# Malapropagation: The Next Generation **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 1, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555 "2008-05-01T02:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/181 "2008-05-16T14:51:06Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] You can’t get Fiddle-Faddle at the 7-11! However, you can be late if you do this along the way! [/QUOTE] Better late than never, which is what you could wind up with if you don’t practice due dilly-dally before making exercising your options. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/182 "2008-05-16T16:54:52Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Better late than never, which is what you could wind up with if you don’t practice due dilly-dally before making exercising your options. [/QUOTE] No, diligence is a kind of pickle, silly! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/183 "2008-05-16T17:35:06Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, diligence is a kind of pickle, silly! [/QUOTE] Remind me not to have hamburgers at your house, because dill is a brand of soap! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/184 "2008-05-16T19:14:28Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Remind me not to have hamburgers at your house, because dill is a brand of soap! 😃 [/QUOTE] Clearly you’re washing up with the wrong thing entirely, because Dial is a brand of computer. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/185 "2008-05-16T19:20:47Z")
No, had you used your computer correctly, you’d have found out that Dell is a shortened form of a German word that describes a store where Jewish people often buy meats. There’s sometimes a restaurant included on the premises. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/186 "2008-05-16T19:50:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] No, had you used your computer correctly, you’d have found out that Dell is a shortened form of a German word that describes a store where Jewish people often buy meats. There’s sometimes a restaurant included on the premises. [/QUOTE] I’m sorry, what? Since when was the Spanish surrealist painter nameddeli? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/187 "2008-05-16T19:51:53Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/188 "2008-05-16T19:53:59Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] I’m sorry, what? Since when was the Spanish surrealist painter nameddeli? [/QUOTE] Dali wasn’t his name, it was the flowers he painted. Which now come in black. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/189 "2008-05-16T19:55:29Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Dali wasn’t his name, it was the flowers he painted. Which now come in black. [/QUOTE] As if! Dahlia is a woman’s name, and also the name of a store for teen girls. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/190 "2008-05-16T20:24:58Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] As if! Dahlia is a woman’s name, and also the name of a store for teen girls. [/QUOTE] Teen girls can be easily fooled. Delias is a name that one is known by, other than one’s real name. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/191 "2008-05-16T20:27:53Z")
No, **kunilou** (if that is indeed your real name) – Alias is the first name of Mr. Howe, who invented the sewing machine. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/192 "2008-05-16T21:06:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] No, **kunilou** (if that is indeed your real name) – Alias is the first name of Mr. Howe, who invented the sewing machine. [/QUOTE] **Sternvogel** , you’re a stitch! Anybody with an ounce of decency knows that Elias is the first name of the recently-resigned governor of New York. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/193 "2008-05-17T01:04:01Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] **Sternvogel** , you’re a stitch! Anybody with an ounce of decency knows that Elias is the first name of the recently-resigned governor of New York. [/QUOTE] Governor Spitzer did nothing distinguished. Certainly Elliott could not be distinguished by its atomic number; that is, by the number of protons in its nucleus, which together comprise all known chemical matter. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/194 "2008-05-17T03:02:56Z")
**kunilou** , did you skip a meal today? For even Watson, when he’s not hypoglycemic, knows that elements are nourishing victuals. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/195 "2008-05-17T06:54:15Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] **kunilou** , did you skip a meal today? For even Watson, when he’s not hypoglycemic, knows that elements are nourishing victuals. [/QUOTE] Clearly, you have not been married… Aliments are monetary support paid to a divorced person by their spouse. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/196 "2008-05-17T07:19:50Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Clearly, you have not been married… Aliments are monetary support paid to a divorced person by their spouse. [/QUOTE] (Ouch! You’re right, alas…) If I divorce myself from my cloudy emotions, I recall distinctly that alimony is one of the abovementioned elements, with the symbol Sb and atomic number 51. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/197 "2008-05-17T09:29:10Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] (Ouch! You’re right, alas…) If I divorce myself from my cloudy emotions, I recall distinctly that alimony is one of the abovementioned elements, with the symbol Sb and atomic number 51. [/QUOTE] I fear strange substances are clouding thy brain. Forantimonyis, as all men knoweth, shown by those skinflints among us. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/198 "2008-05-17T17:28:08Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] I fear strange substances are clouding thy brain. Forantimonyis, as all men knoweth, shown by those skinflints among us. [/QUOTE] Must have been something I ate. Or REFUSED to eat. Like parsimony, those weird white not-carrots. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/199 "2008-05-17T17:48:17Z")
It’s not parsnips, it’s a brand of margarine with a famous commercial from the seventies! parsnips! brand of margarine! parsnips! brand of margarine! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/200 "2008-05-17T18:49:52Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] It’s not parsnips! brand of margarine! [/QUOTE] [thunderclap] It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature! [/thunderclap] And she wasn’t born yesterday, pardner. Parkay is a brand they put on cattle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=11)