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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“Slapdash” means in a hasty, careless way. Slapdish seems to draw flavours from all over: slapdash, slipshod, slapstick, and “dish up”.
Military strategy forum:
Russian space gear—particularly engines—is quite good. Errors with this stuff tends to be, well, painful and therefore the old socialist slap dish approach did not go so well. (http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/47-1179.aspx)
Film review:
In summation, then, this is not “The Cardinal of the Kremlin” or “The Sum of All Fears.” It’s a second rate slap-dish techno-thriller that isn’t particularly thrilling.
(http://www.raveris.com/reviews.asp?a=0425188132)
Resto blog:
Another slap dish recipe from Cafe Drake, this little gem (modesty be damned) was concocted tonight in our home as a light autumn rain fell outside the kitchen windows.
(http://diningwithdrake.blogspot.com/200 … chive.html)
Animated film review:
Docter rolled another, but much shorter, clip of the Boy Scout and Carl walking in the jungle pulling the floating house above them. It’s essentially a scene of slap-dish comedy as the Boy Scout gets distracted, unstraps himself from the house, and Carl starts to float away. Quite amusing.
(http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=83)
Dishing about restaurants:
They have great vegetarian options too. Sure, I had to wait a little long for my to-go order (10 minutes) but it’s lamb, you know. I don’t really want them being slap-dish with red meats, right? (http://www.yelp.com/biz/sams-cafe-kabob-berkeley)
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Your post sent me looking for “slack-dash,†which never seems to have been posted before. Works pretty well as an eggcorn – that idea of “slackness†fits nicely. Below I give about half of all the citations I found (the originals of a couple of the best examples are password-protected, unfortunately):
You can be slack dash and just within limits all the time and not get a single bad word if your RT is spot on.
http://www.pprune.org/professional-pilo … vii-9.html
After dominating and somehow not scoring in golden goal time, slack dash defending alouded Fatasskiss to score.
http://www.geocities.com/soccer_shed/ko … sriot.html
[Yeah, I know, that “alouded†is just beautiful, but I can’t convince myself there’s anything eggcornish about it.]
Update- added a slack-dash alternate PL winshade.
http://omnitarian.deviantart.com/art/Te … aze-578866
more like slackdash censorship
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum/50 … st148.html
I tried to run NY with a slack-dash approach to training and blew up.
http://www.coolrunning.com.au/forums/in … 369&st=75&
[The author is talking about preparing for the NY Marathon, so there’s a possibility this is a pun, but I don’t think so.]
I’ll bet there are some more variations out there just waiting for us. And I found a few malapropic uses of “slapstick†for “slapdash†– though when the substitution happens in reviews, it’s hard to say whether it’s punning or not.
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Slap-dish brings to mind the old pie-in-the-face slapstick routine: you slap a dish of custard into someone’s face.
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Slack-dash is a better eggcorn, but both are fun.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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