MuseumsKhaving a field day with these duck pics.
The Museum of English Rural Life, whose Twitter account is the internet equivalent of a hot cup of tea on a rainy day, asked the British Museum to give them their "best duck."
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Instead, museums from around the world started submitting their own ducks, of all shapes, sizes, and designs, for consideration.
Dr. Rhi Smith from the University of Reading tweeted a photo of this gorgeous carved duck, which doubles as a jug for all the thirst tweets.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, while good-intentioned, seemed to misunderstand what a duck is and innocently responded with a photo of whatever creature this is supposed to be. Notice that while vaguely duck-shaped, it's not quite a duck.
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A pair of ducks who live at the Radcliffe Observatory sent this extremely rude photo of a duck saucily stealing human food.
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The Science Museum's duck has made its rounds all around the globe — the promiscuous little plastic duck was used to track ocean patterns.
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You just knowthat the duck submitted by the Norfolk Museum Service is that duckwho monopolizes social gatherings with their own shitty covers of mid-90s rock.
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The Met and the Musée d'Orsay offered up their beautifully painted ducks.
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Throughout the vast expanse of duck pics shared in this thread, there were some tensions over who had the bestduck. The British Museum finally replied with a duck-shamed cosmetics container from ancient Egypt. It's functional andaesthetically pleasing!
But the Museum of English Rural countered with a carved wooden "plane with a weird looking duck head" from the nineteenth century.
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The Mary Rose Museum insisted that theirrubber ducks, dressed for the occasion, were better.
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And the Natural History Museum insisted that they were in possession of all the ducks, accompanying their fighting tweet with a painting of four ducks hanging out.
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The National History Museum did not come to mess around — they are immensely proud of their ducks.
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There were small ducks and big ducks making in appearances in this blessed thread. The Louvre replied with an adorable photo of a tiny duck figurine, which dates back to ancient Egypt. And although the Smithsonian is closed because of the government shutdown, a historian suggested a girthy "big boi" originally from the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico.
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In all honesty, it's not about your duck's size or shape that makes it special.
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But let's all agree to send each other more duck pics this year.
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