Since I have poked quite a
bit of fun at
As always Madison Avenue and
its lesser colleagues throughout the industry are a source of humor.
Some of these quotations are
not properly malapropisms as the speaker spoke the words properly but the words
were mis-heard. Others aren’t
malapropisms because the person (Adam) didn’t mean to say them like that!
Yes, I’m that annoying person
at the next table with the pen and paper.
I might even be the person at your table doing that.
For some reason I hold the
Press to a higher standard than the mere spoken word. That would probably be because they have copy
editors and are in the profession of communicating. But aside from that …
I think that signs are one of
the most fertile areas for inadvertent humor.
And because they are there for a while they have time to grow on you.
These words have been
harvested from books and periodicals.
Multiple word combinations were are presented as found. None of these were my own coinage but I only
started recording attributions recently.
I have separated them into sections.
Some are puns, some were misheard, some are evocative, and some simply
sound good when said out loud.
These are quotations I found
and have liked.
This page is copyright 2003, Laura Giletti
Last revised: October 2003