On 9-6-2009 22:08, Gilles Tran wrote:
> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> a écrit dans le message de 
> news:4A2### [at] hotmailcom...
>> If it disn't exist it would not be a joke, not even a lame one.
> 
> A lame duck actually.  Andrew is right, there was no Rolls-Royce model 
> called that.

If you say so. Your Googling skills are way beyond mine.

> "Canard" means "duck" in French and "fake story" in English, 

Derived from the French newspaper if I am not mistaken.

> so I guess that joke is in using a foreign but posh-sounding 
> name (like the actual "Corniche" and "Camargue" RR models) and making a 
> pun out of it.

My verdict: what a terrible 'joke'. Not even remotely funny, but 'de 
gustibus non est disputandum' or the equivalent for humor.

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