Dad = Duck??

Busy weekend for us this weekend - Libby's 6 month pictures are later this morning, we're going to our local corn maze this afternoon, and Tricia's birthday is tomorrow. Not only that, but I leave town on Monday morning for another business trip - this one to Chicago. Busy times for us...

Tricia's last entry was spot-on with Lib's words. When we started talking about her calling her duckie mobile "Dad", I took to calling myself "Duck" to Libby. We got a good laugh out of that. But what do they call a male duck? We know all about the goose and gander, but what about the duck itself? So where do we turn? If you're a long-time reader, you'll know the answer to that one - Wikipedia. Not only do we look up what male and female ducks are called (drakes for males, ducks or hens for females, in case you're curious), but we look up chickens too. Why chickens? Well, it all has to do with a little someone that you Seinfeld afficianados may know as Frank Costanza.

Frank Costanza, besides being one of the greatest bit-characters in sitcom history, posed a very thought-provoking question one episode regarding chickens. As he, his wife Estelle, George and Susan (the one he poisoned with their wedding invitation envelopes), and Susan's parents were sitting down to dinner, the following exchange occurs:

FRANK: Let me understand, you got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who's having sex with the hen?
GEORGE: Why don't we talk about it another time.
FRANK: But you see my point here? You only hear of a hen, a rooster and a chicken. Something's missing!
MRS. ROSS: Something's missing all right.
MR. ROSS: They're all chickens. The rooster has sex with all of them.
FRANK: That's perverse!

Frank Costanza - the man of many insights.

OK friends, this is the Kosher Family blog post #99 - tomorrow will be #100, and along with that will be our Top 10 countdown of best posts - will your favorites be there??

MK