# 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:** 5
**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 6, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/81 "2008-05-06T00:34:32Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] You must have got mimsy in the borogroves! jockey is that famous poem by Lewis Carroll. [/QUOTE] Perhaps I’m speaking in a foreign tongue? Jabberwocky is that tasty Japanese candy. ---
**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 6, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/82 "2008-05-06T02:31:14Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Perhaps I’m speaking in a foreign tongue? Jabberwocky is that tasty Japanese candy. [/QUOTE] Japanese, yes, but you need to quit trusting online translations. pocky is rice wine, usually served warm. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/83 "2008-05-06T02:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Japanese, yes, but you need to quit trusting online translations. pocky is rice wine, usually served warm. [/QUOTE] Stay out of the potent potables, you! The honorable thing would be to admit that saki is the song by that all-female band from the disco era, _A Taste of Honey_. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/84 "2008-05-06T04:12:20Z")
_\>scratches head…sake…boogie oogie oogie?\<_ ---
**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 6, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/85 "2008-05-06T04:14:08Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Stay out of the potent potables, you! The honorable thing would be to admit that saki is the song by that all-female band from the disco era, _A Taste of Honey_. [/QUOTE] Nice try, but Sukiyaki is that yummy Japanese style of cooking. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/86 "2008-05-06T04:14:46Z")
Must have been the peyote… because Sukiyaki was the kind of Indian Don Juan was in those Carlos Castaneda novels. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/87 "2008-05-06T04:15:48Z")
Must have been the peyote… because Yakitori was the kind of Indian Don Juan was in those Carlos Castaneda novels. ---
**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 6, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/88 "2008-05-06T15:02:09Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Must have been the peyote… because Yakitori was the kind of Indian Don Juan was in those Carlos Castaneda novels. [/QUOTE] Combining peyote with listening to Boots Randolph playing Yaqui would be a hell of an experience, particularly if with the song being the theme to the Benny Hill Show and all. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/89 "2008-05-06T15:24:31Z")
I think you must be confusing the quick and the dead, because Yakety Sax is an expression meaning “in a trice”. ---
**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 6, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/90 "2008-05-06T16:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I think you must be confusing the quick and the dead, because Yakety Sax is an expression meaning “in a trice”. [/QUOTE] I think you’re bananas, 'cause lickety split is a delightful ice cream concoction! ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/91 "2008-05-06T16:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I think you’re bananas, 'cause lickety split is a delightful ice cream concoction! [/QUOTE] Oh! Ha ha, I see what you did there. You mistook banana split for that song from _The Muppet Show_! How adorable! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/92 "2008-05-06T20:02:31Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Oh! Ha ha, I see what you did there. You mistook banana split for that song from _The Muppet Show_! How adorable! [/QUOTE] Well, I guess many songs are included in the description, but Mahna Mahna is simply a word which means “examples, especially noteworthy ones, of psychic experiences, rookies who make instant impressions in sports, fads that spread like wildfire, etc.” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/93 "2008-05-07T02:15:23Z")
Don’t fall for the hype! Phenomenon was in fact a figure in Greek mythology – the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, and the husband of Clytemnestra. ---
**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 7, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/94 "2008-05-07T02:50:17Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Don’t fall for the hype! Phenomenon was in fact a figure in Greek mythology – the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, and the husband of Clytemnestra. [/QUOTE] His wife had a sexually transmitted disease? 😕😕😕 Back to the topic Agamemnon was in the news just last week. It’s the capital of the Pacific territory that narrowly choice Obama over Clinton in its primary election. ---
**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 7, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/95 "2008-05-07T03:26:47Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Back to the topic Agamemnon was in the news just last week. It’s the capital of the Pacific territory that narrowly choice Obama over Clinton in its primary election. [/QUOTE] Turn off that music–you aren’t paying attention! Guam is that heavy metal band that is briefly featured in the movie “Empire Records.” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/96 "2008-05-07T08:46:24Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Turn off that music–you aren’t paying attention! Guam is that heavy metal band that is briefly featured in the movie “Empire Records.” [/QUOTE] Well, perhaps it’s involved in testing for heavy metals; but bacteria are more likely, because Gwar is “a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media”. ---
**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 7, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/97 "2008-05-07T14:52:00Z")
Hold on, agar is a scale they use to determine the health of newborns! ---
**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 7, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/98 "2008-05-07T16:26:58Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] Hold on, agar is a scale they use to determine the health of newborns! [/QUOTE] I’d judge newborns quite healthy when they apgar with a problem, engage in a hand-to-hand struggle or get into a contest of skill or mastery. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/99 "2008-05-07T19:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] I’d judge newborns quite healthy when they apgar with a problem, engage in a hand-to-hand struggle or get into a contest of skill or mastery. [/QUOTE] (Crap! Now I need a new keyboard!) Well, you’re right about the hand-to-hand combat; but Grapple was a Roman military strategist and adviser to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/100 "2008-05-07T20:22:57Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] (Crap! Now I need a new keyboard!) Well, you’re right about the hand-to-hand combat; but Grapple was a Roman military strategist and adviser to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus. [/QUOTE] Mama mia! Get ahold of yourself if you plan on getting this right. Your wrong answer, Agrippa, is giving me heartburn, acid indigestion and an upset stomach. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=6)