to "wreck havoc"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> Eggcorn, I presume -- and I'm too lazy, or tired, or something, to
> check the data base, where I assume it already lives.

Exactly how lazy/tired do you have to be to find 5 seconds of Googling
too taxing?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eggcorn+wreck+havoc&l=1

> 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.]

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