# 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:** 6
**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 20, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/101 "2008-04-20T00:30:44Z")
I’ll try to keep this short. electrocution is to lengthen or stretch something. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/102 "2008-04-20T00:42:00Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] I’ll try to keep this short. electrocution is to lengthen or stretch something. [/QUOTE] HA HA HA HA HA! Sorry. El Longation was an alter-ego of Quick Draw McGraw. ---
**Author:** ![plot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@plot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/103 "2008-04-20T00:57:10Z")
Isn’t that how you measure distance east and west on a globe? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/104 "2008-04-20T02:02:29Z")
never mind. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/105 "2008-04-20T02:06:07Z")
[QUOTE=plot] Isn’t that how you measure distance east and west on a globe? [/QUOTE] That’s a ballpark guess. But, longitude is one of those things Jesus had to say in the Sermon on The Mount ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/106 "2008-04-20T02:08:22Z")
(If I have to go to Wikipedia to get ONE MORE of these things…) **freckafree** , I admire your wicked sense of humor; however I fear I must correct you. El Kabongwas in fact the name of the fearsome prison in the Harry Potter books. (mmmmm…Snape!) Quack! I type slow! Plus, I was at Wiki looking up Quick Draw McGraw. ---
**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 20, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/107 "2008-04-20T02:43:42Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] (If I have to go to Wikipedia to get ONE MORE of these things…) **freckafree** , I admire your wicked sense of humor; however I fear I must correct you. El Kabongwas in fact the name of the fearsome prison in the Harry Potter books. (mmmmm…Snape!) Quack! I type slow! Plus, I was at Wiki looking up Quick Draw McGraw. [/QUOTE] There is some magic involved but Azkaban was the boy who found the magic lamp and the genie. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/108 "2008-04-20T02:56:09Z")
I could be wrong, but I think Aladdinis when you’re loaded down with packages or provisions, like a shopper or a pack mule. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/109 "2008-04-20T03:39:40Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I could be wrong, but I think Aladdinis when you’re loaded down with packages or provisions, like a shopper or a pack mule. [/QUOTE] I do hope you’re meaning laden (as in Osama Bin) but if so, that’s what you use to get up on the roof or down into the well ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/110 "2008-04-20T04:30:39Z")
Dude, what are you thinking? A ladder is where you keep your staple foodstuffs. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/111 "2008-04-20T05:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Dude, what are you thinking? A ladder is where you keep your staple foodstuffs. [/QUOTE] He, he, he. I do wish you were right, but larder is what you do at a pool hall or beer joint that they put up signs to keep you from doing of the “Please Don’t” variety. Rhymes with one of those things in your neck. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/112 "2008-04-20T06:18:12Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] He, he, he. I do wish you were right, but larder is what you do at a pool hall or beer joint that they put up signs to keep you from doing of the “Please Don’t” variety. Rhymes with one of those things in your neck. [/QUOTE] I know that you think that’s what it means if you are told "DO NOT LOITER! but really, it’s the guy you call to defend you if you’re trying to fight that felony charge. (I hope I did this right, jumping in on page 3 as I am) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/113 "2008-04-20T06:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] I know that you think that’s what it means if you are told "DO NOT LOITER! but really, it’s the guy you call to defend you if you’re trying to fight that felony charge. (I hope I did this right, jumping in on page 3 as I am) [/QUOTE] There’s no waiting in line to play. First come, first served, as it were. As for the word you’re after, I should hope lawyer was the last name of one of Mark Twain’s characters ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/114 "2008-04-20T06:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] There’s no waiting in line to play. First come, first served, as it were. As for the word you’re after, I should hope lawyer was the last name of one of Mark Twain’s characters [/QUOTE] I can see that literature wasn’t one of your strong suits, if it were you’d know that a sawyer is actually the slang term for a ten dollar bill. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/115 "2008-04-20T06:31:06Z")
Whoops, sorry, **Zeldar** , but a Sawyer is somebody who gets off on watching people get naked from a hidden vantage point. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/116 "2008-04-20T06:33:11Z")
Simulpost!! But really, **SmartAleq** , you should know this one – a sawbuck is an old-timey name for a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/117 "2008-04-20T06:33:26Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] I can see that literature wasn’t one of your strong suits, if it were you’d know that a sawyer is actually the slang term for a ten dollar bill. [/QUOTE] No, that’s sawbuck, that wild Viper pilot chick from Battlestar Galactica played by Katee Sackhoff. ---
**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 20, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/118 "2008-04-20T06:36:39Z")
Rubystreak, you fool, a Starbuck is a lovemaking session in zero gravity. (Had to look that one up.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/119 "2008-04-20T06:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Rubystreak, you fool, a Starbuck is a lovemaking session in zero gravity. (Had to look that one up.) [/QUOTE] Unless there’s something else that fits here, this wins the thread! 😃 Anybody got a clue where to go after Starfuck ? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/120 "2008-04-20T08:11:55Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Unless there’s something else that fits here, this wins the thread! 😃 Anybody got a clue where to go after Starfuck ? [/QUOTE] Wait, wasn’t that a 1960s TV series with some captain dude who solved hi-tech problems with lo-tech fistfights in which his shirt got ripped, and scored a truly amazing number of alien chicks by the way? And, y’know, they _could_ have called it _Star Fuck_, if that would ever have got past the censors. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=7)