B2431 wrote:

From: Peter Kemp
Date: 8/18/2004 3:14 PM Central Daylight Time
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On 18 Aug 2004 18:34:35 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

From: Peter Twydell
Date: 8/18/2004 2:15 PM Central Daylight Time
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In article , Eunometic
writes

canard:
An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.

[French, duck, canard, probably from the phrase vendre un canard à
moitié, to half-sell a duck, to swindle, from Old French quanart,
duck, from caner, to cackle, of imitative origin.]

So a base canard is a duck with a deep voice?
--
Peter


Stop, you are quacking me up over here.

Eider know - one mention of canard and everyone is trying to get their
awful puns in. It's criminal I tell you!

Peter Kemp

Well, it is an aviation forum so we are just winging it. 'sides "aweful pun" is
redundant.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

seems as if there's a whole flock of them to be made.....

redc1c4,
(not that mine will hold a feather to some of them %-)
--
"Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear
considerable watching."

Army Officer's Guide