Nothing to see here, keep paddling

by Meg on February 9, 2009

Dad’s just acting like an iceberg again.

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These little dudes spotted in Rome by Patrizio.

{ 42 comments }

1 Angela 02.09.09 at 7:20 pm

Wow, even his feet are gone! They have an awesome dad!

2 laureling 02.09.09 at 7:21 pm

Swan butt!!! I love how the kids are just ignoring their embarassing parent.

3 Jess 02.09.09 at 7:22 pm

*creeps up*
*squeezes ‘tocks*
Aw what a cute fluffy lil’ bottom!

4 Juniper Jupiter 02.09.09 at 7:39 pm

Why do I hear the “Duh-duh! Duh-duh!” Jaws theme?

5 Annie 02.09.09 at 7:44 pm

Blurbbble Blurbllle Blurblle

6 Katrina 02.09.09 at 7:47 pm

Bottoms up!

7 Mel2 02.09.09 at 8:12 pm

If he tells you, “Pull my webbed toe,” run the other way, kids.

8 Theresa 02.09.09 at 8:17 pm

It was just like going to the movies with my dad when I was 14!

9 rachelattack 02.09.09 at 8:19 pm

ICEBERG! 8 o’clock!

10 Metz 02.09.09 at 8:19 pm

Fuzzy Cygnets!!

Good gosh that could my new alternaswear. :-)

11 gizmo 02.09.09 at 8:20 pm

Oh, that’s just grandpa. Today, he thinks he’s an ostrich.

12 Jimbeaux 02.09.09 at 8:26 pm

I can so hear the little ducks’ exasperated sigh. “He’s sooooo childish!”

13 Mary (the first) 02.09.09 at 8:30 pm

Those of you swan-knowledgable can tell me, how do you know it’s the dad and not the mom?

14 Martha in Washington 02.09.09 at 8:34 pm

Papa e i bambini sono molti carini!

I want to go to Rome and look at the upside-down ducks!!

15 Theresa 02.09.09 at 8:38 pm

You can see a lot of kitties (gattini) in Rome, too, Martha. I stayed next to the Czech embassy, and there was a group of kitties outside the embassy door every morning, waiting for a feeding.

16 MiLikeyCuuute 02.09.09 at 8:40 pm

Maybe it’s not a swan. Perhaps the pope having a swim.

17 ku-ki-shop.com 02.09.09 at 8:44 pm

What a nice shot!
How did they recognize it was dad? XD

18 Boomer's Babysitter 02.09.09 at 9:15 pm

This is my new favorite shot (until the next post).

19 chanpon 02.09.09 at 9:50 pm

Looks like dad did a swan dive into shallow waters.

20 momof2kitties 02.09.09 at 9:51 pm

Wanna know what?

Swan butt!

21 Ellen W. 02.09.09 at 10:35 pm

International cute! Although, I think CO gets a lot of Canadian submishs, yes? So we’ll call it: European Cute!

22 marsheeeee 02.09.09 at 11:03 pm

Bwahahahahahah!!!! “Maybe it’s the Pope having a swim”. I wish I hadn’t read that while I was drinking water. Now it’s all up my nose and all over my monitor. That was funny.

23 Martha in Washington 02.09.09 at 11:10 pm

Buttocks in Italian is “natiche”. Don’t know how to shorten that to ‘tocks tho. ‘Tiche, maybe?

Theresa–What do gattini say? I would love to hear their little Italian accents.

24 vanessa 02.09.09 at 11:15 pm

I agree with you, Mary – this could be an equally goofy swan mom who is either really trying to make the kids laugh/blush/cry or who just dropped her earring in the pond.

25 Chere 02.09.09 at 11:49 pm

Tockberg.

[I was thinking "assberg." Right ahead. - Ed.]

26 AuntieMame 02.10.09 at 12:58 am

We know this is the swan dad, because it’s always dad who’s clowning around and embarrassing his kids. If it was mom, she’d be fussing at them to swim closer together and trying to wipe stuff off their beaks with mom-spit.

27 Nik 02.10.09 at 1:32 am

This picture quacks me up

28 Martha in Washington 02.10.09 at 1:53 am

GAHHH! Ed. please change “here” to “hear”. If you don’t this will drive me nuts! I can’t BELIEVE I did that! I’m so ashamed! *hangs head, slinks to corner to flagellate self with wet noodle*

29 Theresa 02.10.09 at 2:43 am

Martha, I couldn’t catch everything, but it sounded like they were saying “Lasagna with tuna, please?”

30 Subhangi 02.10.09 at 5:16 am

HOLY QUACK! I didn’t realise that was a boid-butt!

31 Mud Bug 02.10.09 at 6:45 am

Martha in Washington:
In Florence they say
“momma meow!”
Not sure about the Rome Gattini.
I do know that my whole time in Tuscany I never met an unfriendly cat & I tried to meet all I saw!

32 Hon Glad 02.10.09 at 7:21 am

MiLikeyCuuute:”The Pope having a swim” snort!

33 Natasha 02.10.09 at 11:47 am

That’s so cute. “The Pope Having A Swim” hee-hee.

The duckies are cleverly ignoring their mum. Or Dad.

34 starling 02.10.09 at 1:53 pm

Mums don’t embarrass their kids like that, Mary the first, they do it in different ways, like singing ABBA at the top of their voice in a packed theatre. My poor, unfortunate son has TWO mums who do that to him.

35 Theresa 02.10.09 at 3:29 pm

Mud Bug, Italy is bustin’ with cats. Here’s a Venetian one (actually in Murano):
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2259311580054217802cwhJkD

While I’m at it, here’s a Roman doggie. She was very bashful, though– she hid behind her ancestress, the Roman wolf:
http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2110881290054217802TVlyIa

36 Theresa 02.10.09 at 4:39 pm

Starling, oh, dads do that, too. Yes they do.

37 doomchild 02.10.09 at 6:36 pm

Hehe, this made me laugh out loud.. and cheered up my hubby, who’s on sick leave. Thanks co :)

38 Martha in Washington 02.10.09 at 9:34 pm

Theresa and Mud Bug–Grazie! I am studying Italian with the intent of going to Italy and talking to every animal I see. BTW, I envy you both!

Ed.–Thank You!

39 berthaservant 02.10.09 at 11:08 pm

Papa Duck never could get the young ones to play “Hide and Seek” with him after work.

40 Theresa 02.11.09 at 2:25 pm

Martha– something else interesting about Italia. You know how in the US, we have chubby people, and chubby dogs and cats?

Well, in Italy– especially in the cities, they have skinny people. And chubby dogs and cats. ;)

41 Patrizio 02.15.09 at 1:10 pm
42 fahrrad 03.07.09 at 7:14 am

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