| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 |
Design concept
and illustrations by kris dresen
RSS 1.0
« Long Day at Work: A Play in One Act, Oh, and By the Way, It’s an Internal Dialogue | Main | R.I.F. »
Q: What's huge and yellow and goes "sploosh?"
A: 30,000 rubber ducks being dumped into the Chicago River!
On Friday, the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby was held to benefit the Special Olympics. I adopted four ducks, but they didn't win. Stupid loser ducks.
When I first heard about the event, I wondered, "Hey! The Chicago River is really slow. How the heck are those ducks going to make their way across the finish line?"
The answer? The Chicago Fire Department, of course. Let's hope there were no barge fires while this race was going on, because all the fire boats were otherwise occupied squirting at a bunch of rubber duckies.
And by the way, did you even know we had fire boats? I sure didn't. Sometimes they like to just shoot straight into the air. Show offs.
Next year, I'm not taking any chances. I'm going to make my own special rocket ducks and toss them into the water while everyone is distracted by the excessive display of aquatic firefighter virility. Then when I win First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth prizes, the whole city will finally know my name and give me the respect I deserve. I will so totally own the Rubber Ducky Derby. OWN IT!
Posted by runjenrun at August 10, 2008 09:25 PM
How very cool!!!
That's a lot of Ducks! Wow!
You also took some nice pics of it too.
~ZZ
Posted by: Greeneyezz at August 10, 2008 10:03 PM
FTW!!
Posted by: dave2 at August 10, 2008 10:24 PM
Didn't you just want to jump in a swim with them?? (it being the Chicago River not withstanding)
Posted by: Dave at August 11, 2008 12:19 AM
Next year you take those rubber duckies and make them your bitch!
Posted by: Pants at August 11, 2008 12:41 AM
It's no wonder the ducks were slow movers. They're too-cool-for-school ducks. Look at the shades they're wearing. The needed to dump some nerd ducks in there.
Posted by: delmer at August 11, 2008 08:09 AM
I'm pretty sure the pink duck would have kicked all their yellow rubber asses.
Wow, that sounds bad.
Posted by: shari at August 11, 2008 09:54 AM
Evidently, the ducks are too cool for school, what with their sunglasses and laid-back attitude to movement without fire-hose action.
Posted by: You can call me, 'Sir' at August 11, 2008 11:42 AM
That was DUCKTASTIC!
Yeah, I couldn't help myself.
Posted by: Tracy Lynn at August 11, 2008 12:50 PM
Stupid loser ducks. next year you'll definitely have to trade them in for turbo ones.
Posted by: churlita at August 11, 2008 01:18 PM
Jen, do you think your ducks were staying near the back on purpose, so they could be nearer the firefighters? I do.
Posted by: serap at August 11, 2008 01:37 PM
I would love to see that event live someday. I've heard about it for years and think it's cool, but of course, only when you have those rocket ducks.
Posted by: martymankins at August 11, 2008 01:41 PM
The ducks are recycled, right?
Posted by: New Age Bitch at August 11, 2008 03:53 PM
WOW, that's AWESOME!!!
Posted by: Poppy at August 12, 2008 09:19 PM
That is so awesome! I wish I was there to see it all. A bit more impressive than the meager duck race in Naperville last year.
Posted by: kapgar at August 13, 2008 03:10 PM
wow... how did i totally forget to comment on this entry?
ZZ: thanks! i wish more of my photos had turned out - it was so crazy!
dave2: NOT an epic FAIL!
dave: it was tempting, believe me! but the four police boats changed my mind.
pants: you know i will!
delmer: it's so true - nerd ducks would've figured out the exact location to sit in so the firehose would've applied maximum velocity, shooting them into the finish line.
shari: how cool would that have been if i had tossed in my Canardie? in your faces, yellow ducks!
sir: they're young. they'll learn. you can only get so far in life with that devil-may-care attitude.
tracy lynn: no ducking way did you just say that!
churlita: i will win this thing next year!
serap: it's a good theory... they were pretty impressive. :)
marty: it was a lot of fun, but will be much better when i win next year.
NAB: some of them looked pretty beat up, so i've got to believe they are.
poppy: isn't it nuts? very fun event!
kapgar: there was one in naperville, too? it's really a funny idea - makes for great photos.
Posted by: jenny at August 15, 2008 06:56 AM
