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On 9-6-2009 22:08, Gilles Tran wrote:
> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmail com> 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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Gilles Tran wrote:
> A lame duck actually. Andrew is right, there was no Rolls-Royce model
> called that.
Well, folks are selling maintenance manuals for it. Now, granted, the manual
is out of stock, so maybe it's a joke on their site....
http://www.factoryautomanuals.com/1921-Rolls-Canardly-p/81477.htm
And painters have painted pictures of it...
http://www.dailypainters.com/paintings/16071/Rolls-Canardly-Nineteen-Thirty-Eleven/Ron-Morrison
So I think perhaps it's not as unlikely as it may seem.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> a écrit dans le message de
news:4a2ed942$1@news.povray.org...
> So I think perhaps it's not as unlikely as it may seem.
The painting's author (who's really good, BTW, I wish I could paint like
that http://watercolourproductions.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_8172.html)
works from imagination and tells the joke himself in his blog post. I guess
Andrew's post was worth discovering this guy's watercolours.
There have been relatively few Rolls models and if there was a RR with such
a (hilarious) name there would be more than a "manual" and 140000 joke pages
about it.
G.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:07:25 +0200, Gilles Tran wrote:
> The painting's author (who's really good, BTW, I wish I could paint like
> that
> http://watercolourproductions.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_8172.html)
> works from imagination and tells the joke himself in his blog post.
Wow, thanks for sharing that - I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Very
impressive watercolour work.
Jim
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Gilles Tran wrote:
> There have been relatively few Rolls models and if there was a RR with
> such a (hilarious) name there would be more than a "manual" and 140000
> joke pages about it.
Fair enough. I was also going on the fact that the year model of the painted
Rolls was claimed to be close to the same year as the manual. I didn't look
all that close. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Invisible wrote:
> Oh look, it's a Rolls Kanardley...
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> ...rolls down the hill, kanardley get up again. ;-)
You deserve a firm slap for that... :P
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> You deserve a firm slap for that... :P
...or just being told by anyone and everybody that my jokes suck and I
should STFU. :-/
Note to self: Don't quote your grandad's jokes online.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:42:32 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ...or just being told by anyone and everybody that my jokes suck and I
> should STFU. :-/
Oh, FFS, Andy, nobody said you should STFU.
Stop running yourself down.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Oh, FFS, Andy, nobody said you should STFU.
> Stop running yourself down.
Au contraire, I think many here have said, in one way or another, for
him to Stop Thinking Frightfully Unselfworthish.
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:06:23 -0400, Tim Cook wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Oh, FFS, Andy, nobody said you should STFU. Stop running yourself down.
>
> Au contraire, I think many here have said, in one way or another, for
> him to Stop Thinking Frightfully Unselfworthish.
LOL, good reinterpretation of the acronym. :-)
Jim
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