# The three -gry words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062 "2006-06-01T20:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/21 "2006-06-02T13:33:08Z")
I thought _hiquacking_ was a big no-no on this board. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/22 "2006-06-02T13:44:25Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] There! Are! _Five!_ Quacks!!! [/QUOTE] There is no duck. ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/23 "2006-06-02T13:48:52Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] There is no duck. [/QUOTE] Quack, or Quack not. But how does it = 1? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/24 "2006-06-02T13:58:25Z")
[ol] [li]Ducks[/li][li]?[/li][li]Confit![/li][/ol] ---
**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:** [June 2, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/25 "2006-06-02T14:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=Shai’tan] No… There WERE five! Highlight the quote in your own post… [/QUOTE] Dis is true. Muggsy ain gonna get to take youse fora ride afta all. Poor Muggsy! He gets, wadda ya call? Morose. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/26 "2006-06-02T14:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] There! Are! _Five!_ Quacks!!! [/QUOTE] Um. . . What is, “How do you describe the new homeopathic medical center, Alex?”. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/27 "2006-06-05T14:20:27Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Um. . . What is, “How do you describe the new homeopathic medical center, Alex?”. [/QUOTE] Sorry, no, it’s a classical reference. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/28 "2006-06-05T14:37:15Z")
No, it’s a [classical music duck.](http://www.pricehot.com/clmudu.html) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/29 "2006-06-05T15:21:24Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] [Quote=vetbridge] quack! [/quote] quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! [/QUOTE] A six-quack! (The answer to, “What does a duck bring to a party?”) ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/30 "2006-06-05T15:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] Sorry, no, it’s a classical reference. [/QUOTE] :DI know, I was just being goofy. In fact, the original quack (post #5) was moi. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/31 "2006-06-05T15:48:21Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] Sorry, no, it’s a classical reference. [/QUOTE] Are the 90s considered classical now? (Or was in still the 80s when that episode aired?) God, I feel old. I mean, _quack_ I feel old. I mean … oh, duck it. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/32 "2006-06-05T15:55:55Z")
_To quack, or not to quack: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of quacks, And by quacking end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a quack to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural quacks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the duck; For in that sleep of quack what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal quack, Must give us pause: there’s the respect That makes calamity of so long quack; For who would bear the whips and quacks of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The quacks of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and quack under a weary life, But that the dread of something after quack, The undiscover’d country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those quacks we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make ducks of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of quack, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. - Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my quacks remember’d._ ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/33 "2006-06-05T15:59:51Z")
[QUOTE=rayh] _To quack, or not to quack: that is the question:_ [/QUOTE] :: Stands in awe before **rayh** :: To which can only be replied: AFLAC! ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/34 "2006-06-05T21:44:44Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] quack! quack! quack! quack! quack! [/QUOTE] All right, now. If you’re gonna talk like that then take it to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/35 "2006-06-05T23:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Please, folks, muzzle your ducks! [/QUOTE] That’s a euphemism, right? “Where’s Mindfield?” “In the bathroom. He’s…uh…muzzling his duck.” ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/36 "2006-06-06T00:12:21Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] That’s a euphemism, right? “Where’s Mindfield?” “In the bathroom. He’s…uh…muzzling his duck.” [/QUOTE] You know, I thought about that after I posted, and realized that it could indeed be an effective, multi-purpose euphemism. _To overly chatty conversants…_ “Dude, muzzle your duck!” _From protective fathers of teenaged girls to their paramours…_ “You have her back by ten – and no funny business, you just muzzle your duck!” _Exclamations of surprise or frustration…_ “Muzzle a duck!” _Exclamations of victory…_ “Ha! I muzzled _your_ duck!” _Descriptions of faulty or dead equipment…_ “That duck’s muzzled.” _Personal insults…_ “Duck muzzle!” _Telling off undesirables…_ “Muzzle my duck!” _Admiring (or insulting) the (fe)male form…_ “Check out the muzzle on _that_ duck!” _In song…_ “Muzzle ducky, you’re the one/You make bondage so much fun…” The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/37 "2006-06-06T00:29:43Z")
Waiter, I’m hungry - and if I don’t eat soon I’ll be angry… Here’s a duck, Sir. Thank you. Bring me the bill! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/38 "2006-06-06T00:57:36Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] You know, I thought about that after I posted, and realized that it could indeed be an effective, multi-purpose euphemism… [/QUOTE] _To Norton Antivirus software developers_ "We’ve spotted a new one in the wild. I’ve sent copies to each of you. Now let’s get out there and **muzzle that duck**! _To a drinker of cheap wine_ “You have an important interview in the morning, so muzzle your [cold] duck tonight, okay?” _To Weird Al Yankovic_ “Yes, we’ve all heard your Huey Lewis parody, so just muzzle your duck.” _After striking your thumb with a hammer in front of your six-year-old daughter_ “Oh, D…uck muzzle, yeah, duckmuzzle” _Trashtalking_ “Oh, yeah? Mess with me, tough guy, and you’re going to get your duck muzzled.” _And in Congress_ Congressman: I think this is a sick, twisted practice, and we must move _immediately_ to make it illegal. There is no way we should tolerate it in our fine country. I intend to introduce a bill immediately to outlaw it. Whispered interruption from staff member: It’s duck **muzzling** , Sir, not duck nuzzling. Congressman: Never mind. [QUOTE=Mindfield] _In song…_ “Muzzle ducky, you’re the one/You make bondage so much fun…” [/QUOTE] You’re a very bad boy, you know that? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/39 "2006-06-06T01:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] You’re a very bad boy, you know that? [/QUOTE] Oh, come on. We all know about Ernie’s proclivities. Don’t you read [magazines](http://www.worth1000.com/view.asp?entry=222786&display=photoshop)? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-three-gry-words/359062/40 "2006-06-06T09:26:05Z")
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