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Re: More Friday Fun: Archie Bunker-style mangled expressions

Subject: Re: More Friday Fun: Archie Bunker-style mangled expressions
From: "Martin Bosworth" <martinhbosworth -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:45:15 -0400

On 5/12/06, Jones, Donna <DJones -at- zebra -dot- com> wrote:

(For those of you not familiar with the 1970s TV show All in the Family,
Archie Bunker was known for mangling common expressions.)



On the radio yesterday, I heard someone talk about "siding on the error
of caution." I'm still laughing about that. Nothing like reversing words
as well as getting one of them wrong-and saying it on the radio to boot!


I know this isn't a "mangling," per se, but if I have to see one more
advertisement or TV news ticker misspelling "peek" as "peak" (i.e.
"Catch a sneak peak of 'X-Men 3'!"), I'm going to have an Archie
Bunker moment myself. "HEY, MEATHEAD!"

Martin
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