…but it is seriously funny. By the way, anatidaephobia is the fear that “somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching you.” It does seem unlikely that anyone actually suffers from anatidaephobia, because it was invented by Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side, in this strip.
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We just introduced our sons to Far Side a week or two ago, and ever since then Max, our cartoonist, has burst out into random fits of laughter, followed by “somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching you.”
It’s a major koinkidink to see the resurrection of this apparently hilarious cartoon.
AFlac!
LA Dodgers’ pitcher Jeff Weaver just named his new baby boy “Drake”. Think the parents had a case of Anatidaephobia! Ha Ha!
I think I like “duckalookaphobia” even better…