And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

Russell Brand
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In the book, 'The Ugly Duckling' by Hans Christian Andersen, a mother duck was caring for a litter of ducklings when a cygnet came along and tried to join the group. The mother duck rejected him because he wasn't a duckling. The cygnet grew up into a swan and then the mother duck realized that she had been wrong about the swan. When she saw him in his full glory, she called out, "And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan."

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