This will mean little to anyone but me.   This is the winner of the "great duck off" about 20 years ago. My now deceased younger brother and I were engaged in a wood carving contest...slang for contest or competition is "off"...work off all entries until only one is left.   I won the "great duck off"!!      

Surely, from the daffy duck of my feeble attempt at carving a duck from spalted maple, you can guess the other entry was even worse..yes, it was.  The contest was fun.

All my wood carving of living forms looks cartoonish.  Well, maybe I am a cartoon and don't know it.  My brother was actually quite accomplished in wood carving and did many lovely and well crafted objects of art.

So, the nostalgia is memory, memory of that fun contest.        TomDart.