# The love that dare not speak its name - beyond same sex

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 9, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-beyond-same-sex/436922 "2008-02-09T14:34:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-beyond-same-sex/436922/21 "2008-02-10T00:14:40Z")

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S’allright–the dog and cat weren’t dancing…  
🙂

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-beyond-same-sex/436922/22 "2008-02-10T00:23:55Z")

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[QUOTE=bufftabby]  
I would vote for that duck. He sounds progressive.  
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No, Progressive doesn’t have the duck. AFLAC does.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-beyond-same-sex/436922/23 "2008-02-10T00:50:49Z")

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I _knew_ there was something off about that duck!

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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-beyond-same-sex/436922/24 "2008-02-10T01:11:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Tenar]  
Link, please? I searched unsuccessfully.  
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Not to flog a dead horse or anything, but [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240685&page=1&pp=10&highlight=drake) links to the second Dope thread on the phenomenon of the Dutch homosexual necrophiliac rapist mallard [A.K.A. avian davian behavior]; on the second page there’s a link to the \*original \* Dope thread, which runs to six pages.

Thomas Hobbes didn’t know the half of it, did he?

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**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-beyond-same-sex/436922/25 "2008-02-10T05:02:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Tamerlane]  
Not SD, but here is the original paper ( pdf ):  
[http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=2574](http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=2574)  
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Well, I read the paper, thinking it was some kind of joke. But it seems a straightforward paper, recounting the facts.

The question being: WTF? Some biologist (or somesuch) witnesses a weird occurence and… writes a paper?

I don’t question the duck’s behavior. I do question the scientist’s behavior.

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