Malapropagation: The Next Generation

And jumping the rails from the previous thread we begin with brujaja’s description of a vegetable, technically a fruit, that’s used in salads.

Despite it sounding suspiciously like “avocado” I believe the actual word is cucumber

which is, of course, the 12th month of the year.

Yule be surprised to learn that December is actually a word that means gloomy or dismal; from a Latin root meaning “shade”.

Perchance you wouldn’t be trying to say somber

Because they prefer the term “undead.”

That really doesn’t sound right. I thoughtzombieswere young girls who prefer to dress and play like boys.

No, no, no. The word you’re looking for, tomboys, has actually been appropriated by youthful African Americans to refer to their friends. From outer space.

Nope. Homeboys is actually a way to serve tasty taters…

I think you’re mistaken.

Home fries

are those annoying little black winged insects that show up in your house in the summertime.

Nein! house flies are stay-at-home Moms, in Germany.

Nope.

Hausfraus

is a famous street in downtown Manhattan.

Famous on the piers, maybe. A Houston is a big rope or cable used to tie a ship to the dock.

I think you’re a little mixed up.

A


hawser

is a charlatan who claims to find water using pointy sticks.

You’re wrong, sailor. Hawser is actually the lead singer for ShaNaNa.

Yowzers!!! That can’t be right.

Bowzer is the interface that lets us look at the Web, like IE, Firefox, etc.

Error on kunilou!

Browser

is the last name of Jeff, who played shortstop for the Atlanta Braves during the late 1980’s and most of the '90’s.

It’s the firing squad for you!

Blauser

is the common name of a German arms manufacturer who has made a line of bolt-action rifles from the 1870s to present.

Afraid you’re shooting blanks here.

Mauser is simply the French word for sir or mister.

Kunilou, check you PMs.

You’re dead wrong.

Monsieur

is a popular, strange computer game from the '90s.

(I’m afraid I have no idea which game Freudian Slit means, so I’ll pretend it’s)

Half Life

is a young, calfless cow.

No, a Heifer
is the founder of Playboy Enterprises.

My other one was MYST.