Yesterday’s Daf was fun. Rabbi Nachman got a duck thrown at his head.

So the discussion was about courtroom decorum; who stands and who sits. Rav Huna’s widow was one of the litigants, and the judge, Rav Nachman, wanted to stand up for her out of respect for her late husband’s learning, but was afraid that the other litigant would see this as prejudice. He therefore requested the court clerk to throw a duck at his head. The second party would see him stand up and assume he was, uh, ducking the incoming obstacle, but Mrs Huna would understand why he performed that ruse.

I think I would have liked to have been in the bet din that day.