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Feb252011

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Del Boy: One of my most favouritist meals is Duck à l'Orange, but I don't know how to say that in French.
Rodney: It's canard.
Del Boy: You can say that again bruv!
Rodney: No the French word for duck is canard.
Del Boy: Is it? I thought that was something to do with the QE2?
Rodney: No that's Cunard. They're the ones with the boats and what have you. The French for duck is canard.
Del Boy: Right lovely jubbly. Right, so how do the French say à l'Orange then?
Rodney: A l'Orange!
Del Boy: What, the same as we do?
Rodney: Yes.
Del Boy: Oh dear, it's a pity they don't use more of our words innit eh?

Feb 25, 2011 at 2:39 PM | Unregistered CommenterMac

Mac, brilliant - I had forgotten that exchange but it is so funny.

Feb 25, 2011 at 2:42 PM | Unregistered CommenterJosh

Is that a canarder duck Josh

Feb 25, 2011 at 3:20 PM | Unregistered CommenterAnoneumouse

1) that canard is looking way to happy, for my liking ...
2) it has got far too many feathers - it should look a bit more plucked ...

3) still made me grin!

Feb 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM | Unregistered CommenterViv Evans

Josh, you quack me up.

Feb 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM | Unregistered CommenterRayG

Josh ducks the issue.

(RayG - amusing).

Feb 25, 2011 at 5:25 PM | Unregistered CommenterBBD

I suppose "full of holes" might be a tad over the top?

Feb 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM | Unregistered Commenterj ferguson

there is a hidden message in that picture . . . trace a line from the tail, along the back to the head and you get a very distinct Hockey Stick.

What does this canard know tha we don't?

Feb 25, 2011 at 6:31 PM | Unregistered CommenterFred from Canuckistan

BBD, I wanted to use the French vernacular "coin-coin" but couldn't come up with a good fit. Does the curve fitting that Fred did to derive his hockey duck imply that the output from the canard hockey stick is merde?

Feb 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM | Unregistered CommenterRayG

I think it's a Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Duck

It's got greens all over it.

It looks warm at the start, but gets colder in the end.

and it's got a vicious little yellow mouth (Gavin?)

Feb 25, 2011 at 6:41 PM | Unregistered CommenterFoxgoose

It has moonbat eyes, and could the green be astroturf? Tempted to make my next id for CiF Nomonyx now :)

Feb 25, 2011 at 7:30 PM | Unregistered CommenterAtomic Hairdryer

standard reasoning:

If it quacked like a duck, walked like a duck, was hatched from certified duck eggs and, when roasted with a nice leatherwood-honey sauce, tasted like duck, then it was most likely a duck.

modern AGW reasoning:

If it looked like a duck and walked like a duck, but my models suggest it was a golden goose, then it was a golden goose, and to say otherwise makes you a duckist denier in the pay of the evil poultry industry.

Magritte’s reasoning:

If it look like a duck and walk like a duck, it’s a pipe.

Feb 25, 2011 at 8:00 PM | Unregistered CommenterDeadman

Deadman, did you mean magret when considering a canard?

Feb 25, 2011 at 9:51 PM | Unregistered CommenterRayG

The University of East Canardistan...

Feb 25, 2011 at 10:51 PM | Unregistered CommenterJabba the Cat

The creator of pipe smoking detective Maigret, Georges Simenon, claimed to have made 10000 sexual conquests. Sounds like a canard to me.

Feb 25, 2011 at 10:58 PM | Unregistered CommenterBrent Hargreaves

Has it been nailed to its perch?

Feb 25, 2011 at 11:36 PM | Unregistered CommenterBruce

Josh surely that's a Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus).

Feb 26, 2011 at 6:48 AM | Unregistered CommenterPMT

Josh, you've outdone yourself! That is both hilarious and gorgeous.

Feb 26, 2011 at 8:06 AM | Unregistered CommenterIren

Ahh - but how many climate scientists can be hoisted upon their own canard?

Feb 26, 2011 at 10:22 AM | Unregistered CommenterSM

RayG

Deadman, did you mean magret when considering a canard?

No, I think he had a good point.
magritte

Feb 26, 2011 at 6:33 PM | Unregistered CommenterDon Pablo de la Sierra

I had not realised, until recently, that a magret refers specifically to the breast of a duck that has been force fed to produce foie gras. Still, it makes an appropriately surrealist name—René Magret—particularly for a dish sediment afflicted with the mallardy of thought: “this is not a pipe.”

Feb 26, 2011 at 11:46 PM | Unregistered CommenterDeadman

Deadman and Don Pablo, magret is appropriate because of the extent to which the CAGW alarmists their sycophants in the MSM and, of course, our political classes have been trying to force feed us the mash of CAGW. Deadman, yours was a tour de force.

Feb 27, 2011 at 12:44 AM | Unregistered CommenterRayG

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