diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 014ca789..6270a691 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -593,8 +593,7 @@ class Response(object):
 
     @property
     def apparent_encoding(self):
-        """The apparent encoding, provided by the lovely Charade library
-        (Thanks, Ian!)."""
+        """The apparent encoding, provided by the chardet library"""
         return chardet.detect(self.content)['encoding']
 
     def iter_content(self, chunk_size=1, decode_unicode=False):