# Malapropogation 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 7, 2014, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089 "2014-03-07T08:02:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/21 "2014-03-08T15:29:06Z")
No, silly, cannibal is that guy who wrote _Canon In D._ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/22 "2014-03-08T15:41:54Z")
Well, knock me down and call me Bowling Pin, I always thought Pachelbel was that fairy that kept bugging Peter Pan to get him into trouble. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/23 "2014-03-08T15:46:06Z")
Trouble is right! Tinkerbelle is what they used to call the Phone Company. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/24 "2014-03-08T15:51:57Z")
And here I was all these years thinking Ma Bell was that old 30’s gang leader that Shelley Winters played in an old shoot-em-up movie. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/25 "2014-03-08T16:40:14Z")
Right era, wrong game! Ma Barker is the host of “The Price Is Right!” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/26 "2014-03-08T16:46:41Z")
I’ll just never learn, it would appear: I assumed Bob Barker was that alterego of Spiderman. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/27 "2014-03-08T16:57:45Z")
Well, I’m pretty sure that Peter Parker was the automobile company that manufactured the _Phaeton._ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/28 "2014-03-08T17:02:27Z")
But wait! Wasn’t Packard Harrison Ford’s character in _Blade Runner_? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/29 "2014-03-09T03:57:47Z")
Not even close! Deckard is what you do with the merchants at a bazaar. (P.S. It was Studebaker) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/30 "2014-03-09T05:26:23Z")
Well, the Packard has a Phaeton also, I believe. But what you’re apparently confused about is that the dicker you’re trying to propose is actually just a brand of blue jeans. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/31 "2014-03-09T16:35:49Z")
When my son was little, he would have been disappointed to hear you say that, because Dickies is what you go feed at the park. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/32 "2014-03-09T16:40:10Z")
With all due and necessary apologies to your kid, I’m sorry to report that Duckies is/are the condiment you put on many Asian/Oriental dishes to jazz up the taste. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/33 "2014-03-09T16:45:56Z")
Well, after an interesting romp through Wikipedia’s many “condiments” pages, I’m going to go with chutney is an old-timey kind of bus or cab. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/34 "2014-03-09T17:01:41Z")
I just plain love how you confused “Duckies” for “Chutney” but I’ll play along by informing you that Jitney was that dude that invented some form of farm implement for tampering with cotton. I was going for “duck sauce” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/35 "2014-03-09T17:10:31Z")
You got your machines mixed up. Whitney… …Bowes makes postage meters. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/36 "2014-03-09T17:22:18Z")
Tut, tut, my dear. But Gene Pitney gave his name to a department store that may be on its last legs. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/37 "2014-03-09T20:49:28Z")
Funny you should say “last legs,” **Zeldar** , because actually Penney’s was a 60s nickname for stimulant pills. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/38 "2014-03-10T00:34:51Z")
Now that you mention it, I did hear somebody say that bennies were kind of like mules, only different. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/39 "2014-03-10T05:42:52Z")
Only if the mules are your comfy Sunday shoes, because the bunnies are the best part of the newspaper. (after you do all the puzzles.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089/40 "2014-03-10T06:35:03Z")
Kings X. I think we’re wandering far enough away from the communications part of all this for a continuation to work. The Bennies–\>Mule idea was aimed at _hinny_ which is the flip-flop of a mule in that the hinny has a horse daddy and a donkey mama. There’s also the _jenny_ which is a female donkey and thus not a mule. Now that we have gone to bunnies and funnies I guess it’s time to go down some new trail with the Marines’ slang for the drill sergeant, if that works for you. But it’s your turn and your call. Whatever’s right. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-2014/683089.md?page=3)