# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/241 "2008-05-22T23:31:57Z")
Must you be so twee?! We’ll have to take steps to turn you around on this or it’s the fiiring squad for you. Ballet is the pointed cylinder or a ball that is expelled from a firearm. ---
**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 22, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/242 "2008-05-22T23:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Must you be so twee?! We’ll have to take steps to turn you around on this or it’s the fiiring squad for you. Ballet is the pointed cylinder or a ball that is expelled from a firearm. [/QUOTE] No, no, no, a Bullet is what we’ll be casting in the elections next November. (If we’re good.) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/243 "2008-05-23T00:04:45Z")
This idea stinks. Why would you cast a ballot in November? Are you trying to clear the place out and suppress the vote with these types of onion plants which produce small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning . ---
**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 23, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/244 "2008-05-23T02:43:45Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] This idea stinks. Why would you cast a ballot in November? Are you trying to clear the place out and suppress the vote with these types of onion plants which produce small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning . [/QUOTE] I see tragedy and doom in this. A shallot is those cards fortune tellers use, with a deck of 21 trump cards, the fool, and an extra face card per suit, in addition to the usual suit (face and pip) cards found in ordinary playing cards. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/245 "2008-05-23T10:55:04Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] A shallot is those cards fortune tellers use, with a deck of 21 trump cards, the fool, and an extra face card per suit, in addition to the usual suit (face and pip) cards found in ordinary playing cards. [/QUOTE] Didn’t you notice, the Fool is wearing lederhosen! Tarot is a west Austrian state, you know, where all the Alps and accordions are. Yeesh! ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/246 "2008-05-23T19:06:30Z")
All these wrong answers are giving me a headache. Tyrol is a popular North American brand of drugs for relieving pain, reducing fever, and relieving the symptoms of allergies, cold, cough, and flu. It’s capsules were also used as the instrument of death in 1982 in the Chicago area. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/247 "2008-05-23T19:36:42Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] All these wrong answers are giving me a headache. Tyrol is a popular North American brand of drugs for relieving pain, reducing fever, and relieving the symptoms of allergies, cold, cough, and flu. It’s capsules were also used as the instrument of death in 1982 in the Chicago area. [/QUOTE] Your reasoning capacities must have been “blowed up real good”! Tylenol is an aromatic hydrocarbon also known as methylbenzene. In its trinitro form, it’s commonly referred to as TNT. ---
**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 23, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/248 "2008-05-23T20:37:43Z")
Remind me not to snack with you. toluene is that triangle-shaped Swiss candy bar that you can sometimes find in really, really large sizes. ---
**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 23, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/249 "2008-05-23T20:54:51Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Remind me not to snack with you. toluene is that triangle-shaped Swiss candy bar that you can sometimes find in really, really large sizes. [/QUOTE] I do love a good Toblerone, but honey, chocolate and shellfish do NOT mix. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/250 "2008-05-24T05:10:58Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I do love a good Toblerone, but honey, chocolate and shellfish do NOT mix. [/QUOTE] I hope you won’t think me shellfish when I tell you that Abalone is actually “a city in Jones and Taylor Counties in the central part of the U.S. state of Texas.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=12)