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I am reading a TG fiction author who makes occasional reference in her stories to what has become known as the “Duck Test” (y’know, “if it looks, walks, quacks, etc. like a duck”?). Unfortunately, this seemingly simple test of reality is easily defeated with a liberal application of duc’tape…
Sounds like medical advice
and I never take medical advice from a quack!
So true...
Trying to find competent medical advice is enough to drive a person quackers.
Duc'tape
Indeed! The experts at Myth Busters have demonstrated many times that any problem can be overcome by its liberal application.
Red MacDonald
From what I have heard...
the number of imaginative practical applications people have thought up for duc’tape is practically limitless. Now that is a liberal application of thought applied to finding practical applications for the liberal application of duc’tape. Imagine that!
As theories go...
the Duck Test has certainly laid an egg. Now, this puts the proponents in the unenviable position of having something fragile on their hands; if their theory should happen to crack, the yolk is on them. It is only sensible that they should seek to reinforce their position by applying duc’tape to the egg instead of the duck.
Duck testing
Or as Mark Watney commented in the novel The Martian, "Duct tape...it's magic! Worship it!"
Spoken like a true experimental physicist.
Duck alignment
There is no doubt that duc’tape has the wondrous ability to help get your ducks in a row…and to keep them there!