# Malapropagation (Thread 3 of game -- #1 with New Name) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 16, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579 "2008-04-16T12:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/201 "2008-04-22T15:54:23Z")
I hate to burst your balloon, but rapture is another word for burst. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/202 "2008-04-22T15:58:30Z")
Naaah, rupture is when you take a member of the opposing force, like in chess. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/203 "2008-04-22T16:00:04Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Naaah, rupture is when you take a member of the opposing force, like in chess. [/QUOTE] Take it from me. Capture is when a boat flips over. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/204 "2008-04-22T16:00:34Z")
My God, I type slow! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/205 "2008-04-22T16:02:10Z")
But isn’t capsize when you use an upper-case letter for the beginning of a word? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/206 "2008-04-22T16:02:25Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] But isn’t capsize when you use an upper-case letter for the beginning of a word? [/QUOTE] I’m almost feel like shouting (internet-style) that I was too slow but my correction (and yours) is capitalization which is the active component of chili peppers. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/207 "2008-04-22T16:26:04Z")
My hot-pepper pun device seems to be on the blink this morning, but I do know that capsicum is a red blood cell. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/208 "2008-04-22T16:31:42Z")
You’ll never make your way through the ranks if you don’t know that corpuscle is an Army noncom. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/209 "2008-04-22T16:35:29Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] You’ll never make your way through the ranks if you don’t know that corpuscle is an Army noncom. [/QUOTE] And you’ll never get rich by digging a ditch. You need a thorough background in the classics. Corporal is the family who feuded with the Montagues in Romeo and Juliet. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/210 "2008-04-22T16:36:09Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] You’ll never make your way through the ranks if you don’t know that corpuscle is an Army noncom. [/QUOTE] Oh, **twickster** , I’m so sorry to have to tell you, but a corporal is a big company that’s protected from lawsuits against individual heads and managers. ETA: use **kunilou** ’s. It’s better. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/211 "2008-04-22T16:40:12Z")
Nay, **Zeldar** , corporationis that thing that the Aurora Borealis does. AndCapuletis one form that pills take. Your pick. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/212 "2008-04-22T17:08:20Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] AndCapuletis one form that pills take. [/QUOTE] You guys, with all your errors, are giving me a headache. Taking a Caplet would solve the problem once and for all because the answer is really one of the finishing or protective pieces that form the top of an exterior masonry wall or building, or the piece making up the covering structure of an archaeological tomb (and should seal the deal). ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/213 "2008-04-22T17:19:12Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] You guys, with all your errors, are giving me a headache. Taking a Caplet would solve the problem once and for all because the answer is really one of the finishing or protective pieces that form the top of an exterior masonry wall or building, or the piece making up the covering structure of an archaeological tomb (and should seal the deal). [/QUOTE] Are we talking about capstone?Because if so, it’s a floor covering. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/214 "2008-04-22T19:34:56Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] Are we talking about capstone?Because if so, it’s a floor covering. [/QUOTE] I guess your “floor covering” isn’t sparking my synapses too well. If you meant cobblestonethen that’s a dessert like a pie without a bottom crust. But if you meant carpetthat’s when several people get together in one car to save gas (of the fuel variety) but run the risk of doubling up on the other kind. And if you didn’t mean either one, then I’ll wait some more… ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/215 "2008-04-22T19:38:58Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I guess your “floor covering” isn’t sparking my synapses too well. If you meant cobblestonethen that’s a dessert like a pie without a bottom crust. But if you meant carpetthat’s when several people get together in one car to save gas (of the fuel variety) but run the risk of doubling up on the other kind. And if you didn’t mean either one, then I’ll wait some more… [/QUOTE] Right second time. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/216 "2008-04-22T19:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] But if you meant carpetthat’s when several people get together in one car to save gas (of the fuel variety) but run the risk of doubling up on the other kind. And if you didn’t mean either one, then I’ll wait some more… [/QUOTE] I’m gonna just grab this one and energetically run with it by saying what you probably meant was car pool which means to go for the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/217 "2008-04-22T20:01:45Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] I’m gonna just grab this one and energetically run with it by saying what you probably meant was car pool which means to go for the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future. [/QUOTE] There’s no pleasure at all in carpe diem which is a repetitive stress injury to the wrist and lasts more than one day. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/218 "2008-04-22T20:08:33Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] There’s no pleasure at all in carpe diem which is a repetitive stress injury to the wrist and lasts more than one day. [/QUOTE] It’s amazing! You say carpal tunnel and I think of the one that goes between NYC and Jersey ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/219 "2008-04-22T20:17:22Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It’s amazing! You say carpal tunnel and I think of the one that goes between NYC and Jersey [/QUOTE] I’m guessing you mean Holland Tunnel[, but that’s the name of an actress known for such roles as Ruth Dunbar in _Bosom Buddies_ and Evelyn Harper in _Two and a Half Men_. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/220 "2008-04-22T20:24:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] I’m guessing you mean Holland Tunnel[, but that’s the name of an actress known for such roles as Ruth Dunbar in _Bosom Buddies_ and Evelyn Harper in _Two and a Half Men_. [/QUOTE] Oh, it’s springtime and I think you’re referring to the tradition of Holland Taylor many of which are blooming right about now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=12)