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Mickwick  
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 More options Aug 30 2005, 2:37 pm
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
From: Mickwick <gro...@reply-to.domain>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:37:23 +0100
Local: Tues, Aug 30 2005 2:37 pm
Subject: Eggcorn: outer body experience
A where-are-they-now postscript printed on the screen just before the
closing credits of _Brothers_, a low-budget British film about three
pairs of brothers who fly to Greece to get pissed and talk a load of
bollocks, says something like:

        Luke stopped drinking and became a priest as a result of his
        outer body experience in prison.

Now, _Brothers_ is a real stinker. It is, for example, extremely
unlikely that anyone unconnected with the film-makers and their mothers
could watch the prison scene and find anything there that might indicate
an out-of-body experience. (I thought Luke was hung-over yet again and
didn't fancy eating his breakfast because he had vomited on it.) But as
sure as axis X, that's what the postscript meant: outer body =
out-of-body.

*

Ah!

This one isn't in the eggcorn database but someone at the Language Log
mentioned it last year.

It is also common enough for a Google with [outer-body-experience] to
yield a sponsored link to a site peddling advice about out-of-body
experiences.

--
Mickwick,
who has had an abdominal hernia, if that counts. (A six-foot girlfriend punched
me in the stomach outside the Streatham Odeon when I suggested that the film
had been a bit girlie.)


 
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