Makes me happy when I see it.
Started as a nickname in little league baseball. Everyone knew I liked yellow, then I proclaimed I like ducks too. The rest is history.
In college my nickname actually became "The Root System." A phonetic play on "Varoutsos."
I think I could could give you a good 100 meters of freestyle. But if you dropped me in the middle of the deep end and said tread water for as long as you can, I'd be dead within a minute. Pretty ironic given the question above.