The silly news can be a relief on a day like today, with Sotus dismantling Brown v. Board of Ed, and removing a 96-year old protection for consumers. True, they did block the execution of a possibly mentally ill person who tried to get Jesus Christand Kennedy to testify for him, though you can guess who of this jolly crew were for ending his life.
So enjoy the rubber duck story, if you need something light! It's better for you than potato chips!
The armada of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago.
Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack.
And now they are heading straight for Britain. At some point this summer they are expected to be spotted on beaches in South-West England.
The ducks have had quite a journey and there's a great map of their trip. You might enjoy the letters, one fretting about mob scenes on the beaches and another pointing out that the ducks better not ask for asylum.
UPDATE: A quick check around the web raises real questions about whether the story is reported truthfully. The picture of thousands of rubber duckies traveling to England over 15 years, while very charming to some of us, is probably not physically feasible, and what is likely to be going on, as two commenters point out, is environmentally not funny. It is a downer, in fact.