A common mishearing. Use this simple mnemonic. Ed was a talking horse, and when he wanted quiet, he would whisper
Nope, that’s not right – you’re thinking of a hair on one’s chinny-chin-chin.
Are you sure? I thought that was the liquor made from corn.
(Have any of you made a list of the words so far? Quite impressive, I’d say.)
No, not the liquor made from corn, but the feeling you sometimes get after you’ve had a few shots of it. Dogs frequently get feeling this way, too, and without benefit of liquor.
I think you said frisky instead of the cut of beef that’s often cooked in a Crockpot.
No, no. That’s a kind of quick bread usually made with baking powder in the South, yeast in the North.
By any chance do you mean
biscuit?
If so, you might be interested to know that that’s actually a soup commonly made with lobster.
Soup? Hardly. That’s those guys in the north of Spain who keep blowing things up and want their own country.
Nah, you’re thinking of that crip course they have in college for football players where you weave the things. You put eggs in them, but not all of them.
No, that’s a basketThe thing you are looking for is a box to hold a corpse.
A box??? What, those little things that flamenco dancers click between their fingers?
Surely you must mean those things they put babies in…
Huh? I’m guessing you mean a
bassinet,
but that’s actually the goat-headed demon of Knights Templar lore.
What a horrible thing for you to say about that lovely blond-headed actress from Annie! You know, Ms. Peters?
Surely you don’t mean that gal that Pat Boone sang about? Name was something like Gabardine and was like a line of cosmetics. (Glad you could spin away from Baphomet!)
That gal? You mean the one named after the red syrup they use to make mimosas?
Isn’t that the island Reagan invaded?
No, that’s the Italian dessert made from shaved, frozen espresso. Yum. I’d invade a bowl of that stuff any damn day of the week.
Could
granita
not be that trail mix of oats and nuts and raisins and M&M’s that hippies are prone to eat?