ufo, etc.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Whenever I've mentioned the name "Dr. Condon" to otherwise intelligent people, they either burst into laughter or ask cautiously, "WHAT was his name?"

A distinguished Ph.D. boggled, "His name was CONDOM?"  Then *he* had a laughing fit.

All such conversations were in English.

Like Richard Condon, Dr. C. must have been a helluva man.

JL

"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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By free association: here is a little spelling error which really and truly
appeared repeatedly in the French-language press around 1970 (although this
example is copied from the Web):

<celle-ci en revint à la conclusion initiale: les U.F.O. étaient des engins
interplanétaires. D'où nouvelle contre-attaque des opposants avec la
création, en 1967, du comité Condom.>>

I don't know whether there's any significance to this. Does it qualify as
an eggcorn? (^_^)

-- Doug Wilson


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