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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 11:16 AM Original message |
Favorite Malapropisms |
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mysuzuki2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. I can't phantom the point of this thread |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. My grandmother once referred to turkey noodle soup as...... |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Technically, that's a spoonerism |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Aren't spoonerisms a subset of malapropisms? |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 04:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Nope. Spoonerism is for letters, Malapropism applies to words. |
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Curtland1015 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:21 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. But spoonerisms is for eating souperisms. NT |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. A friend of mine and I had a heated argument once over "participle board" |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. Peance Freance. |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. Oh, jeebus, I had forgotten about "peance freance"! What the heck was he *trying* to say? - |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
7. cadillac converter |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. I always call it a |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. Let's get down to brass facts |
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reflection (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. I once had a boss that said, in the space of one day: |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I never understood what "cock of the walk" was supposed to mean. |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 03:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. refers to chickens - I think that |
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reflection (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
42. Yep. That's exactly what it refers to. n/t |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. Downstate politician |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. "fool me once shame on you....errr... can't get fooled again" |
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Mr. Ected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
13. "Go the extra nine yards" |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. "nine yards" refers to the traditional length of a bolt of fabric |
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Mr. Ected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. You are erudite and helpful, rgraz |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. I was under the understanding that this referred to WW 2 fighters |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Leave it to the Straight Dope guy |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Wow, after seeing all those possible explanations |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. Maybe not technically one, but "I resent the insinuendos" from the late mayor Daley |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I had forgotten about that one. |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. She was raped over the coals |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
22. An old co-worker of mine |
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suninvited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. casting asparagus |
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Zavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
28. I once had a boss who couldn't get these things right, either. You won't believe this: |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:25 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. ... |
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Zavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. It was noticed and thrown back to him. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
29. statue of limitations |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
33. I am hard of hearing and had childhood friends who often yelled, "Are you death?!" at me. LOL |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
34. Is Yogi Berra a subset here? He had some awesome quotes |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:58 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Here y'go |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
35. 5 y/o neighbor's child watching birds with me |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
37. Accounting humor: One of my bosses refers to the "physical year" |
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Still Blue in PDX (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 09:33 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. I heard a guy on Randi Rhodes' show say that today. |
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Glorfindel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
38. Saying "I could care less" when you mean "I couldn't care less" |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 09:44 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. If you account for sarcasm, that's grammatically correct |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 04:19 AM Response to Original message |
41. My daughter's teacher |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
43. 'He's got something up his arm.' |
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