# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/121 "2008-04-20T12:25:10Z")
No, that’s a glossy black bird. ---
**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, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/122 "2008-04-20T12:49:28Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] No, that’s a glossy black bird. [/QUOTE] I sure hope this is a grosbeak because I thought that was what you bring stuff home from the supermarket in BTW, thanks, y’all, for bailing this out. I was sure it was belly up. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/123 "2008-04-20T13:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] No, that’s a glossy black bird. [/QUOTE] **Zeldar** , I think what **twicks** was thinking of was starling, but that’s the word often placed after “pound” when discussing British currency, or before “silver” when discussing fine cutlery. ---
**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, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/124 "2008-04-20T13:09:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] **Zeldar** , I think what **twicks** was thinking of was starling, but that’s the word often placed after “pound” when discussing British currency, or before “silver” when discussing fine cutlery. [/QUOTE] Of course, you’re right, **Sternvogel** , and I must have had a mental block to go with the earlier one, because I had been led to believe that sterling was just a young tree ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/125 "2008-04-20T13:39:16Z")
Sapling? You mean Emilio, the Mexican revolutionary active early in the last century? ---
**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, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/126 "2008-04-20T13:56:48Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Sapling? You mean Emilio, the Mexican revolutionary active early in the last century? [/QUOTE] Jesus, **twickster** , I seem to be drawing blanks on your words unless Zapata was what you meant. However that’s just a nonsense syllable that Uncle Remus sang in _Song of the South_ (that I believe we used in another thread of this game). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/127 "2008-04-20T17:30:29Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Jesus, **twickster** , I seem to be drawing blanks on your words unless Zapata was what you meant. However that’s just a nonsense syllable that Uncle Remus sang in _Song of the South_ (that I believe we used in another thread of this game). [/QUOTE] Yes, we did use Zip-a-Dee (actually three syllables), but you must not have learned that that term actually refers to the kangaroo who serves as the mascot of the University of Akron’s athletic teams. ---
**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/128 "2008-04-20T17:39:41Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Yes, we did use Zip-a-Dee (actually three syllables), but you must not have learned that that term actually refers to the kangaroo who serves as the mascot of the University of Akron’s athletic teams. [/QUOTE] Well, if Google is anything to go by Zippy is that contrivance that keeps your pants from staying open and your underwear from showing ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/129 "2008-04-20T17:54:42Z")
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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/130 "2008-04-20T18:00:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Well, if Google is anything to go by Zippy is that contrivance that keeps your pants from staying open and your underwear from showing [/QUOTE] The horse is out of the barn on this error but Zipper is a five- or nine-digit sorting aid added to mailing addresses or, more particularly, a trademark used for a system designed to expedite the sorting and delivery of mail by assigning a series of numbers to each delivery area in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/131 "2008-04-20T18:03:48Z")
I won’t clown around – Zippy is a Pinheaded character in an alternative cartoon strip. ---
**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, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/132 "2008-04-20T18:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] The horse is out of the barn on this error but Zipper is a five- or nine-digit sorting aid added to mailing addresses or, more particularly, a trademark used for a system designed to expedite the sorting and delivery of mail by assigning a series of numbers to each delivery area in the United States. [/QUOTE] With that much of a description, you must have meant Zip code but that’s one of the elements or terminals on a battery, the one they name the Ray Tube after ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/133 "2008-04-20T19:10:17Z")
How could that be? “Anode” is the name of a venerable science fiction magazine. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/134 "2008-04-20T19:14:47Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] How could that be? “Anode” is the name of a venerable science fiction magazine. [/QUOTE] I believe that you are mixing that up withanalogwhich is in fact used to describe the state of two people who argue perpetually. ---
**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, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/135 "2008-04-20T19:20:31Z")
But, no! antagonism was the daughter of Oedipus. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/136 "2008-04-20T19:38:07Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] How could that be? “Anode” is the name of a venerable science fiction magazine. [/QUOTE] Um, it’s a _Cathode_ Ray Tube, not an Anode Ray Tube. You’ve got the wrong electrode. ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/137 "2008-04-20T19:40:25Z")
quack! You know, in a whole Wiki page on batteries, they failed to \*name \* the terminals. The “ray tube” part sailed right over my head. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/138 "2008-04-20T19:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] But, no! antagonism was the daughter of Oedipus. [/QUOTE] Actually, I believe you’re thinking of Antigone which is a common misconception, as that’s actually on the other side of the world (think Australia). ---
**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, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/139 "2008-04-20T20:29:43Z")
Don’t be silly, **MilTan**. Antipode is a relationship between two organisms that is detrimental to one of them. ---
**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, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579/140 "2008-04-20T21:06:24Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Don’t be silly, **MilTan**. Antipode is a relationship between two organisms that is detrimental to one of them. [/QUOTE] A nice one that permitted me to wade through Dick looking for what you meant. Unfortunately, Antibiosis is that letdown you get when the real thrill is over and the trivial is all that’s left [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropagation-thread-3-of-game-1-with-new-name/445579.md?page=8)