Talk:Aflac

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[edit] --Duck gone?--

I heard they were getting rid of the duck. If anyone has a link to this please post it. thanks. TiffanyMarsh

Are you sure it is a duck and not a goose? (Apparently a comment by 67.170.176.219

Aflac has repeatedly stated (both in the commercials themselves and in other places -- including their official Web site) that it's a duck. That's good enough for me. --Nlu 06:12, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Flippity floppity floo!

Yes, it is a duck but judging by the voice it is not a male duck. It is female. Female ducks quack loudly so to be heard by the ducklings. Male ducks have a voice that sounds more like a whisper.

Look at the beaks. The Aflac duck is definitely a duck. --Evice 02:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Ducks don't have beaks, they are called bills.

The duck's voice in the USA is provided by comedian Gilbert Gottfried, so it seems kinda silly to argue over the gender of the duck's voice, doesn't it? I added a link in External Links to the site's video player so you can watch both the most recent US commericals and a series of the Japanese commericals so you can compare voices. The Japanese duck also has a different personality.LiPollis 17:15, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What does Alfac do?

This article doesn't explain what Aflac actually does. I only have a vague understanding of Aflac and what its company actually does.

The part of the page that *does* explain what the company does sounds like it came from the company's own PR sheets.

  • The part of the wiki article that starts "For more than 50 years, Aflac products have given policyholders the opportunity to direct cash"... seems to be their standard PR blurb, for example at [1] , so I'll remove it from this article due to licensing.

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