I’m speaking, of course, of the word “masturbation.” I cringe every time I see some otherwise erudite SDMBer spell it “masterbation.”
Listen up, folks: Seinfeld aside, the word has NO connection to the word “master.” Those big kids in high school weren’t calling you a “master debater” while they were stuffing you into your locker. Get with the program.
But is it wacking off or whacking off?
I used to say that people were wacked as in crazy, and people would correct my speeling saying that it should be whacked. I always had to tell people that wacked derives from wacky.
Basically, I would say you’re whacking off since whack involves a physical movement. I don’t think mastirbation is a wacky sort of thing either.
Finally, enough with the spelling threads. People type fast, and usually think faster than they type, which accounts for using wrong words (like the instead of to or things like that) and hitting wrong keys without realizing.
We’ve all done the, and nobdy is purrfect.
The proper term is “punching the clown.”
Are yu fusrtated Cheffie? Whie dont yoo just go masterbait fur a whyle? Yull fele much betr.
The term here that puzzles me is “erudite SDMBer”.
A bit of an uxo-moron (somethin my ex-wife would say) 
“Polishing Flipper.”
“Climbing Mount Baldy.”
I thought what Cheffie was getting on about was the “lose/loose” thing.
Yes, but some things are clearly typing errors of the sort you describe, e.g. “teh” for “the” and so on, and some do look a lot more like spelling errors.
Caats ar purrfect.
In honor of our former Surgeon General, who was fired for advocating its being taught as part of the public school sex ed curriculum, it shall henceforth be spelled as:
Jostlin’ the Elder.
Goddamnit, Max. That’s hilarious. I’ll be usin’ that one.
I’ve always liked:
Bopping the Bishop
Waxing the Dolphin
Shining the Mic(as in microphone)
Tickling your Ivory
Heck, most people don’t spell prodestant correctly either, but they are probably a smaller minority of world population than master-baiters.
I’m rather embarrassed that I knew what the word was before opening the thread, just by reading the title . . .
Me too, Eve! Well i guess the OP won’t mind if I go and mass-tuhr-bait now, huh?
For the gents: Spank the monkey, whack off, wax the dolphin, beat the meat, choke the chicken, boot up the hard drive, slam the ham, stretch the turtleneck, feed the Kleenex, seed the rug, play the single-string air guitar, have a date with Rosy Palm and her five beautiful daughters, shake hands with the president, make soup for one, give the tadpoles a swimming lesson, congratulate the bald-headed champion, paint a small Jackson Pollock, gag the maggot, club the baby seal, relieve the pitcher.
For the ladies: Applying lip gloss, Checking the Oil, Doing something for my chapped lips, Drooling, Getting a stain out of my carpet, Itching the Ditch, Nulling the void, Parting the Red Sea, Polishing the wedding ring, Preheating the oven, Soaking in Palmolive, Stiffening my upper lip, Visiting your safety deposit box, A night in with the girls, air the orchid, audition the finger puppets
And if that ain’t enuff 
try http://www.well.com/user/earl/synonyms.html
They missed at least one for women: “bailing out the gravy boat.”
I’m so sorry.
shaking hands with the unemployed…
Aw, Maggie, that says something about the speaker that fills me with pity.
And I KNOW I’m not the only one who flinches when I see it, so you mockers can all just go flog the bishop.
You could always cheer me up with a good mash note…
Slappin’ the big-nosed rasta-man.