# Malapropagation 2012 -- Revenge of the Schtick **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 6, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869 "2012-09-06T17:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/541 "2012-10-24T00:46:58Z")
Do you mean **kenobi**? I was astonished when one of the campus cops pulled up this morning with the back of his SUV filled with kenobi plants they found growing between the rows in one of our corn fields. I wonder what the street value was! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/542 "2012-10-24T01:08:13Z")
I sure wouldn’t want any **cannabis** in my neighborhood. Every time I walked my dog, I’d have to be afraid someone would capture me, throw me in a pot, and literally have me for dinner that night! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/543 "2012-10-24T05:20:47Z")
There aren’t likely to be any **cannibals** around these days - ordnance switched over to high-explosive, armour-piercing or shrapnel shells over a hundred years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/544 "2012-10-24T17:07:44Z")
**Cannonballs?** How did we all of a sudden start talking about a waterfall on the Skykomish River? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/545 "2012-10-24T20:26:36Z")
I don’t think Tennyson had the state of Washington in mind when he wrote that “The splendour falls on **Canyon Falls** ” in the poem in which he implores “Blow, bugle, blow”. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/546 "2012-10-24T20:54:50Z")
Eh? No, **Castle Walls** is in Yorkshire - they have a Rugby League team nicknamed “the Tigers”, not to be confused with the _Leicester_ Tigers who play Union. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/547 "2012-10-25T01:54:42Z")
No, a **Castleford** is not a tiger. It is a ratite, a very large flightless bird smaller than an ostrich or emu. And it’s not found in Yorkshire – it’s native to New Guinea. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/548 "2012-10-25T10:42:31Z")
I thought **cassowary** was the seed that gives rye bread its distinctive flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/549 "2012-10-25T15:40:45Z")
You so crazy. **Caraway** is what Little Miss Muffet was eating when the spider frightened her away. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/550 "2012-10-25T21:58:07Z")
No, a **curds and whey** is what she would have performed if she’d met the Queen of Hearts! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/551 "2012-10-25T22:25:23Z")
That’s a **curtsey** , who once wrestled under the name Mr. Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/552 "2012-10-26T00:42:44Z")
Well, his hair and nails were perfect because \*\*curthennig \*\*is one tough fibrous protein. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/553 "2012-10-26T13:51:06Z")
**Keratin** isn’t tough and fibrous, it’s more of a combustible liquid. Something you would put in a lamp when you go camping. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/554 "2012-10-26T14:03:54Z")
Really? Doesn’t **kerosene** give carrots their colour? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/555 "2012-10-26T19:58:49Z")
Well, John F. Kennedy’s daughter **Carotene** might have colored some pictures of carrots when she was a child. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/556 "2012-10-26T20:29:01Z")
I doubt that his daughter ever wore a **caroline**. Skirts that need that kind of stiff petticoat underneath to hold their shape haven’t been in fashion for eons. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/557 "2012-10-27T01:13:28Z")
Actually, I think Caroline Kennedy might have had one of those skirts when she was a little girl. I can remember my sisters wearing skirts like that. They didn’t like them, and it made them really angry. You could see the blood rushing, their faces flushing, and the \*\*crinoline \*\*flowing as part of their fight or flight reflex. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/558 "2012-10-27T01:22:55Z")
While the **Adrenaline** was deigned to protect France in a protracted fight, it proved ultimately useless when the Germans decided to simply go around it and through Belgium instead. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/559 "2012-10-27T07:04:37Z")
And yet geography’s full of **maginot** lines - there’s the Equator, the meridians of longitude, the Tropics of Cancer and of Capricorn, and so on… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/560 "2012-10-27T22:24:18Z")
I wonder if your grasp of literature is as shaky as your geographic knowledge. Have you ever read Tennessee Williams’s play, _The Glass **Imaginary** _? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=29)