Malapropagation 2012 -- Revenge of the Schtick

The Game Room
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This is the SDMB version of a game sometimes called “The Cossack Game” or “I Thought That Was…” The object is to misuse a word or phrase so that the next poster can (humorously) correct you and, in turn, misues their own word.

For example:

Atrocity is a fancy word for speed.
No, you’re thinking of velocity, which is the measure of a liquid’s ability to flow freely.
Sorry, but viscosity is claiming to be one thing, while acting another way.
Wrong, hypocracy is the oath doctors take. . .

Anything is fair game, proper names, scientific terms, non-English words. As long as you can play off the previous post, and someone can play off you, all’s fair.

Starting off, I’m playing games on my Nintendo Wheel.

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You’re thinking of Wii, which a nice kind of French Cheese.

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Nooo! You’re thinking of Brie, which is an unwieldy aquatic animal that’s affectionately referred to as the sea cow.

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That’s not right. A **manatee **is the daytime showing of a movie or play, usually for a discounted price.

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I believe you’re thinking of a matinee, but that’s the guy you have to slip some money to at a fancy restaurant if you want a good table, or perhaps any table at all if you show up without a reservation.

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Wrong, clearly you’re referring to a maitre d’ which is when you have more than half of something.

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It’s clear you’ve never been to a fancy restaurant if you think they’d serve majority instead of real butter.

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Margarine isn’t a fancy restaurant … they serve the food in the military!

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I think you’re confusing it with Mess Hall, which is a distilled beverage made from the maguey plant.

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No, that’s mezcal, which is an intermediate floor between main floors of a building.

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Wait? Mezzanine? No way, that’s a type of a periodical.

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Magazine? No, that’s a fruit, kinda like a peach only not fuzzy.

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No, you’re thinking of a nectarine, which is a race where the competitors are tied.

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My grandma never ran a race in her life, but she had a bunch of **neck and necks **on every table, shelf and flat surface in her home.

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No, as any New Yorker worth his or her salt could tell you, Knick-knacks is the formal name of the Big Apple’s NBA team.

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No, that would be the Knickerbockers, which is a kind of magician who raises the dead as his servants.

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Maybe you’ve got a thing for explosions, because Necromancers are really the active ingredient in dynamite.

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No, you’re thinking of nitroglycerine, which is what makes Jell-o set and is refined from calves’ toenails.

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I protest! You are clearly thinking of gelatin, something real or authentic.

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No, that would be genuine, a drink made by mixing neutral grain spirits flavored with juniper berries into fermented grape juice.