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Rubber Duckies, making bath time calm and fun since 1931!

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Peter Ganine neither invented the rubber duck nor 3D chess. However he did design the iconic 3D chess pieces used in Star Trek and designed the uncapsizeable rubber duck which is what we currently think of when we think of a rubber duck.

3D chess as a game was invented by Ferdinand Maack.

While the rubber duck originally designed as a chew toy was invented in the mid 19th century. I know not who the inventor is. Ganine did innovate upon the idea of the rubber duck to an iconic status that far out weighs the og design.

It's insane that no one talks about how the same guy who invented 3d chess for star trek also invented the rubber duck. Like THE rubber duck. They don't even mention it on memory alpha. Like I feel like that should be common trekkie knowledge anD YET!

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RUBBER DUCK FACTS PLEASE

OMG YAY!!! Here’s some facts about rubber ducks in general and about my collection 💃🏽🕺🏽

• Rubber ducks were originally made out of solid rubber, instead of being hallow, because they were suppose to be chew toys

• They later became bath toys in the 1930s

• In 1931, Eleanor Shannahan designed a toy that could sit both above and below the surface water and would shoot water from the mouth and other small holes

• In 1947, sculptor Peter Ganine filed a patent for a duck toy he had created out of vinyl

• January 13 is rubber duck day because it’s the birthday of Ernie’s rubber duckie

• The largest duck collection is owned by Charlotte Lee who has over 5,000 ducks (I will surpass you one day!!!)

• The largest rubber duck was made by Dutch artist, Florentijn Hofman

• Rubber duck races are held all over the world

• In the 1990’s, ship containers full of rubber ducks went overboard into the ocean and have been slowly turning up all over the world (examples: Canada, South America, Australia, England) These rubber ducks teach oceanographers how ocean currents move and change throughout season

• This is my own collection!! (There’s probably more scattered throughout my house)

• These are my oldest rubber ducks

• I started collecting ducks when I was a toddler because the hospital in my town has a basket of rubber ducks and you can take one after each visit

• This duck looks different from the others because it’s actually Pato from the Spanish cartoon, Pocoyo

Thank you for letting me ramble :3

[rabbitcruiser]

National Rubber Ducky Day

According to Sesame Street’s calendar, January 13 marks the birthday of Rubber Duckie, the bathtub toy of Ernie. The day has since become celebrated as Rubber Ducky Day. Rubber Duckie first appeared on Sesame Street Episode 0078, on February 25, 1970; Ernie was in a bathtub in a room that resembled his living room, and sang the song, “Rubber Duckie.” The most popular version of the song was sung by Ernie in Episode 0136, on November 16, 1970. This time he was in a bathroom with a plain blue background. Jim Henson was the real voice behind the song, and it went to #16 on the Billboard “Hot 100 Singles” chart in 1970 as well. Ernie, either by himself or with other characters, has sung other songs about his rubber duckie such as “Put Down the Duckie,” “D-U-C-K-I-E,” and “Do De Rubber Duck.”

Rubber toys first appeared in the late 1800s, as the rubber industry began to grow. The first rubber ducks were not intended to float, but were instead made to be chew toys. A patent for a “Hollow rubber toy” was filed in 1925 and granted in 1928; it included a picture of a floating duck. Peter Ganine made a sculpture of a duck and then patented it. He filed for his patent in 1947 and received it two years later. Over 50 million of the ducks were sold. By the late 1940s rubber duckies were popular, but Ernie’s “Rubber Duckie” song increased their popularity even more a few decades later.

Nowadays rubber duckies are usually not even made of rubber, but of thick vinyl instead, which is cheaper and more durable. Most are made to squeak and have a bright orange bill. They are sometimes made into characters; some are made to look like they have a profession, or are politicians or celebrities. Some wind up and “swim,” while others glow in the dark, light up, or change color. The largest rubber duck was made by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2007. Its dimensions were 54ft x 66ft x 105ft, and it weighed about 1,300 pounds. Besides people making giant rubber ducks, some people also collect them.

Rubber duck races take place to raise money all around the world. When people sponsor a duck, money is donated to an organization. Ducks are dumped into a river or other body of water, and the first duck to cross the finish line wins a prize for its sponsor. Hundreds of rubber duck races are held in the United States and internationally. The largest one in the United States is the Freestore Foodbank Rubber Duck Regatta in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rubber duck was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2013. The Hall of Fame “recognizes toys that have inspired creative play and enjoyed popularity over a sustained period.” New toys are added each year.

On January 10, 1992, close to 29,000 Friendly Floatees from a Chinese factory washed off a ship. Friendly Floatees are bathtub toys, and the ones that fell off the ship consisted of yellow ducks, blue turtles, red beavers, and green frogs. Two thirds of the toys floated south and ended up in Australia, South America, and Indonesia. The other third went up to Alaska and then circled back towards Japan. Many became trapped in Arctic ice in the Bering Strait. They moved through it at the pace of about a mile a day, and made it to the North Atlantic in 2000. Some arrived on the Eastern coast of the United States and Canada around 2003 and 2004, and most of the rest of them arrived in the United Kingdom in 2007.

How to Observe

The best way to celebrate the day is to take a bath with a rubber duck. You should also listen to “Rubber Duckie” and watch Ernie singing the song on Sesame Street. You could also look for rubber duck races to sign up for, and read Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost At Sea.

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In the late 1800s, Rubber ducks were originally created with solid rubber, made as chew toys. Sculptor Peter Ganine created a sculpture of a duck in the 1940s, aftewards he reproduced it as a floating toy.

Wikipedia

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hello WHAT is this picture

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(Made on April 13th 2024)

Here is my third Smiling Critters OC, technically my 5th Poppy Playtime OC. Her name is RubberDucky. Based off popular toys Rubbers Ducks, invented by Peter Ganine.

“RubberDucky is known for her love of taking baths and being squeaky clean. She encourages others to wash themselves every day as well, promoting good hygiene habits in a playful and engaging way.”

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Our last article involved the appearance of chess boards in publicity photos for Star Trek: The Original Series. However, those sets turned up quite frequently in TOS episodes.

Sometimes they were pivotal in the episode. In “Court Martial” Kirk was damned by the Enterprise’s own computer tapes that clearly showed him pressing the eject button. However, Spock played a hunch (yes, you know he did) and played chess against the ship’s computer. When he won several games in a row, he realized that there was reason to cast doubt on the prosecution’s main witness. As it turned out, Finney had reprogrammed the system, which included the memory banks. So we can claim that chess saved the day in this episode.

Sometimes chess may not have been a major plot point but it aided our understanding of a character. For example, in “Charlie X” we could see a side of Charlie’s nature no one aboard the Enterprise knew about when he melted several chess pieces in frustration over losing to Spock. And in “By Any Other Name,” Spock used chess to gauge how well Kirk’s strategy of frustrating the Kelvans was working on Rojan.

And even if we did not see a single chess set in “Whom Gods Destroy,” the game played an important part here as well. When Garth disguised as Kirk attempted to beam aboard the Enterprise to escape the insane asylum on Elba II, he could not give the correct chess move to counter Mr. Scott’s “Queen to queen’s level 3.”

Of course, there are countless other episodes in which we see the game either appear in Spock or Kirk’s quarters or in the rec room. It’s one of the most famous props used on the show. However, how much do we know about the background of this unique version of chess?

As we all know, the chess board used in The Original Series was often referred to as three dimensional or tri-dimensional chess. The actual board and chess pieces built for the show were in fact cannibalized from other game sets. For example, the chess pieces in the show were already in existence. They were part of Peter Ganine’s Classic Chess set, released in 1961. Ganine created several different versions of such sets and they were highly valued. A complete set of the same version above sold for $1250 on eBay in 2010. And that did not include the original board.  Today you may see individual pieces going for $25.  Btw, from here on out, my main source for this material comes information contributed by Gregory Schnitzer to several discussions on the Trek BBS. Schnitzer was the propmaster for Star Trek - New Voyages: Phase II for many years and was meticulous in his research and duplication of most of the TOS props used in that fan series. I will reference several of his Flickr collections at the end if you want to see detailed photos of his work.

Now the chess board has its own interesting story.  The three large main boards were taken from the then currently available Space Checkers, sold at that time by a company named Checkline. Even though the boards were originally clear, the alternating squares were painted red for the customized 3D chess version. The game of Space Tic Tac Toe itself seems to have made its first appearance in early studio publicity photos. The one on the right above appeared in The Making of Star Trek.

Another ‘60s game, Space Checkers, provided the attack boards of the 3D chess set. They were slightly smaller in size, which gave the Trek version a distinct look once both were inserted onto the metal base and frame. Normally there were four of the 2X2 attack boards that, when added to the three 4X4 main boards, totaled the 64 squares needed for a regulation chess board.

(You can barely make out a Space Checkers set against the wall behind Kirk and Spock in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”  - photo credit belongs to Gregory Schnitzer)

However, if you keep your eyes open, you will occasionally see a set with five attack boards, such as in the same scene from “Where No Man Has Gone Before” mentioned above. This set would then have a non-traditional 68 squares. (Btw, that is Eddie Paskey directly behind Kirk).

All three games often appeared in recreation deck scenes. The photo on the left comes from “The Conscience of the King.” Notice the Space Tic Tac Toe game on the table uses standard black and red checkers. Evidently, the original board pieces were missing. And we see both Space Checkers and 3D chess in “Charlie X.” Props like these, which were both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, added visual interest to the background in many episodes. And it deepened our understanding that even in the 23rd century, board games would still be popular as a way to pass time, keep one’s mind active, and form social groups.

Again, we would like to recognize Gregory Schnitzer, prop-master extraordinaire for the Star Trek fan film series New Voyages: Phase II.  Much of the information on the sets themselves came from his Trek BBS discussions. If you would like to see some of his replicas patterned on the original game sets, these three links are fascinating. https://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/sets/72157602298653167/with/2134027950/  

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/sets/72157602298653167/with/2134027950/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/albums/72157608722638071?fbclid=IwAR0TPuj07YZVKSGgdF0UuhbhqmljPnVNsNUSTBRPV9XM9hW4WLlYF-8ZePQ

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Chess Set Peter Ganine 1961

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Kawaii Rubber Ducks Bath Towel Set 🦆 Who wouldn't want to enjoy their bath when they know they're going to dry off in these beauties? The cutest rubber duckies await! You may edit the background color. Please note that duck size is similar, but not exactly the same across towel sizes. Did you know: A rubber duck is a Muggle toy, shaped like a duck and used for recreation in a bathtub. Sculptor Peter Ganine created a sculpture of a duck in the 1940s! He then patented it and reproduced it as a floating toy, of which over 50 million were sold. Besides the ubiquitous yellow rubber duck with which most people are familiar, there have been numerous novelty variations on the basic theme, including character ducks representing professions, politicians, or celebrities. Queen Elizabeth II is rumored to have a rubber duck in her bathroom that wears an inflatable crown. The duck was allegedly spotted by a workman who was repainting her bathroom. (source: Wikipedia) Btw, thank you, unnamed lady, from Virginia 🇺🇸 - we really liked this design and we're very happy you appreciated it! #zazzle #ZazzleMade #RubberDuck #RubberDuckie #YellowRubberDuck #HappyPuppy #design #illustration #bathset #towelset #towel #RubberDucks #bathtime #cuteduck #kawaiiduck #swimmingduck (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7x6kwBnaSE/?igshid=kyo3why6lkjq

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Where is your Rubber Duck

30/10/2017

We did the presentation about our object, Rubber Duck, today.

Before making this practical piece of work, we researched texts about the object.

To begin with, we considered choosing Peter Ganine, who created the duck sculpture and the floating toy, as the artist for our text. However after continuing our research into the texts, we realised that a rubber duck could be an iconic item in our lives even if we have never played with one. We have all somehow acquired the knowledge that a rubber duck is a toy played with in a bathtub by children. The rubber duck is recognizable in silhouette as a rubber, rather than a real, duck.

1. Factual text

‘The adjective 'rubber' is a neutral adjective: a rubber tire is a kind of tire, but a rubber duck is not a kind of duck.’

– The Sources of Intentionality

Social memory can be separated into ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ social memory. Formal social memory is related to deliberately learned and taught information from places such as  museums, libraries and archives. On the other hand, informal social memory is regarded as information passed down through participation in day-to-day life and culture. Rubber Duck evokes our childhood, and so is an object surround by associations with informal social memories.

2. Theoretical text

‘The term ‘icon’ is one which has significant history associated with it. Modern day usage of the term regards it as referring to ‘an image, picture or representation’ of something that exists either in the external world or within the mind of its user… icons are symbols resembling or analogous to the things that they represent.’

– Iconic Communication / Philip Barker and Paul van Schaik

‘Social memory is how and what societies remember_ the long-term memory of civilizations. It is how civilizations carry forward their social traditions, commercial arrangements, and political operations from moment to moment, year to year and century to century.

Social memory scholar Maurice Halbwachs emphasizes its practical aspects, asserting that social memory is not a metaphor but a social reality, transmitted and sustained through the conscious efforts of institutions and groups.

Social memory can be broken into two large categories: formal and informal.

Informal social memory, on the other hand, often emphasizes updating or recreating the cultural object as a way of keeping it alive (migration, emulation, and reinterpretation). One might say that the formal strategy privileges the form of the object of preservation, while the informal strategy preserves the working function of the object.

The social memory function this book focuses on is all about considering what a particular object will encounter in the future, how it will need to be used, who will access it, who will care for it, and what extra information will help those future generations do all of this.’

– RE-COLLECTION Art, New Media, and Social Memory. / Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito

We can recognise it as the same kind of object as normal rubber ducks, although our object was smaller than an ordinary toy one. We can also recognise it even if the size and material are changed. We chose Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch artist, as our example. He floated a huge rubber duck-like object onto the sea.

3. Artist text

‘The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn't discriminate people and doesn't have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. The Rubber Duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!’

‘The water in the world is our global bathtub. We need to stay simple. The Rubber Duck needs to stay as a rubber duck.’

– Florentijn Hofman

Because of our research, we decided to make an experimental animation showing different rubber duck forms, but with different materials, sizes and colours. We suggested many ideas to each other, then combined the most popular ideas into a story. We used a real rubber duck for only the first and last scenes, but I believe everyone can recognise them as rubber ducks if they are the same shape. We also asked some other classmates to draw their own ideas of ‘rubber ducks’ from just an outline drawn on paper. It was really interesting because we saw lots of ideas that our members hadn’t come up with.

To be honest, I am not sure that this project will be able to connect to my individual project from the Museum of London, although when I talk in terms of iconic items there could be a connection, as my chosen object was ‘Playing Cards’ and they are also an example of an iconic item. There are countless variations of playing cards illustrated with different pictures all around the world. I believe that there are no rules for their design except for drawing 4 diagrams; heart, diamond, spade, clover, numbers from 1 to 13 and 2 jokers. Therefore, the Rubber Duck project and Playing Cards project could have some things in common.

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Masarautar Doma da ke jihar Nasarawa ta bukaci al’umma ta taimaka wajen bai wa dakarun Najeriya bayanai da zasu kai ga kakkabe bata gari da samar da zaman lafiya a Najeriya. A ranar Litinin ne Shelkwatar dakarun Najeriya ta kaddamar da tubalin gina wata shelkwata ta musamman a karamar hukumar Doma, jihar Nasarawa, wadda za ta samar da tsaro, musamman a yankin Arewa ta tsakiyar Najeriya da ke fama da ayyukan bata gari. Mai Martaba, Andoma na Doma a jihar, Alhaji Ahamadu Aliyu Kauga, ya bukaci jama’a su bai wa dakarun sahihan bayanai da za su taimaka a kokarin da ake na ganin an samar da dawamammen zaman lafiya. Shugaban kungiyar matasan Fulani ta Miyetti Allah a Jihar Nasarawa, Alhaji Bello Dauga Inusa, ya ce kasancewar rundunar zai kawo karshen tashin hankalin da suke fuskanta. Shugaban kungiyar matasan Tivi a Jihar Nasarawa, Peter Ahemba ya ce zasu ba dakarun goyon baya a wannan kokarin da ake yi na samar da zaman lafiya. Saurari cikakken rahoton cikin sauti daga Zainab Babaji:     via Voice of America Hausa

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It’s National Rubber Ducky Day!

January 13, 2019 – Bath time—and hot tub time—just doesn’t seem complete for many of us without the iconic yellow rubber duck. Today is the day set aside to celebrate our fine floating yellow friend—January 13th is National Rubber Ducky Day!

It appears our good friends on Sesame Street christened January 13th as today for the birthdate of the rubber duck in 1973. By that time, the rubber duck was no stranger on Sesame Street: he made his debut on the show as a friend of Ernie and Big Bird in February 1970.

Peter Ganine, a Russian sculptor, is credited with designing and getting a patent for a floating duck that resembles our famous yellow bath and hot tub companion we know and love. Rubber ducks pop up everywhere today in hundreds of designs, in races, and in toy boxes, bathtubs and hot tubs the world over. Of course, Olympic is a big believer in the rubber duck. We make sure every new hot tub goes out with one, along with a ducky key chain to hold onto the cover locks for the hot tub cover. In fact, some of our customers have taken their Olympic rubber duck on trips around the world. We’ve received several wonderful pictures of our duck in places far and wide.

Being named Donald, I guess fate would have it that I would end up as the owner of a hot tub company!

We have a good selection of rubber ducks in our stores at all times. If you haven’t indulged and treated yourself to a rubber duck, perhaps today is the day to find a new companion for your hot tub. It will always bring a smile to your face and leave you in the best of moods.

Happy Rubber Ducky Day!

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[rabbitcruiser]

National Rubber Ducky Day

According to Sesame Street’s calendar, January 13 marks the birthday of Rubber Duckie, the bathtub toy of Ernie. The day has since become celebrated as Rubber Ducky Day. Rubber Duckie first appeared on Sesame Street Episode 0078, on February 25, 1970; Ernie was in a bathtub in a room that resembled his living room, and sang the song, “Rubber Duckie.” The most popular version of the song was sung by Ernie in Episode 0136, on November 16, 1970. This time he was in a bathroom with a plain blue background. Jim Henson was the real voice behind the song, and it went to #16 on the Billboard “Hot 100 Singles” chart in 1970 as well. Ernie, either by himself or with other characters, has sung other songs about his rubber duckie such as “Put Down the Duckie,” “D-U-C-K-I-E,” and “Do De Rubber Duck.”

Rubber toys first appeared in the late 1800s, as the rubber industry began to grow. The first rubber ducks were not intended to float, but were instead made to be chew toys. A patent for a “Hollow rubber toy” was filed in 1925 and granted in 1928; it included a picture of a floating duck. Peter Ganine made a sculpture of a duck and then patented it. He filed for his patent in 1947 and received it two years later. Over 50 million of the ducks were sold. By the late 1940s rubber duckies were popular, but Ernie’s “Rubber Duckie” song increased their popularity even more a few decades later.

Nowadays rubber duckies are usually not even made of rubber, but of thick vinyl instead, which is cheaper and more durable. Most are made to squeak and have a bright orange bill. They are sometimes made into characters; some are made to look like they have a profession, or are politicians or celebrities. Some wind up and “swim,” while others glow in the dark, light up, or change color. The largest rubber duck was made by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2007. Its dimensions were 54ft x 66ft x 105ft, and it weighed about 1,300 pounds. Besides people making giant rubber ducks, some people also collect them.

Rubber duck races take place to raise money all around the world. When people sponsor a duck, money is donated to an organization. Ducks are dumped into a river or other body of water, and the first duck to cross the finish line wins a prize for its sponsor. Hundreds of rubber duck races are held in the United States and internationally. The largest one in the United States is the Freestore Foodbank Rubber Duck Regatta in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rubber duck was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2013. The Hall of Fame “recognizes toys that have inspired creative play and enjoyed popularity over a sustained period.” New toys are added each year.

On January 10, 1992, close to 29,000 Friendly Floatees from a Chinese factory washed off a ship. Friendly Floatees are bathtub toys, and the ones that fell off the ship consisted of yellow ducks, blue turtles, red beavers, and green frogs. Two thirds of the toys floated south and ended up in Australia, South America, and Indonesia. The other third went up to Alaska and then circled back towards Japan. Many became trapped in Arctic ice in the Bering Strait. They moved through it at the pace of about a mile a day, and made it to the North Atlantic in 2000. Some arrived on the Eastern coast of the United States and Canada around 2003 and 2004, and most of the rest of them arrived in the United Kingdom in 2007.

How to Observe

The best way to celebrate the day is to take a bath with a rubber duck. You should also listen to “Rubber Duckie” and watch Ernie singing the song on Sesame Street. You could also look for rubber duck races to sign up for, and read Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost At Sea.

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