The repetition makes me suspect that "boner" hadn't entered the popular consciousness with its current meaning at the time those were made. 'Cause, damn, otherwise, Wertham was right.

The "those you've touched" panel is perhaps the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, though.

The "those you've touched" panel is perhaps the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, though.

Wait, that one was real?

All of them are real.

switches off lurking device

There was discussion of "eggcorns" a little ways up, and I was brainwormed with the word until I saw The Eggcorn Database.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Batslash.

edited because I spend five minutes looking up the formatting and skip a double "the"

Welcome, Ailleann!

Not to mention the botched dialogue attributions.

Okay, now I feel bad -- from her LJ info, she's not a native English speaker.

But still!

The Eggcorn Database.

Hurray, more language nerddom! Not that it doesn't make me sad every time someone refers to a chaise longue as a chaise lounge (and pronounces it that way), but I think I have lost the battle on that one.

I think I have lost the battle on that one.

Long ago, my friend. But it bugs my father, too, so you're in good company.