# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/61 "2008-05-31T12:37:58Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Only if you have season tickets! Your aria is wherever you’re at! [/quote] Well, you need to check a map, 'cuz area is the waste produced when the body metabolizes protein. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/62 "2008-05-31T15:11:56Z")
[QUOTE=hocow] Well, you need to check a map, 'cuz area is the waste produced when the body metabolizes protein. [/QUOTE] You won’t win any cash with that answer, especially if you go to Italy or Greece, to name two countries which use the urea as the base unit of currency. ---
**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 1, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/63 "2008-06-01T02:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You won’t win any cash with that answer, especially if you go to Italy or Greece, to name two countries which use the urea as the base unit of currency. [/QUOTE] Geez, if you don’t want to lend anyone money, just say so.! Besides, I don’t think you’ll find any one who will accept a Euro, since it’s is a toy consisting of two equally sized and weighted disks of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, with a string tied around it. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/64 "2008-06-01T07:24:15Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Geez, if you don’t want to lend anyone money, just say so.! Besides, I don’t think you’ll find any one who will accept a Euro, since it’s is a toy consisting of two equally sized and weighted disks of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, with a string tied around it. [/QUOTE] Put that down! It’s not a toy! Oh sure, maybe it sounds like fun & games; but Yo-yo! is a very serious thing said by very serious pirates. Seriously. Arrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/65 "2008-06-01T19:42:00Z")
How can you be serious while swilling chocolatey goodness? Yo ho ho is a well-known and much-beloved chocolate drink of long standing, a favorite of Johnny Ramone. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/66 "2008-06-01T19:47:38Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] How can you be serious while swilling chocolatey goodness? Yo ho ho is a well-known and much-beloved chocolate drink of long standing, a favorite of Johnny Ramone. [/QUOTE] Perhaps you should look again, because YooHoo is a popular search engine. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/67 "2008-06-01T19:49:23Z")
**hocow** : You should use Google to search for the correct meaning of Yahoo!, which is “a Biblical king whose furious driving of a chariot led to his name becoming a synonym for one who operates a vehicle too quickly or otherwise recklessly”. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/68 "2008-06-01T21:19:36Z")
Well, it does have to do with reckless motion – but I know for a fact that Jehu is something that cowboys, bronco busters, and mechanical-bull-riders say! ---
**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:** [June 2, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/69 "2008-06-02T01:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Well, it does have to do with reckless motion – but I know for a fact that Jehu is something that cowboys, bronco busters, and mechanical-bull-riders say! [/QUOTE] I can understand your confusion, **brujaja.** Cowboys and the like, in their time of peril, are no doubt invoking the name of Yee-haw, the god of the Old Testament. ---
**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 2, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/70 "2008-06-02T01:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I can understand your confusion, **brujaja.** Cowboys and the like, in their time of peril, are no doubt invoking the name of Yee-haw, the god of the Old Testament. [/QUOTE] You’re confused, perhaps you’ve spent too much time in the Hamptons…Yahweh is something rich people do on boats. ---
**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 2, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/71 "2008-06-02T01:31:18Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] You’re confused, perhaps you’ve spent too much time in the Hamptons…Yahweh is something rich people do on boats. [/QUOTE] On boats, maybe. But in Germany, not the Hamptons. Yachting is the Deutsch command to come to attention. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/72 "2008-06-02T01:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] You’re confused, perhaps you’ve spent too much time in the Hamptons…Yahweh is something rich people do on boats. [/QUOTE] –But I thought Skipper was a girl! That can’t be, because _yawing_ is the Chinese masculine principle, complementary to _yin_. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/73 "2008-06-02T20:11:53Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] On boats, maybe. But in Germany, not the Hamptons. Yachting is the Deutsch command to come to attention. [/QUOTE] Well, **kunilou** , you’d best pay attention when I inform you that \*Achtung! is simply thespianism, the craft of stage or film performance. ---
**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 2, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/74 "2008-06-02T21:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Well, **kunilou** , you’d best pay attention when I inform you that \*Achtung! is simply thespianism, the craft of stage or film performance. [/QUOTE] Only if the performer is Tom Leher singing about the Periodic Table. Acting is a radioactive element with an atomic number of 89. ---
**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 2, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/75 "2008-06-02T22:08:54Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Only if the performer is Tom Leher singing about the Periodic Table. Acting is a radioactive element with an atomic number of 89. [/QUOTE] Silly boy, review your history! Actinium is the battle where Marc Antony lost to Octavian. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/76 "2008-06-03T03:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Silly boy, review your history! Actinium is the battle where Marc Antony lost to Octavian. [/QUOTE] True indeed that there is probably some deeper truth to be gleaned from that battle; but I think you’re confused about the word. Actium is, “a self-evident truth that requires no proof.” ---
**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 3, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/77 "2008-06-03T14:25:17Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] True indeed that there is probably some deeper truth to be gleaned from that battle; but I think you’re confused about the word. Actium is, “a self-evident truth that requires no proof.” [/QUOTE] You think it’s self-evident, but you drove right past the fact that axiomatic is a transmission that requires no shifting. ---
**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 3, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/78 "2008-06-03T16:59:15Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You think it’s self-evident, but you drove right past the fact that axiomatic is a transmission that requires no shifting. [/QUOTE] No, no, no…automatic is a very embarrassing way to die…but a titillating way to try to get yourself erect. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/79 "2008-06-03T19:44:07Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, no, no…automatic is a very embarrassing way to die…but a titillating way to try to get yourself erect. [/QUOTE] This thread has “too many chiefs and not enough Indians”. I’m going to have to take command and drill it into your heads that autoerotic refers to a system of government led by a self-appointed ruler who doesn’t share his authority with _anyone_. ---
**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 4, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/80 "2008-06-04T00:36:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] This thread has “too many chiefs and not enough Indians”. I’m going to have to take command and drill it into your heads that autoerotic refers to a system of government led by a self-appointed ruler who doesn’t share his authority with _anyone_. [/QUOTE] Aren’t you being a little tough on our Canadian friends, whose capitol is autocrat [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=5)