Eggcorn from uk.misc (Re: Last Winter's back)
Prai Jei
> De ja vu this morning. The sound of an ice breaker scraping and there
> she was: the lady who always leaves her car parked outside my house --
> busy scratching a tiny hole in the whore frost in her windshield. Her
> routine was the same as last winter.
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LFS
> james set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum:
>
>> De ja vu this morning. The sound of an ice breaker scraping and there
>> she was: the lady who always leaves her car parked outside my house --
>> busy scratching a tiny hole in the whore frost in her windshield. Her
>> routine was the same as last winter.
If that "james" is, as I suspect, JF, it may well have been deliberate.
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Laura
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Pat Durkin
"Prai Jei" <pvstownse...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> james set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
> continuum:
>
>> De ja vu this morning. The sound of an ice breaker scraping and
>> there
>> she was: the lady who always leaves her car parked outside my
>> house --
>> busy scratching a tiny hole in the whore frost in her windshield.
>> Her
>> routine was the same as last winter.
Funny. But, aside from the scandalous weather description, I find
"ice breaker" incongruous in the situation. In Wisconsin, those are
ships built in the state's shipyards, though I have no idea how a
Great Lakes port can make such important sea-going ships. (Seems to
me the last one rolled off the dry-dock last year. I don't know where
future ice-breakers are being built.)
Of course an ice breaker at a cocktail party is another thing, and
quite needed, especially for those who like their drinks on the rocks.
But for frosty windshields...I use an ice scraper.
abzorba
> "Prai Jei" <pvstownsend.zyx....@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
And, of course, ice-breakers can end up on the rocks too..
Myles (>> Did your spell checker change Advocaat to avocado?
> Oops! Yes, ahem - thanks. ) Paulsen
Mike Barnes
It was Jimbo, so yes, possibly it was deliberate. But there were a few
other infelicities in the message, unlikely to be deliberate.
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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England
musika
Pat Durkin <durk...@msn.com> typed:
And no self-respecting Englishman would use "windshield" for "windscreen".
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Ray
UK
Mike Barnes
Jimbo has a special place in his heart for Americans.
Pat Durkin
"musika" <mUs...@SPAMNOTexcite.com> wrote in message
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> In news:ibv6hk$qsm$1...@news.eternal-september.org,
> Pat Durkin <durk...@msn.com> typed:
>> "Prai Jei" <pvstownse...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:ibus1f$j9r$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> james set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
>>> continuum:
>>>
>>>> De ja vu this morning. The sound of an ice breaker scraping and
>>>> there
>>>> she was: the lady who always leaves her car parked outside my
>>>> house --
>>>> busy scratching a tiny hole in the whore frost in her windshield.
>>>> Her
>>>> routine was the same as last winter.
>>
>> Funny. But, aside from the scandalous weather description, I find
>> "ice breaker" incongruous in the situation. In Wisconsin, those
>> are
>> Of course an ice breaker at a cocktail party is another thing, and
>> quite needed, especially for those who like their drinks on the
>> rocks.
>> But for frosty windshields...I use an ice scraper.
>
> And no self-respecting Englishman would use "windshield" for
> "windscreen".
>
I wanted to change that, but thought it best if a person from "over
there" made the suggestion.