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Sometimes Twitter is so pure it melts our hearts, restores our faith in humanity, or simply gives us a welcomed giggle. This week Twitter was all about ducks as we waddled into a feathery war involving museums around the world.
It all started innocently enough when The Museum of English Rural Life called on The British Museum to "give us your best duck" with a tweet.
We never knew we loved ducks so much until this moment.
hey @britishmuseum give us your best duck— The Museum of English Rural Life (@The Museum of English Rural Life) 1546607321.0
Well, you know what they say about birds of a feather. Soon it was an all-out battle for the best unsolicited duck pic.
@TheMERL Hey @TheMerl, here's a quacking duck that's got to be at the top of the bill✨ It's a cosmetics container… https://t.co/pFE52Pb7if— British Museum (@British Museum) 1546621547.0
@britishmuseum We see your unique cosmetics container made around 1300 BC in ancient Egypt and raise you this ninet… https://t.co/PblYlkwR3P— The Museum of English Rural Life (@The Museum of English Rural Life) 1546623239.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum We see your cosmetic containers and planes and we raise you a 20th century hooked rug duck… https://t.co/bHAOpDkXaK— Textile Museum of Canada (@Textile Museum of Canada) 1546623939.0
@brian276 @TheMERL @britishmuseum We have plenty of ducks in the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History on Me… https://t.co/D2J58Jk2nW— National Museum of Ireland (@National Museum of Ireland) 1546613364.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum You want ducks? We've got ducks. But they're all, er...resting. https://t.co/O9p21KuULY— Spadina Museum (@Spadina Museum) 1546620844.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Better late than never : here's our cutest one! 👇 🦆 Duck figurine, Egyptian Antiquities (f… https://t.co/c0qvj3VeUP— Musée du Louvre (@Musée du Louvre) 1546884189.0
This is getting quackers!
@TheMERL @britishmuseum We may not have duck vases or manuscripts but we offer the humble Toilet Duck to this flock… https://t.co/mI6l9WT7HL— Museum of Brands (@Museum of Brands) 1546700205.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum We aren’t sending our best... https://t.co/kI2SNkKX3i— Radcliffe Observatory Ducks (@Radcliffe Observatory Ducks) 1546625343.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Our ducks play musical instruments 🎺 https://t.co/3BtgITHE8A— NMS Collections (@NMS Collections) 1546625485.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Ahem! I think you'll find @sciencemuseum has the best duck: this is one of nearly 30k plast… https://t.co/X2fjjxqFHz— Dr Elizabeth Bruton (she / her) 🏳️🌈 (@Dr Elizabeth Bruton (she / her) 🏳️🌈) 1546616541.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Hey ! Wait for uuuuus !!! 🦆 Plate "Bracquemond-Rousseau" (between 1866 and 1875) https://t.co/OJOhbfNnkX— Musée d'Orsay (@Musée d'Orsay) 1546693310.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum The @smithsonian museums are shut down right now, but please enjoy this big boi.… https://t.co/y2y2MUPwGB— Charles Louis Richter (@Charles Louis Richter) 1546628043.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum It lays: https://t.co/Hyc86YvFzm— Royal Academy (@Royal Academy) 1546618111.0
It was just a matter of time before "whose duck is bigger" came into play.
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Bet it's not as fast as our duck, Mallard. *mic drop* https://t.co/nujNBOPqDu— National Railway Museum (@National Railway Museum) 1546855728.0
@railwaymuseum @TheMERL Buuut...can your duck float as well @railwaymuseum? May we present our 1943 GMC DUKW amphi… https://t.co/x8B9Sy6g3S— National Army Museum (@National Army Museum) 1546870508.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum ducks, but make it fashion https://t.co/CwEK2wbTUj— Fashion and Textile Museum (@Fashion and Textile Museum) 1546688889.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Here's one of our best ducks, in case of interest. 🦆 https://t.co/Cz6auLFgTr— Penguin Books UK (@Penguin Books UK) 1546693124.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Can we interest you in some Canadian Geese on a hooked rug instead?… https://t.co/UDm1EIi5fn— Textile Museum of Canada (@Textile Museum of Canada) 1546629984.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Here to provide cute ducklings from @bbcspringwatch 🦆 https://t.co/YEs39EVYsp— BBC One (@BBC One) 1546877317.0
Twitter loved every ducking moment of this battle.
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Oh God I'm gonna be reading the comments in here all day... https://t.co/KTLhs7KCP7— Atomic Problems (@Atomic Problems) 1546639720.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Honestly seeing museums flex over ducks in their collection is the kind of energy I want from 2019— Hannah Keen (@Hannah Keen) 1546627045.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum Museums of the world having a street-battle duck-off has made me ridiculously happy. Those… https://t.co/L0WZaDmGFp— Mike Palmer (@Mike Palmer) 1546642008.0
@TheMERL @britishmuseum I will never ever regret following this account. 🤣— Euqinomist (@Euqinomist) 1546609940.0
It's time to put up your ducks. This is war!