The BMRD

As a senior in high school I was in a class full of many, to be politically correct, students who chose not to succeed in high school with a couple of rare exceptions to this rule. With this being said I was pretty much the standard of measure: if I did the assignment, the class was graded on it for my individual class. With this being said the class didn't have many assignments given to them since I usually did them and few others would. The teacher didn't wish for so many of his students to fail. One of our only papers in it was to be 10 pages on a subject we could choose. The teacher didn't want us to do anything unless we really wanted to write an essay on it. He did include me in this rule. My original thoughts were turned to medicine and on other objects in the field of science. My teacher (I purposely don't use his name) didn't accept any of them. In a bit of frustration I jokingly suggested doing one on rubber ducks. Believe it or not, that is what I did do my paper on.
The next period of time before it was due I realized how much the rubber ducks had taken over the world with references of a lost shipment at sea to the queen of England having one in her bathroom with its own inflatable crown. But one of the things that stuck out to me was the BMRD.
"A BMRD?" some people ask. BMRD is short for big mother rubber duck. The big mother part comes from that same English class and was used to label anything that was big beyond almost all reason. The rubber duck part comes from the fact that it was a rubber duck. Hence the BMRD. There is such a thing, and it is Huge!
Just how big is it? For starters, until I look it up again, when placed on a river in France it dwarved most ships on the river. It was free floating, and it was, still might be, a hunt to find it each day since it moved freely. I do remember that it was 105 feet in a certain direction, but I don't remember which.
Knowing that I had included the BMRD in the paper that truely did end up close to ten pages I chuckled on the inside. For starters, who would read such a paper dedicated to rubber ducks? Secondly, what would the teacher think if he did read it and found out about the BMRD? I also smiled on the inside knowing that he would probably never read it since it really was ten pages and that he trusted that I did it since I had that integrity. If someone really wishes to read it I could post it on the web, but this is just a reminder that it is about ten pages of text that I do not wish for anyone to be subject to reading.