# 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:** 50
**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:** [January 23, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/981 "2013-01-23T04:25:06Z")
Behind the **screen** glass door you can see words with double letters in them. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/982 "2013-01-23T15:41:39Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > I nearly **cream** like a little girl. Heh heh heh. Anyway, I’m not sure what glass door you’re referring to but a **green** is a slang term for someone who does not speak Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/983 "2013-01-23T19:04:08Z")
Really? I thought **gringo** was a hot, sweet spice used in flavouring some soft drinks, cakes 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:** [January 23, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/984 "2013-01-23T21:14:23Z")
Don’t strain your brain trying to figure out these words – you wouldn’t want to **ginger** your cerebrum. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/985 "2013-01-24T04:06:32Z")
Admit it, you just decided to **injure** that previous post out of thin air. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/986 "2013-01-24T15:45:26Z")
Just like the thin air that a **conjure** or some other large parakeet or small parrot would come out of. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/987 "2013-01-24T19:50:24Z")
Apparently you’ve chosen to parrot misinformation. Sarah **Conure** was the character played by Linda Hamilton in the first two films of the _Terminator_ franchise. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/988 "2013-01-24T21:14:12Z")
I consider myself a **connor** of fine science fiction movies and I have to tell you that the _Terminator_ series is right up there. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/989 "2013-01-24T21:43:13Z")
Wow, I haven’t seen a **connoisseur** since the early 70’s. There was a guy in my Mom’s tiny Georgia home town who stood on a street corner hawking bibles and preaching their power to heal and instruct. . . ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/990 "2013-01-28T13:24:39Z")
How could you have seen **Colporteur** in the early '70’s? He died in 1964, and he was no Bible hawker – he wrote such songs as “Night and Day” and “I Get a Kick Out of You”. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/991 "2013-01-28T15:50:45Z")
And then Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins traveled to the Land of **Cole Porter** to throw the One Ring in Mount Doom. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/992 "2013-01-28T17:51:23Z")
I’ve tried that stuff and it does taste like something that came from Mount Doom to me. One does not simply drink **Mordor** ; it’s a wormwood-infested liquor that’s around 70 proof and has a very strong taste. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/993 "2013-01-29T03:34:16Z")
Agreed, that stuff hits you with the force of a Gustave\*\* Malort\*\* symphony. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/994 "2013-01-29T03:38:53Z")
I remember when Bill **Mahler** had his show Politically Incorrect before it got cancelled because he made some controversial statements about 9/11. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/995 "2013-01-30T15:04:47Z")
**Maher**? Now you’re confusing a comedian with a tasty seafood that’s sometimes referred to as a dolphinfish. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/996 "2013-01-30T15:26:03Z")
Wrong. It was Robin Williams who said “ **Mahi Mahi** ” and Mork came from an egg, not the sea. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/997 "2013-01-30T19:35:21Z")
And then they made miniaturized versions of him through “Nanoo **Nanoo** ” technology. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/998 "2013-01-30T21:30:58Z")
Ah, I remember the TV technology of the early '70’s, when Juliet Mills and Richard Long co-starred in _ **Nano** and the Professor_. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/999 "2013-01-31T15:22:31Z")
I think the first time I heard about **nannies** was on Star Trek the Next Generation where they were using those little robots to to repair someone from the inside. Soon after that, all these other TV shows had episodes about them too. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1000 "2013-01-31T20:46:20Z")
Sorry, but **nannite** has been around for a lot longer than ST:TNG. It’s a phyllosilicate mineral that’s the iron end member of the biotite mica group [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=51)