Rubber duckies vs. Nikes

[Ted Samsel]

> 
>      Henry M. sez:
>      
>         Surprised that none of you Chicagoans have mentioned the rubber     
>         ducky race on the river, a gov-sanctioned lottery where people bet  
>         on which numbered rubber ducky will complete the course first.
>      
>      Ok, we have this rubber ducky race on the river . . .
>      
>      It is not "gov-sanctioned" tho, it's for charity.  You buy your ducky 
>      for 5 bucks, then, at noon, they dump all the paid-for little guys 
>      into to the eerily beautiful Chicago River, the River that modern 
>      science and the army corps of engineers hath causeth to run backwards 
>      OUT of Lake Michigan, and they bob around, and one eventually crosses 
>      the finish line, and then a garbage barge comes and scoops them all 
>      up.  I don't know what the prize situation is, or whether people bet 
>      on the outcome.  Probably.
>      
>      It's quite surreal, actually. 
>      

Even moreso, is the fact that the Chicago & DesPlaines Rivers can flow
bassackwards into the Illinois River, thans to the Calumet Sanitary
Canal....

(nothing like being a HazWaste mapper to know stuff like this!)(

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