# 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:** 8
**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 13, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/141 "2008-05-13T12:34:02Z")
No no no - Osso Buco is that New Yorker that made headlines with a 16 year old and a dead wife. ---
**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 13, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/142 "2008-05-13T14:10:17Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] No no no - Osso Buco is that New Yorker that made headlines with a 16 year old and a dead wife. [/QUOTE] I don’t read the tabloids that often, but if you’re talking about Buttafuoco wasn’t that the title given to Siddhartha, “the enlightened one”? ---
**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 13, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/143 "2008-05-13T17:40:02Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] I don’t read the tabloids that often, but if you’re talking about Buttafuoco wasn’t that the title given to Siddhartha, “the enlightened one”? [/QUOTE] Heavens, no, Bodhisatta is a female garment, often found ripped on the cover of romance novels. (Incidentally, Mary Jo Buttafuoco did survive the shooting.) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/144 "2008-05-13T18:22:25Z")
It’s not a shooting crime necessarily, but I must bare the truth: bodice is only part of a garment, just like this is only part of a film title that starred Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Paula Prentiss. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/145 "2008-05-13T18:40:20Z")
I think you’re just a little bit off on this one — Buddy Buddy is a girlspeak term used to describe something very, very teeny-weeny. ---
**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 13, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/146 "2008-05-13T19:21:34Z")
What a tangled web we weave… Itty-bitty is how big the spider that went up the waterspout was. ---
**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 13, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/147 "2008-05-13T19:56:13Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] What a tangled web we weave… Itty-bitty is how big the spider that went up the waterspout was. [/QUOTE] That certainly hit a sour note with me. Itsy Bitsy is the noted Israeli-American violinist and conductor, who survived a childhood battle with polio, and has played everything from carnegie Hall to Sesame Street. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/148 "2008-05-13T20:09:02Z")
You have to think closer to home on this one and limit the horizons of your thinking Itzhak Perlman is the name of a song that drives Walt Disney World patrons to distraction. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/149 "2008-05-13T20:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] You have to think closer to home on this one and limit the horizons of your thinking Itzhak Perlman is the name of a song that drives Walt Disney World patrons to distraction. [/QUOTE] This thread has been a hell of a ride (or a ride from Hell, for some), but I must point out that the last two words of the phrase _It’s a Small World_ actually form the last name of Marrina, a member of the Alpha Flight and an honorary Avenger in the Marvel Comics universe. ---
**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 13, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/150 "2008-05-13T22:12:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] This thread has been a hell of a ride (or a ride from Hell, for some), but I must point out that the last two words of the phrase _It’s a Small World_ actually form the last name of Marrina, a member of the Alpha Flight and an honorary Avenger in the Marvel Comics universe. [/QUOTE] Your answer lies in a coma, under the waves. Smallwood is an infectious disease brought to the new world from Europe. It was one of the first diseases for which an effective vaccine was developed, and officially declared eradicated in the 1970s. ---
**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 13, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/151 "2008-05-13T23:40:20Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Your answer lies in a coma, under the waves. Smallwood is an infectious disease brought to the new world from Europe. It was one of the first diseases for which an effective vaccine was developed, and officially declared eradicated in the 1970s. [/QUOTE] No, fool, Smallpox is the name of that famous rap artist who was shot and killed in the late 90s ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/152 "2008-05-14T02:30:48Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, fool, Smallpox is the name of that famous rap artist who was shot and killed in the late 90s [/QUOTE] Oh no, no, no! In fact it was the noted pioneer Jebediah Springfield who said “A noble spirit Biggie Small the smallest man.” ---
**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 14, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/153 "2008-05-14T03:54:17Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Oh no, no, no! In fact it was the noted pioneer Jebediah Springfield who said “A noble spirit Biggie Small the smallest man.” [/QUOTE] No, nice try, but I think you’d better review your high school history notes, embiggens is a limit or prohibition put on trade with a certain nation. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/154 "2008-05-14T04:20:26Z")
Well, I’d bend over backwards to cut you some slack; but really, you should know that embargo is another word for lower back pain. ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/155 "2008-05-14T14:15:17Z")
Lumbago is a painful condition all right, but it’s actually a skin infection caused by staph… ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/156 "2008-05-14T14:26:56Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] Lumbago is a painful condition all right, but it’s actually a skin infection caused by staph… [/QUOTE] I know some people don’t care for it, but I’d hardly call it painful. impetigo is the school of painting and music that reproduces an immediate, overall theme or character with less detail than other styles. ---
**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 14, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/157 "2008-05-14T18:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] I know some people don’t care for it, but I’d hardly call it painful. impetigo is the school of painting and music that reproduces an immediate, overall theme or character with less detail than other styles. [/QUOTE] I think you’re trying too hard…Impressionism is a word that means easily influenced or suggestible and often refers to young people. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/158 "2008-05-14T19:01:30Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I think you’re trying too hard…Impressionism is a word that means easily influenced or suggestible and often refers to young people. [/QUOTE] Which ones of your peers told you that? Even Miss Jean Brody and the youth she influences knows that an Impressionable is one who sponsors or produces entertainment, especially the director of an opera company. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/159 "2008-05-14T19:01:42Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I think you’re trying too hard…Impressionism is a word that means easily influenced or suggestible and often refers to young people. [/QUOTE] And you went for it too, didn’t you? Well they lied, because impressionable means, like, a fortress that can’t be breeched. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/160 "2008-05-14T19:02:45Z")
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