Issue 17   October 14, 2003 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 17  
CONTENTS
Minding The Store
Trade Show Tips
Industry Trade Shows
Did You Know?
Just for fun!
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In the News . . .
Freight Tip
Industry Interview
Did You Know?
Mispeaking . . .

Last week we introduced you to Yogi’s malapropisms – this week we will explore others “misspeakings”.
 
Medieval cathedrals were supported by flying buttocks.
 
Beware of sexy women like those lymphomaniacs.
 
He’s a wealthy typhoon.
 
They were singing without accompaniment. You know – Acapulco.
 
The first thing they do when a baby is born is to cut its biblical cord.
 
The marriage was consummated at the altar.
 
They’ve decided to raise my benefits, and they are making it radioactive.
 
The corporation has set up rules for the employees, and we expect you to live up to them sacrilegiously.
 
That needs some thinking about. Let me go away and regurgitate for a couple of hours.
 
Politically – they were at locker-heads.
 
We sold our house and moved into a pandemonium.
 
I ate in a restaurant today where the food was abdominal.
 
It’s a fragment of your imagination
 
American believes in free press; it’s a basic right incarcerated in the constitution.
 
Life begins at contraception.
 
I wish someone would make a decision around here. I am tired of hanging around in libido.
 
Source: Anguished English, Richard Lederer, Laurel Books 1990

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