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#1 2007-03-13 13:50:04

Skydog
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Registered: 2007-03-12
Posts: 2

House of Reprehensatives vs. House of Representatives

found in wild: Anybody else call their worthless “Reprehensatives” today to tell them … You could take your house off the grid, but it would not be cost effective today. ...
www.davidcorn.com/archives/2005/09/hurr … atri_1.php – 191k – Cached – Similar pages

Banned Books * Are you a fan of Film Noir, Art House, Documentaries or Hong Kong … Most here actually write their congresscritters and reprehensatives. ...

to some blinkered and hornswaggled compressional reprehensatives bickering like … Leave it to a wimpish White House press corps to content itself with …

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#2 2007-03-13 15:01:52

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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Re: House of Reprehensatives vs. House of Representatives

Clearly an intentional play on words—and perhaps a little bit of venting going on!. But eggcorns per se are uttered with no knowledge that the meaning has been changed.

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