Struggling to come up with a concept to make the big but relatively obscure insurance company's name memorable, one of the agency's art directors stumbled upon the duck idea while walking around Central Park at lunchtime uttering, " Aflac, Aflac.

The name of the concept refers to the duck test, attributed to James Whitcomb Riley ( see history below ), which may be phrased as follows:

In 2000, Alex Martelli coined the term " duck typing " to refer to the same concept, but with a different emphasis.

Lake Point Tower was one of the first all-electric high-rise residential buildings in the world and pioneered the concept of the " Park in the City ," being the first residential complex in a major city to have its own two-and-one-half acre park-including a playground, pool, duck pond, and waterfalls-three stories above ground.

In 2002, psychologist Richard Wiseman and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, finished a year-long LaughLab experiment, concluding that of all animals, ducks attract the most humor and silliness ; he said, " If you're going to tell a joke involving an animal, make it a duck.

Later, however, during a duck race ( a fund-raising event with plastic ducks " racing " down a small river ), Carrie confides in Helen: She knows all ( or almost everything ) about her husband's flings and, by taking a lover herself, tries to get back at him.

In 1990 Gladstone was licensed to publish a series of albums reprinting nearly all the Disney duck stories of Carl Barks.

During opening weekend of duck season ( late September ) hundreds of hunters come from all over the state to begin there season on the Bay.

This celebration includes games, food, a duck race, games, and fun for all ages.

Whistling Wings, the world's largest mallard duck hatchery, annually supplies hundreds of thousands of ducks to restaurants, wildlife refuges and research facilities all over the world.

Hanover is known as the Mallard Capitol of the World: Whistling Wings, the world's largest mallard duck hatchery, annually supplies hundreds of thousands of ducks to restaurants, wildlife refuges and research facilities all over the world.

Events of the Jubilee include a demolition derby, duck race, and chicken barbecue, as well as other events and games for children of all ages.

In the last twenty years, practically all duck farms were phased out and the descendants of the original farmers sold the valuable waterfront property for residential development projects.

Also that year he recorded a children's album, The Churkendoose, featuring the story of a misfit fowl (" part chicken, turkey, duck, and goose ") who teaches kids that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it all " depends on how you look at things ".

Although they are all financial threats to Scrooge in one way or another, they each have different motives: Magica wants Scrooge's Number One Dime to complete her magic spell, which will enable her to take over the world ; Glomgold wants to replace Scrooge as the " Richest duck in the world "; and the Beagle Boys want to rob Scrooge of his fortune.

The competing sailors are racing on a short downwind slalom course, have to use duck jibes on all turns, and are required to perform several tricks along the way, such as jump over an obstacle, spock or even front loop.

This dabbling duck is strongly migratory, and winters farther south than its breeding range, from coastal Alaska, south into Central America, and east into Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and then south all the way into Central America.

The only duck which is at all similar is the drake North American Ring-necked Duck, which however has a different head shape, no tuft and greyish flanks.

Cases include the mallard duck, wild boar, the rock dove or pigeon, the Red Junglefowl ( Gallus gallus ) ( ancestor of all chickens ), carp, and more recently salmon.

By 1860, the ducks disappeared from all but Laysan Island ( the duck ’ s namesake ), most likely due to predation by introduced rats.

Template, or generic functions or methods apply the duck test in a static typing context ; this brings all the advantages and disadvantages of static versus dynamic type checking in general.

His nickname was permanently affixed to him by Chicago Daily News sportswriter Francis Powers who, upon witnessing him play for the Badgers against the Great Lakes Naval Station in 1942, wrote " His crazy legs were gyrating in six different directions, all at the same time ; he looked like a demented duck.

In fact, use of the word " duck " is inaccurate, since all waterfowl, including geese, swans, brant, and more are intended to benefit from the sale of duck stamps.

This applies not only to duck stamps, but all types.

The Phnom Penh version of kuyteav ( called hu tieu Nam Vang by the Vietnamese ) is the most extravagant, often containing some or all of the following toppings: pork belly, ground pork, pigs blood jelly, chopped pork offal such as intestine, heart, liver and lung, roasted duck, Mekong river prawns, fish cake and squid.

Making his Test debut in November 1990 just after his 20th birthday, his first six innings yielded five ducks and a 1, but supporters insist that his debut-innings duck puts him in good company with batsmen such as Michael Atherton, Graham Gooch, Len Hutton, Saeed Anwar and Wasim Akram, who all made debut-innings ducks and went on to score at least 2500 Test runs.

The Yaya company-once famous all over China for its winter clothes, duck down coats ,-is situated here.

Gottfried has provided the voice of the duck in the AFLAC commercials and Digit in the math-mystery cartoon Cyberchase on PBS Kids GO !, as well as the magical imp Mr. Mxyzptlk on Superman: The Animated Series.

Although the original Constitution allowed Congress to change its annual meeting date by statute, this change eliminated any reference to a requirement in the Constitution that a lame duck Congress meet in the period between the election of a new Congress and its taking office.

To date, the arboretum's contain a nature trail, a pinetum with 300 different conifers, a duck pond, historic trees of diverse species, sculpture, as well as flower and Asian gardens.

referencing the month in which Spring begins on the northern hemisphere-- and published its first title, Donald Duck, which continues to run to this date .< Ref name = inst > Abril's first magazine lead Civita to claim " It all started with a duck ", parodying Walt Disney's declaration that " I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Numerous types of thinking games exist, including 21, beer checkers, bizz buzz, buffalo, bullshit, tourettes, matchboxes, never have I ever, roman numerals, fuzzy duck, pennying, wine games, and zoom schwartz profigliano.

These shows have featured large collections of his gridfonts, his ambigrams ( pieces of calligraphy created with two readings, either of which is usually obtained from the other by rotating or reflecting the ambigram, but sometimes simply by " oscillation ", like the Necker Cube or the rabbit / duck figure of Joseph Jastrow ), and his " Whirly Art " ( music-inspired visual patterns realized using shapes based on various alphabets from India ).

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

Beyond hens ' eggs and water, liquids have included duck eggs, milk or cream, olive or walnut oil, wine, ink from octopus, squid or cuttlefish, and even pigs ' blood.

Already a lame duck Vice President, he was elected to the Senate by the South Carolina state legislature and resigned the Vice Presidency early to begin his Senate term because he believed he would have more power as a senator.

Other Germanic languages still have similar words for " duck ", for example, Dutch eend " duck " and German Ente " duck ".

" The word " duck " may have become an inherently funny word in many languages, possibly because ducks are seen as silly in their looks or behavior.

Various theories have been put forward for the nickname, including the descendant relation to cotton duck fabric, the waterproof characteristics of a duck bird, and even the 1942 amphibious military vehicle DUKW which was pronounced " duck ".

However, more recent merchandise of the duck as well as that featured on the official website have been shown to incorporate elements of the zanier, more light-hearted Daffy of the 1940s.

Seven other species of duck were studied and found to have levels of mercury below EPA guidelines, thus being determined safe to eat.

Both cuisines tend to focus on local ingredients like locally available wild game ( e. g., duck, rabbit ), vegetables ( e. g., okra, mirlitons ), and grain ( e. g., rice ), which is where they remain distinctive, since many of these ingredients have never truly entered American mainstream cuisine and thus were available to displace local traditions.

For instance, a knowledge-based engineering system can enhance its operational aspect and thereby its stability through more involvement by the SME, thereby opening up issues of limits that are related to being human, in the sense that, many times, computational results have to be taken at face value due to several factors ( hence the duck test's necessity arises ) that even an expert cannot overcome.

* One shouldn't have duck meat because it brings unluckiness.

*** Thai congee, called " kao dom ", can have added coriander, preserved duck eggs, fish sauce, sliced chili peppers, pickled mustard greens or salt cabbage preserves, red pepper flakes, etc.

Unusual materials have been used to construct pinhole cameras, e. g., a Chinese roast duck.

Later characters whose voices owe considerable credit to Nash's duck voice have been voiced by actors such as Jimmy Weldon, Frank Welker, Luba Goy and Red Coffee.

The Cherokee village of Kawana — which means " duck town " in English — is believed to have been located at the confluence of the Ocoee River and Tumbling Creek.

Many birds which have now made their home in the Centre cannot be found anywhere else in London, and there are nationally significant numbers of gadwall and shoveler duck.

Sharon in fact helped get her brother and her together after she moved into the neighborhood, Hannah's father is a duck hunter and is part of an organization called " Just Quacks " Adam almost joined the club so he could, have a good friend relationship with him but turned them down after Sharon helped him realized that kind of activity is not for him, and isn't something he wanted to be involved in.

There is a small duck pond opposite the church which was believed to have been dug as part of a medieval drainage system.

Many of the company's television, outdoor, in-store, and print ads feature animals including pot-bellied pigs, rabbits, a tree frog, a monkey, a lizard, a duck, fish, a hedgehog, a meerkat, an owl, and lately have been focusing on pygmy goats.