# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/181 "2008-06-24T21:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Stuff and nonsense! Balderdash, I say! Dribble is senseless mumbling, childish babbling, incoherent political ranting, or the like. [/QUOTE] No, drivel is what you put in your fish tank at the very bottom. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/182 "2008-06-25T01:04:15Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, drivel is what you put in your fish tank at the very bottom. [/QUOTE] While that might describe this thread, the fact that’s it’s falling apart tells us that the nature of thread is to gravel and separate. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/183 "2008-06-25T18:12:20Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] While that might describe this thread, the fact that’s it’s falling apart tells us that the nature of thread is to gravel and separate. [/QUOTE] You’ve got it backwards, hon; not falling apart, but getting together! To ravel is to make merry or indulge in boisterous festivities ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/184 "2008-06-25T18:17:01Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] You’ve got it backwards, hon; not falling apart, but getting together! To ravel is to make merry or indulge in boisterous festivities [/QUOTE] No, no, no, revel is someone who refuses to obey, like in that James Dean movie. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/185 "2008-06-25T19:59:57Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, no, no, revel is someone who refuses to obey, like in that James Dean movie. [/QUOTE] You’re thinking of [Steve McQueen.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060934/) James Dean never made a movie that talked about any kind of small rock or rebel ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/186 "2008-06-25T20:53:37Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You’re thinking of [Steve McQueen.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060934/) James Dean never made a movie that talked about any kind of small rock or rebel [/QUOTE] You seem to be “asleep at the wheel” today. Perhaps you should take some coffee, Vivarin, or even amphetamines, which are sometimes slangily called pebbles. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/187 "2008-06-26T11:01:02Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You seem to be “asleep at the wheel” today. Perhaps you should take some coffee, Vivarin, or even amphetamines, which are sometimes slangily called pebbles. [/QUOTE] and you must be spinning your wheels because pep pills are the things you put your feet on and pump when you want to propel your bicycle forward ---
**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:** [June 26, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/188 "2008-06-26T18:35:21Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] and you must be spinning your wheels because pep pills are the things you put your feet on and pump when you want to propel your bicycle forward [/QUOTE] It’s true that my dog sometimes gets his feet wet, but mostly when he peddles we want to wipe up the mess and clean the rug. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/189 "2008-06-26T19:44:05Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] It’s true that my dog sometimes gets his feet wet, but mostly when he peddles we want to wipe up the mess and clean the rug. [/QUOTE] You’re really starting to piss me off. Sorry for the coarse language, but I’m not one of those aristocratic types like the Piddles, whose illustrious ranks included Francis, the U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to '45 and chief American judge at the Nuremberg trials, and Sydney “Mayflower Madam” Barrows. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/190 "2008-06-27T01:28:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You’re really starting to piss me off. Sorry for the coarse language, but I’m not one of those aristocratic types like the Piddles, whose illustrious ranks included Francis, the U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to '45 and chief American judge at the Nuremberg trials, and Sydney “Mayflower Madam” Barrows. [/QUOTE] That kind of sour comment is better left to the complaining old Biddle who always yells at the kids to get off the lawn. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/191 "2008-06-27T16:51:59Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] That kind of sour comment is better left to the complaining old Biddle who always yells at the kids to get off the lawn. [/QUOTE] That’s a common misconception; but actually, biddies are not made of grass, but of herbs and leaves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=9)