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7.15.2016

Blogging & Dancing with Mrs. Malaprop

A couple of amusing word-swaps I encountered online today:

She’s not on the ballet in Idaho. (a Facebook comment)

Like Bobbi, I believe that medical marijuana will soon be legal. Once legislatures can better formalize the language of the next ballet initiative, and provide more specific guidelines for the large scale taxation and regulation; more people will vote for it.

The next one is often used deliberately as a pun:
 Got Blogged Down
But it also occurs as a malapropism: 

No getting blogged down with large graphics. (in a user review of Printshop 3 on Amazon)

Lmfao your phone is slow given in truth from inception all phones come stock and forementioned equates blogged down in bloatware but by deleting what I said after your rooting frees up ram simultaneously a faster phone
Posted by Paul Brians at 15.7.16
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