The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Poor Loopy… He was ran over by 2 stark raven mad loonies! (link)
• Steven (Who is stark Raven mad and gives Giant spankings) (alt.sexuality.spanking)
• Too many more of these and I’ll go stark raven mad…. (rec.music.filk)
• Monsters from the Id have driven them stark raven mad. (sci.sceptic)
• CROW — mostly a trickster, and not much trouble except when stark raven mad. (rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated)

Spotted in the wild:

• And I see that your bi-polar cycle has apparently bottomed out, and the roller-coaster ride to mania has begun to RISE eggzactly as I predicted. By tomorrow, you’ll be star-craving MAD! (alt.consciousness.4th-way)
• “This is my social life,” said Workentine. “It gives me a reason to get up in the morning. If I just sat at home looking at the four walls, I’d go star-craving mad.” (link)
• I thought that I was going to go star craving mad over the weekend because there was hardly any posts!!! (link)
• The snoring was enough to drive the sanest person star craving mad. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• With a mise en scène that incorporates a backdrop of urban dystopia and decay, apocalyptic horsemen on hobbyhorses, a Shaker tune/Rumi poem mash-up, and rowdy audience feedback (which is highly encouraged), this rubble-rousing performance should make the usual picketing and sloganeering seem downright conservative. (link)
• Fortunately, millions of you didn’t fall for any of that liberal rubble-rousing. (link)
• It is easy for a rubble-rouser in a democratic garb to rise (and rise fast) to the highest pinnacle of power. (link)
• Then, from an entirely different perspective, some rubble-rouser like Jean-Marie Le Pen will come up with an inflammatory statement and single-handedly revive the discussion about the nature of Nazi occupation in the Second World War. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• The Islamic Republic of Iran supports any muslim country who wishes to rid itself of the shackles of western hedgemoney. (link)
• If Germany was to vie for European hedgemoney, then she could realistically expect to be tackled for it at some point in the future, either through economic pressure or perhaps even war. (link)
• Federal hedgemoney should not be allowed to exist, because it tramples on unalienable rights and it exeeds the Constitutional limits placed on the federal government. (cannabisnews.com)
• Music producers need to break from the hedgemoney of the current music industry. (link)
• Forget American hedgemoney, get in my pot & stir the honey. (masturbateforpeace.com)

Spotted in the wild:

• What about the cables? Do they plug in properly or is the connection made on a wink and a prayer? (link)
• All these diseases, operations, medications, and endoscopic surgeries can be stopped in a wink and a prayer simply by removing the cause. (link)
• The Chicago KIngs were founded on a wink and a prayer by four enterprising young dykes in February 2001. (link)
• “I want this to be the kind of team that tries to make things happen,” he said. “It was kind of a wink-and-a-prayer sort of thing. We thought we’d give it a whirl and it kicked us in the tail.” (Little Falls Times)