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He was the King of Malapropisms !

Here's some other great ones....

"You could have knocked me over with a fender" Jane Ace
"He's on 90... 10 away from that mythical figure." Trevor Bailey, cricket commentator
"This series has been swings and pendulums all the way through." Trevor Bailey, cricket commentator
"Your ambition - is that right - is to abseil across the English channel?" Cilla Black
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile." George W. Bush
"Listen to the blabbing brook." Norm Crosby
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder." Richard Daley, former Chicago mayor
"I resemble that remark!" Stan Curly Howard. Comedian
"We heard the sea is infatuated with sharks" Stan Laurel, Comedian
"This is unparalyzed in the state's history." Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House
"He was a man of great statue." Thomas Menino, Boston mayor
"She's really tough; she's remorseful." David Moorcroft
"It is beyond my apprehension." Danny Ozark, baseball team manager
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." Dan Quayle, Vice President
"He's going up and down like a metronome." Ron Pickering
"Cardial - as in cardial arrest." Eve Pollard
"We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest." Valerie Singleton
"Unless somebody can pull a miracle out of the fire, Somerset are cruising into the semi-final." Fred Trueman
"I might just fade into Bolivian, you know what I mean?" Mike Tyson, Boxer
"Marie Scott... has really plummeted to the top." Alan Weeks
"Well, that was a cliff-dweller." Wes Westrum, about a close baseball game

.....a few more malapropisms that haven't been to attributed to anyone in particular.

Dad says the monster is just a pigment of my imagination.
Good punctuation means not to be late.
He had to use a fire distinguisher.
He's a wolf in cheap clothing.
I can't eat on an empty stomach.
I guess I'll have to start from scraps.
I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.
I'm scared to death to get sick.
Include me out.
Isn't that an expensive pendulum round that man's neck?
It's déjà vu all over again.
It's the people I tell things to that can't keep a secret, not me.
Michelangelo painted the Sixteenth Chapel.
My sister has extra-century perception.
Nowadays, every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Mike.
Say "No!" to negativity.

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