# 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:** 40
**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:** [December 3, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/781 "2012-12-03T16:55:08Z")
Don’t let the \*\*osprey \*\*hear you say that. Although it’s flightless, this largest of all birds can charge you at a speed above 40 mph and is capable of fighting so fiercely it can ward off a lion or disembowel a human. Fortunately it’s a vegetarian. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/782 "2012-12-03T17:31:14Z")
Yes, I think you’re right. Hitler was a vegetarian, and he came from **Ostrich**. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/783 "2012-12-03T22:43:21Z")
Did you mean **Austria**? I knew Hitler wasn’t actually German by birth, but I didn’t know he came from the peninsula that juts into the Adriatic and is shared by Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy! ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/784 "2012-12-04T02:49:00Z")
I think you’re thinking of **Istria** , a condition often diagnosed in women, by 19th century doctors. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/785 "2012-12-04T03:11:23Z")
And then those doctors would occasionally perform an **hysteria** to remove the womb and often times more. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/786 "2012-12-04T03:12:27Z")
Back to Hitler – isn’t Nostradamus credited with essentially predicting that Nazi’s rise to power, except for saying the man’s name would be **Hysterectomy**? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/787 "2012-12-04T22:36:37Z")
I don’t think Nostradamus ever predicted that **Hister** was going to be the last man in the universe or that the only thing that would keep him company was the hologram of his dead friend and an evolved cat. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/788 "2012-12-04T23:30:04Z")
I think you’re confusing your space shows - **Lister** was that telepath guy from _Babylon 5_. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/789 "2012-12-05T12:05:04Z")
Wait - I thought _Babylon 5_ was set in the future - why would President **Bester** A. Arthur have been on a space station? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/790 "2012-12-05T18:18:18Z")
A space station? Surely a **chester** would be performing his jokes and pratfalls before medieval royalty? ---
**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:** [December 5, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/791 "2012-12-05T18:20:53Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > A space station? Surely a **chester** would be performing his jokes and pratfalls before medieval royalty? Neither in space nor in medieval times, but more like in the middle. As Don McLean pointed out, the **jester** performed in a coat he borrowed from Jim Beam. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/792 "2012-12-05T19:15:59Z")
Medieval age, middle ages, whenever, a job is a job even if you have to work for food and shelter. I’m sure the Jester doesn’t mind performing, as long as they keep those **James Dean** Sausages coming. . . ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/793 "2012-12-05T20:44:08Z")
Well, Sid Caesar’s _Your Show of Shows_ and the sitcom _It’s About Time_ both featured performances by **Jimmy Dean** Coca. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/794 "2012-12-05T21:13:49Z")
Was _Your Show of Shows_ still on the air when John Lennon first performed **Imogene**? ---
**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:** [December 5, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/795 "2012-12-05T22:02:47Z")
I never realized Lennon ever sang about **Imagine** , in fact I’m fairly certain that I’ve never even heard of any songs about X-Ray machines or MRI scanners. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/796 "2012-12-05T22:15:58Z")
That wasn’t about X-rays or MRIs - **Imager** was about the last stage of life of an insect, right before its metamorphosis. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/797 "2012-12-06T01:11:28Z")
I don’t think so; **Imago** Jones was an architect and stage designer but had nothing to do with insects. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/798 "2012-12-06T02:36:14Z")
An architect as well as an anthropologist??? And he still was able to escape from both snakes and the Nazis? That **Inigo** Jones was one busy dude. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/799 "2012-12-06T02:44:18Z")
Any anthropologist should know that **Indiana** is an inaccurate shorthand term for a freshly discovered land’s natives stemming from an incompetent navigator’s bad sense of direction. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/800 "2012-12-06T03:16:49Z")
Now that’s not right - **Indian** was a plant that grew in the colonies ; it was used to dye cloth blue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=41)