Whether or not I was involved in the earliest versions of several games of varying popularity, I think I may have been among the first, if not the first, to give them a nudge.
If you know of earlier versions (or even mentions) of these, please help me find the earliest of them:
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BOTTICELLI
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2952760&postcount=2
02-06-2003, 02:00 PM
KneadToKnow
It’s not really a word game, but Botticelli is big at my house. We don’t actually play by those rules exactly (we prefer longer games), but they’ll get you started.
Fun games to play while traveling by car?
06-27-2003, 06:14 AM
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FAMILY FEUD
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02-04-2006
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MALAPROPAGATION
I thought that was a ______
03-31-2008
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9694218&postcount=234
Thread: The Cossack Game – Thread #2
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#234 04-15-2008, 09:27 PM
kunilou
Charter Member Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 14,166
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Originally Posted by Zeldar
An off-topic question for participants: Would malapropism apply to the majority of these things?
If so, help come up with a word or phrase that’s some spinoff of malapropism to serve as a name for this game. The Cossack Game seems a bit too esoteric and doesn’t really communicate to non-players what’s going on.
Back to the game…
Some of the posts are malaprops, some are puns.
I suppose the entire thread could be a malapropagation.