# Who invented the rubber...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 12, 1999, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460 "1999-08-12T19:19:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 1999, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460/1 "1999-08-13T05:56:00Z")

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Duckie?

Ah, yes. The well-known and much beloved rubber duckie. I was in one of those bath and home type super stores, Men’s Hell I think it was called, and found myself surrounded by these rubber duckie products. They were everywhere. I find them quite creepy in an evil-clown kinda way. Just what sick bastard designed them? Does he get royalties? Is he thinking up other creepy stuff? Will they ever stop haunting me?

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460/2 "1999-08-12T19:19:00Z")

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Don’t know who invented 'em, but Ernie (of Sesame Street fame) had a disturbing ditty for his – “Rubber Ducky.”

Rubber ducky your the one/that makes bathtime lots of fun/Rubber Ducky I’m awfully fond of you!

And this comes from a guy with a hand up his ass.

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**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460/3 "1999-08-12T19:25:00Z")

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…and spends just a \* little \* too much time with a guy named Bert

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“…send lawyers, guns, and money…”

```
 Warren Zevon
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**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460/4 "1999-08-12T19:29:00Z")

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And I have photos of Bert with Hitler. I’m sure some of you have seen them. But the vile scum that created the Rubber Duckie… I don’t even like saying it. Let’s just refer to it as the RD. Maybe it was Hitler! SS…a trend?

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460/5 "1999-08-12T19:46:00Z")

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Bert WAS Hitler! Henson convinced him to shave his 'stache (and velcro it to his head)and helped emmigrate him from Brazil in the '60s.

Henson finally gave him a forum to influence America’s youth. Ernie had the duck, Bert had the… pidgeon!

Have you ever seen Bert “Doin’ the Pidgeon”? It’s eerily similar to the stiff, knee-locked marching of Nazi stormtroopers.

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**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 1999, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-rubber/2460/6 "1999-08-12T19:51:00Z")

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then explain the picture of Bert WITH Hitler. They didn’t really have that kinda photo doctoring technology back then. Or did they?