Actually I suspect that it's English rather than Oz - used in the
used car trade for an idiot buyer desperate to part with his money. A
rather unscrupulous friend of mine, selling a dodgy car for far more
than it was worth, confirmed his success by calling me and making a
loud quacking noise followed by uncontrollable laughter. That one
came back to bite him because the buyer made a reappearance at his
workplace a month later as a new colleague, a complete coincidence in
a large city. I almost came to believe in car karma at that point but
the 'duck' was still prepared to believe that he hadn't been ripped
off and my friend was able to weasel out of it with making reparations.
There is a Maned Wood duck in this country but I don't believe that
it is any more trusting or brainless than any other bird.
AndrewF
On 22/01/2006, at 11:15 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> An interesting bit of Oz speech here... "wood duck" used in a
> pejorative
> sense. Can you give us any insight? Here's the wood duck I know.
> <http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/
> Wood_Duck_dtl.html>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>>
>> Reminds me of the guy in Melbourne who went out to buy a Canon EOS 1n
>> because someone had told him that it was 'the best camera around' as
>> it may well have been at the time. He found someone who gave him a
>> great deal, well under the rest of the street, but couldn't
>> understand why his photos were crap - turned out that the dealer had
>> shaved the price by putting the cheapest consumer grade off brand
>> 35-80mm lens on it - and the wood duck knew no better.
>>
>
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