The Scott Butki You Don't Know

So now you know something new about Scott - ducks like him, or at least this one particular duck does.

Here's why. They know I like things most fowl

If only I had brought my camera, as I had intended to ...

I wish you had

Clipping this to my column

It's no coincidence that an odd duck was attracted to Scott. After all, they gotta stick together. ;)

It's no coincidence that an odd duck was attracted to Scott. After all, they gotta stick together. ;)

Birds of a feather...

:)

Scoop: fly together? :D

*good to see ya man!*

you too. was just looking at my photo slide show and thinking of you and others

Hehe, one of your avatars did have a duckie - I forgot about that until just now.

Yup, the photo of me in the bathtub. Linked to that and others above.

Incidentally I read two books today to one of my guys and one of them was about - of course in a bit of small worldishness - ducks. A duck who wore socks, to be specific. So I shared my duck story and he was very eggscited about it all.

More karma - I just stepped away from the net to go give meds to my two guys. They had no idea I'd been talking about the duck incident (tdi for short) but the older one - the one who saw the cat wanting to get on the school bus - was chuckling.
What's up? I asked him.

The duck, he said.
I stopped -what? It had been 3 hours since I mentioned the duck to him and yet he was mentioning it again? What did he know?

"I think I know why the duck was nibbling your shoe," he said.

Oh yeah?

"He maybe thought you were his daddy."

I should note he's also suggested that a cow he saw on a tv ad was looking for the guy who is the m.c. at Port City Java because the cow thinks that guy is his daddy." So I guess you can say he has daddy issues.
Once he was talking on the patio with his roommate and I later asked what they were talking about and he said, "the birds and the beeds."
Uh oh!?
Nah, he was literally talking about the birds they saw and the bees they saw and whew!

That is great - as you said, he really thinks things through and puts them in his own perspective.

Yes in fact here's what happened with that one about the cow which I think is telling.
So we're listening to music and I notice this guy (I'm intentionally avoiding names) smiling. I ask him what's up.
He says, "That cow on tv's looking for Tommy."
I can't have heard right so I ask him to repeat. He does so. Loudly. Loud enough that others at the cafe look at each other trying to decipher.
I say something smooth like, "let's talk about THAT later."

Later as we leave Tommy says bye and my guy mentions that he saw a cow on tv (he sometimes sees things and makes up his own reality about what's going on. Each time there's a character named Scott in a show, for example, he'll be excited the next day to tell me I was on tv and when I suggest it might not have really been me he'll look at me like I'm hiding something.) Anyway I figure out that yes he saw a cow on tv and he's at an event by tommy so somehow these two things got connected.

Tommy's a silly braggart and he said, "Well, of course the cow wants to meet me because I'm big and strong" (he's actually neither.)

We get to the car and on the way home I finally ask him to explain what's going on with said cow.

Then he pulls off a revision so quick that improv comics would be impressed: "The cow thinks tommy is it's daddy."
Why would he think that?
Using Tommy's own words he said, "because Tommy's big and strong."

So tonite while at open mic nite one of my guys, the one who decided the duck thought I was his daddy, insisted I tell the crowd (about 15 people) about my apparent fowl genetics. So I did and they looked at me funny but not really much funnier than usual. Which was telling. But there were two surprises left - as we left he told an older woman that maybe he and she can do a poem together. Which sounds more naughty than it is - she doesn't know he has ten other ladyfriends and can't read. When I asked him if he knows any poems he sad he used to, from when he went to school. Oh did I forget to mention that he's 70?

Then his roommate began speaking of a poem I read aloud, asking me to explain it. The poem was Defining the Magic, one I also told over here. I explained it was a poem about how poetry can be whatever you want it to be, like, using examples from the poem, a sandwich or a drink. He asked if it could be a pizza.. or a subway sandwich... and I said yes.

Then he surprised me (both do that regularly which is a good thing) by quoting a bit of the Gettysburg Address.
How did you know that? I asked.
"I saw it on tv," he explained
Wow. I was impressed.
"I saw it on Saved By the Bell."
Wha-
"Lincoln was on the show and he told them all about it."

So I'm not sure what happened exactly - that's on my list of shows I can't stand, but if it taught him about Lincoln and the Civil War then I say, thank you Saved by The Bell.

and that's my report tonite.

Thanks!

I posted some more about tonite and last nite over at my iced tea stand

excellent. meanwhile on monday i'll be posting the interview with the author of Moby Duck - book details here - complete with photos of two of my rubber duckies with a copy of the book.

is having a pseudodaughter sort of like being sorta pregnant?