Published on 12, July, 2020
I love malapropisms: similar-sounding but incorrect words, which sometimes have a humorous effect.
Here are a couple of recent ones:
Have you seen any funny word stuff? If so, do share!
And I'm sure everyone's heard of the town in Austria called F**king...
I have heard there is a place somewhere called Old Sodbury
Writers described?
i must check that out. Humour is very uplifting (especially the silly sort) "laughter is the best medicine" - who said that?
New meanings for words:
Vestry - room next to the pantry
Catscan - feline bevvy
Logarithm - vibe struck up by lumberjacks...
Is shampoo a fake turd?
Lingerie debriefed
One of my favorite pages on Facebook is the 'I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue Appreciation Society'. They do lots of those silly games like...
Books or Films for Lumberjacks:
GoodFellers
The Tree Musketeers
RoboChop
Sewage deterred
Bikes derided
Beds debunked? Roads designed? Exams degraded?
Knew you'd be good at this!
In Kent, we have a village called Pratt's Bottom.
Haha! It's a shame politicians can't be devoted more often.
Hard drives could be defiled, castles demoted and hair departed...
via @BrainLagBooks Twitter
I saw a sign once in a country road lay-by outside a cemetary which read
CEMETARY
VISITORS ONLY
Have you ever listened to the Bradshaws? Its full of malaptopisms.
I saw once on the meat stall of the Arndale Market "pork lions" for sale.
This thread, while unrelated reminds me of spurious correlations. For example, did you know that between 2000-2007 the US per capita cheese consumption correlates closely with the number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets? Or that thr divorce rate in maine coincides with the per capita condumption of margerine? Its about creative use of statistics!
tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
A spectacular 'crash blossom' due to a missing hyphen.
Unsurprisingly this went viral on Twitter!
Pratt Tribune, Pratt, Kansas (28 October 2018)
Here's the answer (I think!)
There's another nice crash blossom here too:
'British Left Waffles on Falklands'
I love this!
I absolutely love those Trogluddite. I think this is my favourite thread. I wonder if a lot of the examples on here are so funny because they conjure up funny pictures. Visual thinking playing a part?
Why are they called crash blossoms i wonder