OT: Malaproprisms

Pat ? said:

After last week's malapropism of "tow the line" instead of the correct "toe
the line", I started to wonder how many of these we hear in the ordinary
course of things. Well, today I heard two. On the sports radio show KCTK
"The Ticket", the hosts were talking about some boasting by Patrick Watkins
of the Dallas Cowboys toward the NY Giants. One host said, "He shouldn't
have said what he did, it's just cannon fodder!"

Then, switching around to a garden show, I heard a guy tell Neil Sperry,
"After the cold snap we had, my Elephant Ears just swiveled!"

Two in one hour!

You could always fine an "escape (sic) goat" to blame.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"And never forget, life ultimately makes failures of all people."
- A. Derleth

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:44:59 -0600, "Pat" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

After last week's malapropism of "tow the line" instead of the correct "toe
the line", I started to wonder how many of these we hear in the ordinary
course of things. Well, today I heard two. On the sports radio show KCTK
"The Ticket", the hosts were talking about some boasting by Patrick Watkins
of the Dallas Cowboys toward the NY Giants. One host said, "He shouldn't
have said what he did, it's just cannon fodder!"

Then, switching around to a garden show, I heard a guy tell Neil Sperry,
"After the cold snap we had, my Elephant Ears just swiveled!"

Two in one hour!

Today I had to explain the difference between braising and brazing to
a welder.
--
zk

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:44:59 -0600, "Pat" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

After last week's malapropism of "tow the line" instead of the correct "toe
the line", I started to wonder how many of these we hear in the ordinary
course of things. Well, today I heard two. On the sports radio show KCTK
"The Ticket", the hosts were talking about some boasting by Patrick Watkins
of the Dallas Cowboys toward the NY Giants. One host said, "He shouldn't
have said what he did, it's just cannon fodder!"

Then, switching around to a garden show, I heard a guy tell Neil Sperry,
"After the cold snap we had, my Elephant Ears just swiveled!"

Two in one hour!

Today I had to explain the difference between braising and brazing to
a welder.

.... mmmmmmm .... brazed mushrooms ... <drool>

Full o' minerals.

cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

...
Today I had to explain the difference between braising and brazing to
a welder.

... mmmmmmm .... brazed mushrooms ... <drool>

Full o' minerals.

Fillet brazed or lugged mushrooms? Bronze or silver filler? 😉

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"And never forget, life ultimately makes failures of all people."
- A. Derleth

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:09:48 -0800, [email hidden] (Tom

Keats) said:

... mmmmmmm .... brazed mushrooms ... <drool>

Full o' minerals.

Eat dirt.
--
zk

Tom Sherman said:

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

...
Today I had to explain the difference between braising and brazing to
a welder.

... mmmmmmm .... brazed mushrooms ... <drool>

Full o' minerals.

Fillet brazed or lugged mushrooms? Bronze or silver filler? 😉

The art of filetng is reserved for fish, meat amd metal.
. . not mold.
--
zk

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:09:48 -0800, [email hidden] (Tom

Keats) said:

... mmmmmmm .... brazed mushrooms ... <drool>

Full o' minerals.

Eat dirt.

I'd rather not (again.)

As an urban cyclist and erstwhile MTBer, I get
lotsa stuff shoved into my face. I've eaten dirt,
and kept on riding.

I'll do so again and again and again.

Eat dirt!? Hell, we're all forced to
inhale dirt!

Perhaps without a mouthful of dirt and a bunch of
earthworms dangling out of my mouth, but I'll
be there.

A folded-up sheet of paper towel cleans mushrooms
lovelily. Nothing is better.

Anyways, speaking of malapropisms, I shall never forget
the time Pauline phoned me up to inform me Princess Diana
was killed by being chased by the Pavarotti.

Poor ol' Diana.

Poor ol' Luciano.

Poor ol' earthworms.

Eat dirt indeed!

Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

Tom Sherman said:

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
Zoot Katz <[email hidden]> writes:
> ...
> Today I had to explain the difference between braising and brazing to
> a welder.

... mmmmmmm .... brazed mushrooms ... <drool>

Full o' minerals.

Fillet brazed or lugged mushrooms? Bronze or silver filler? 😉

The art of filetng is reserved for fish, meat amd metal.
. . not mold.

Cheap bucketfuls of oolichans should be coming up soon.

It happens around maple syrup time.

Oh to be in New Brunswick.

Despite the icy highways.

The trick to understanding Acadian is to "feel"
what the Acadian guy is telling you. If you still
don't get it, just nod your head and breathily say:
"ayy?" And the Acadian guy will keep on talkin'.
The Acadian Language is really a form of polyglot,
and if you know enough Chinhook, you can communicate
with Acadians. More or less.

Better to just get wasted w/ 'em and
be on the same wavelength. And be able
to speak some bad French.

Moodsy tabernac!

Thus is Canadia. Eh?

cheers, & to the Queen & Country,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Two more today.

Mike Heika in the Dallas Morning News: "The Stars would have to have a great
young scorer in their sites before they would let any of the three go."

Robert Cadwallader in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "That's fitting, said
John Henry Johnson, sitting atop a 6-year old red Rhone he named Maggot...."

"Tom Sherman" wrote: You could always fine an "escape (sic) goat" to
blame.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My friend got a ticket after an auto accident--he said, "They needed a
scrape goat."

I believe scapegoat could be written 'scape goat, because it does derive
from "escape."

Leo Lichtman said:

You could always fine an "escape (sic) goat" to blame.

Quoted message said:

My friend got a ticket after an auto accident--he said, "They needed
a scrape goat."

Quoted message said:

I believe scapegoat could be written 'scape goat, because it does
derive from "escape."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scape_goat

The goat was driven into the wilderness to take the evils laid on its
back, away from the community (see caption under picture).

Jobst Brandt

A guy with whom I used to work would /frequently/ say, "... for all
intensive purposes...."

I hope I always stifled the snicker.....

Quoted message said:

A guy with whom I used to work would /frequently/ say, "... for all
intensive purposes...."

I hope I always stifled the snicker.....

Yeah, everybody knows it's "for all intensive porpoises."

Brian Huntley said:

Quoted message said:

A guy with whom I used to work would /frequently/ say, "... for all
intensive purposes...."

I hope I always stifled the snicker.....

Yeah, everybody knows it's "for all intensive porpoises."

There was a Vista worker, trying to improve the lives of people in a
mining town in West Virginia. He heard about an exhibit at the
Baltimore Aquarium of a group of dolphins who had managed to live in
captivity for far longer than anyone believed possible.

The Vista volunteer thought this was a good opportunity to take people
from this small town, who had never seen the city, much less a dolphin,
so he gathered up as many people as he could into his VW microbus (of
course), and drove off, only to be stopped once he got into Maryland,
and arrested. He was charged, of course, with:

Transporting miners across state lines for immortal porpoises.

--

David L. Johnson

Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death.
And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not
be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
-- J. R. R. Tolkein

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:51:42 -0800, [email hidden] (Tom
Keats) wrote:
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

... mmmmmmm .... brazed mushrooms ... <drool>

Full o' minerals.

Eat dirt.

I'd rather not (again.)

As an urban cyclist and erstwhile MTBer, I get
lotsa stuff shoved into my face. I've eaten dirt,
and kept on riding.

I'll do so again and again and again.

Eat dirt!? Hell, we're all forced to
inhale dirt!

Lately I've been getting plenty of minerals from air borne gypsum.
For fibre, I'm doing subdermal injections of cedar and mahogany.
Fortunately the iron I inadvertently overdosed left no ill effects.

Quoted message said:

Perhaps without a mouthful of dirt and a bunch of
earthworms dangling out of my mouth, but I'll
be there.

My grandfather always said to not worry about it because "you have to
eat a bushel of dirt before you die." As a kid I took it literally
but sometimes now wonder if that's what he meant.

Quoted message said:

A folded-up sheet of paper towel cleans mushrooms
lovelily. Nothing is better.

Anyways, speaking of malapropisms, I shall never forget
the time Pauline phoned me up to inform me Princess Diana
was killed by being chased by the Pavarotti.

Poor ol' Diana.

Poor ol' Luciano.

Poor ol' earthworms.

I'd not be surprised if worm castings, under some exotic alias, went
over big with truffle lovers who profess to communicate with dead
celebrities.

Sprinkled lightly over a pizza, worm castings would give it an earthy
flavour. Vegetables love 'em. Cut out the middle-man.
--
zk

David L. Johnson said:

Transporting miners across state lines for immortal porpoises.

When I first heard it, it involved a zoo keeper transporting under
age gulls over a state lion for immortal porpoises.
--
zk

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

Lately I've been getting plenty of minerals from air borne gypsum.
For fibre, I'm doing subdermal injections of cedar and mahogany.

^^^^^^^^

Doorskins, right? I harbour a love/hate relationship with that
stuff, myself. Doorskin mahogany forms the soundboard of my
homemade hammered dulcimer. I'm immune to cedar in all its
various species. I used to nervously chew on it -- enough to
freak-out the allergic people. I'm also immune to cat scratches.
(I'm not immune to pampas grass, and just looking at it evokes
sneezing fits in me.)

Quoted message said:

Fortunately the iron I inadvertently overdosed left no ill effects.

Quoted message said:

Perhaps without a mouthful of dirt and a bunch of
earthworms dangling out of my mouth, but I'll
be there.

My grandfather always said to not worry about it because "you have to
eat a bushel of dirt before you die." As a kid I took it literally
but sometimes now wonder if that's what he meant.

I much prefer garden variety, to market variety veggies.
Market variety veggies grow so fast and violently, they'll
grow around their soil medium, and contain it within them.
And I hate finding dried-up earthworms within my supermarket-
purchased cabbages. Almost as much as I hate finding halves
of dried-up earthworms within my supermarket-purchased cabbages.

Quoted message said:

I'd not be surprised if worm castings, under some exotic alias, went
over big with truffle lovers who profess to communicate with dead
celebrities.

I saw some lovely big white plain ordinary mushrooms at the
Oakridge Safeway today. I shined them on.

Quoted message said:

Sprinkled lightly over a pizza, worm castings would give it an earthy
flavour. Vegetables love 'em. Cut out the middle-man.

I can sort of deal with earthworms. But slugs gross me out.
Especially in coleslaw.

One of my worst nightmares is cracking into a soft boiled
egg and finding a chicken foetus in there, with a weak li'l
neck so the head flops to one side, and X'd-out eyes.
I don't mind a li'l blood in the yolk.

cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Tom Keats said:

...
One of my worst nightmares is cracking into a soft boiled
egg and finding a chicken foetus in there, with a weak li'l
neck so the head flops to one side, and X'd-out eyes.
I don't mind a li'l blood in the yolk.

Some people consider that a delicacy: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut>.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"And never forget, life ultimately makes failures of all people."
- A. Derleth

Zoot Katz said:

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:44:59 -0600, "Pat" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

After last week's malapropism of "tow the line" instead of the correct "toe
the line", I started to wonder how many of these we hear in the ordinary
course of things. Well, today I heard two. On the sports radio show KCTK
"The Ticket", the hosts were talking about some boasting by Patrick Watkins
of the Dallas Cowboys toward the NY Giants. One host said, "He shouldn't
have said what he did, it's just cannon fodder!"

Then, switching around to a garden show, I heard a guy tell Neil Sperry,
"After the cold snap we had, my Elephant Ears just swiveled!"

Two in one hour!

Today I had to explain the difference between braising and brazing to
a welder.

One of my favorites is "baited" breath vs. bated (as in abated) breath.
Someone with baited breath might wind up lonely on a cold winter's
night.