ms. malaprop*

i'm watching "bonfire of the vanities" (never seen) and i'm loving melanie griffith's character....she just said, "now honey, you know i only read the newspaper spasmodically!"

another, "i have reprobated myself over and over for that."

"there's some sort of subterfuge afoot here!" as she finds a hidden microphone in the pants of...."i'd say your goose is just about home-fried."

personally, i'm attached to her because i say things like:

"i got my high cholestorol from my father -- it's generic." and....

"i'm the bulldozer in the china shop"    and  "it works like a chimp!"

my favorite is from my mother (rip) "irochka, let's go to Bath, Tub & Above"  [and if he was a russian immigrant, family guy peter griffith would say, "stay away from the Above section."]

*Malapropisms originate  from Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan's 1775 play "The Rivals." Mrs. Malaprop's name is rooted in the French for "inappropriate" -- mal a propos. In attempts to sound refined by using "sophisticated" words, Mrs. Malaprop mangles them. For example, a reference to "allegories" on the banks of the Nile.

Comments

[picassohertz]

Definitely read Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities-- Melanie Griffith's character is even better in the book. She might have been the only acceptable part of that movie, which was by far one of my biggest disappointments, even after reading all of the negative press on it. The book is fantastic, and it's unfortunate that Brian DePalma couldn't even capture its spirit.