Malapropagation: The Next Generation

No no no - Osso Buco is that New Yorker that made headlines with a 16 year old and a dead wife.

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”?

Heavens, no, Bodhisatta is a female garment, often found ripped on the cover of romance novels.

(Incidentally, Mary Jo Buttafuoco did survive the shooting.)

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.

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.

What a tangled web we weave… Itty-bitty is how big the spider that went up the waterspout was.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No, fool, Smallpox is the name of that famous rap artist who was shot and killed in the late 90s

Oh no, no, no! In fact it was the noted pioneer Jebediah Springfield who said “A noble spirit Biggie Small the smallest man.”

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.

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.

Lumbago is a painful condition all right, but it’s actually a skin infection caused by staph…

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.

I think you’re trying too hard…Impressionism is a word that means easily influenced or suggestible and often refers to young people.

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.

And you went for it too, didn’t you?

Well they lied, because impressionable means, like, a fortress that can’t be breeched.

I like 5-4-Fighting’s one better.