Malapropagation 2012 -- Revenge of the Schtick

He wasn’t in The Wizard of Oz, was he? My favorite character in that movie has always been the Cowardly Brian.

Did you see Tom Hanks in Saving Private* Lion***?

I saw that movie. I think at some point they crossed the Ryan, the 12th longest river in Europe.

Of course! Too bad Capt. Miller never made it with his troops to the Ryan River, in the final push to destroy the Third Reich.

Ignore the previous post. In play:

Roy Orbison shed enough tears in his song “Rhine” to fill plenty of European rivers.

I’ve always preferred looking into a crystal ball, that is, crying, to other forms of prognostication.

You need a crystal ball to figure out terms like “love” and “deuce” and all the quaint terminology they use in tennis scrying.

Madame Pepperwinkle is quite quiet when she sleeps, but I, alas, am prone to wake her from her pleasant slumber with my godawful scoring.

Hermann Snoring was head of the Luftwaffe during World War II, and an avid (if illicit) art collector.

We must each speak as we find, but I for one find art collections **Göring **in the extreme.

I almost got lost in an art museum once. I had to look at a floor map to regain my boring

A floor map probably isn’t going to tell you how to get between Russia and Alaska via the Bearing Strait.

Our old blender died, now Madame Pepperwinkle wants one, and not a generic brand, but a Bering.

Going to the department store to buy appliances always has the effect of Waring me down.

Maybe it’s just the wearing sound that things spinning fast (like blenders, e.g.) produce that makes you tired.

I can’t stand the news any more. I’m a peaceful soul and to hear about the whirring factions in Syria makes me ill to my stomach.

Is it true you can tell which faction they belong to by which ear they wear their warring?

No - jewellery is less an indication of loyalties than of earrings - it’s the whole wealth/status thing.

So who do you think had more wealth in those long time muppet roommates? Bert or Earning?

When Jim Henson was dying, they rushed him to the hospital and strapped him down on an ernie to wheel him to OR.