Hard to pick a fave in this collection, and harder still to discern and ferret out all the discrepancies on the first passover. Garnering with a single gander was virtuously impossible to accomplish, with additional concecration and focus required.
On Gander:Besides being the proper name for a male goose and a slang word for silly man, the word gander also shows up in the idiom "take a gander." The slang sense of gander comes from the meaning recorded in 1886, to take a long look by craning one's neck like a goose, or wander foolishly (again, like a goose).
Here's to Gandering and Garnering in the Den of Levity! And where did this post take my craning and gandering neck today? To this:
What is a Ninnyhammer?
What does Ultracrepidarian mean?
What does Pilgarlic mean
What is Darkle?
What does Neddy mean?
All of which rose to float above the surface of this post like a scepter from the single entry of "mumpsimius", none of which was asked for or sought.
8 comments:
Norm Crosby and Professor Irwin Corey made millions w/ this.
Well, for all intense and porpoises that is true...
The Bowery Boys were pretty good at this, too.
Hey dude thank God you posted. I was getting worried. Great post.
I never use that word; I use malapropism. Like Sixty, these can be fun and done on porpoise.
Hard to pick a fave in this collection, and harder still to discern and ferret out all the discrepancies on the first passover. Garnering with a single gander was virtuously impossible to accomplish, with additional concecration and focus required.
On Gander:Besides being the proper name for a male goose and a slang word for silly man, the word gander also shows up in the idiom "take a gander." The slang sense of gander comes from the meaning recorded in 1886, to take a long look by craning one's neck like a goose, or wander foolishly (again, like a goose).
Here's to Gandering and Garnering in the Den of Levity! And where did this post take my craning and gandering neck today? To this:
What is a Ninnyhammer?
What does Ultracrepidarian mean?
What does Pilgarlic mean
What is Darkle?
What does Neddy mean?
All of which rose to float above the surface of this post like a scepter from the single entry of "mumpsimius", none of which was asked for or sought.
I like "ultracrepidarian" and the story behind it, MamaM. Thanks.
If you look up "pilgaric" Yul be sorry, just sayin'.
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