Elmers!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/30 "2008-10-21T17:07:03Z")
It’s glue season. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/31 "2008-10-21T21:48:00Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > It’s glue season. Is _that_ what [del]I’m sniffing[/del] I smell? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/32 "2008-10-21T22:23:46Z")
If I were **Wile E** I’d be tempted to never post again and end on a high note. What a victory! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/33 "2008-10-21T22:28:35Z")
It’s Francis Granger season! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/34 "2008-10-21T23:09:26Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > If I were **Wile E** I’d be tempted to never post again and end on a high note. What a victory! Nah, he’s pretty consistent with that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/35 "2008-10-22T00:00:49Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > It’s glue season. Looks like I picked the wrong season to give up hunting. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/36 "2008-10-24T15:52:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It’s true, doc. Would you like to shoot me now, or wait until you get home? I’m not falling for that again. (to **JThunder** ) I’ll wait until you get home. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/37 "2008-10-24T15:57:10Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Does that mean it’s legal to shoot them now? I wish. One of the few things that I really hate about living in the LA area is all the damn tourists. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/38 "2008-10-24T16:02:34Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I wish. One of the few things that I really hate about living in the LA area is all the damn tourists. HEY! Are you…oh, what’s his name? The guy who played the…no, that was someone else. Maybe the guy who played the cook…no, someone else. Well, you look like someone famous! Sign my book? Thanks! Hey, do you know Brad Pitt? Can you get HIM to sign my book? What? God, these Losangelesers\* are SO RUDE! \*Yes, I know this is really Angelenos. I’m in character, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/39 "2008-10-24T20:02:12Z")
It’s possum season. We’ve trapped two of the little buggers up in the attic in the last two days. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600/40 "2008-10-24T21:01:11Z")
It _ **is not** _, however, Raccoon-Taser Season. [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6074496.html](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6074496.html) > [@](#): > > DALLAS — Police learned something during a frenetic burglary call to an elderly couple’s home: Tasers don’t work on raccoons > > “While unlocking the back door, the suspect ran at Officer Ek,” the police report says. > > Ek used his Taser, but the raccoon ran up the chimney with the stun gun’s prongs in its back. An animal control officer tried unsuccessfully to flush it out with ammonia, homeowner Bill Hyde said in today’s editions of The Dallas Morning News. Tasers do not work on Raccoons. Who knew? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-duck-season/468600.md?page=3)