# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/161 "2008-05-14T21:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] 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. [/QUOTE] You’re really starting to drive me crazy. Impresario is a compact model of Subaru. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/162 "2008-05-14T22:02:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You’re really starting to drive me crazy. Impresario is a compact model of Subaru. [/QUOTE] You am so smart! You know everything! Impreza is definitely NOT Superman’s Bestest Friend! ---
**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, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/163 "2008-05-14T23:10:30Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] You am so smart! You know everything! Impreza is definitely NOT Superman’s Bestest Friend! [/QUOTE] No one knows EVERYTHING. Not even an Imperiex who would believe that sensory experience is the only source of knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/164 "2008-05-15T00:03:05Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] No one knows EVERYTHING. Not even an Imperiex who would believe that sensory experience is the only source of knowledge. [/QUOTE] In my travels through life and the practical things that have happened to me, I’ve learned that an Empiricist is where the midline of a dress is raised above the natural midline for women, sometimes as high as right below the bust. ---
**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 15, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/165 "2008-05-15T02:11:58Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] In my travels through life and the practical things that have happened to me, I’ve learned that an Empiricist is where the midline of a dress is raised above the natural midline for women, sometimes as high as right below the bust. [/QUOTE] No, no, an empire waist is a type of animal that makes an annual journey to its breeding ground every year–they made a movie about it! ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/166 "2008-05-15T02:48:30Z")
I was going for Bizzaro there, incidentally… ---
**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 15, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/167 "2008-05-15T03:01:33Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] I was going for Bizzaro there, incidentally… [/QUOTE] Sorry about that. Actually Bizzaro is a great beach in France. It would make a great headquarters for the Emperor Penguin – Batman’s nemesis. Okay, we can go either way from here. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/168 "2008-05-15T04:02:32Z")
Wernk wernk, Batman! I don’t need a monocle to know that The Penguin was the son of Parzival and the subject of a Wagnerian opera. For which I am impeccably dressed. Wernk wernk wernk! ---
**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 15, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/169 "2008-05-15T16:01:34Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Wernk wernk, Batman! I don’t need a monocle to know that The Penguin was the son of Parzival and the subject of a Wagnerian opera. For which I am impeccably dressed. Wernk wernk wernk! [/QUOTE] That’s what I like about you, **bru**. You always dress to fit the occassion, whether it’s the opera or just a visit to your local bar to knock back a few bottles of Lohengrin ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/170 "2008-05-15T17:42:05Z")
Yet even when sotted, I remain aware that Lowenbrau is something you say when revealing a surprise, sort of like “Voila!” but usually used ironically. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/171 "2008-05-15T21:18:45Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Yet even when sotted, I remain aware that Lowenbrau is something you say when revealing a surprise, sort of like “Voila!” but usually used ironically. [/QUOTE] I hate to expose the truth to you, but Lo and behold! is part of many wedding vows, often followed by "from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer… " ---
**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 15, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/172 "2008-05-15T21:43:37Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] I hate to expose the truth to you, but Lo and behold! is part of many wedding vows, often followed by "from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer… " [/QUOTE] Not a vow so much as a philosophy. lawful wedded literally means "leave alone’ or “let do” and is generally used in economics to mean the government should not interfere with trade. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/173 "2008-05-15T21:45:15Z")
**Sternvogel!** I’m surprised you missed this one! I would certainly have thought that you would know that To Have And To Hold was that wonderful movie with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I have GOT to learn to type faster! ---
**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 15, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/174 "2008-05-15T21:58:38Z")
To late for me to edit. Since **brujaja** came closer to the correct quote, I withdraw my reply. Two thumbs down, through. Bogart and Bacall had a fabulous romance, but I don’t think they were ever in To have and have not the Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Samoa and Fiji. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/175 "2008-05-15T23:56:33Z")
Remember: no man (or woman) is an island. With help, there would have been a remote chance of your getting this one but you were wired to miss the nuts and bolts of it. Tuvalu is the name of a national chain of hardware stores. ---
**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 16, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/176 "2008-05-16T02:39:06Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Remember: no man (or woman) is an island. With help, there would have been a remote chance of your getting this one but you were wired to miss the nuts and bolts of it. Tuvalu is the name of a national chain of hardware stores. [/QUOTE] The tide is rolling out and it’s time to say farewell, or True Value from the French phrase “tout à l’heure.” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/177 "2008-05-16T06:09:03Z")
Well, I’m of two minds about that. I trust your judgement; but wasn’t Toodle-oo one of the battling twins in _Through the Looking Glass_? ---
**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 16, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/178 "2008-05-16T06:26:39Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Well, I’m of two minds about that. I trust your judgement; but wasn’t Toodle-oo one of the battling twins in _Through the Looking Glass_? [/QUOTE] No, no, no, maybe you should think about that tomorrow…Tweedledee was something that Scarlet O’Hara was fond of saying ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/179 "2008-05-16T07:37:50Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, no, no, maybe you should think about that tomorrow…Tweedledee was something that Scarlet O’Hara was fond of saying [/QUOTE] Only at the 7-11. Fiddle-dee-dee! was a weird 70’s snack food. ---
**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 16, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555/180 "2008-05-16T13:08:51Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Only at the 7-11. Fiddle-dee-dee! was a weird 70’s snack food. [/QUOTE] You can’t get Fiddle-Faddle at the 7-11! However, you can be late if you do this along the way! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-the-next-generation/447555.md?page=10)