In this article about a (mute) swan that I found in a rubbish free paper that someone had left on a rain sodden table outside a Manchester bar, the interviewee claims to hear the sound of quacking outside. However, swans don't quack on account they are swans and not ducks so someone is lying and I don't like it one bit. Needless to say I am furious.
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andyrock 73 months ago | reply
sincere question: what would you say the noise a swan makes is, if not a quack?
[edit] a honk?
Ice Nine 73 months ago | reply
Swans hiss...
Snakes hiss...
Squacco squawks!
dipfan 73 months ago | reply
Busy news day in Manchester then.
Buster Pickles 73 months ago | reply
get it???
FOWL play???
they spelled it to mean something ELSE!
OH!
that is so clever.
Buster Pickles 73 months ago | reply
it also said it waddled.
i thought only ducks and fat people waddle.
kel1 73 months ago | reply
bastards.
Mr Squiddle 73 months ago | reply
this might possibly be my fave page in all of the internets :)
nonky 73 months ago | reply
"Police used their jack-"
boots? :(
"to guide the bird to..."
squacco 73 months ago | reply
@andyrock: Wikipedia describes it as a "gutteral warning call" (not that you should believe anything you read there either)
squacco 73 months ago | reply
I love swans, I think they're cuddly.
dr_loplop 73 months ago | reply
Mute swans don't make any noise -- they're mute!
Ah, the perils of UGC
dr_loplop 73 months ago | reply
*stumbles through the dark with an oversized bucket of popcorn*
ibikenz 73 months ago | reply
I'm concerned about Squacco standing around in the rain outside bars.
dr_loplop 73 months ago | reply
Give me a mute swan over a pink flamingo any day.
bootsartemis 73 months ago | reply
I have looked upon those brill creatures,
and now my heart is sore,
All’s changed since I, on Whitworth Street,
stumbled through the dark while it rained buckets
in my oversized bell-bottoms, now mute,
I who used to be so cute and cool
waddle with the swans at poole.
andyrock 73 months ago | reply
hmmm, i'm not sure about a 'gutteral warning call'. we have some swans very near me and they flew over the other night and it was a distinct 'honking' i could hear from them. bah, wikipedia!
dogdaisy92 38 months ago | reply
Maybe it was the policemen who were quacking.
dr_loplop 38 months ago | reply
you mean the bill?