Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
You are not logged in.
Registrations are currently closed because of a technical problem. Please send email to
The forum administrator reserves the right to request users to plausibly demonstrate that they are real people with an interest in the topic of eggcorns. Otherwise they may be removed with no further justification. Likewise, accounts that have not been used for posting may be removed.
Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
The White House is a marvelous soapbox, according to Theodore Roosevelt, the poor man’s friend. It is hard to discern clearly what users of the altered imagery of a bully puppet are getting at. It may be a pure mondegreen. In the hits collected below, the sense seems to vary, but leans toward coercion by some sort of self-appointed or tinpot regime. Punchinello takes the stage.
Both of these surgeons general were operating from a bully puppet in areas of health care policy. Both seemed to operate as physicians first and doctrinaire conservatives second.
Yahoo groups
No more fun and games show now just a bully puppet for whatever fucking Hamptons inspired “Hey let me join the rich wives club” that dimbat Beth wants to be included in.
Stern fan comment
fewer and fewer bloggers seem to allow anyone to disagree with them. those comments are increasingly being “filtered out†along with the spam. and that’s when commenting is even turned-on at all. some people seem to prefer having a bully-puppet.
list comment
Otherwise, various strange comments suggest that politicians don’t have a bully puppet, but are bully puppets. This one is easier to understand. Sort of.
that sounds about right, he’s been a bully puppet from the git-go….
Dem Underground
Offline
The switch, y’know, almost makes sense—if you don’t think of a bully pulpit as a place but as a thing, and you aren’t quite sure what a pulpit is.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Offline