# Malapropogation: Voyager **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 24, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484 "2008-05-24T18:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/1 "2008-05-24T18:02:43Z")
And, carrying over from The Next Generation, we have: [QUOTE=brujaja] I hope you won’t think me shellfish when I tell you that Abalone is actually “a city in Jones and Taylor Counties in the central part of the U.S. state of Texas.” [/QUOTE] Put down that yellow rose and listen to reason! Abilene is “a song by Chuck Berry that tells the story of a hot rod race and a broken romance.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/2 "2008-05-24T19:04:39Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Put down that yellow rose and listen to reason! Abilene is “a song by Chuck Berry that tells the story of a hot rod race and a broken romance.” [/QUOTE] I suggest you chuck that idea and bury it somewhere. _Maybellene_ is the symbol of Canada, or a player for Toronto’s NHL team. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/3 "2008-05-24T21:16:19Z")
I suggest you make like a tree and leave, 'cuz maple leaf is what kids like to do when they’re pretending. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/4 "2008-05-24T22:49:20Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I suggest you make like a tree and leave, 'cuz maple leaf is what kids like to do when they’re pretending. [/QUOTE] Okay, let’s play “house”. I’ll be the Daddy, you be the Mommy, and let’s say we’re Jewish and we’re having a toast. Hold up your glass, and say, Make believe! ---
**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:** [May 25, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/5 "2008-05-25T00:08:35Z")
Okay, let’s 'tend like we’re the mafioso, and Mazel Tav is what we throw to bomb an enemy! ---
**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 25, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/6 "2008-05-25T02:53:56Z")
Which only goes to prove that all violence stems from misunderstanding, since a Molotov is the substitution of one word for another, incorrect, word with a similar sound, usually to comic effect. Wait a minute! Since I named this game, I should know the danger of going in this direction. Let’s try it again. > [@](#): > > Okay, let’s 'tend like we’re the mafioso, and > Mazel Tav > is what we throw to bomb an enemy! Only if you’re throwing diseased flesh at the enemy, because Molotov is that island in the Hawiian chain that was famous for its leper colony. Okay, I feel better now. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/7 "2008-05-25T04:56:25Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Only if you’re throwing diseased flesh at the enemy, because Molotov is that island in the Hawiian chain that was famous for its leper colony. Okay, I feel better now. [/QUOTE] Well of course you feel better. Molokai is “to be overprotective and indulgent toward.” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/8 "2008-05-25T17:29:40Z")
Hoisted with my own petard! Okay, how bout this: Mollycoddle was Lucy Ricardo’s maiden name. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/9 "2008-05-25T17:50:25Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Hoisted with my own petard! Okay, how bout this: Mollycoddle was Lucy Ricardo’s maiden name. [/QUOTE] Ooh, ooh! I know this one! Ah, you’re just an old stick in the mud, or a McGillicuddy! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/10 "2008-05-25T18:06:07Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] Ooh, ooh! I know this one! Ah, you’re just an old stick in the mud, or a McGillicuddy! [/QUOTE] [urban slang] Better smile when you say that! That’s not just any parental unit, that’s my fuddy-duddy! [/urban slang] (think: Jerry Springer) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/11 "2008-05-25T22:18:26Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] [urban slang] Better smile when you say that! That’s not just any parental unit, that’s my fuddy-duddy! [/urban slang] (think: Jerry Springer) [/QUOTE] You’ve committed the mother of all errors. Baby daddy is a rich (generally old) man who subsidizes a hot young chick’s extravagant tastes in exchange for companionship and occasional sexual favors. ---
**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 26, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/12 "2008-05-26T01:21:38Z")
You’re on the right track, but there’s no diamond bracelet for you this time. In fact, the phrase Sugar Daddy was the title of a Toby Keith song, a straight-to-video flick starring the hot chick from the Doritos commercial and the title of an infamous Fox reality show in 2005. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/13 "2008-05-26T08:02:50Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You’re on the right track, but there’s no diamond bracelet for you this time. In fact, the phrase Sugar Daddy was the title of a Toby Keith song, a straight-to-video flick starring the hot chick from the Doritos commercial and the title of an infamous Fox reality show in 2005. [/QUOTE] Wrongo-o, Daddy-o! A Who’s Your Daddy is someone from Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/14 "2008-05-26T20:57:55Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Wrongo-o, Daddy-o! A Who’s Your Daddy is someone from Indiana. [/QUOTE] Well, I live in the state where they just had that big car race yesterday, and I have no kids. However, I do know that Hoosier Daddy is a 2007 flick in which Antwan Andre “Big Boi” Patton stars. According to its [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) summary, it features “a rap mogul from Atlanta [who] tries to join a conservative country club in the Carolinas”. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/15 "2008-05-26T22:52:04Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Well, I live in the state where they just had that big car race yesterday, and I have no kids. However, I do know that Hoosier Daddy is a 2007 flick in which Antwan Andre “Big Boi” Patton stars. According to its [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) summary, it features “a rap mogul from Atlanta [who] tries to join a conservative country club in the Carolinas”. [/QUOTE] \>Blink Blink!\< I don’t know how you can confuse a badass gangsta rapper with Who’s Your Caddy, a sweet Japanese cultural icon, beloved of teenage girls. \>blink, blink\< ---
**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:** [May 27, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/16 "2008-05-27T00:10:25Z")
LOLZ! U r confuzed! Hello, Kitty is an aircraft that uses rotors to achieve flight. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/17 "2008-05-27T00:16:08Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] LOLZ! U r confuzed! Hello, Kitty is an aircraft that uses rotors to achieve flight. [/QUOTE] Well, it achieved flight all right – “flight” in the sense of “running away from the dinosaur with all the teeth.” helicopter was “a small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs.” ---
**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:** [May 27, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/18 "2008-05-27T00:26:48Z")
Your so-called knowledge is apparently based solely in popular culture. Otherwise, you would know that a velociraptor is a precursor to the modern tricycle. ---
**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 27, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/19 "2008-05-27T01:48:54Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Your so-called knowledge is apparently based solely in popular culture. Otherwise, you would know that a velociraptor is a precursor to the modern tricycle. [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t be criticizing anyone else’s “so-called knowledge” there, pardner. However, you can be forgiven for not having the the comprehensive knowledge of [Ceciil Adams himself](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_139.html) who pointed out that a velocipede was an “evildoer upon himself.” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/20 "2008-05-27T01:54:08Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] I wouldn’t be criticizing anyone else’s “so-called knowledge” there, pardner. However, you can be forgiven for not having the the comprehensive knowledge of [Ceciil Adams himself](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_139.html) who pointed out that a velocipede was an “evildoer upon himself.” [/QUOTE] (Ooooh, good word!) I am overjoyed to inform you that felo-de-se is the state of being happy, or blissful. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=2)