Malaprop and metaphor mash-ups that actually make sense.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Fox News Report: "The Internet has been ripe with protest." Make no ripples with rifles.
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Found in a query form a budding novelist: "The advice sounded like it came right out of a fortunate cookie." Unlucky cookies give bad advice.
A sportscaster describing a problem he suffered when playing minor league baseball in Connecticut: "I couldn't choose between the Yankees and the Red Sox because I didn't have a pony in that fight."
Sportswriter Ron Sirak passed along this remark from an official discussing some new rules of golf: "I will explain this in a way the lame man can understand." What women say when they perform the feminine version of "mansplaining".