# 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:** 57
**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:** [March 14, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1121 "2013-03-14T16:36:28Z")
I know she got a reputation as sort of a wild child, but did any frat boy really ever wear Lisa \*\*Bonnet \*\*on his head? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1122 "2013-03-14T17:18:13Z")
Well, a frat boy might attempt to seduce a comely coed by inviting her to come check out his “original” painting of water lilies done by Claude **Bonet**. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1123 "2013-03-14T17:29:51Z")
My favorite bit of the movie _Jerry Maguire_ was when the football player kept shouting, “Show me the **Monet**!” ---
**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:** [March 14, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1124 "2013-03-14T18:21:24Z")
I think you’re thinking about that movie where, while in an Egyptian pyramid, Abbot told Costello to show him the **money**. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1125 "2013-03-14T19:00:32Z")
On an episode of _Futurama_, there are two obelisks with the words “yummy” and “ **mummy** ” in the two alien written languages ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1126 "2013-03-14T19:30:01Z")
Mr. **Tummy** is a charming faun who appears in C.S. Lewis’s _The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe_. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1127 "2013-03-14T22:35:43Z")
No, it’s rather bigger than a faun - **tumnus** is Latin for “bull”, as in the second sign of the Zodiac. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1128 "2013-03-15T14:26:40Z")
I never thought of a bull as being **Taurus** , it would seem that they’re the opposite. But I guess they are as much as any other living creature – gas and liquids can pass through them just like they could for you or I. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1129 "2013-03-15T22:05:08Z")
As Easter approaches, many of us will once again reflect on that terrible day when **Porous** Pilate washed his hands of Jesus’s fate. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1130 "2013-03-16T01:35:09Z")
Pilate was so\*\* Pontius\*\* about it, too – being marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1131 "2013-03-16T02:39:18Z")
If I ever get a hybrid car, it’ll probably be a Toyota **Pious**. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1132 "2013-03-16T08:26:20Z")
Careful! Aren’t **Prius** now known to cause variant Creuzfeld-Jakob Disease? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1133 "2013-03-16T13:23:45Z")
Although Richard **Prion** suffered from multiple sclerosis, I don’t think that famously foul-mouthed African-American comic had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease as well. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1134 "2013-03-17T16:43:14Z")
He did get arrested for tax evasion once, his criminal record otherwise was clean, since he had no **Pryor** convictions. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1135 "2013-03-18T00:50:49Z")
Agreed, **Prior** Tuck had no criminal record before he joined Robin Hood and his Merry Men. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1136 "2013-03-18T16:31:14Z")
Tuck was a **friar**? I don’t think he was ever the instrument to cook foods in hot oil. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1137 "2013-03-18T18:55:36Z")
I have to admit, I haven’t really followed Jon **Fryer** ’s career since _The Famous Teddy Z_. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1138 "2013-03-18T21:35:54Z")
Since you live in northeast Ohio, **EH** , I’m surprised you’re apparently unaware that surgeon George Washington **Cryer** was one of the founders of the Cleveland Clinic. He was also the father-in-law of Helga Sandburg, who was the daughter of poet and Lincoln biographer Carl. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1139 "2013-03-19T02:04:08Z")
I didn’t know that, but I do know that **Carver** & Ives were noted illustrators of Victorian America. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1140 "2013-03-19T06:45:01Z")
Yes - their prints were distributed far and wide, often by special **Currier**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=58)