Post your favorite mangled word or phrases-

[digonswine]

Most have probably heard "windshield factor" used for "wind-chill factor."

I look on Craigslist frequently, which is a goldmine for such things.

I saw "radio alarm saw" for radial arm saw, "saw-saw" for sawzall, and my favorite was when one of my students called Roman numerals "Ramen noodles."

Whatya got?

[nolabear]

1. This is more of a stunning spelling error,

but I swear I once saw an ad in the Times Picayune for a "two ton rear mounted wench."

[digonswine]

2. I know-

amazingly similar--I saw an ad for a-I think it was an ATV-that you buy the thing and it includes a "free Warm wench"-rather than a Warn winch. Maybe someone is just having some fun.

[Tikki]

3. I think I thought it was...'taken for granite'...my professor...

laughed and told me that I knew better...and then it just popped into my head..'taken for granted'.

Live and learn....

Tikki

[logosoco]

4. One of my favorites from my kids...

my daughter (around 4 at the time) called her shoulder blades "rolder blades".

When I would tell her not to do something, she would say "I will'nt!". She said this so often, I was starting to feel like it really was a proper way of speaking.

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. A classical D. J. was once asked to play the Taco Bell Cannon

[Glorfindel]

6. "Hyena hernia" for "hiatal"

"Smilin' Mighty Jesus" for spinal meningitis

[Graybeard]

7. French benefits.

One of my fellow workers once told me that the best thing about our job was all of the "French benefits" that we got in our contract.

Gotta love the French.;)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. Screaming Mighty Jesus

instead of Spinal Meningitis.

[madmom]

9. Twirling the jump rope for a couple neighbor girls while they sang...

bluebells and taco shells......

[rug]

10. I saw a panel at a women's conference once that was billed as "How To Have An Organism".

[snagglepuss]

11. For all intensive purposes. And I'll own up that for a long time I thought

that is what people were saying. I had never used the term myself. Whew.

[astral]

34. ? it's not?

WhenI saw someone write "for all intents and purposes," I thought that was really funny.

You don't know what you don't know.... I was laughing my ass off at this thread til I saw this post, now I am going, Huh?

This is too funny.

[snagglepuss]

36. LOL. I can imagine your surprise. Thanks for laugh, you've made my day.

:rofl:

[siligut]

51. Had a doc ask me why a patient was moved to ICU

Smiling, I told him for all intensive purposes, he got a kick out of it.

[nolabear]

12. One of my sons called the remote control the "smokey troll."

We still call it that.

[Xipe Totec]

13. Finger it out nt

[geardaddy]

41. Win!

[UTUSN]

14. "Tow the line" instead of "TOE the line." Also "terrific" mistaken for "something GOOD"

"Terrific" stems from "terror." I'm not a scholar, just know barely enough to fear my own ignorance.

[Flaxbee]

15. A friend of mine always says "Another words" instead of "in other words"

I don't know if I should correct her or not - she hasn't been a friend for a long time and I don't want to offend her.

:shrug:

[Snellius]

16. "hypodeemic nerdle" for hypodermic needle

Can anyone guess who said it?

[taterguy]

17. Pev

[AnneD]

18. Peanutbutter balls....

for phenobarbital. Love that one. Did you know you can have a coronary infartion (infarction):wow: guess your heart explodes. We get a lot of mangled terms in medicine.

My very young daughter once told me she had witches in her pants. I was thinking I misheard her or maybe she was demon possessed...turns out she had wedgies. This is the same sweet kid that as a toddler, could not remember the word aquarium and called it a fish window.

Coco the signing gorilla called watermelon water candy.

[digonswine]

19. If I hear prostrate gland once more my head will explode.

[AnneD]

31. Go to work ....

With towel wrapped around your head. It will make the mess easier to clean up....yeah, I know. Spoken like a real nurse. :evilgrin:

[geardaddy]

42. +1

Is their prostate lying on its stomach? Or is there a supine gland?

[Demoiselle]

58. ..."Let angels' prostates fall..."

I sang in an Episcopalian church choir and the entire tenor section used to gleefully sing about angels' prostates whenever we sang the hymn that actually asks that "angels PROSTRATE fall.."
The choir was full of people who, like me, were more interested in the singing (the church had a wonderful music program) than worship. The congregation didn't seem to mind, or hear, or something. Episcopalians are pretty forgiving, I've found. Not quite Unitarians, but close.

[Richardo]

38. I love 'fish window'

Too cute. :)

[MrsMatt]

20. When I was at college

there were table tents at over campus advertising an event that was "open to the pubic"

when my daughter was little, she called ground ivy (Creeping Charlie) "Screaming Charlie"

[meow2u3]

21. I'm surprised nobody mentioned "The War on Tear"

"Tear", as in rip apart.

Remember the Bush years? I don't wanna, either.

[SCantiGOP]

63. I thought 'war on terra' was very appropriate

[LiberalEsto]

22. Chester drawers

Seen in furniture ads.

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. my dads name was Chester

We used to laugh our asses off at "chester drawers" but fortunately for us HE never knew about it because he firmly believed in "spare the rod and spoil the child" We avoided his wrath as much as we possibly could

[Rob H.]

23. "supposably" instead of "supposedly"

And "tenants" instead of "tenets".

[JitterbugPerfume]

24. I have a friend who says pie-anna

for piano . She also says piney for peony

I love her anyways(lol)

[geardaddy]

43. Does she say Eye-talian?

My sister always replies to someone who says "Eye-talian" by saying, "Oh, you mean from Eye-taly?"

[progressoid]

49. Gahhh. My Dad says that.

But I think he doing it deliberately to sound folksy or something. Like Eyetalian salad dressing.

Sometimes he also says, Itly instead of Italy.

[JitterbugPerfume]

53. yes she does

[progressoid]

26. "youth in Asia"

[KamaAina]

48. That was actually used in a novel called "Kill Me"

A shadowy group supporting euthanasia called itself the "Youth in Asia Foundation".

[Duer 157099]

27. Rod iron n/t

[Paladin]

28. Adding An Extra Syllable To "Realtor": "Real-uh-tor" (n/t)

[mtowngman]

29. Everybody has an opinion like an asshole. n/t

[99th_Monkey]

30. Nu-cu-lur for Nuclear n/t

[Flying Dream Blues]

32. Lots of good ones already taken, but how about "nip it in the butt"

instead of nip it in the bud? I thought that one was pretty funny.

Jule-ah-ry instead of jewelry.

Yeesh.

[wicket]

52. You beat me to it!

"Nip it in the butt" drives me bonkers.

[Mugu]

33. Not exactly what you're looking for.

But, for some reason it really bugs me when people talk about hot water heaters.

Why would anybody need a hot water heater?

I have a water heater and if pressed to include relative temperature I would call it a cold water heater.

[Iggo]

40. LOL...like a vacuum cleaner.

It's a vacuum sweeper. It doesn't clean anything.

Although they finally got that Dyson guy on board. I wonder how many takes it took to get him to say vacuum "cleaner."

[hyphenate]

35. A lyric misheard

Everytime I hear the song "Only the lonely can play" I remeber reading on a site that listed misquotes as the lyric being "Only the lonely get laid."

The next time I heard it, I lisetend to see if I could "hear" that. It was very funny.

[6000eliot]

37. Sometimes students write "It's a doggie-dog world."

[Richardo]

39. I'm chomping at the bit to post one....

:eyes:

It's so common that it's jarring when someone actually uses 'champing'.

[frogmarch]

44. A sight for sore eyes

to my husband's family, it means a sight that will make your eyes sore.

[Auggie]

45. For all intensive purposes

[driver8]

61. That was the one I was going to post...drives me crazy!! n/t

[nolabear]

46. "Another road to hoe"

Who hoes roads? Sounds like a bad prison farm.

[bif]

47. Heard a coworker say "He got his just deserves".

[rurallib]

50. in print I see 'alot' often - a lot even

I have actually seen 'alot' much more than my fair allotment.

[cloudbase]

54. Could of

or should of.

[Deep13]

55. I'll tell you when the statue of limitations runs out.

S don't axe me again.

When I used to practice in Bankruptcy court, everyone, even the judge, called a garnishment (a seizure of wages by a creditor) a "gar-nish-EE-ment" because the notices from the court were addressed to the debtor with simply the word "garnishee."

[geardaddy]

57. How about "gahr-en-TEE" for "guarantee"

My junior high algebra teacher used to say that. It drove me bananas.

[SCantiGOP]

64. Is that the onliest thing you have to say?

[meegbear]

56. Drink too many sludmides and you'll end up with dain bramage

[Grantuspeace]

59. Warshington D.C. and idear (idea)

[kwassa]

68. That's the Murlin, er, Maryland accent .....

[meow2u3]

60. My dad said he needed emergency "prostrate" surgery

This was back in New York, when I was a teenager. Of course, my mom, who was college educated, was mortified when Dad blurted it out in public. :blush: :blush: :blush:

[Deep13]

62. In the 1980s I worked at a drug store that started selling no-name, generic cigarettes.

I got requests for "genetric cigarettes" and "genetic cigarettes" all the time.

[HERVEPA]

65. Silly OP. The whole question is mute.

[PVnRT]

66. "Q-pon"

[Xithras]

67. Had a student compare an "interesting 'just the position'" of two functions in a paper recently

I'd never seen that one before, and assume he meant "juxtaposition".