Mastodawn

Showing Bryan's duckies how it's done! 🥋

This lady #duck is pulling off a mallarbesque #stretch and is getting ready to deliver a mean back kick ... which sadly I didn't capture 😁

#MallardMonday #EntenDienstag #DuckTuesday #Ente #Enten #Stockente #Stockenten #mallards #ducks #mallardDucks #mallardDuck #birdsOfMastodon #Vogel #duckstodon #animalPhotography #wildlife #WildlifeWednesday #yoga #PlauerSee #BrandenburgAnDerHavel #Plaue

Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Pixelfed Sep 29

#MallardMonday with Bert, Ernie, and Lady Mallard

Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Pixelfed Sep 22

#MallardMonday with Bert & Ernie
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~meoralis~Sep 16

To honour #MallardMonday and #EntenDienstag, here's a German pair of Bert & Ernie (fun fact: in the German Sesame Street, it's Ernie & Bert, not Bert & Ernie), frolicking in a canal at #Magdeburg's #Elbauenpark 🦆🦆

#DuckTuesday #birds #bird #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #duck #birdsOfFediverse #Vogel #Ente #Enten #Stockente #Stockenten #mallards #mallardDucks #mallardDuck

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Jason Baluyut Sep 16

@meoralis I’ve always thought of them as Ernie and Bert!😊

This is fun:

https://www.toughpigs.com/bert-ernie-ernie-bert/

Bert (Ernie) & Ernie (Bert) - ToughPigs

Do you say "Bert & Ernie" or "Ernie & Bert"? And what does that say about you?

ToughPigs - Muppet Fans Who Grew Up

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~meoralis~Sep 16

@bluejay@ohai.social 😂😂😂 What did I just read!! I didn't know that it's a philosophical question who gets to be mentioned first. 🤭 With this profiling, I'm clearly a Bert & Ernie person, but it still sounds weird to my ears. And I learned that there are several other countries where Ernie comes first (France, Brazil, Egypt and Arab countries, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey ...)

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Jason Baluyut Sep 16

@meoralis I think that article was written with tongue firmly in cheek 🤣 For me it just “sounds right” to say Ernie and Bert — it flows more naturally. Or maybe I’m just used to it.

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~meoralis~Sep 16

@bluejay@ohai.social That's interesting! Maybe it depends on the first-contact language for Sesame Street? 😄 Those two names are like a linguistic unit so one or the other will sound more natural to you 🤔

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