The duck has captivated Hong Kong since its arrival earlier this month and news of the duck's deflation was splashed across Hong Kong media and social networks with many ruminating as to the duck's health.
For example, there's a scene in the Only Make Believe show where Donald Duck's pushy manager and sibling Derek Duck, played by actor Dax Valdes, strong-arms the animal sounds store merchant (Saluda Camp) to produce a new quack for his boss.
News of the duck's deflation was splashed across Hong Kong media and social networks.
The size of a duck's egg, with 184 carats, the seventh largest diamond in the world was used as a paperweight.
Black Duck's main offering, protexIP (IP, as in "intellectual property"), contains a library of open-source programs that software writers frequently incorporate into larger applications.
Hong Kong resident Jessie Wong, posing for photos with her 78-year-old mother, said the duck's popularity made sense, given the lack of other entertainment options in the city.
Another does it with a toy duck's bill.
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It was in this year that South African figure skaters broke the continent's duck by traveling to the Squaw Valley, in the United States for the eighth edition of the event.
Requiring more than a thousand moving parts, Vaucanson's duck was not only a mechanical marvel, but also begged some very Enlightenment-era intellectual questions: Was there anything more to life than mechanics and plumbing?
His props, including old Buicks and Oldsmobiles he took to buyers' houses ("I drove the paint off three of those bastards"), were all part of the bargaining act, a sort of collector's duck blind behind which he hid.
For years after, whenever I stopped in Delhi on assignment, the High Commission would politely ask me if I'd decided what to do with Ronnie's duck guns, which the great man had left at our diplomatic mission, presumably because he felt the fearsome Indian customs officers might create such a fuss his own exit might be delayed.
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And while it's not NCAA hoops, Daffy Duck was on Michael Jordan's winning Space Jam squad in 1995.
"He's just going to duck the responsibility to tackle this country's fiscal problems, " Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, told the Associated Press news agency.
Bangalore looked on track to successfully defend their total when the South African side's star batsman Herschelle Gibbs fell for a first-ball duck in Praveen Kumar's first over.
The spokesman said he also saw no need to delay next month's lame-duck session or to sign another temporary funding measure through the end of Clinton's term, which ends Jan. 20, when the new president takes office.
Such an outcome may not happen during this week's lame duck session of the expiring 110th Congress.
"I feel like a sitting duck, that's what I feel every time I get on the train, " she says.
Fillmore works among humans, however, and the fact that he's a duck -- as is often the case with anthropomorphic characters -- never comes up.
Surrey elected to bat, but Jonathan Batty's golden duck to Tremlett from the fourth ball of the match meant Ramprakash was at the crease earlier than expected, and needed 18 balls to get off the mark.
One of the more sordid moments in recent congressional history came during last December's lame-duck session.
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The delay in holding a vote potentially sets up a clash over taxes in Congress's lame-duck session following the election.
Called "Rubber Duck, " it's the product of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman.
The distinction goes to Milton, Mass. (elevation 628 feet), the highest peak within 10 miles of the Atlantic that's a sitting duck for strong ocean breezes.
Burns landed some powerful shots in the following round but Martinez was able to duck out of harm's way and had Burns on the ropes in the closing seconds.
It's easy to duck out of things, but lots of things touch me and I try to help some people ... that I was kind, and I was a nice person.
What's more, the current buzz around town is that Heston Blumenthal of the UK's legendary Fat Duck restaurant, which has three stars of its own, is scoping out options for a possible new location.
It was only the second golden duck of the Australian skipper's career.
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