If it's a good 'un, it drops like a dead duck just when it crosses the plate.
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This one has been a dead duck since 2010, when we first realized the magnitude of the situation.
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I'm smoothing a thin sheet of river clay over a cold, dead duck when I suddenly remember Mr Kite.
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For the second game in a row, a dead duck found its way onto the ice at Bridgestone Arena.
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Is New York Fashion Week, which officially begins Thursday but actually begins Wednesday (thank you, Tom Ford), a dead duck?
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He dismounted only twice, stayed near the dead duck and picked the neck and the side of the head before mounting again.
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Since everyone else in my family was disgusted by the idea of pumping a dead duck full of air, I ended up having to do it.
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If I think a man is guilty and to my satisfaction the evidence is there, then he's gonna be a dead duck—even if he's my own son.
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On Thursday, it was a fully feathered (but still very dead) duck that was tossed from the rafters above by one of the franchise record-setting 17,423 in attendance for Game 4.
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"If the U.N. takes too long to get into (the) theater, they will lose the opportunity altogether and the Stockholm agreement will be a dead duck," said the coalition source, who declined to be named.
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Stephen Isaacs, the chairman of the investment committee at London-based alternative advisory firm Alvine Capital, told CNBC this month that monetary policy was a "dead duck" and investors should focus on a coming "fiscal reflationary trade".
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Cho Kuk of Seoul National University says the president, whose party recently lost its parliamentary majority but who has 15 months of her single five-year term left, is not just a lame duck, but a "dead duck".
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"If (May's) tactic now is to double down on the Chequers dead duck, and then blame EU for a no deal, she will do huge damage to all those she is supposed to serve," Sturgeon said in a statement on Friday.
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It's probably not fair to tar all male ducks with this one, but the account by Kees Moeliker in his seminal paper, "The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves:Anatidae)" is too bizarre not to share (hat-tip to Donald MacLeod at the Guardian): Next to the obviously dead duck, another male mallard (in full adult plumage without any visible traces of moult) was present (Fig. 2a).
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That's a niffy achievement for Osprey, which for a time appeared to be a dead duck.
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Little behind the scenes information has surfaced, though the films themselves have survived.Shock Cinema Magazine Official Website: The Diadem/Mini-Killers. Retrieved August 20, 2010.Dead Duck: Diadem and The Mini-Killers.
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Mounting debts and a pending £10,000 fine meant Tony had to go to Lilian, his sister, for a loan. Pat and Tony decided the brand was "a dead duck" and re-branded everything as Ambridge Organics.
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As a result, most of the political geography texts produced during this period were descriptive, and it was not until 1976 that Richard Muir could argue that political geography was no longer a dead duck, but could in fact be a phoenix.
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5 June 1982, page 61 Macnee co-wrote two original novels based upon The Avengers during the 1960s, titled Dead Duck and Deadline. He hosted a documentary, The Avengers: The Journey Back (1998), directed by Clyde Lucas."MEDIALOG: WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR AN ENCORE", Starlog magazine, Issue 198, January 1994. Cf. p.6.
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The bird was stuffed and is now mounted on a box of dominos. Kees Moeliker officiating at "his" museum's sixteenth Dead Duck Day (2012) Moeliker has written two books, in Dutch: ' [The Duck Guy] (2009) and ' [The Butt Crack of the Tick] (2012), which was voted "best science book of the year" by the newspaper de Volkskrant that year.
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Noticing this, Gulliver picks up David and Glory in his hand and they tell him of the war's cause. Gulliver suggests that they combine "Faithful" and "Forever" into one song. In Blefuscu, Bombo receives a message from his spies assuring that Gulliver will soon be a "dead duck", and announces by carrier pigeon he will attack at dawn. Gabby intercepts this message and warns the Lilliputians.
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The Unfeathered Bird was received with worldwide critical acclaim from art and science communities alike. It's dedicated "To Amy" which was the name given to the Mallard skeleton van Grouw cleaned and assembled in 1987 and which sparked off the initial idea for The Unfeathered Bird, leading one reviewer to describe it as "undoubtedly the best ever book to be inspired by a dead duck." A second and greatly expanded edition of The Unfeathered Bird is currently in production.
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It was estimated that the tunnel could be completed to suit requirements for around £600,000 (in 1966), which would likely involve the removal of the existing lining so the size of the bore could be increased. During the 1963 general election campaign, the Labour candidate for Petone, Michael Moohan, stated that the issue of the Wainuiomata Tunnel was a “dead duck”. In response to a question from a constituent, he noted that the tunnel was not wide enough for modern traffic requirements and was too steep to be turned into a rail tunnel.
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Another myth is that, mistaking the blue field for a large body of water, birds have flown into the blue turf and to their deaths. Although Bronco head coach Chris Petersen claimed to have found a dead duck on the field in 2007, the origin of the duck on the field has never been confirmed. BSU's blue turf has become such a highly visible icon for the Broncos that BSU obtained a U.S. trademark registration for a blue athletics field in November 2009. In 2010, this trademark was extended to any non-green field.
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Retrieved 6 August 2012. Backbench Conservative MPs told David Cameron that the House of Lords Reform Bill was "a dead duck" following the vote. On 3 August 2012, it was reported that the Prime Minister was to announce that the bill would be dropped after negotiations with Conservative rebels broke down. Just three days later, on 6 August 2012, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that the Government was abandoning the bill due to the opposition from Conservative backbench MPs, claiming that the Conservatives had "broken the coalition contract".
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On stage, Gail played three parts - a fantasy maid, a nurse and a member of a female gang led by Kate O'Mara as Madame Gerda - in a 1971 play entitled Dead Duck produced by Leslie Phillips, based on the television series The Avengers. This was first performed in Birmingham and later at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.The Avengers - 'The Avengers' stage play She subsequently appeared with Leslie Phillips, and under his direction, in Joyce Rayburn’s comedy The Man Most Likely To ..., both at the Duke of York's Theatre in London and on a world tour.The Man Most Likely To ... programme, op.
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On one tour, on 11 March 2014, a mini-opera based on his study entitled The Homosexual Necrophiliac Duck Opera was premiered at Imperial College London. It was composed by Daniel Gillingwater, with Moeliker performing a duck call. A Dead Duck Day is held on 5 June every year, "to commemorate the first anniversary of the sudden and dramatic death (on 5 June 1995) of the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) that entered the scientific literature as the first victim of homosexual necrophilia in this species." On 6 October 2014, he made a guest appearance on BBC Radio 4 comedy The Museum of Curiosity and donated a single pubic louse to the museum.
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Tushar Joshi reviewing for Daily News and Analysis stated it to miss out on the "opportunity to be smarter and funnier" by playing "too safe to rise above the ordinary". Madhureeta Mukherjee in her review for The Times of India stated the film to have its share of beauty but falters with a helpless script". According to Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN, ″Asthana directs with an easy hand, but she's saddled with a dead duck of a script that simply can't be saved.″ In a review for Hindustan Times by Anupama Chopra stated, "This is one of those films that doesn't either offend or engage.
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Donald, who was hiding in a vase beneath an umbrella, spots them and their disguised gorilla suit and angrily chases them. Ajax appears in front of them and the triplets escape, but Donald momentarily assumes that Ajax is the triplets in disguise and grabs Ajax by the face to remove the "disguise" before spotting them. When Donald realizes that Ajax is not the fake gorilla (after opening his mouth and calling for them), Ajax roars at him and Donald almost faints until Breckenridge says that he can master any wild animal by looking them straight in the eye. Donald stares into Ajax's eye; however, he sees his pupil forming a tombstone reading "Here lies a dead duck".
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Returning to Australia in 1970 he became Policy Specialist in environment, science and technology policy in the National Parliament's Legislative Research Service in Canberra. This appointment was the result of a far-sighted initiative of the then Parliamentary Librarian Alan Fleming, who soon after was appointed as National Librarian. At that time there were no government environment departments and Peter's appointment was probably the nation's first appointment in the environment public policy field. He also worked in 1972 with the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment in Montreal. Peter also initiated at that time the nation’s first school environmental education program, INSPECT, that resulted in the publication of two books that he co-edited, ‘Bad luck dead duck’ (1970) and ‘What a mess less confess’ (1971).
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While this let Sega focus on bringing out its successor, premature demise of the Saturn caused customers and developers to be skeptical and hold out, which led to the Dreamcast's demise as well, and Sega's exit from the console industry.Jason Perlow, "Osborne effects: Death by pre-announcement", ZDNet, 21 June 2012 Another example of the Osborne effect took place as a result of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's implementation of the plan to shift away from Symbian to Windows Phone for its mobile software platform. On top of this, criticism of existing products was compared to the Ratner effect. Although it was known for some time that Nokia's Symbian phones were no longer competitive against iOS and Android, they still generated significant profit thanks to Nokia's brand recognition until Elop's announcement "effectively transformed the Symbian cash-cow into a dead duck".
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His reply was: > "As a medical scientist I need evidence for things, without evidence and > without rational balance of evidence medicine is a dead duck and in this > case there is no evidence that an overdose of intrathecal Benzylpenicillin > ever has caused deafness." In answer to a further question from the learned > judge he said: > "All things are possible and in medicine we never say never, but from the > point of view of scientific medicine to my mind there is no evidence to > incriminate an overdose of intrathecal Benzylpenicillin as a cause of > deafness in this or in other cases and on the other side of the waterfall > there is a massive amount of evidence to incriminate pneumococcal meningitis > as one of the best known causes." > The only evidence to the effect that penicillin was the cause of the boy's > deafness came from Mr Williams, a neuro-surgeon. His theory that penicillin > injected intrathecally would itself have a destructive effect on the > auditory nerve was rejected by the Lord Ordinary.
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