# 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:** 60
**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 28, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1181 "2013-03-28T01:34:31Z")
14 **Karats**? That’d be a huge diamond! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1182 "2013-03-28T18:48:03Z")
Why would you give diamonds to **carats**? Those birds might be able to say “I love you”, but they’re just repeating what they’ve heard – they don’t understand the meaning. ---
**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 28, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1183 "2013-03-28T19:32:10Z")
**Parrots** saying “I love you?” I doubt it, those things are just big smelly rodents that potheads like to keep as pets. ---
**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 29, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1184 "2013-03-29T00:26:14Z")
Those damn bohemian potheads, taking a year off to go to Paris and “write,” living upstairs in unheated **ferrets**. They should all get consumption. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1185 "2013-03-29T03:00:59Z")
I’m not a big fan of the pothead lifestyle either, but I don’t think we should go around strangling marihuana enthusiasts with **garrets** made of rope, fishing line, or even guitar strings. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1186 "2013-03-29T07:54:10Z")
Of course ritual strangling was part of a (fringe) Hindu religion - the instrument got its name because it was name after **Garotte** , the bird-god. ---
**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 29, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1187 "2013-03-29T14:43:23Z")
I love **Garuda**! It’s my favorite Heart song of all. ---
**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 29, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1188 "2013-03-29T16:03:25Z")
I never hear Heart songs playing at Chipotle when I order my favorite **barracuda** from their menu. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1189 "2013-03-29T20:12:56Z")
I don’t think **barbacoa** would be very tasty – it shouldn’t come closer to being ingested than when you apply that shaving cream to the portion of your beard nearest your mouth. ---
**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 29, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1190 "2013-03-29T20:56:29Z")
**Barbasol**? Shaving cream? You’re talking about a fancy umbrella, methinks. ---
**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 30, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1191 "2013-03-30T06:28:40Z")
When we visit the Outer Banks - where I usually am loath to shave - we see people **parasol** as they’re pulled behind motorboats on waterskiis, soaring high up into the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1192 "2013-03-30T13:08:09Z")
I doubt **Parasail** ever spent time in the Outer Banks – he lived in Europe from 1493 to 1541, and was too busy doing such things as pioneering the use of chemicals in medicine and giving zinc its name to set off on a voyage to the New World. ---
**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 30, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1193 "2013-03-30T17:00:39Z")
Medicine? **Paracelsus** was the astronomer that had a temperature scale named for him. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1194 "2013-03-30T17:43:00Z")
I don’t think so - **Celsius** is a famous poem by Longfellow (and also a chess-problem term in which the main line of the solution sees a pawn march the whole length of the board to promote). ---
**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 31, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1195 "2013-03-31T00:55:46Z")
Everyone knows that **Excelsior** was the mythic sword of King Arthur, silly. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1196 "2013-04-01T01:01:49Z")
Was King Arthur’s government so structured that it had a formal treasury with a Chancellor of the **Excalibur** and all that? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1197 "2013-04-01T06:27:57Z")
Dunno, but let me tell you - as soon as it starts raining you’ll have a tough time finding an available **Exchequer** cab in New York City. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1198 "2013-04-01T14:35:36Z")
That’s funny. I jumped into a cab once and the cabbie offered me some **checkers** gum. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1199 "2013-04-02T16:54:01Z")
Back when my son kept fish, he had an Oscar in his tank. Let me tell you, that was one indestructible **chiclet** , despite my son’s indifference. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869/1200 "2013-04-02T22:25:22Z")
What would your _son_ be doing with **cichlid**? That’s the generic term for books like _Bridget Jones’s Diary_ and _Fifty Shades of Grey_, designed to be gobbled up by a female readership! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-2012-revenge-of-the-schtick/633869.md?page=61)