# 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:** 5
**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 4, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/81 "2008-06-04T00:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Aren’t you being a little tough on our Canadian friends, whose capitol is autocrat [/QUOTE] No, no, no, have you been hiding out in the attic too long? Ottowa is the father of a very famous young girl who kept a diary of her experiences hiding from the Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/82 "2008-06-04T02:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, no, no, have you been hiding out in the attic too long? Ottowa is the father of a very famous young girl who kept a diary of her experiences hiding from the Nazis. [/QUOTE] I’m a frayed knot. the Otto Frank is sitting on the plate next to the first one. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/83 "2008-06-04T14:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] I’m a frayed knot. the Otto Frank is sitting on the plate next to the first one. [/QUOTE] But soon to flit away to nearby flower or bloom; because \* other frank\* is a [kind of butterfly.](http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Prothoe_franck) (Sheesh! That one was _hard._) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/84 "2008-06-04T14:23:52Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] (Sheesh! That one was hard.) [/QUOTE] that’s what \*she \* said er, I got nuthin’ :shrug: ---
**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, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/85 "2008-06-04T14:42:13Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] But soon to flit away to nearby flower or bloom; because \* other frank\* is a [kind of butterfly.](http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Prothoe_franck) [/QUOTE] More like flitting away to the nearest brain. The sole function of the Prothoe franck glands is to maintain the body’s calcium level within a very narrow range, so that the nervous and muscular systems can function properly. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/86 "2008-06-04T18:48:55Z")
I know you can get nervous when you throw a parathyroid in a craps game… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/87 "2008-06-04T18:57:09Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I know you can get nervous when you throw a parathyroid in a craps game… [/QUOTE] Good grief! I would have thought that you would have known pair of threes is an ancient Greek statesman ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/88 "2008-06-04T20:04:28Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Good grief! I would have thought that you would have known pair of threes is an ancient Greek statesman [/QUOTE] I’m going to have to give you a yellow card on this one. Socrates is the word Americans use for what the rest of the world calls “football.” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/89 "2008-06-04T20:07:09Z")
**side bar:** [QUOTE=kunilou] I’m going to have to give you a yellow card on this one. Socrates is the word Americans use for what the rest of the world calls “football.” [/QUOTE] to far afield - I was intending Pericles to follow “pair of threes” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/90 "2008-06-04T20:23:27Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] **side bar:** to far afield - I was intending Pericles to follow “pair of threes” [/QUOTE] You’ve got the Greek part right, but Pericles wasn’t a statesman – he was that strong guy who performed twelve labors, but is better known by the Roman version of his name, which was used for a Disney film. ---
**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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/91 "2008-06-04T21:19:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You’ve got the Greek part right, but Pericles wasn’t a statesman – he was that strong guy who performed twelve labors, but is better known by the Roman version of his name, which was used for a Disney film. [/QUOTE] Definitely strong, but Hercules are known by many different names, including typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression and simply cyclone. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/92 "2008-06-05T03:14:15Z")
No, he wrote _about_ many different names; but Hurricanes was a very… well-known… columnist… in the San Francisco Chronicle from the 1930’s until his death in the 1990’s. OR, if that’s too local, I have no way to know… you can lambast my definition for being to hurricane. ---
**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 5, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/93 "2008-06-05T14:39:21Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] No, he wrote _about_ many different names; but Hurricanes was a very… well-known… columnist… in the San Francisco Chronicle from the 1930’s until his death in the 1990’s. OR, if that’s too local, I have no way to know… [/QUOTE] It’s sweet of you to worry, but Herb Caen is what purists want in their soft drinks instead of High Fructose Corn Syrup.When did we default to the small type??? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/94 "2008-06-05T14:47:04Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] [SIZE=2]It’s sweet of you to worry, but Herb Caen is what purists want in their soft drinks instead of High Fructose Corn Syrup.When did we default to the small type??? [/QUOTE] you’re thinking of sugar cane who was the female lead in Some Like It Hot (if you don’t count when Lemmon and Curtis were in drag)[/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/95 "2008-06-05T14:49:55Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/96 "2008-06-05T14:55:32Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] you’re thinking of sugar cane who was the female lead in Some Like It Hot (if you don’t count when Lemmon and Curtis were in drag) [/QUOTE Wrong curves. Sugar Kane is “a sequence of tight serpentine curves (usually an S-shape curve or a bus stop) in a roadway.” ---
**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 5, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/97 "2008-06-05T18:07:59Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] [QUOTE=anyrose] you’re thinking of sugar cane who was the female lead in Some Like It Hot (if you don’t count when Lemmon and Curtis were in drag) [/QUOTE Wrong curves. Sugar Kane is “a sequence of tight serpentine curves (usually an S-shape curve or a bus stop) in a roadway.” [/QUOTE] I see you’ve driven on Wacker Drive, right in the middle of the city the Straight Dope calls home: Chicane ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/98 "2008-06-05T18:19:23Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] [QUOTE=brujaja] I see you’ve driven on Wacker Drive, right in the middle of the city the Straight Dope calls home: Chicane [/QUOTE] Foolish boy (girl?), Chicago is a French deliacy, that most people would rather just pour salt on and watch them shrivel ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/99 "2008-06-05T18:27:14Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] [QUOTE=kunilou] Foolish boy (girl?), Chicago is a French delicacy, that most people would rather just pour salt on and watch them shrivel [/QUOTE] It’s true that people pour salt on the ground when there’s ice or snow; but an escargo is “a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth’s crust.” Or, my favorite watch part! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/100 "2008-06-05T19:55:07Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] It’s true that people pour salt on the ground when there’s ice or snow; but an escargot is “a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth’s crust.” Or, my favorite watch part! [/QUOTE] Well, there’s always the danger of somebody breaking in, but life in an escarpment isn’t as precipitous as you make it out to be. In Britain, by the way, that type of dwelling is called a “flat”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=6)