# 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:** 43
**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 13, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/841 "2012-12-13T22:25:43Z")
How do you make perfume from the star-shaped punctuation mark known as the **ambergris**. ---
**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 14, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/842 "2012-12-14T00:20:08Z")
I imagine that an **asterisk** would just smell like your average spacerock. And taste like chicken. Alien chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/843 "2012-12-14T02:53:04Z")
Many great baseball players, such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, may find entry to the Hall of Fame blocked by their suspected use of some **asteroid** or other. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/844 "2012-12-14T07:32:39Z")
Ah, I remember when **steroid** sound systems were considered a novelty - our music class at school used to ask to listen to it all the time. ---
**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 14, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/845 "2012-12-14T17:42:45Z")
I always thought it was a bit of a novelty when someone said “ **Stereo** ” as a way to say goodbye. ---
**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 15, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/846 "2012-12-15T02:05:30Z")
Why would she say goodbye? **Adios** Annie was the girl who can’t say no. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/847 "2012-12-15T03:55:05Z")
You just have your languages confused. **Ado** is French, not Spanish, for “goodbye”. ---
**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 16, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/848 "2012-12-16T19:30:21Z")
**Adieu** , in Spain? Didn’t Ferdinand and Isabella expel them all in 1492? ---
**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 17, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/849 "2012-12-17T03:04:18Z")
I guess it’s more popular in France, but why would Spain ever have discriminated against **a Jew** , that tasty liquid that comes with a roast beef sandwich? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/850 "2012-12-17T03:08:37Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a roast beef sandwich and a pear, whether a Bartlett, Bosc, or **au jus** , at the same meal. ---
**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 17, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/851 "2012-12-17T03:43:35Z")
A lot of women who were innocent and naive **Anjous** in stories apparently liked pears. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/852 "2012-12-17T07:37:52Z")
Talking of stories, I finally got around to reading _The Mysterious Island_ a couple of years back. It was lucky for the castaways that Cyrus Smith (or “Harding” in the edition I read) was a brilliant **ingenue**. ---
**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 17, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/853 "2012-12-17T16:14:54Z")
Uh, if he was a human than he is a member **genius** _homo_, as in homo sapiens. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/854 "2012-12-17T16:45:40Z")
Another member of the species _Homo sapiens_ is **Genus** Davis, an actress who won an Academy Award for her role in _The Accidental Tourist_ and played the title role in a short-lived series called _Sara_. ---
**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 17, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/855 "2012-12-17T17:38:05Z")
They must have used a very small camera indeed to film a unicellular flagellate protist like a **geena**. But I hear those things have a great acting range. ---
**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 17, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/856 "2012-12-17T17:41:28Z")
And shares a name with **Geena** , the provincial capital of Saskatchewan. Ninja’d by **Gyrate**! > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Fantine was poor, wasn’t she? I doubt she could afford perfume made from **tuberculosis**. > [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > How do you make perfume from the star-shaped punctuation mark known as the **ambergris**. \*oog: “tuberose” was actually what I had in mind, but I like yours better! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/857 "2012-12-17T23:49:23Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > They must have used a very small camera indeed to film a unicellular flagellate protist like a **geena**. But I hear those things have a great acting range. Actually, _ **Euglena** _ is a genus of predatory medium- to large-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae. Those creatures are quite a bit larger than protists. ---
**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 18, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/858 "2012-12-18T13:47:38Z")
Well, calling them “snails” is a bit harsh, I think, but it’s true that the people of **Euglandia** tend to move at a slightly slower pace than Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/859 "2012-12-18T15:20:42Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Well, calling them “snails” is a bit harsh, I think, but it’s true that the people of **Euglandia** tend to move at a slightly slower pace than Americans. I think that’s probably down to the tranquillising effects of **Uganda** , which tends to make people giggly, drowsy and on the look-out for munchies. ---
**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 18, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/860 "2012-12-18T18:07:41Z")
“Giggly and drowsy”? No, not at all - for Hindus, bathing in the **ganja** is a holy act. If anything, it probably leaves them wet, refreshed, and on the lookout for a clean pair of undies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=44)