Malapropagation 2012 -- Revenge of the Schtick

The Logwood Flower is a song that dates back to 1860 and it was one of the original Carter Family recordings that helped give birth to modern country music.

(Incidentally, what a wonderful shibboleth Haematoxylum would make. If anyone says “He-ma-tox-illum” it’s off with their head!)

Back in the day when I used to play poker with the staff of the Daily Planet, Clark and I always wanted straight poker, nothing fancy, but Lois was always wanting the deuce and trey to be** wildwood**s. Jimmy, well, Jimmy just lost, usually.

Did the Daily Planet have a good sports section, with stories about such college teams as the Wild Cards of Arizona, Villanova, Kentucky, Northwestern, and numerous other institutions of higher learning?

My grandson’s learning to enjoy gaming online, and I’m thinking he’s about ready for WoW, World of Wildcat.

You mean there’s a whole game about Sherlock Holmes’ older brother, Warcraft?

Hell yes. My son plays Mycroft all the time (when it’s not Skyrim or similar). Game looks addictive, but I’d get tired of the blocky graphics even if it is fun digging stuff up and building things.

You let your son read Hitler’s book Minecraft? I guess it’s an interesting read, but there’s so much in there about his ideology.

Well, then the heroine, thinking our hero was in love with her best friend, put on her brother’s gorilla outfit and danced with the art thief while the band played the Raspberry Musetta, sneaking peaks at her potentially treachereous boyfriend and being gladdened of heart when he tossed her best friend into the tuba section, then stealing the thief’s signet ring just as he stepped on the banana peel… well, ya gotta love a **meinkampf **romantic comedy!

Usually in those types of movies, the hero has to race to the airport to stop his girl from leaving. You always see him making a madcap to the door.

No, a **mad-dash **is a Hebrew term for the group of stories told by Jewish rabbis to explain passages in the Old Testament.

Jewish rabbis? Man, acceptance of a bare midrash certainly has changed since Barbara Eden had to cover up her navel in I Dream of Jeanie!

Not as sexy when a man such as Dale Midriff, who played Louis in Pet Sematary, bares his navel, though.

Macbeth’s successor, the Scottish hero Midkiff, never bared his navel to anyone but his wife as far as I know.

I don’t think Scrooge Macduff has a wife. He’s too fond of money to spend it on anybody, except maybe his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

The McDuck are one of the First Nations people, a tribe centered in Oklahoma.

Sorry, but rather than being a First Nation tribe in Oklahoma, the Modoc are actually a future tribe in England, who feast on the Eloi, in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.

I think that you are thinking of Morlock, a futuristic cyborg assassin from Marvel comics.

Yeah, the Demolisher would often find himself stuck between two rival unfriendly forces, trapped in a deathlok between one probably fatal foe and an equally lethal adversary.

Bob Marley and the Wailers made great music, but what I really liked was their deadlocks.