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Quack!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Big_Duck.JPG

Okay, the new shop has to promote our duck farm somehow! Everybody, think!

Martin Maurer’s painfully literal solution has graced Long Island since 1931. To this day, buildings shaped like recognizable objects are called “ducks.”

April 16, 2007November 17, 2010 | Oddities

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