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To parallel a question posed in the previous thread: does anyone here know who Ordinal Malaprop is in "real life"?
Archive 2007-06-03 Milosun Czervik 2007
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To parallel a question posed in the previous thread: does anyone here know who Ordinal Malaprop is in "real life"?
RL in SL (opinion by Owen Kelly) Milosun Czervik 2007
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I called Malaprop’s in Asheville and had them send me a copy of every book they had on North Carolina legends.
Wild Orchids Jude Deveraux 2003
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C4N VOCABULARY: Jon "Malaprop" Snow appeared to invent two words during the course of an Interview with Sir Christopher Meyer.
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C4N VOCABULARY: Jon "Malaprop" Snow appeared to invent two words during the course of an Interview with Sir Christopher Meyer.
Archive 2007-11-11 2007
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Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010
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Sure, in some sense they are an amusement, fringe clowns with misspelled signs and Malaprop mentalities, enjoying their days in the sun courtesy of a media driven by salaciousness and spectacle and an audience keen to rubberneck when given their cue.
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