A Call For Humor!

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[mhardy6647]

This day in history, 1910.

BIOD #734 - Duck Eats Yeast and Explodes - Wait What - January 3, 1910 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

 

[respice finem]

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The ones full of cats don't count

 

[respice finem]

This day in history, 1910.

BIOD #734 - Duck Eats Yeast and Explodes - Wait What - January 3, 1910 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

Unless it was a "journalistic duck" (a.k.a. fake news)

 

[mhardy6647]

Unless it was a "journalistic duck" (a.k.a. fake news)

a red herring, perhaps?


... or maybe even a canard.

 

[respice finem]

a red herring, perhaps?


... or maybe even a canard.

The term "journalistic duck" is an old Polish one (kaczka dziennikarska).
Possibly of French origin, like many old(ish) ones.

 

[mhardy6647]

The term "journalistic duck" is an old Polish one (kaczka dziennikarska).
Possibly of French origin, like many old(ish) ones.

I only realized after the fact that the French word canard was the thread between your post and mine!

On the other hand, und zum Beispiel, the SAAB Viggen and the North American XB-70 Valkyrie both sported canards of a different kind entirely!

Language -- an impediment to communication since... well... a long time ago.

 

[jkasch]

Gotta love this kid.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2007403195006640508

 

[Multicore]

This day in history, 1910.

BIOD #734 - Duck Eats Yeast and Explodes - Wait What - January 3, 1910 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

Poor Mr. Perkins. Poor prize duck. Sad story. Interesting and reasonable spelling in "clew". And the name Silas has gone a bit out of fashion, more the pity.

 

[mhardy6647]

Poor Mr. Perkins. Poor prize duck. Sad story. Interesting and reasonable spelling in "clew". And the name Silas has gone a bit out of fashion, more the pity.

1) apropos of clew. I haven't looked it up (yet), but there's also logy.
2) re: Silas -- to say nothing of Rhadamanthus.
3) Imagine the thrill and satisfaction experienced by an early 20th Century journalist as they finished typing the phrase the eyeball had been penetrated by a fragment of flying duck.
4) I experienced something akin to Schadenfreude as I realized that the AI LLMs of today have likely all been trained on this very news story.

 

[Salt]

I only realized after the fact that the French word canard was the thread between your post and mine!

On the other hand, und zum Beispiel, the SAAB Viggen and the North American XB-70 Valkyrie both sported canards of a different kind entirely!

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Language -- an impediment to communication since... well... a long time ago.

Eurofighter Typhoon too

 

[mhardy6647]

Eurofighter Typhoon too

oh, yah... certainly not unique to the two examples I gave... but those two fairly leapt to mind in the context of canard-bearing aircraft.

I mean, heck, there was the TU-144, too!

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Salt]

oh, yah... certainly not unique to the two examples I gave... but those two fairly leapt to mind in the context of canard-bearing aircraft.

I mean, heck, there was the TU-144, too!

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Looks pretty sad ...and btw. might be more than "double ugly" F-4 Phantom.
French Concorde did not need canards, though.
(btw the future airplains seem to go to prefer canards)

 

[respice finem]

Maybe the TU-144 got this facial expression after seeing the Concorde

 

[Multicore]

There are also French canards, for example Dassault Rafale has 'em and Jean-Luc Ponty did a duet noodle in 1972 with Zappa that was titled Canard Du Jour.

 

[Digital_Thor]

The ones full of cats don't count

Exactly... Just like my sister's cat. It loves boxes of any type

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Robin L]

 

[Robin L]