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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Canard #182597 02/13/09 10:19 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 OP Carpal Tunnel OP LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water One of the most famous hoax-stories of all time, being the Martian Invasion in a field in New Jersey, back in the early twentieth century. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Canard LukeJavan8 #182598 02/13/09 11:31 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Le Canard enchaîné (French: The Chained Duck or The Chained Paper) is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France. Founded in 1915, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as a large number of jokes and humorous cartoons. It has a circulation of 446,000. It is one of the most respected and oldest French newspapers, despite its often humoristic tone {Un canard signifiait en argot une histoire délibérément fausse, d'après le proverbe "vendre un canard à moitié", tenter de tromper l'acheteur.} {A canard also is slang for a deliberately falsified story, after the proverb " vendre un canard à moitè", try to decieve the client.} ( as is in Anu's etymology) Le Canard Enchaîné Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Canard BranShea #182610 02/15/09 02:40 AM Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1 T T. Kemper stranger T. Kemper stranger T Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1 Someone wrote in about drunken robins. I have a similar story about another species of birds. I have a large firethorn (pyracantha) in my front yard. It has bright red berries that ripen in the late Fall. Apparently they too turn 'alcoholic' when overripe. One year a couple of years ago, a flock of cedar waxwings came by and continuously ate berries for about 45 minutes, returning repeatedly. Many reeled from branch to branch and crashed into things, drunk as robins! Hilarious to watch! Suddenly they were gone as mysteriously as they came. Don't know whether they saw the bright red berries or were attracted by the smell of the overripe berries (which I couldn't smell at all). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Canard T. Kemper #182613 02/15/09 02:46 AM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 OP Carpal Tunnel OP LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water I have a neighbor who has a tree with red berries, and the crows eat them and have the same intoxicating effect. Welcome T.Kemper. Hope you enjoy your stay on the forums. I guess I had not thought of the grape vines that cover a large trellis covering a patio. The vines have been planted to simply provide shade. The grapes are so few as to be of little or no use, and are very bitter. When they go-a-fermenting the crows get them and it is a delight to watch them fly (in circles) trying to get aloft. Last edited by LukeJavan8; 02/15/09 04:42 PM. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,351 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 775 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,549 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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