Le canard ! C’est une brume rouge !

I wanted to show you this Instapundit post not necessarily for its subject, but for a phrase I just plain like.

THE L.A. TIMES IS BUSTED AGAIN for repeating an already-exploded canard. What’s next, the return of the plastic turkey?

Did you see that wonderful “already-exploded canard”? The first image in my mind was of a detonated duck.

The second was “Why is the LA Times talking about a blown-up duck?”.

Yeah, I know what “canard” generally means, but it also means “duck”. That’s where we get the commonly-used definition of the word. It’s French (Glenn Reynolds using French words in his posts? Mon Dieu!), as in the very popular French phrase “J’ai une canard éclaté dans mon bidet!”, which means, of course, “I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts”. Professor Reynolds may or may not have picturesque coconuts. I’m not very willing to look.

Unless looking and reporting back brings me a coveted Instalanche and a truckload of that crazy blog money. Then, I’ll tell all you could want to know about those coconuts.

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