Completely off topic - Football

[geofflambert]

That's the only one the English soccer hooligans understand.

[blueatoll]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Because of Brexit English will no longer be an official language of the Euro. Watch the Chinese start learning to speak French.

Nope, that's a canard. Ireland and Malta are both in the EU and their official language is English so English stays regardless of whether England does or not.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: blueatoll

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Because of Brexit English will no longer be an official language of the Euro. Watch the Chinese start learning to speak French.

Nope, that's a canard. Ireland and Malta are both in the EU and their official language is English so English stays regardless of whether England does or not.

How did aerodynamics get into this? SAAB went down, didn't they?

[blueatoll]

Simple Definition of canard
: a false report or story : a belief or rumor that is not true

Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary

[;)]

[Chris21wen]

ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

ORIGINAL: Encircled

I'm supporting Iceland from now on

Yours

Encirledsson

I have heard there is a petition calling for a second England - Iceland match, with more than 3m signatures. [;)]

[:D]

[warspite1]

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[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: blueatoll

Simple Definition of canard
: a false report or story : a belief or rumor that is not true

Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary

[;)]

Just want to make sure about this blueatoll. You really didn't think I knew what a canard is, did you?

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

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blueatoll, here is a mallard, which is a male canard.

[geofflambert]

Just for the record:

[geofflambert]

These animals were the inspiration for the TV series "The Sopranos". They don't think you can hear them, but they're always mumbling to each other as follows: "whack, whack ... whack, whack"
I always find it a bit disturbing, but I am easily disturbed. [:(]

[wdolson]

Aren't those ducks mallards? I've never seen them called canards.

[geofflambert]

Bill, not you too! I am totally teasing here, you aren't buying this, are you? Go grab a cup of coffee and see me later.

[geofflambert]

Ok, I guess I have to explain myself. Here is a pic of the Wright glider with a forward canard.

[geofflambert]

Now, the Saab fighters and fighter/bombers were famous for having forward canards, which were the same things as horizontal stabilizers except they were forward, even forward of the cockpit, and were used effectively with delta-winged designs. Anyways, blueatoll stated that the thing I brought up about English no longer being official in the Euro was a canard. He was correct, but I pretended not to understand by citing aerodynamics. I was just having fun with him. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to use English.

[wdolson]

I know what a canard is on an aircraft. Boeing even experimented with them on airliners and the Eurofighter Typhoon has them. I was confused by the picture of a mallard duck labeled "female canard". Sorry for missing the joke. I'm not completely with it at the moment. It's been a weird few month.

Bill

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

Aren't those ducks mallards? I've never seen them called canards.

The Gorn is punny in many languages. Canard is the French word for "duck".

I was trying to remember what aircraft I had seen with canard winglets besides the Swedish Viggen and Draken. It was the XB70 Valkyrie - forerunner to the B1 bomber. Beautiful slim aircraft but lost during development when a fighter jet got too frisky near it and got sucked into a collision by the turbulence.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: wdolson

Aren't those ducks mallards? I've never seen them called canards.

The Gorn is punny in many languages. Canard is the French word for "duck".

I was trying to remember what aircraft I had seen with canard winglets besides the Swedish Viggen and Draken. It was the XB70 Valkyrie - forerunner to the B1 bomber. Beautiful slim aircraft but lost during development when a fighter jet got too frisky near it and got sucked into a collision by the turbulence.

That actually was a Klingon battlecruiser that was captured and studied at Area 51.

[wdolson]

One of the XB-71 prototypes was lost, the other is in the USAF Museum.

Bill

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

One of the XB-71 prototypes was lost, the other is in the USAF Museum.

Bill

Dayton, Ohio. Great place to visit multiple times.

[geofflambert]

The Wiki says it had a crew of two. That's true for the prototype, but the B-70 crew was going to be uuuuuuuuge, one to two dozen IIRC.