Rubber Duckies

I like rubber duckies. In particular, I like devil ducks. We get ours from Archie McPhee's in Seattle. For a long time, devil ducks were our signature item and we left them in every cache that had room. Rubber duckies have been around since the nineteenth century, but Jim Henson and his Muppets popularized them in the 1970s with Ernie's Rubber Duckie song. Now they have all sorts of variations, such as the devil ducks which have horns, ducks dressed for different professions or the dead duck, which is a black duck with Xs for eyes which floats upside down.

Whether it's a river race of rubber ducks for Renton River Days in Renton, WA, Ernie singing Rubber Ducky You're the One or the unconfirmed tabloid story of the Queen of England having a rubber duck with an inflatable crown in her bathroom, (quoted from the Wikipedia article on Rubber Ducks) rubber duckies are ever more popular. I see them everywhere these days, but my favorite remains the devil ducks. They are such a funny mixture of innocence and evil.