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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This should have been a cool eggcorn, but it looks to have been preempted by pop cuture. ‘Deflator mouse,’ I’ve learned, is the name of a TV cartoon character. All of the 15k google entries I found seem to refer to him rather than to have been spontaneous reshapings.
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But your post reminds me of a cute Peanuts cartoon from the early 1970s. Snoopy was writing a story:
There was once a young woman named Doris Fledermaus, but all of her friends called her Dee—Dee Fledermaus.
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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