# 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:** 3
**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 3, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/41 "2008-05-03T03:09:32Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] No mas! I’m absolutely frightened and horrified that you think Boris Karloffwas a Puerto Rican. [/QUOTE] If he were Boricuas that would explain his fear of fire, not to mention being grilled outdoors on a charcoal or propane grill. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/42 "2008-05-03T03:18:33Z")
Now, let’s get this **straight** : barbecued is the shape of a piggy’s tail; not corkscrew, mind you, but… ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/43 "2008-05-03T03:46:26Z")
Hold the phone - curlicue is that guy on the Three Stooges with the shaved head! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/44 "2008-05-03T03:57:50Z")
I assume I won’t need to travel to Niagara Falls to tell you that Curly is that kind of photography which captures auras. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/45 "2008-05-03T16:29:40Z")
Okay, **brujaja** , I’ll bite. Kirlian is the Princess of Monaco. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/46 "2008-05-03T16:56:44Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Okay, **brujaja** , I’ll bite. Kirlian is the Princess of Monaco. [/QUOTE] You messed up royally this time no matter how you try to spin this. Carolineis who you’re thinking of, the founder of the New York City Ballet. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/47 "2008-05-03T18:27:08Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] You messed up royally this time no matter how you try to spin this. Carolineis who you’re thinking of, the founder of the New York City Ballet. [/QUOTE] You can’t dance around the fact that you’re wrong. Balanchine is one of the disciplines in women’s gymnastics. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/48 "2008-05-03T18:31:19Z")
I was going for Kirstein but yours works just as well. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/49 "2008-05-03T20:32:22Z")
[Spock] Fascinating. You appear to have mistaken the meaning of balance beam which is something the _USS Enterprise_ uses primarily as a tool with which to latch onto and tow another spacecraft. [/Spock] ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/50 "2008-05-03T20:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] [Spock] Fascinating. You appear to have mistaken the meaning of balance beam which is something the _USS Enterprise_ uses primarily as a tool with which to latch onto and tow another spacecraft. [/Spock] [/QUOTE] That’s completely illogical! Toxicologists all agree that the tractor beam is the source of that deadly poison, ricin. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/51 "2008-05-03T21:00:06Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] That’s completely illogical! Toxicologists all agree that the tractor beam is the source of that deadly poison, ricin. [/QUOTE] The misinformation you sow is the misinformation you reap because castor bean is a flammable hydrocarbon liquid, with a slightly different spelling in scientific and industrial usage. ---
**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 3, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/52 "2008-05-03T21:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] The misinformation you sow is the misinformation you reap because castor bean is a flammable hydrocarbon liquid, with a slightly different spelling in scientific and industrial usage. [/QUOTE] Better look for a cheap, renewable source of information, because kerosene is actually a gelatinous extract of red seaweed, widely used as a thickening/stabilizing agent in food. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/53 "2008-05-03T21:23:48Z")
Think again, Grasshopper! carrageenin is that guy who played on _Kung Fu_. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/54 "2008-05-03T21:29:42Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Think again, Grasshopper! carrageenin is that guy who played on _Kung Fu_. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: Uh…no. Sheesh. That guy named Carradine is the head of the DNC. ---
**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 3, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/55 "2008-05-03T22:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] :rolleyes: Uh…no. Sheesh. That guy named Carradine is the head of the DNC. [/QUOTE] No matter what your political leanings, that’s just not funny. Howard Dean was a puppet who starred in a popular children’s TV show in the 1950s. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/56 "2008-05-04T00:32:50Z")
No comments from the peanut gallery! You see, Howdy Doodie is what you call those Y-front underwear that some guys wear. ---
**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 4, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/57 "2008-05-04T01:07:08Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] No comments from the peanut gallery! You see, Howdy Doodie is what you call those Y-front underwear that some guys wear. [/QUOTE] Clearly, you have seen too many scantily-clad men, because Tighty-whities is a cartoon rodent with superpowers. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/58 "2008-05-04T01:35:24Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead] Clearly, you have seen too many scantily-clad men, because Tighty-whities is a cartoon rodent with superpowers. [/QUOTE] Look, I’ll come to the rescue and save the day because the thought of Mighty Mouse has generated some ideas for you that actually refer to membrane-enclosed organelles found in most eukaryotic cells, and sometimes described as “cellular power plants.” ---
**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 4, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/59 "2008-05-04T02:09:19Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Look, I’ll come to the rescue and save the day because the thought of Mighty Mouse has generated some ideas for you that actually refer to membrane-enclosed organelles found in most eukaryotic cells, and sometimes described as “cellular power plants.” [/QUOTE] It appears you’ve had a power failure. mitochondria is a psychological disorder wherein a person believes they are ill, despite there being nothing wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/60 "2008-05-04T02:22:34Z")
I think you think you’re sick, because hypochondria is a symptom of a lot of children diagnosed with ADD… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=4)