space_cowboy
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Help with a personal issue
I think I could be suffering from anatidaephobia. Yep, the epic space cowboy, crippled by this in the prime of his life. Any suggestions for how to combat this debilitating disease? If you or any of your kin have suffered from anatidaephobia and have licked it, please let me know. And please, do not refer me to some quack.
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:33:41
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Tastes great with orange!
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:36:15
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It's an increasingly alarming condition, they are even running a TV campaign about it over here, it seems that those affected first show signs of their affliction by refusing to drink plain water.... I fear an epidemic is on the horizon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl9CQuAWhLM
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:40:13
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I used to be paranoid--then I found out they ARE out to get me!
Perhaps a duck IS watching you. Do you suspect Donald or Daffy?
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:41:19
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It seems the symptoms are the same as smoking grass. Are there signs of ducks in the field?
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spacey
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:42:51
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And who is your insurance provider?
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:45:31
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And please, do not refer me to some quack. I can always tell a good doctor apart from a quack. It seems whenever I've been treated by a quack they always seem to display a disproportionately sized bill.
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space_cowboy
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:46:09
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Spacey I should worry about a Gecko watching me if that were the issue.
I wonder how many people suffer from Anatidaephobia?
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 20:48:32
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 Maybe they shouldn't advertise Aflac next to this particular public service announcement.
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 21:14:29
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space_cowboy
I think I could be suffering from anatidaephobia. Yep, the epic space cowboy, crippled by this in the prime of his life.
Any suggestions for how to combat this debilitating disease? If you or any of your kin have suffered from anatidaephobia and have licked it, please let me know.
And please, do not refer me to some quack.
I too suffered from anatidaephobia. The secret it to get some ducks so that you know for certain that they are, indeed, watching you...and then embrace that fear and thereby conquer it. I once had four Pekins that I raised from mere ducklings to large, white beauties. Ducks are not to be feared. They have been described as the 'dogs of the bird world'. Very interesting to watch and raise. Ducks actually have personalities. Alas, two ran away from me to the city. Well, actually swam away. Once seduced by the ease (and constant hand-outs) of their new-found urban existance, no pleading (or attempts at intervention involving a large fishing net) could bring them back into the fold. They broke my heart, but I took comfort in the remaining brothers and in time got on with my life. This story is almost literally true.
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 21:36:44
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Whenever I find that I am suffering from this malady, I go to a chinese restaurant here In Vegas ( Sam Woo Barbecue) and order a whole roasted Duck to go. Just the sight of those roasted ducks hanging in the meat case is enough to quell all my fears. And when they chop it up for me, problem over, pass the plum sauce.
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 21:39:39
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space_cowboy
I think I could be suffering from anatidaephobia. Yep, the epic space cowboy, crippled by this in the prime of his life.
Any suggestions for how to combat this debilitating disease? If you or any of your kin have suffered from anatidaephobia and have licked it, please let me know.
And please, do not refer me to some quack.
The key to overcoming this disease is to know the answer to the age old question (grasshopper): What's the difference between a duck?
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foxwolfen
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 22:09:38
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Would this duck be from space and play a mean cello? Or was that the woodchuck?
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bapu
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 22:12:17
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foxwolfen
Would this duck be from space and play a mean cello? Or was that the woodchuck?
I'm not entirely sure what Chuck would do. 
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foxwolfen
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 22:16:05
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bapu
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 22:19:41
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 22:26:39
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foxwolfen
Play his duck?
Play His Duck = I, Plucky Shad
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bapu
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 23:09:02
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I've been wondering.
Does StrameisterUK ever sleep?
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Old55
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/28 23:24:38
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I catcha on to why-a-horse, why-a-chicken, why-a-this, why-a-that. I no catch on to why-a-duck.
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 09:02:27
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Where's spaceduck? is he watching us?
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 09:13:53
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I am developing a fear of being watched by someone who has a fear of being watched by ducks - Anatidaephobia by proxy
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 10:46:21
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True story:
My wife - long before I knew her, when she was a pre-teen, was feeding bread crumbs to geese at a park. she was holding the pieces out in front of her with one hand and had the rest of the bread in her other hand tucked behind her back. little did she know that one of the smarter ones had circled around her and snuck up behind her. it bit her hand while trying to get to the bread and of course scared the bejeebers out of her!
Ducks and geese are smart. they are watching us.
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 11:17:51
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Hi,
You must be a beaver and on the highway a bit north of Eugene ... all other ideas just don't make sense!
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foxwolfen
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 12:32:44
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Geese are actually very aggressive birds, and seem to be utterly without fear of humans.
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Beagle
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 12:43:56
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foxwolfen
Geese are actually very aggressive birds, and seem to be utterly without fear of humans.
And they have successfully invoked a healthy respect for themselves in my wife's interaction (or lack thereof) with them! 
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 12:56:07
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Beagle
Where's spaceduck? is he watching us?
lmao there's irony for ye! If ducks are so observant, howcome Beags had to give me a link to this place? I must be a losing my touch. Or I guess you could say I'm suffering from some sort of mallardy. uh oh, incoming rotten produce. Better *duck*
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 13:01:24
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Hi,
I found a better solution that is much nore with it in this forum ... gonna go home and put on ALL my Neil Innes albums ... not counting Bonzos and Python, I think I have 5 of them ... there is no bigger duck weirdo than him!
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 13:37:18
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Not to worry S.C. This is only considered abnormal if you imagine you are being watched. In your case, I am pretty sure the duck is real. 
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 13:59:36
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The cure is simple just get a duck gun.
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titusgroan1
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Re:Help with a personal issue
2009/10/29 14:06:48
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I have a similar condition with added low self-esteem, in as much as I think there are ducks around, but they're ignoring me and watching someone else.
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