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12 Dec 2023, 10:35 am

Come up with a sentence where the right word has been replaced by a similar one and no longer makes much sense....

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The price of food keeps osculating.

Earthquakes happen when the platonic plates shift position.

My uncle started collecting stamps from all over the world as a boy and is still a very keen philanderer.

My niece had to see the orthodoxist about her teeth.


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13 Dec 2023, 12:01 am

My next door neighbour started ranting and raving to me about the noise caused by my washing machine, so I told her not to get historical about this.

NB: a character called Hilda Ogden in the British soap opera 'Coronation Street' used to specialize in this kind of thing. She frequently referred to the 'Muriel' on her living room wall.


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13 Dec 2023, 2:51 pm

Interesting! I think they're called malapropisms.

Obese people can benefit from exercise programs that burn celluloid.


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14 Dec 2023, 1:17 am


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14 Dec 2023, 9:00 am

No matter what awful things they say, some people tend to follow demigods without question.


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14 Dec 2023, 9:27 am

Aliamentary, my dear Watson!


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14 Dec 2023, 12:59 pm

Someone must have been poisoned!


Trespassers will be prostituted.

Fighter pilots are equipped with projector seats

The recipe calls for desecrated coconut.


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15 Dec 2023, 6:07 am

Asterix and Obelix are invincible, so no one can see them.


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15 Dec 2023, 9:21 pm

Perms and conditioners apply.


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18 Dec 2023, 2:08 pm

The workforce are being used as political prawns in this strike.


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18 Dec 2023, 2:15 pm

"I thought that 'Croatians' were a kind of shellfish...like shrimp and lobsters!"

A coworker of mine actually said that. :lol:



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18 Dec 2023, 2:20 pm

They were respectable pillocks of the community.

(Was at a time in an English exam where I was trying to expand my vocabulary to impress, as I had a narrow vocabulary, so I thought with that statement I would have extra points. I got it wrong and had a telling off instead and my parents found out via the parents evening day if I recall correctly. How was I to know it should have been pillars! I'm not psysic).


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19 Dec 2023, 6:05 am

I guess I'm just a sedimentary fool.


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