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9:57AM
Jan-27-08
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Ebner06
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This is all new to me, as is the show, and I happen to catch the end of “A Way with Words” on 1/27/08-and the discussion was about childhood games and why duck, duck, gray duck was a MN thing- I am from southern MN, now living in WI, and I get asked this question all the time. When we played it, we would go around the circle, and you would give each person a color, ie- brown duck, blue duck, green duck, and then the person you wanted to be it was gray duck. That is where I believe the color- gray duck came into play. That was 20 years ago that I played that.
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7:41PM
Jan-27-08
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martha
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Ebner06, thanks for sharing this version of the game. Anybody else played this one? Growing up, I never heard of anything besides “duck, duck, goose,” so it’s fascinating to hear all these different versions.
And btw, Ebner, welcome to “A Way with Words”! Hope you’ll be back for more.
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9:14PM
Feb-24-08
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kumajudy
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I was quite surprised to hear about “duck duck goose” because when I played it over 40 years ago in North Hollywood, CA, we played “white duck, white duck, yellow duck”. Is there ANYONE out there who ever played with white and yellow ducks, or is it just the gray ones from Minnesota? Fascinating stuff.
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There’s more about the game in this discussion.
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5:14PM
Mar-25-08
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Wordsmith
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And if you’re not alergic to Wikipedia, you can check out more in their article here.
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1:44PM
Mar-26-08
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I, too, grew up in southern MN and am now living in WI, but I don’t remember ever playing the multi-colored version. I do remember using both “gray duck” (or “grey duck,” depending on your preferred spelling) and “goose.”
Perhaps it was because I grew up on the Mississippi River, just across from WI, but I was also used to hearing & using other regional terms interchangeably, like “soda,” “pop,” & “soda pop” (but never “coke,” unless it was an actual Coca-Cola), as well as “fountain” & “bubbler.”
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