One of my favourite mixed metaphors—which I had somehow internally misattributed to David Johnston—was this one, from University of Waterloo registrar Ken Lavigne:
Admissions is a crap shoot, and this year we won in spades
This week, Peter Lewis of Fortune may have topped it:
Apple is making applesauce out of the old canard that Macs are a lot more expensive than Windows computers.
What kind of applesauce do you get from a canard, anyway?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canard_(computing)
Maybe they were going to make applesauce to go with the canard?