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Misnomers
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:44 am
by losthighway
*Kerble if necessary*
I'm thinking of deceptively named things:
Red delicious apples (half truth)
Sublime (the band)
The champagne of beers
Re: Misnomers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:43 am
by BeyondThePale
The Christian Right (neither as far as I can see)
Re: Misnomers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 8:46 pm
by atomjackfuser
The NeverEnding Story
The NeverEnding Story 2
Re: Misnomers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 8:51 pm
by jfv
losthighway wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:44 am
The champagne of beers
Compared to the limited selection of beer that was available across the USA for much of the 20th century, I don't think it's that bad of a slogan. I enjoy a High Life every now and then.
Re: Misnomers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:16 pm
by Wood Goblin
BeyondThePale wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:43 am
The Christian Right (neither as far as I can see)
There used to be a line in the 80s about how the Moral Majority was neither.
Re: Misnomers
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:41 pm
by losthighway
atomjackfuser wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 8:46 pm
The NeverEnding Story
The NeverEnding Story 2
Nice.
I did The Neverending Story (the book) as a read aloud one year for a bunch of fourth and fifth graders. That book is bonkers and meta and crazy. It also goes on and on. Felt never ending at times.
Re: Misnomers
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 6:55 am
by tonyballzee
The New Radicals
Re: Misnomers
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 6:35 pm
by Tree
Human Resources