We can memorize that you use the sound "duck" to make people think of a duck, and we do it quickly and copiously.

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Republican lawmakers are deciding Thursday whether they want to make a Right to Work push in a lame duck session, a possibility that has filled the state capitol with union protestors.

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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.

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It is hard to imagine, moreover, that the three Senators who are expected to be seated in time for the lame-duck session will be in a position to make informed decisions about this treaty.

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But the phrase had been in earlier use in England in the 1700s, where brokers on the London Stock Exchange called you a lame duck if you tried to go on trading securities after you had failed to make good on settlement.

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Bereft of its duck girl, its voodoo priest and countless other unusuals, New Orleans will have to make do with a three-guitar-playing man in the role of most eccentric character.

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