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Basil said:
That looks just like the wrench I misplaced!
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I initially thought you said it looked like the wench you misplaced. :jester:
 
Basil said:
NOPE! NOT WHAT I SAID! Let me be clear - WRENCH - I said WRENCH!
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:grin:

OT but a friend was at a wedding a few years ago and the minister said "and we will now consummate the wedding at the altar."

Consecrate! he was trying to say consecrate.
 
mehheh. A local Chamber of Commerce sales staffer once told a group of potential members the conference room was "Where we consummate", meaning to say congregate. She could never live that down.
 
Slip Mahoney... a master of malapropism.
 
Basil said:
I was thinking of the late great Alan King. "There I was, laying prostate on the ground."
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I grew up in the town that Alan King lived in and went to school with his son.
 
Long story short. I once test-drove a Siata 1400 around NYC's Central Park in 1956 just before I bought my new TR3. The old-time salesman actually called it a "Siesta" and told me I wouldn't be disappointed. It developed a burning smell combined with obvious overheating and I quickly drove it back into the Broadway showroom. I came out of the showroom to find another salesman with his foot up on the bumper of my '52 MG TD Mk. II - trying to sell it! He motioned me away as he made his pitch. All of this in a book I wrote and may someday publish.
 
You beat me to it Bas.
 
Anybody remember [FONT=&quot]Vaughn Meader from the same era?
Bet Tom does. [/FONT]
 
Gliderman8 said:
Anybody remember Vaughn Meader from the same era?
Bet Tom does.
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The First Family! Wonderful stuff!

And as for malaprops, very few surpassed this guy:

 
Vaughan Meader and the First Family album.

Jackie shows us the White House. "Here's a room, then there's another room, and there's this room here, and over here there's a room .." That was hysterical to me in the '60s.

Or - Meader (as JFK) introduces Pablo Casals, who is about to perform in the ballroom. The intro went on so long, Casals fells asleep.

New to the White House, JFK asks Jackie how to get to the dining room. "You go past the Andrew Jackson smoking room, then the Ulysses S Grant drinking room, and the President Taft rumpus room, and finally you pass the Richard Nixon dumb waiter ..."

Memories, memories.

PS - Meader and crew recorded the album on October 22, 1962. What was on TV that night?
 
Fidel was making trouble.
 
Fidel (and others) were involved. But what did many folks watch on TV that night?
 
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