This site is dedicated to the wonderful game of Duck, Duck, Gray Duck! You may or may not be wondering why this site exists or you may be thinking, "Hey this guy's nuts, it should be duck, duck, goose." If so you probably aren't from Minnesota (or at least weren't a kid there).
It's a lovely kids game in which everyone sits in a circle except for one person who is it. The person who is it goes around the circle and taps each person on the head and says "duck." At some point though, and this is the fun part, she says "Gray Duck!" and starts running around the outside of the circle. The gray duck has to get up and chase her around the circle. If the person who is it gets around to the gray duck's vacant spot in the circle before the gray duck catches her then the gray duck becomes it. Otherwise the same person is still it.
It turns out that Minnesota is the only state around that plays "Duck, duck gray duck" all the rest of them (and Canada by the way) play duck, duck, goose. Go figure. Here is a newspaper clip from the Minneapolis Star & Tribune on the matter: "'Duck, duck' apparently has no shades of gray"(600k) by James Lileks from Feb 19, 1999.
In related news an update on the age 'ol controversy of Soda Vs. Pop Place your vote and note the obvious conclusion at the end: People who say "Pop" are much, much cooler.
Finally a few good old Minnesota jokes bottled up in the form of: "You may be a Minnesotan if..." written by John Chromy.
