Mrs Malaprop

[AlanM]

Theres a clip of an interview with Lynne MacGreggor (Director: Ratcatcher) at the Glasgow Film Office where she talks about the more depraved areas of the city

[DickyHart]

got this today from my mum.. 'your sister brought a bottle abcess home from spain'

'naw mum you mean absinthe'

'certainly abcess its green'

I gave up after that.

[AlanM]

While not malaprops, I came across this poem which I quite liked

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

(Sauce unknown)

[Shazbat]

Again not a malapropism, but it rips ma knittin' when people say:
pacific(ly) for specific(ally)
modren for modern, and
pattren for pattern.

[danixta]

My gran asked me if I was due to get a tax reprobate heehee.

[Margaret]

My mother asked one of my brothers if he had VD

She was trying to find out if he had a DVD player before she bought his Christmas present

[Sharon]

I always get a wee pang of protectivness when people make mistakes like these... it just totally seems to trigger some sort of latent maternal instinct in me !!!

[AlanM]

My boss' son has a part in the school Activity play

[nuttytigger]

not something i said wrong but a daft question:

will a dvd recorder be able to play copied disks

[AlanM]

not something i said wrong but a daft question:

will a dvd recorder be able to play copied disks

Depends on the format of disc the copy was made on, most new recorders will play both DVD+R and DVD-R (some will record to one or other or both of these formats) A select few will also be able to use DVD-RAM with timeshifting and other cool stuff but still expensive and not viewable in other hardware