# What are some of the funniest malapropisms you've heard?

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**Created:** [August 5, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-funniest-malapropisms-youve-heard/122428 "2002-08-05T13:32:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-funniest-malapropisms-youve-heard/122428/81 "2002-08-17T18:27:31Z")

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A classic in our family: We were munching pizzelle (a kind of cookie with a slight licorice flavor). My little brother (about nine at the time) bit into one and exclaimed: “Mmm! Anus-flavored cookies!” :o

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**Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-funniest-malapropisms-youve-heard/122428/82 "2002-08-18T04:52:33Z")

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Last year, my high school got a new principal. A month or so after he started, he was making a speech during a school assembly about our Board of Trustees student representative elections. He concluded his speech with “And now, your newly **erected** …”

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**Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-funniest-malapropisms-youve-heard/122428/83 "2002-08-18T06:15:43Z")

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I had to register just to post these:

A week or two ago, I received this email reply from a company when I pointed out that they had double-charged my credit card “This matter has been taken care of today. We apologize for any incontinence.”

Others, said by two acquaintances in college:

“It’s nice that they installed that [crosswalk sound cue] for the deaf people.”

“It’s like, a Catch 20/20.”

“You mean, the raccoon died?!”

“The rabbit died,” (with no trace of irony, the pet rabbit really died).

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