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Honk Honk Waddle Waddle Was A Real Song?

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For RDP Friday: WADDLE

If you are going to ask me for the first thing that pops into my head when you say the word ” waddle ” I’m going to flash on my then 3 year old ( he’s now pushing 40)  son singing

Honk, honk, waddle, waddle

duckies really stink

Honk honk waddle, waddle

skiddy  mahrinky dink

Honk honk waddle waddle

duckies really stink

Oh!

Honk, waddle waddle song says

duckies really

stink

Photographer Unknown

All I know is that this is that he had a tape called ” We Sing Silly Songs ” and that all he got right was “Honk, honk waddle waddle” and based on a youtube clip he got the melody right, but the lyrics were his own. In fact, I liked Julio’s version so much, I never did go out of my way to hear the ‘real’ version.

This is the way the song goes for real- complete with a kid to sing it for you:

The Dinner Guests

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I devour, I savour

foggy nights, shrimp scampi, Mcdonald’s french fries and good books.

I savour good jokes, the scent of freshly carved Halloween pumpkins and artwork that triggers something in my brain and I start to hear music.

I savour winter storms, lightening storms and the roar of the Ocean when the water begins to bubble and churn because something is happening out there or under there that we can’t see until it’s too late.

Above all I savour conversations that  wake my muses from their quiet and dreamless sleep and we dine together

by darkness.

John Singer Sargent
“A Dinner Table at Night”

RDP Wednesday: SAVOUR

Duncan and Macbeth 2.0

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RDP Monday: MAGNITUDE

In our little corner of the Universe, Jupiter is the King of Planets.

As far as planets go, it is impressive. Jupiter is not solid as we know-  so think of it as an ocean will killer waves- and I do mean killer.  Jupiter will crush you like a bug the further down you travel to it’s center. Plus the radiation it gives off would kill you dead and it’s not exactly easy on electronics either.

But it’s Jupiter’s size that  is mind boggling. Over 1,000 Earths could fit into it.

But there is another planet out there that is bigger then Jupiter, and probably deadlier then Jupiter and it’s just a baby, it’s still forming.

Meet AB Aurigae b

illustration of AB Aurigae b, a giant gas planet discovered with the help of the Subaru Telescope and Hubble Space TelescopeImage: NASA/ESA/Joseph Olmsted

AB Aurigae b is still only a baby as far as planets go. It’s a giant gas planet that scientists have discovered in the early stages of its formation. And it’s already breaking records in astronomy. Astronomers say the planet is nine times the mass of Jupiter — and that it is challenging our understanding of how planets form.

When I started to hear about these exoplanets and planets that were bigger then Jupiter, my thoughts jumped to Macbeth.

Kings as we know, don’t like to be challenged and some of those challengers are crazy.

Nightmare  crazy.

The Pond

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RDP Thursday: MEANDER

Cleo Manning likes to hike and stroll in the park down the road from her house.

The park is full of lovely flowers, and along the trails to the ponds are maple trees and willow trees and even a few aged maple trees that may have been in the park before the city of Marsten decided that this was the place it’s residents would want to rest their weary bones.

Cleo doesn’t care much for the flowers( they make her sneeze) , she does like the trees and the shade that they cast along the trails but what she really loves is the pond in the middle of the park with a secret hidden right in the middle of it.

The Pond in the park is  deep and it’s floor is dark because sunlight can’t reach the bottom of it, most people would call it a lake but Cleo knows that a in the middle of the Pond, dead center at it’s deepest point is a tree and it’s rooted to the bottom of the pond in heavy chains made of human hair.

Vines with white flowers carpet the Pond’s floor and any light down there is radiating from the leathery blooms.

Sometimes Cleo sits on  the single granite bench and she as still as a statue as she looks out upon the Pond.

After awhile, she stands up. She smooths her dress, her hair and she looks from furtively from side to side and if no one is around she says ( to the tree at the bottom of the pond )

” Dunk me in a pond in my best dress, will  you Judge Gedney? I sold my soul for that dress. My soul.”