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["David & Gloria Patterson" <dgpatterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Finally, it's official: Denizens of big cities really are louder 
than denizens of the country. It's not just a false impression 
after all, and it's true for more kinds of critters than just 
humans. Here's proof (sort of): A researcher at Middlesex 
University in England just released the results of a study on 
the quacking of ducks, which sought to discover if and how 
regional differences develop in duck-speak. Notable among the 
study's findings is that city ducks are "noisier and laugh 
raucously" compared with their rural cousins, which are "softer 
and chilled out." The researchers speculate that city ducks have 
to quack louder to be heard over the background noise of police 
sirens, airplanes, big trucks, and buses. So, if it walks like a 
duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But if it 
walks like a duck and quacks like the air horn on a big semi, 
it's a bull duck from Wall Street. Hey, they do what they gotta 
do to survive: In New York, "soft, chilled out ducks" get 
pressed into pate and served on qwackers.
Peter Nulty
Editor
mailto:StrongSignals@xxxxxxxxxx


David Patterson
Chattanooga

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