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They say the kilt is a 'chick magnet'.
Well, I walked into Wells alongside the Bishop's moat this morning, and stopped to look at the ducks who were swimming around, quacking and doing ducky things. They saw me and all came over to where I was standing. I thought 'I've become a duck magnet. Is it the kilt?'
Relating this to Mrs C, she (rather unkindly) said I'd been downgraded from a chick magnet, or more likely the ducks were hoping I was going to feed them
Charlie
There's nowt wrong with attracting ducks. Offhand I can think of attracting much worse, and "chicks" may be one of those.
I recall one episode many years ago just after I'd been bashed over the heart by a "chick" and had sat myself down beside the duck-pond in Boston's Public Gardens and mused quietly whilst watching the waterfowl, "You have it easy; you mate for life, fly south during winter, and generally get fed by the passers-by. Why can't humans have it so?"
Many years later -- after a quarter-century romance -- I got stabbed through the heart by another "chick" which has rather made me swear off the dratted things. Nope, there's nowt wrong with ducks at all.
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Charlie wrote:...I walked into Wells alongside the Bishop's moat this morning, and stopped to look at the ducks...
Relating this to Mrs C, she (rather unkindly) said I'd been downgraded...
Shouldn't she have said "De-moated"?
There is no such thing as a normal person, only someone you don't know very well yet.
I think if funny that there are various words for women derived from our feathered friends,
Chicks spring to mind as one Birds (or in Scotland "burds") are another
In Glasgow, most women of any age are called hen
Whe I lived in Wales for a time, many moons ago, the women there liked to be called "Ducks" after I used the word hen whilst talking to them!
Which brings us back to the topic on hand - I think your ducks were just wanting food - rather that a quick "keek" up yer kilt!
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
