# 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:** 13
**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 23, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/241 "2008-04-23T01:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] No, the Valkyries are those '80s-era dames who, like, ya know, gag me with a spoon to the max! [/QUOTE] Only if you’re playing the spoons. Valley Girl is a musical notation to play fast, but not as fast as presto. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/242 "2008-04-23T01:58:07Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Only if you’re playing the spoons. Valley Girl is a musical notation to play fast, but not as fast as presto. [/QUOTE] You mean allegro That’s those little building toys kids make all sorts of things out of ---
**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 23, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/243 "2008-04-23T03:08:13Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] You mean allegro That’s those little building toys kids make all sorts of things out of [/QUOTE] Are you quite sure? I thought Lego was the brand name of that gelatin dessert food that jiggles. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/244 "2008-04-23T04:59:21Z")
Nope– Jell-O is the generic name for a popular personal lubricant. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/245 "2008-04-23T05:20:48Z")
KY…nope…Astroglide…nope…ID…naaah… ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/246 "2008-04-23T05:25:03Z")
Well, I may be…er…_backsliding_ here, but I’m pretty sure that K-Y is the police designation for doggie officers. The mind simply boggles. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/247 "2008-04-23T06:05:58Z")
I was actually shooting for petroleum jelly. Notice that I said _generic_ name. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/248 "2008-04-23T06:43:44Z")
_Petroleum jelly_? :eek: :eek: --but-- the _friction!_ Alrightie then. You are probably thinking of petroleum jelly, who was a little-known TV detective in the 1970’s. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/249 "2008-04-23T12:45:38Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] _Petroleum jelly_? :eek: :eek: --but-- the _friction!_ Alrightie then. You are probably thinking of petroleum jelly, who was a little-known TV detective in the 1970’s. [/QUOTE] Having seen a bare minimum of 70’s TV detectives, I’ll take a shot at Telly Savalas (Kojak) being who you might be thinking of. If so, you need to be aware that “Telly is of all of us” is a pidgin English way of saying Reality Television. That suggest “Survivor” and “Big Brother” which then suggests '84, and that’s the number of trombones in The Music Man. Now, Music, Man is similar to Rifle, Man which starred Chuck Connors who played baseball before getting into “acting” so I believe you must mean Yogi Berra. Was I close? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/250 "2008-04-23T12:48:51Z")
Actually, I think she was going for Petrocelli, which is a kind of long, skinny pasta. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/251 "2008-04-23T12:54:59Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Actually, I think she was going for Petrocelli, which is a kind of long, skinny pasta. [/QUOTE] I’m sure glad it wasn’t Yogi Berra! Now vermicelli is the fancy name for the instrument in a quartet bigger than the viola, right? ---
**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 23, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/252 "2008-04-23T13:17:41Z")
Boy, am I glad I got a good night’s sleep last night (and didn’t try to follow the last 10 hrs. of twists and turns.) [QUOTE=Zeldar] I’m sure glad it wasn’t Yogi Berra! Now vermicelli is the fancy name for the instrument in a quartet bigger than the viola, right? [/QUOTE] Not quite, although the vinyards of Ernest and Julio cello have a product that goes well with vermicelli, or any other pasta. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/253 "2008-04-23T13:20:26Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Boy, am I glad I got a good night’s sleep last night (and didn’t try to follow the last 10 hrs. of twists and turns.) Not quite, although the vinyards of Ernest and Julio cello have a product that goes well with vermicelli, or any other pasta. [/QUOTE] Isn’t gallo where they hang art and photos? Even at Night with the Peanuts? ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/254 "2008-04-23T13:31:31Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Isn’t gallo where they hang art and photos? Even at Night with the Peanuts? [/QUOTE] I believe that you will findgalleryis in fact an oar-powered ship. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/255 "2008-04-23T13:35:46Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] I believe that you will findgalleryis in fact an oar-powered ship. [/QUOTE] Isn’t galley the gal from _Monster’s Ball_ and _X-Men_? ---
**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 23, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/256 "2008-04-23T13:52:02Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Isn’t galley the gal from _Monster’s Ball_ and _X-Men_? [/QUOTE] I’ll admit she’s tasty, but actually Halle are the foods that conform with Muslim dietary laws. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/257 "2008-04-23T13:54:57Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] I’ll admit she’s tasty, but actually Halle are the foods that conform with Muslim dietary laws. [/QUOTE] And here I thought Halal was Superman’s name – or his daddy’s. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/258 "2008-04-23T16:50:38Z")
**twickster** , you are so clever! But you must not be using your noodle this morning, because vermicelli is another name for chicken pox. ---
**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 23, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/259 "2008-04-23T16:59:20Z")
Well, this is a conundrum. But it’s a little known fact that [QUOTE=Zeldar] Halal was Superman’s name – or his daddy’s. [/QUOTE] Superman used his birth name and [QUOTE=brujaja] vermicelli is another name for chicken pox. [/QUOTE] his invulnerability to chicken pox, when he came up with the name of that fabric that is so tough, it’s used for bulletproof vests. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/260 "2008-04-23T17:04:04Z")
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