> > > > Did you ever notice how many different ways you can say that something is easy?
> > > > Duck soup.
> > > > Piece of cake.
> > > > No sweat.
> > > > No problem.
> > > > Like falling off a log.
> > > > How"ez"ard
> >
> > Goes down smooth as cherry cream pie.
> > Like taking candy from a baby.
> > Like water sliding off a duck's back.
> > No problemo.
> > Shooting a Shirley Temple.
> > Taking a spoonful of sugar (although you'd probably use that to mix a Mary Poppins instead :-).
> >
> > Is "sucking an egg" considered an easy task, or is that something only used in conjunction with the phrase "You'd teach your grandmother to suck eggs"?
> >
> >
> > > Easy as pie.
> > >
> > > Nyper"3.1425..."old
> >
> > Small, trivial clarification: it's closer to 3.xy1z rounded... That counts as 5 digits total, not 4 decimal places by the way, and I'm writing it like that so I don't screw up Sam's survey results.
> >
> > Wolf "Someone please explain the origin of 'Duck Soup' and why that would be easy to make or eat" spirit
>
> Thanks, I was going to ask about that.
>
> The only "Duck Soup" I know of is by the 4 Marx Brothers, which is what I first thought of when I saw it in this thread. That might be a red herring, though.
>
> Nyper"22/7"old
Now let me see. A red herring is something that is not what it at first appears to be, right?
So why do they call it a red herring?
Howard