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A delicious plate of jugged hair recently!
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Just saw this one in a Tums description:
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I saw an ad once for a Tranny Manager. Guess it must have been for one of those uni-sex shops.
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I included a section on malapropisms in Something to Read on the Plane and have been collecting new ones ever since. I started a thread asking for contributions and some were hilarious. The best one in my book (I think) is:
The beggar held out his hat hoping someone would throw in their spare penis. (you did realise it should be pennies!) Most of my original ones came from students' writing assignments. ![]() |
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I had a good one in my latest. Made it through me, my wife, beta readers, and a proofreader before it was finally caught, almost by accident.
"He upholstered his gun" Guess he decided, with the bad guys advancing and all, that he really wanted the paisley grips. ![]() |
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I've heard that one of Enid Blyton's Noddy stories contains the line: "Noddy woke one morning feeling a little gay."
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Maybe because English is my second language, sometimes I have tendency to type the wrong words that sound similar. Rather like a lot of people I guess: "there" for "their" or "right" for write." I have a proofreader who especially looks for this for me because if I happen to be more tired, for example, I do it more often.
The other one is really annoying but funny (sometimes) when I type too fast and mean to write "site" and I accidentally type "sh*t." |
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One that I have done more than once to work colleages is to end my email with "Retards" instead of "Regards". Something Freudian, perhaps...?
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