Subject: Malaprops (Page 26)

A babysitter should at least be out of puberous.

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

Fillit mig-non

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

Did you watch the space shovel take off?

You’re everywhere. You’re omnivorous.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Edith, I’m mortifried!

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

[telling the story of Samson] He took a jawbone from the grass and slew the Palistine army.

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

Yankin’ out the tonsils and the adenoods.

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

It doesn’t endow me, to be honest.

English football player & manager

She was as mad as a wet blanket.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

As a great Eastern religion says, it's all about striking a balance between the ping and the pong.

(1971 – ) American actress

Why y’all duded up lookin’ like Errol Slim?

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

It is beyond my apprehension.

American baseball manager

We had a longer holiday than usual this year because the school was closed for altercations.

He’d go through the house like Typhoon Mary.

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

Now I too can soar with the beagle.

(1971 – ) American actress

It’s in an upward spinal.

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

Hidin’ out in the house all the time, like some Bantam of the Opera.

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

… expensive care

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

I wear my heart on a sleaze.

(1971 – ) American actress

We hold these semi-animal meetings.

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

Hell hath no fury like a woman's corns.

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