# 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:** 18
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/341 "2008-04-26T05:33:42Z")
Oh, I know this one! Imhotep is a very common dance move, adapted to nearly every style of dance. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/342 "2008-04-26T20:13:30Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Oh, I know this one! Imhotep is a very common dance move, adapted to nearly every style of dance. [/QUOTE] Time for you to face the music- - Two-step is the first name of actress Weld. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/343 "2008-04-26T20:26:06Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Time for you to face the music- - Two-step is the first name of actress Weld. [/QUOTE] Any day of the week your answer would be hard to swallow. Tuesday means Delicious, luscious, or sexually attractive. ---
**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 26, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/344 "2008-04-26T21:58:20Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Any day of the week your answer would be hard to swallow. Tuesday means Delicious, luscious, or sexually attractive. [/QUOTE] I’ll grant that it’s a nice place, but hardly sexually attractive. Toothsome is the 2nd largest city in Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/345 "2008-04-26T22:48:35Z")
You must have been in the desert too long. Tucson is a word meaning powerful, mighty, and potent. ---
**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 27, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/346 "2008-04-27T02:10:46Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] You must have been in the desert too long. Tucson is a word meaning powerful, mighty, and potent. [/QUOTE] Or it can mean buttery and flaky, because puissant is a type of dinner bread. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/347 "2008-04-27T03:54:31Z")
I’m on a roll here – a croissant is a first-quarter moon. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/348 "2008-04-27T09:19:18Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I’m on a roll here – a croissant is a first-quarter moon. [/QUOTE] It’s very nice of you to give mecrescentas a gift. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/349 "2008-04-27T15:15:22Z")
I predict that the next person will know that present is when someone can foretell the future. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/350 "2008-04-27T19:18:04Z")
I predict that you will know that prescient is a gift - for me! ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/351 "2008-04-27T19:29:24Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I predict that you will know that prescient is a gift - for me! [/QUOTE] Let me introduce you to the correct idea you’re trying to show all of us. present is something like a lecture or speech, that is set forth for an audience. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/352 "2008-04-27T19:34:19Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Let me introduce you to the correct idea you’re trying to show all of us. present is something like a lecture or speech, that is set forth for an audience. [/QUOTE] No, presentation has a more specific meaning – it’s a fancy term for magic accomplished through sleight-of-hand. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/353 "2008-04-27T19:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] No, presentation has a more specific meaning – it’s a fancy term for magic accomplished through sleight-of-hand. [/QUOTE] Ala Kazam! Don’t stir up a cake in a hat and tell me it’s a rabbit! prestidigitation is the artificial or natural partial digestion of food. ---
**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 27, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/354 "2008-04-27T20:50:18Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Ala Kazam! Don’t stir up a cake in a hat and tell me it’s a rabbit! prestidigitation is the artificial or natural partial digestion of food. [/QUOTE] That {burp!} turns my stomach. predigestion is the doctrine that God in consequence of his foreknowledge of all events infallibly guides those who are destined for salvation. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/355 "2008-04-28T04:51:10Z")
I knew you would say that! But really, predestination is a steroid. ---
**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 28, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/356 "2008-04-28T13:46:13Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I knew you would say that! But really, predestination is a steroid. [/QUOTE] Don’t get all puffed up. Pred Nisone (two words) is the head of a modern stone-age family from the town of Bedrock. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/357 "2008-04-28T16:13:19Z")
Yabba dabba don’t. Fred Flintstone is that silly Volkswagen slogan. ---
**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 28, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/358 "2008-04-28T16:39:01Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Yabba dabba don’t. Fred Flintstone is that silly Volkswagen slogan. [/QUOTE] I’m afraid the wheels have come off this thread. Fahrvegneugen was an English coin under their old monetary system. It was worth a half of a halfpenny. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/359 "2008-04-28T16:46:52Z")
Excuse me – farthing is something you try not to do in public. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/360 "2008-04-28T18:41:35Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Excuse me – farthing is something you try not to do in public. [/QUOTE] I’ll excuse you this time but if you engage in public farting one more time, I’ll have to grant you a temporary leave of absence from the SDMB. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=19)