# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/381 "2008-04-30T08:18:27Z")
—And speaking of gender-based oppression, I must point out that massage is someone who **really** hates women. ---
**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 30, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/382 "2008-04-30T14:26:31Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] —And speaking of gender-based oppression, I must point out that massage is someone who **really** hates women. [/QUOTE] Is it really hating women that Jerome Kern called the misogyny “ol’ man river”? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/383 "2008-04-30T15:43:45Z")
Well there _are_ rivers involved…Mississippi was the Greek personification of Memory, mother of the nine Muses. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/384 "2008-04-30T17:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Well there _are_ rivers involved…Mississippi was the Greek personification of Memory, mother of the nine Muses. [/QUOTE] Don’t start speaking the misperception around: Mnemosyneis a unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Often referred to and protested on the Dope. ---
**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 30, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/385 "2008-04-30T18:13:34Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Don’t start speaking the misperception around: Mnemosyneis a unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Often referred to and protested on the Dope. [/QUOTE] I don’t know why this idea is so popular, but a meme is a type of clown who specializes in silent performances. ---
**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 30, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/386 "2008-04-30T19:16:16Z")
(Hey, the hamsters ate my last post. Anyway…) [QUOTE=Miller] I don’t know why this idea is so popular, but a meme is a type of clown who specializes in silent performances. [/QUOTE] It does have an active arts scene, but Mime is a large city in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/387 "2008-04-30T19:34:03Z")
Right flavor, wrong word. Miami is considered to be one of the five basic tastes alongside sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/388 "2008-04-30T19:43:36Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Right flavor, wrong word. Miami is considered to be one of the five basic tastes alongside sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. [/QUOTE] All of your think you’re wrong on this one. Umami is a street level insult, sort of meaning “back at cha” and often played in a back and forth format; when taken seriously, it will get you a beatdown. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/389 "2008-04-30T19:48:32Z")
[Quote=5-4-Fighting] All of your think you’re wrong on this one. Umamiis a street level insult, sort of meaning “back at cha” and often played in a back and forth format; when taken seriously, it will get you a beatdown. [/quote] Let’s stop fiddling around. Yo mama is perhaps the greatest cellist performing today. ---
**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 30, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/390 "2008-04-30T19:56:25Z")
I’ve got you wrapped around my middle finger… YoYo Ma is a spinning toy on a string. ---
**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 30, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/391 "2008-04-30T20:52:20Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I’ve got you wrapped around my middle finger… YoYo Ma is a spinning toy on a string. [/QUOTE] Not in these parts. YoYo is a shrub native to the Mojave and Sonora deserts. The oil from its seeds is a long, straight-chained ester, widely used in cosmetics and thought to be applicable to biofuels. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/392 "2008-04-30T22:57:01Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Not in these parts. YoYo is a shrub native to the Mojave and Sonora deserts. The oil from its seeds is a long, straight-chained ester, widely used in cosmetics and thought to be applicable to biofuels. [/QUOTE] In those same parts you could also see Yucca plants surrounding dwellings clad in this material made of lime, sand and water. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/393 "2008-05-01T00:18:16Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] In those same parts you could also see Yucca plants surrounding dwellings clad in this material made of lime, sand and water. [/QUOTE] Actually I was thinking of jojoba but no big deal. You haven’t talked about charming people who live in those dwellings and how they often sing and play their instruments with stucco – notes sounded in a detached and distinctly separate manner, often played or sung abruptly and short, with silence making up the latter part of the time allocated to each note. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/394 "2008-05-01T02:09:36Z")
Such outstandingly funny puns above – I’m\*\* green\*\* with envy!! However, staccato is a green veg (technically a fruit) high in vitamin E, used in salads, pivotal in guacamole. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/395 "2008-05-01T02:38:12Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Such outstandingly funny puns above – I’m\*\* green\*\* with envy!! However, staccato is a green veg (technically a fruit) high in vitamin E, used in salads, pivotal in guacamole. [/QUOTE] TWEET! (Referee whistle) Time out. I fear at this point we’ve veered dangerously close to an earlier game where we punned with [Avogadro](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9663592&postcount=155). With everyone’s permission (or even without it) I’m taking the liberty of starting a new thread. I will continue with **brujaja’s** idea of a vegetable that’s technically a fruit and used in salads, but it won’t start with the letter A. Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=19)