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#209641 - 02/19/13 01:48 PM Malapropism
gregeliot Offline
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Registered: 02/19/13
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My most memorable malapropism was the time I told my father that our erractically running car was erotic. As a teenage boy at the time there was plenty of things that I found erotic, but the car was certainly not one of them.

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#209649 - 02/19/13 08:05 PM Re: Malapropism [Re: gregeliot]
bassorbase Offline
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Registered: 02/19/13
Posts: 3
Loc: WA
We keep an eye on the house of some neighbors when they are away, and we have a key and the little remote device ("fob") for their alarm--in case of some emergency. For some reason, the owner has some trouble with the word for that little device. On his way home from another state, he called us in a panic. "What am I gonna do? I left my throb in a rest stop 150 miles ago." Once we determined that he had not forgotten his wife back there, but rather his alarm clicker, I found the spare and calm ensued.


Edited by bassorbase (02/19/13 08:08 PM)

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#209664 - 02/20/13 11:43 AM Re: Malapropism [Re: bassorbase]
LukeJavan8 Offline
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Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 5287
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
Welcome to you.
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#211046 - 05/20/13 06:00 PM Re: Malapropism [Re: gregeliot]
teepee Online   content
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Registered: 05/20/13
Posts: 9
Loc: New Zealand
I had to go to a specialist for a biopsy. A friend kindly rings to "wish me luck for my autopsy."
I responded "I think my luck would have run out..."

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#211051 - 05/20/13 06:30 PM Re: Malapropism [Re: teepee]
LukeJavan8 Offline
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A reply to that one needs to come from Olly, a member
here from Kiwi-land.
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