Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[Stuart70]

Shakermaker said:

gregs656 said:

These are called malafors.

My favourite is 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it'

Malapropisms, surely?

Named after Mrs Malaprop from the play "The Rivals" which I studied at school

I believe malaprops is using the wrong word in a phrase. Malaphor is mixing up the idiom. School days are hard, every day

[Blown2CV]

Shakermaker said:

gregs656 said:

These are called malafors.

My favourite is 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it'

Malapropisms, surely?

Named after Mrs Malaprop from the play "The Rivals" which I studied at school

i think she was named after the word... or the word was made up to refer to the thing, and she was then named after it. 'bad appropriation'?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Stuart70 said:

I believe malaprops is using the wrong word in a phrase. Malaphor is mixing up the idiom. School days are hard, every day

I think you may be right. But as they say, what's good for the goose is another man's meat.

[AstonZagato]

Shakermaker said:

gregs656 said:

These are called malafors.

My favourite is 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it'

Malapropisms, surely?

Named after Mrs Malaprop from the play "The Rivals" which I studied at school

They are called "malaphors". It is a portmanteau word, created by combining malapropism and metaphor.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/05/24/mal...

[Stuart70]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I think you may be right. But as they say, what's good for the goose is another man's meat.

[davhill]

AstonZagato said:

They are called "malaphors". It is a portmanteau word, created by combining malapropism and metaphor.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/05/24/mal...

I thought it was a Harry Potter baddie.

[Frimley111R]

alorotom said:

PositronicRay said:

I once summoned hotel reception, I couldn't possibly cope with the buzzing noise, they'd have to change my room.

The receptionist traced the source of the noise to my luggage, twas my electric toothbrush.

I was sat on a train yesterday complaining to the ticket inspector about people playing music on their phones around me. Transpires it was me, I had disconnect my AirPods and then accidentally turned the music on (on shuffle) on my phone - whoops!

Oh how we laughed!

I was on a boys weekend away and in a fairly lively part of town. i went to bed and was awoken a few times by music playing. All bloody night. When I got up in the morning I realised it was in my own room! I'd gone to bed pissed and forgotten to turn off the music (it was lowish volume but that just meant i assumed it was coming through the wall!)

[Skyedriver]

nonsequitur said:

Shakermaker said:

gregs656 said:

These are called malafors.

My favourite is 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it'

Malapropisms, surely?

Named after Mrs Malaprop from the play "The Rivals" which I studied at school

Every morning is a school day.

You not go to school in the afternoon? ;-)

[TorqueDirty]

Blown2CV said:

Shakermaker said:

gregs656 said:

These are called malafors.

My favourite is 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it'

Malapropisms, surely?

Named after Mrs Malaprop from the play "The Rivals" which I studied at school

i think she was named after the word... or the word was made up to refer to the thing, and she was then named after it. 'bad appropriation'?

Example form Wikipedia - but I'd love to think this was actually on purpose intended as a subtle double insult

As reported in New Scientist, an office worker had described a colleague as "a vast suppository of information". The worker then apologised for his "Miss-Marple-ism" (i.e. malapropism).[25] New Scientist noted this as possibly the first time anyone had uttered a malapropism for the word malapropism itself."

TD

[nonsequitur]

Stuart70 said:

Shakermaker said:

gregs656 said:

These are called malafors.

My favourite is 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it'

Malapropisms, surely?

Named after Mrs Malaprop from the play "The Rivals" which I studied at school

I believe malaprops is using the wrong word in a phrase. Malaphor is mixing up the idiom. School days are hard, every day

...and some fell on stony ground...

[Zoobeef]

Packing the car to go racing and the Mrs was making a list to see if we'd forgotten anything.

Long continuous rubber band - thatll be the fan belts.

Dumbell things with rubber ends - that's the driveshafts.

[heisthegaffer]

sparkyhx said:

once on a train I was wondering why the volume on my headphones was really low even at full volume on my phone. turned out the headphones were not plugged in and I, along with the rest of the carriage, where hearing my phone speaker from my shirt pocket. Felt a bit of a nob really.

Same thing happened to me except it was at the end of a 50 minute train journey. My fellow commuters had the pleasure of a tinny sounding 2Pac me Against the world!

[singlecoil]

My wife is out in the kitchen cooking supper, and I go out there to chat with her about something. I look out into the garden and I see a half coconut shell lying on the ground. So I ask her about it and she says it must have been dropped there by something. So I say it must have been an African swallow. I then have to spend 5 minutes explaining it to her while she patiently carries on cooking and waits for me to stop talking.

[PositronicRay]

singlecoil said:

My wife is out in the kitchen cooking supper, and I go out there to chat with her about something. I look out into the garden and I see a half coconut shell lying on the ground. So I ask her about it and she says it must have been dropped there by something. So I say it must have been an African swallow. I then have to spend 5 minutes explaining it to her while she patiently carries on cooking and waits for me to stop talking.

I think you'll have to explain it to me too.

[havoc]

PositronicRay said:

singlecoil said:

My wife is out in the kitchen cooking supper, and I go out there to chat with her about something. I look out into the garden and I see a half coconut shell lying on the ground. So I ask her about it and she says it must have been dropped there by something. So I say it must have been an African swallow. I then have to spend 5 minutes explaining it to her while she patiently carries on cooking and waits for me to stop talking.

I think you'll have to explain it to me too.

Creeper under the dorsal guiding feathers.

[srebbe64]

Many years ago:

ex-wife: "Can you buy some milk while you're at the shops please."
me: "Yes sure, how much do you need?"
ex-wife: "One big pint and two small pints please."

[nonsequitur]

havoc said:

Creeper under the dorsal guiding feathers.

Hands up who knew that.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

srebbe64 said:

Many years ago:

ex-wife: "Can you buy some milk while you're at the shops please."
me: "Yes sure, how much do you need?"
ex-wife: "One big pint and two small pints please."

Wife: Can you get a pint of milk from the petrol station,and if they have eggs, get half a dozen.
Me, back from petrol station: Here's your milk.
Her: Why have you bought 6 pints?
Me: Because they had eggs.

[CanAm]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Wife: Can you get a pint of milk from the petrol station,and if they have eggs, get half a dozen.
Me, back from petrol station: Here's your milk.
Her: Why have you bought 6 pints?
Me: Because they had eggs.

Are you really claiming that as a quote from the missus?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

CanAm said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Wife: Can you get a pint of milk from the petrol station,and if they have eggs, get half a dozen.
Me, back from petrol station: Here's your milk.
Her: Why have you bought 6 pints?
Me: Because they had eggs.

Are you really claiming that as a quote from the missus?

No, it was a joke based on srebbe64's post.