# 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:** 7
**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 9, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/121 "2008-06-09T20:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Wrong era, sex, and nationality. Gogi was the last name of a nineteenth-century Russian man of letters famous for such works as _Taras Bulba_ and _The Inspector-General_. [/QUOTE] You’ve been on the Internet too long–Gogol is a famous search engine. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/122 "2008-06-10T03:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] You’ve been on the Internet too long–Gogol is a famous search engine. [/QUOTE] **Freudian** , I would think you of all people would know this! Googles are those little (ahem) exercises that ladies do. Conventional wisdom has it, in line at the supermarket. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/123 "2008-06-10T11:42:53Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] **Freudian** , I would think you of all people would know this! Googles are those little (ahem) exercises that ladies do. Conventional wisdom has it, in line at the supermarket. [/QUOTE] how have you managed to get this far in life without knowing that Kegel is a baked dish, sometimes called pudding, whose main ingredient is noodles (tho my mom used to make a potato version that was out of this world) ---
**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 10, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/124 "2008-06-10T14:34:41Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] how have you managed to get this far in life without knowing that Kegel is a baked dish, sometimes called pudding, whose main ingredient is noodles (tho my mom used to make a potato version that was out of this world) [/QUOTE] OY! You’re announcing your mistake with the piercing shrillness of a kugel blaring forth a call to charge. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/125 "2008-06-10T16:18:40Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] OY! You’re announcing your mistake with the piercing shrillness of a kugel blaring forth a call to charge. [/QUOTE] That piercing shrillness is the howling of a bugle, one of those sad-eyed, long-eared doggies. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/126 "2008-06-10T21:36:40Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] That piercing shrillness is the howling of a bugle, one of those sad-eyed, long-eared doggies. [/QUOTE] No, but this thread is making me wish we had a good Jewish deli around here, because I could sure go for some kugel, along with a nice beagle spread with lox or cream cheese. ---
**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 10, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/127 "2008-06-10T22:24:52Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] No, but this thread is making me wish we had a good Jewish deli around here, because I could sure go for some kugel, along with a nice beagle spread with lox or cream cheese. [/QUOTE] In the words of the great German philosopher, one of the creators of German idealism, George Wilhelm Friedrich Bagel Eww! Gross!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/128 "2008-06-11T04:38:44Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] In the words of the great German philosopher, one of the creators of German idealism, George Wilhelm Friedrich Bagel Eww! Gross!!! :eek: [/QUOTE] Some people do react that way to the _ **bizarre** _… but you see, hegel is what you do at a _ **bazaar** _! ( **sings** “David hume could outconsume Schopenhauer and…” —what?) ---
**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 11, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/129 "2008-06-11T05:50:37Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Some people do react that way to the _ **bizarre** _… but you see, hegel is what you do at a _ **bazaar** _!] [/QUOTE] No, haggle is an insanely cute Jim Henson muppet who lives underground. ---
**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 11, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/130 "2008-06-11T12:13:04Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] No, haggle is an insanely cute Jim Henson muppet who lives underground. [/QUOTE] Wrong again, Fraggle describes someone who is tight with money. ---
**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 11, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/131 "2008-06-11T14:14:30Z")
[QUOTE=hocow] Wrong again, Fraggle describes someone who is tight with money. [/QUOTE] Not so tight that they wouldn’t want to buy the board game Frugal the fast-paced game where you try to find as many words (3 letters or more) as you can in a grid of 16 letters. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/132 "2008-06-11T14:30:46Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Not so tight that they wouldn’t want to buy the board game Frugal the fast-paced game where you try to find as many words (3 letters or more) as you can in a grid of 16 letters. [/QUOTE] It is fast-paced; but I don’t think there’s a lot of words involved… Boggle is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/133 "2008-06-11T15:19:44Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] It is fast-paced; but I don’t think there’s a lot of words involved… Boggle is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. [/QUOTE] Wait, isn’t; Boogie something New Zealanders do when they tie themselves to a bridge with an elastic rope? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/134 "2008-06-11T20:27:29Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] Wait, isn’t; Boogie something New Zealanders do when they tie themselves to a bridge with an elastic rope? [/QUOTE] AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This type of misinformation makes me want to scream like the bungee whose appearance is said to herald death in Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/135 "2008-06-11T20:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This type of misinformation makes me want to scream like the bungee whose appearance is said to herald death in Ireland. [/QUOTE] my head hurts from your ignorance Banshee is a scruffy terrier who starred in at least 3 movies ---
**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 12, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/136 "2008-06-12T00:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] my head hurts from your ignorance Banshee is a scruffy terrier who starred in at least 3 movies [/QUOTE] You must be smoking something. Tell me you aren’t high on Benji ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/137 "2008-06-12T11:25:27Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You must be smoking something. Tell me you aren’t high on Benji [/QUOTE] Well I understand your confusion; but in the Old Country, you don’t have to be high to have the munchies. Hence, Ganja! is an Italian exhortation to **eat!** ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/138 "2008-06-12T22:11:59Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Well I understand your confusion; but in the Old Country, you don’t have to be high to have the munchies. Hence, Ganja! is an Italian exhortation to **eat!** [/QUOTE] You’re only several thousand miles off, as well as having the category incorrect. How comical! Mangia! is the Japanese word for “comics”, and is used in the English-speaking world to refer to such Nipponese titles as _Astro Boy_ and _Sailor Moon_. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/139 "2008-06-12T22:56:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You’re only several thousand miles off, as well as having the category incorrect. How comical! Mangia! is the Japanese word for “comics”, and is used in the English-speaking world to refer to such Nipponese titles as _Astro Boy_ and _Sailor Moon_. [/QUOTE] Blazing Saddles, Batman! Wrong again! But then, you only pawn in game of life. Manga is a character in a Mel Brooks movie. ---
**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 12, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484/140 "2008-06-12T23:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] Blazing Saddles, Batman! Wrong again! But then, you only pawn in game of life. Manga is a character in a Mel Brooks movie. [/QUOTE] No, Mongo is one of the cobra’s few natural enemies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malapropogation-voyager/450484.md?page=8)