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Maybe we should have a Malopropism thread...? (have I spelled that correctly?)
Don't expect to see the owl this afternoon, pouring with rain here, apparently they can't cope with the wet.
Being retired is great ! I'm in the middle of making a cake, Domestic Goddess that I am.
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After all the nonsense of Virgin Broadband today I have decided to comfort myself with chicken casserole. It is burbling away on the stove and should, later, make me `n my tum happy  Sorry, veggies!  |
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Maybe we should have a Malopropism thread...? (have I spelled that correctly?)
Forgive me, definition of Malopropism??
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Maybe we should have a Malopropism thread...? (have I spelled that correctly?)
Forgive me, definition of Malopropism?? Isn't something to do with where you put your apples? [sorry  ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism |
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Maybe we should have a Malopropism thread...? (have I spelled that correctly?)
Don't expect to see the owl this afternoon, pouring with rain here, apparently they can't cope with the wet.
Doh! I was solemnly scouring that sentence for Malapropisms. "Don't expect to wee the sow this afternoon, roaring with pain, apparently they can't wope with the cet."  |
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« Reply #2720 on: 17:16:07, 14-11-2007 » |
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I'm just trying to lose the mental picture of Janthefan "in the middle of a cake". I wonder if she's wearing a leotard and waving a feather boa?  |
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« Reply #2721 on: 17:43:46, 14-11-2007 » |
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For your delectation and delight, I present to you the one and only Mrs Malaprop!  Accompanied by our dear Revd William Spooner, merd wangler extraordinaire. His efforts to lawn the mow were a delight to behold ! Bless him.  |
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Accompanied by our dear Revd William Spooner, merd wangler extraordinaire. His efforts to lawn the mow were a delight to behold ! Bless him. As were doubtless his efforts to lo! the morn... Isn't he also supposed to have spilt some salt on the table and then cleaned it up with a few drops of red wine? No, really, I did hear that. What was the English for contrepetrie before he came along anyway? |
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« Reply #2723 on: 17:56:28, 14-11-2007 » |
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What was the English for contrepetrie before he came along anyway?
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I quite often spoonerise things, Lynn finds it hillarious!
Some of my best ones:
Humphrey Cartemper
Apples don't like cats (ok, probably doesn't really count but why not)
Loose the ewe...
More to follow when my brain is working again!
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For your delectation and delight, I present to you the one and only Mrs Malaprop! Accompanied by our dear Revd William Spooner, merd wangler extraordinaire. His efforts to lawn the mow were a delight to behold ! Bless him. Forgive me Mort. I believe Doctor Spooner was best known as a word botcher long before the RSPB was organized. I remember fondly the days when my father used to fight the liar in the grate on cold wintry days when it was roaring with pain. |
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"You have tasted a whole worm and must leave Oxford by the town drain" - may be apocryphal, but that's the quotation from Spooner that my father told me. Then there was the one about the "queer old Dean".
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« Reply #2727 on: 21:35:46, 14-11-2007 » |
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"...you have hissed all my mystery lectures and have been caught fighting a liar in the quad" is sometimes in there too. Doubtless a conquated flotation.
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« Reply #2728 on: 00:28:11, 15-11-2007 » |
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I have a vague recollection of hearing this, no idea if it's accurate. Spooner loathed the notoriety that his peculiar speech impediment had gained him. A journalist (or maybe just a nosey student?) persisted in trying to get him to speak at length in order to catch him out in a new amusing twist of language. Spooner responded, "No, you just want me to do one of those, those things!"
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« Reply #2729 on: 11:21:32, 15-11-2007 » |
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Another story tells of Spooner preaching a sermon about St. Paul, but substituted the name Aristotle for St. Paul. When he finished, he came down from the pulpit, paused, went back up, and told his bewildered congregation, "Did I say Aristotle? I meant St. Paul." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Archibald_SpoonerSmart your day with a style. Er, did I say day? I meant afternoon. |
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