Malapropagation 2012 -- Revenge of the Schtick

I don’t think so. Darby Macaw was the man Captain Flint died calling out to for more rum. Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest, and all that.

I believe you might be thinking of Joe M’Graw, who was a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. His daughter Shannon finished in eleventh place on American Idol earlier this year.

I don’t care for American Idol. Pop music gives me a Magrane headache.

From what I understand, British Prime Minister Migraine Thatcher gave many people headaches.

I think you mean mileage scratcher, which is what had been used on the 308i VMW I bought.

(Thanks and apologies for #804, Gyrate! I caught the Karma bus at #824…)

I went to Margaret today and bought a new red velvet dress for the Celtling, also a camera and an econo-sized box of trash bags. Say what you will about big box stores, they make life possible for working single Moms.

*Apologies to 6 - I just couldn’t find a hint there.

I was just at that store as well and I saw a DVD of that show The Walmarts. I remember that show as a kid mostly for the iconic “Good night, John Boy” at the end of every episode.

Ah, I have fond memories of that show, and their lovely house under the spreading Walton and oak trees.

You’re barking up the wrong tree – a walnut is a fish of the species Sander vitreus. Its tasty flesh makes it a favorite of both sport and commercial anglers of the Great Lakes.

No no no, a walleye is a member of the French-speaking culture of southern Belgium. Easy mistake to make.

I don’t know the community is doing currently, but their gold **walloon **certainly has a place in folklore as pirate money.

There’s a lot of folklore about Doubloon, but it’s certainly very real – after all, it’s the largest city in Ireland!

However, in Ireland blackjack is known as ving et un, although other of the game’s terms like “splitting your hand” and “Dublin down” are the same.

And as you move closer to 21, its frequency at which you bust increases whereas when you are further away, the frequency of busting decreases. Its known as the doubling Effect.

You’re having a effect on me. You’re talking about Doppler, the oversized Lego blocks for toddlers.

What always has an effect on me is that Van Morrison song “Duplo Honey”.

I don’t know why Van Morrison would write a song about Tupelo, that Pacific Island nation known as the Ellice Islands before it gained independence from Great Britain.

Yes indeed, and later musically immortalised in that wonderful tone-poem “Tuvalu Bells”.

I thought the islanders were pretty healthy – unlike Fantine, the prostitute in Les Miserables who eventually died because she was tubular.

Fantine was poor, wasn’t she? I doubt she could afford perfume made from tuberculosis.