The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• On Saturday Eden will be having a tribute to the recently defunked club Soundgarden. (Taipei Times, Aug 26, 2005)
• And please let me thank you for your efforts in your hatemongering Bush Bashing for your defunked party of fanatical leftists. (alt.books.tom-clancy, Sep 8, 2005)
• I suspect that you take DEC being defunked much more personally than I do. (alt.folklore.computers, Sep 12, 2005)
• The relationship between Eric and James went defunk. (link)
• Timo Ellis and Sean Lennon were featured guests on Butter 08’s self titled release on the now defunked Beastie Boy’s Grand Royal Records. (link)
• I think TRL is now defunk. Defunked by the accountants (the new COO’s and CEO’s) who read a balance sheet and only see a cost and have no imagination of the potential gain. (BritishExpats.com forum, Sep 1, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• And, at the same time, if someone committed a murder and confessed to a priest in hopes of salvation/forgiveness/etc. one would hope they have the balls to walk up to the plate and eat their just desserts. (eatforums.com, July 24, 2001)
• I mean, for the past 500 comics I’ve been waiting for Thief to eat his just desserts…and every time that he’s come close it never happend. But now…when he came close to being right… Oh god. (Nuclear Power Forums, July 14, 2005)
• But the gutless little fuckin coward probably wouln’t come out of his hole.No different than sadam or osama.I just believe this puke needs to eat his just desert before, he slitters his way of this rock. (blog comment, February 10, 2004)
• This is no formulaic D&D romp; you won’t find invincible heroes and stalwart dwarves singing about gold, you won’t see fragile maidens swooning over a stout swordarm, you most certainly won’t reach a happy ending, with all the loose ends tied and all the bad guys eating their just desserts while the good guys pair off and ride into the sunset. (Amazon.com customer review, July 21, 1999)

Spotted in the wild:

• “Local swing dancers estimate there are between 400 and 600 regular dancers here in the Portland area…..They are Lindy Hoppers, dancing the grungy. pulsating slingshot style and West Coast swingers, who look smooth and quaffed, like old-time movie stars.” (Story by Victoria Blake in the Oregonian, 16 September 2005)
• “Over 100 fine male erotica photographs of uniquely quaffed punk bearcub type Chuck sporting shaved temples and long redhaired ponytail.” (link)
• Page 20: “John Marler: With his perfectly quaffed hair…” Hair is coifed; wine is quaffed! (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Sulham raced to the right pileon to close the gap to 32-22. (Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Nov. 3, 2002)
• The Michigan running back’s momentum was heading toward the orange pile on of the end zone. (Sports Washington, Aug. 14, 2003)
• He dove at the two and put the ball just inside the pile-on to even the score at 14-14 with 8:08 remaining in the quarter. (Northeastern Football, Oct. 16, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Just last week in a wind game against the Steelers Gramatica hooked the FG so right it hit the orange pie line in the endzone!!! (Dynasty Central, Oct. 28, 2003)
• The knocks on Williams are his size and his speed, but many of the greatest backs of all time are the same size; Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders, etc., and if you’ve ever seen him get outside on those speedy SEC linebackers and find that pie-line, then you wouldn’t be worried about his forty time. (Rateitall, Carnell Williams, Jan. 21, 2005)
• When he did that, the ball came loose (he was still in bounds) and hit the pie-line (that orange stick), and the ball went out of bounds. (alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots, Sep. 20, 2005)