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Figaro rips the innards out of things people say and reveals the rhetorical tricks and pratfalls. For terms and definitions, click here.
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Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 04:32PM
Quote:
WAYNE CAMPBELL: She's a robo-babe. In Latin she would be called "babia majora."
GARTH ALGAR: If she were a president she would be Baberaham Lincoln.
Dialogue from the movie "Wayne’s World"
Figure of Speech: cacozelia (cak oh ZEEL ee ah), showing off that makes you look like an idiot.
A figure of error, the cacozelia uses foreign words and other fancy language in a fruitless attempt to sound educated. It's a malapropism with a French beret.
All right, that was a little harsh. Wayne and Garth are actually being clever ... NOT.
Snappy Answer: "Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?"
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