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#126939 04/04/04 06:26 PM
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What do you all think of the word "pomposterous"?


#126940 04/04/04 06:49 PM
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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.



#126942 04/04/04 07:30 PM
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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?


#126944 04/04/04 08:19 PM
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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.]



#126948 04/11/04 11:26 PM
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It'ws over on the eastern side of Moldagringia. Oh, wait, you said boarder, not border. Never mind.



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