The boy (9 years old now) and I were looking at his car collection in a Hot Wheels game we checked out from the library, and I was talking to him in the voice of his duck puppet. As one does.
One of the cars was a vintage Packard. I dropped the dad/duck joke: Oh, ducks drive a Quackard. I thought that was pretty good as dad/duck jokes go.
His response: Oh, I thought you would say it's a Pochard.
I gave him a blank stare and then looked it up at m-w.com:
Pochard
: any of various rather heavy-bodied diving ducks (especially genus Aythya) with a large head and with feet and legs placed far back under the body
This kid!
