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What do you all think of the word "pomposterous"?
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Sounds like a rather bad malapropism to me! 
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Sounds like a rather bad malapropism to me!Are there any "good" malapropisms, Capfka? A "bad malapropism" is something like an "ill malady". They both should have stood in bed. 
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Dunno mate, some just seem more apposite than others. This one appears to be a combination of "preposterous" and "pompous". While I can applaud the combination of the two as being useful, I'm just not sure "pomposterous" does it for me!
Actually, it's bordering on being a mondegreen, too, isn't it?
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it's bordering on being a mondegreen, too, isn't it?
Could be. Do you know any Pomposterous boarders ... hereabouts?
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Oh, it's sock-puppet time again, is it? Sorry, I thought you might be a serious poster for a moment there. My mistake.
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I thought you were a serious poster
I am a serious poster, Capfka.
Did I say something to offend you?
I hope not. My comment was directed at your malapropism, not at you directly.
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Sounds like a rather bad malapropism to me!I hope you don't greet every "Stranger" you take seriously with a malapropism, Capfka. It could give the Board a bad name. It might even deCapfkatate your own. [Be fair, or be fare. What's fair is fair, Capfka. ]
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Sounds like a rather bad malapropism to me!If you wanna walk tall And swing like that You'd better not swing At a gnat. [Or a drone either. ]
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It'ws over on the eastern side of Moldagringia. Oh, wait, you said boarder, not border. Never mind.
TEd
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