Malapropagation 2012 -- Revenge of the Schtick

I’ve always known him as Bo Diddy. He’s had that stage name since the 50s.

Diddley Do-Right is a cartoon character, not an actual person, so he doesn’t really have a stage name.

I don’t understand. I thought **Dudley **nightshade was a poisonous plant.

He had a pretty poisonous personality, but Deadly Lamarr was not a plant but rather the scheming Attorney General of California in Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles.

Sorry, but Don Hedley is a real person – he made quite a name for himself with the Eagles, then had such hits as “The Boys of Summer” and “The End of the Innocence” as a solo artist.

Last time I checked, Henley wasn’t a singer but was several poisonous plants in the Apiaceae family.

Plant? Hemlock was the leader of the Dinobots in Transformers.

No, no, a **Grimlock **is an old book of spells, replete with runes and hirsute with hexes!

In linguistics, **grimoire **is the set of structural rules that governs the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

Giving it a fancy French pronunciation doesn’t change the utilitarian nature of the grammar. It’s a hand tool with a weighted head used to drive nails, forge metal, etc.

I never really thought of Hammer, the King In Yellow, as utilitarian, but I guess when you’re one of the Elder Gods, there are probably plenty of things you can do.

All the Elder Gods tell me that one movie to be sure to avoid is Hastur, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Mom and Dad had, in addition to me and my sisters, several **faster **children.

Surely you’re thinking of Foster which is either a medieval sheriff or a type of car made by Subaru.

No, the USS Forester was an American aircraft carrier that suffered a terrible fire in 1967.

I think you’re thinking of forrestal which is a first class rating for hotels.

No, the four star is the tissue at the end of the male organ which is sometimes trimmed for religious or hygienic reasons.

If you have too many insects for your home to be hygienic, you might call an exterminator, such as the Foreskin man.

I guess Orkin might have been able to get rid of insects–he was a wizard in the Masters of the Universe franchise after all.

No, Orko was Glenn Shadix’s character in Beetlejuice, the one who found the Guide and “raised” the Maitlands.