Subject: Malaprops (Page 22)

He’d go through the house like Typhoon Mary.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I like a lot of partisan cheese on my pizza.

… electrical degenerators

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

My husband and I have a monotonous relationship.

… buy one of them battery operated transvestite radios.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile.

I’ve had to overcome a lot of diversity.

professional basketball player

You made a certain referential remark there.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Take a cruise down to the Virgin’s Island.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

She has really plummeted to the top of the charts.

Corona-rary bypass.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

A lot of people are leaving the company; the nutrition rate is very high.

What’s all this I hear about endangered feces?

(1946 – 1989) comedian & actress

Yeah, we’re really sick, Mom! I think we have Monte Cristo’s Revenge!

(1971 – ) American actress

I haven’t seen him for donkey’s ears!

I could get blackbusted.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

You’re a hairess.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I think I've got the mucus of a good team.

I'm not a pessimist, I'm an optometrist.

One of those digitalis clocks.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

If that's something you expire to do.