to "wreck havoc"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Apr 3 02:16:01 UTC 2012


Eggcorn, I presume -- and I'm too lazy, or tired, or something, to
check the data base, where I assume it already lives.

http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2010/08/inki-and-mynah-bird.html
On the Inki and the Mynah Bird cartoons of Chuck Jones:
"He [the mynah] ignored everything going on around him -- until the
right moment, when he would wreck havoc on those who got in his way
(usually a lion that was out to get Inki)."

[The article is worth reading in its own right.]

Joel

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