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 Now, _Brothers_ is a real stinker. It is, for example, extremely * Ah! This one isn't in the eggcorn database but someone at the Language Log It is also common enough for a Google with [outer-body-experience] to -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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