# 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:** 11
**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 18, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/201 "2008-05-18T00:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] [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. [/QUOTE] **brujaja** that’s not the Cowboy Way! Particularly since the Crazy K is on the Left Bank of the Seine and the home of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/202 "2008-05-18T02:26:17Z")
You’re bar-kaying up the wrong tree there! Quai d’Orsay is that French phrase David Byrne uses in “Psycho Killer.” ---
**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 18, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/203 "2008-05-18T02:49:48Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] You’re bar-kaying up the wrong tree there! Quai d’Orsay is that French phrase David Byrne uses in “Psycho Killer.” [/QUOTE] Mais non! Qu’est-ce que c’est is the “street name” for 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/204 "2008-05-18T04:16:46Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Mais non! Qu’est-ce que c’est is the “street name” for 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine [/QUOTE] “ **Wire** you looking so mystified?” my friend asked me. “I can’t think of a word.” “Well, don’t you have the Reference desk on **speed** dial?” “Yeah, but they can’t help me with this one.” “Have to **crank** it up a notch then.” "Yeah. Either th- **Adderal** just guess go fast." “Nah — that’s a place in Ireland.” ---
**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 19, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/205 "2008-05-19T01:00:56Z")
I can’t believe I stumped the Board with ecstacy **Brujaja** you must have bats in your Belfast ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/206 "2008-05-19T03:38:51Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] **Brujaja** you must have bats in your Belfast [/QUOTE] (whoops, wrong molecule!) **kunilou** … you and the horse you rode in on! 😃 That is to say, I try to keep bats away from my belfry, which is “the most expensive and highly-bred types of riding horse during the Middle Ages.” ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/207 "2008-05-19T12:05:44Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] (whoops, wrong molecule!) **kunilou** … you and the horse you rode in on! 😃 That is to say, I try to keep bats away from my belfry, which is “the most expensive and highly-bred types of riding horse during the Middle Ages.” [/QUOTE] Hold your horses there, slim. palfrey decrbes something lacking in importance or worth. ---
**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 19, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/208 "2008-05-19T14:09:39Z")
[QUOTE=hocow] Hold your horses there, slim. palfrey decrbes something lacking in importance or worth. [/QUOTE] Stop toying with my emotions. You’ve tried to hit a home run, but will have to settle for a trifle. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/209 "2008-05-19T19:30:19Z")
on dieu, you’re pigheaded! If you dig a little deeper, you’d know that, statistically speaking, the things most often know as triples are the valuable and highly sought-after, edible fruiting bodies of a group subterranean ascomycete species from the fungal genus Tuber, all being ectomycorrhizal and therefore found in close association with trees. ---
**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 19, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/210 "2008-05-19T19:32:56Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] on dieu, you’re pigheaded! If you dig a little deeper, you’d know that, statistically speaking, the things most often know as triples are the valuable and highly sought-after, edible fruiting bodies of a group subterranean ascomycete species from the fungal genus Tuber, all being ectomycorrhizal and therefore found in close association with trees. [/QUOTE] No, no, steady there, old boy, a truffle is an English word for a disturbance or a commotion. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/211 "2008-05-19T19:45:06Z")
Don’t get all in a kerfuffle! Just take a row around the lake in a flat-bottomed, pointed bow, square-sterned, scuffle and relax. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/212 "2008-05-19T20:23:48Z")
( **5-4-Fighting** : you mean “ **hocow** ”. Yes, I think so.) Now don’t gitcher panties in a wad! We needn’t have a row just because skiff isn’t a **boat** – it’s a **beat**. It’s “a style of popular music developed in England during the 1950s, deriving from hillbilly music and rock-‘n’-roll, and played on a heterogeneous group of instruments, as guitar, washboard, ceramic jug, washtub, and kazoo.” ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/213 "2008-05-19T21:10:06Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] ( **5-4-Fighting** : you mean “ **hocow** ”. Yes, I think so.) [/QUOTE] Mon dieu! Sorry, **hocow**. ---
**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 19, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/214 "2008-05-19T21:34:34Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] ( **5-4-Fighting** : you mean “ **hocow** ”. Yes, I think so.) Now don’t gitcher panties in a wad! We needn’t have a row just because skiff isn’t a **boat** – it’s a **beat**. It’s “a style of popular music developed in England during the 1950s, deriving from hillbilly music and rock-‘n’-roll, and played on a heterogeneous group of instruments, as guitar, washboard, ceramic jug, washtub, and kazoo.” [/QUOTE] I don’t think the emminent behaviorist B. F. Skiffle would have played a kazoo. Unless, of course, he could have thought outside the box. ---
**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 19, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/215 "2008-05-19T22:28:19Z")
Actually, “kerfuffle” was the one I meant…but close enough. [QUOTE=kunilou] I don’t think the emminent behaviorist B. F. Skiffle would have played a kazoo. Unless, of course, he could have thought outside the box. [/QUOTE] Can’t you spare money on a dictionary? A Skinner is an extremely cheap person. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/216 "2008-05-19T22:50:10Z")
It’s really shameful and indecent of you to show you naked ignorance here. Skinflint is something you ought to sneak away from this theatre of entertainment wearing dark glasses and a raincoat with the collar up. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/217 "2008-05-19T22:58:40Z")
Well, it is embarrassing, but most certainly not titillating! skinflick! is what that insurance-company duck says. ---
**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 20, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/218 "2008-05-20T02:04:44Z")
Again with the allusions to animals? I need that like a moose needs a Aflac ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/219 "2008-05-20T22:20:25Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Again with the allusions to animals? I need that like a moose needs a Aflac [/QUOTE] If your goal was to kill the thread, you’ve failed – a hat rack is what a hockey player is credited with when he scores three goals in one game. ---
**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 20, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/220 "2008-05-20T22:24:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] If your goal was to kill the thread, you’ve failed – a hat rack is what a hockey player is credited with when he scores three goals in one game. [/QUOTE] Faith and begorra, no, no! hat trick is the name of a saint, whose…um…sainthood we celebrate in March. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=12)