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#1 2007-09-06 23:03:06

xd
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Registered: 2007-09-06
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blowhorn vs bullhorn and treble light vs trouble light

ok, my wife brought me these two. She always thought since the police ‘blow’ in to a ‘horn’ when they talk to the bad guys through a blowhorn.

also, the light on the end of cord was not used to find the trouble, it must have made some kinda high pitch, so it was called a treble light.

what do you think? eggcorns?

my wife makes up words when she is tired, i know those aren’t eggcorns, but they get quite funny, like mixing stomach and tummy into stummy. cloudy and foggy makes cloggy.

she gets it from her mother, who does spoonerisms all the time. for example, dust hides in crooks and nannies, dairy queen serves a peanut buster parfait, or as she called it a peanut barfly.

later
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#2 2007-09-08 07:50:08

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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Re: blowhorn vs bullhorn and treble light vs trouble light

A couple sightings of “on the blowhorn”...

Blog for America » Don’t Let Republicans Write Discriminatio…
I will always be offended by the way he went down to the WTC site and got on the blowhorn like some high school cheerleader…........of course, ...
www.blogforamerica.com/view/6687 – 46k – Similar pages

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/6687
Cops avoid shootout with toy gun-toting teens
Just get on the blowhorn, tell the kids to come out, end of story. Oh wait, that would ruin the cops fantasy of pretending their on tv, playing the role of …
www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007073… – 64k – Similar pages
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti … 6/70730039

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