Fun Fact:
The toy duck comes from an old office-job story about a boss with an annoying employee. The employee would constantly annoy the boss with simple questions, until one day the boss had enough and put a large inflatable duck in the corner of his office.
The next time the employee came into his office to ask a question, the boss pointed at the duck and told him "I want you to try asking the duck first". The employee was taken aback, but as he said his question out loud to the duck, he realized the solution to the problem as he was forced to say it out loud and think about it before relying on the boss.