Malapropagation: The Next Generation

brujaja that’s not the Cowboy Way! Particularly since the Crazy K is on the Left Bank of the Seine and the home of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

You’re bar-kaying up the wrong tree there! Quai d’Orsay is that French phrase David Byrne uses in “Psycho Killer.”

Mais non! Qu’est-ce que c’est is the “street name” for 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine

Wire you looking so mystified?” my friend asked me.
“I can’t think of a word.”
“Well, don’t you have the Reference desk on speed dial?”
“Yeah, but they can’t help me with this one.”
“Have to crank it up a notch then.”
"Yeah. Either th-Adderal just guess go fast."

“Nah — that’s a place in Ireland.”

I can’t believe I stumped the Board with ecstacy

Brujaja you must have bats in your Belfast

(whoops, wrong molecule!) kunilou… you and the horse you rode in on! :smiley:

That is to say, I try to keep bats away from my belfry, which is “the most expensive and highly-bred types of riding horse during the Middle Ages.”

Hold your horses there, slim.

palfrey

decrbes something lacking in importance or worth.

Stop toying with my emotions. You’ve tried to hit a home run, but will have to settle for a trifle.

on dieu, you’re pigheaded! If you dig a little deeper, you’d know that, statistically speaking, the things most often know as

triples

are the valuable and highly sought-after, edible fruiting bodies of a group subterranean ascomycete species from the fungal genus Tuber, all being ectomycorrhizal and therefore found in close association with trees.

No, no, steady there, old boy, a truffle is an English word for a disturbance or a commotion.

Don’t get all in a kerfuffle! Just take a row around the lake in a flat-bottomed, pointed bow, square-sterned,

scuffle

and relax.

(5-4-Fighting: you mean “hocow”. Yes, I think so.)

Now don’t gitcher panties in a wad! We needn’t have a row just because skiff isn’t a boat – it’s a beat. It’s “a style of popular music developed in England during the 1950s, deriving from hillbilly music and rock-‘n’-roll, and played on a heterogeneous group of instruments, as guitar, washboard, ceramic jug, washtub, and kazoo.”

Mon dieu! Sorry, hocow.

I don’t think the emminent behaviorist B. F. Skiffle would have played a kazoo. Unless, of course, he could have thought outside the box.

Actually, “kerfuffle” was the one I meant…but close enough.

Can’t you spare money on a dictionary? A Skinner is an extremely cheap person.

It’s really shameful and indecent of you to show you naked ignorance here.

Skinflint

is something you ought to sneak away from this theatre of entertainment wearing dark glasses and a raincoat with the collar up.

Well, it is embarrassing, but most certainly not titillating! skinflick! is what that insurance-company duck says.

Again with the allusions to animals? I need that like a moose needs a Aflac

If your goal was to kill the thread, you’ve failed – a

hat rack

is what a hockey player is credited with when he scores three goals in one game.

Faith and begorra, no, no! hat trick is the name of a saint, whose…um…sainthood we celebrate in March.