"It only exasperates the problem."

Golf commentator:
"He's dissected the fairway"
:smile:

[QUOTE=davieddy;137517]The near futility of pedalling backwards as a means of slowing down
is what makes it such an apt metaphor for attempting to
unsay what has already been said.[/QUOTE]
Depends on what type of bike you're riding. When I was twelve, sending the pedals backwards was the way you braked. Of course, those types of bikes may not have existed when the phrase came into vogue.

[QUOTE=Flatlander;122342][URL]http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html[/URL]

[LEFT]I'm off to practice the [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Heineken remover.[/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT][/QUOTE]
At my mental health place, the instructor believed, and taught, that it was called the hymen maneuver. I was in excruciating belly pain about thirty seconds after I googled hymen. Look it up and you may be, too.(It's not a bad or disgusting term, the belly pain was from laughter)

Backpedalling with friction is interesting unless an emergency stop
is required.

Your second post is just embarrassing.

Never one to pass on a sophomoric joke for risk of embarrassment: there's a great vintage episode of [i]Beavis and Butt-Head[/i] in which Butt-Head chokes on a piece of chicken [= "choking on his chicken", a joke Beavis similarly does not pass up making], and after calling 911, Beavis ends up not giving aid to his stricken friend because he cannot bring himself to perform the "hind-lick maneuver."

Now back to our previously scheduled ragging-on-pronunciation-gaffes: hope I haven't used this one already, but too lazy to check:

[b]NoozToob anchor:[/b] "Thankfully, a last-ditch diplomatic effort was able to [i]diffuse[/i] the crisis..."

What, you spread an initially-localized crisis far and wide?

Which Dylan song does this exchange come from?

"...what's the matter with your mound?"
"What's it to you Moby Dick, this is chicken town".

[QUOTE=ewmayer;138235]Never one to pass on a sophomoric joke[/QUOTE]
I thought that it was the Heinekin manuvuer.

On yesterday's live Tour de France telecast on Versus TV, longtime cycling announcer Phil Liggett used the neologism "unrelentless" at least twice. As the context was e.g. a brutal climb with no letup, it would appear that "irregardless" has a kissing cousin.

Anyone for laxadaisical?

[QUOTE=davieddy;139144]Anyone for laxadaisical?[/QUOTE]

Perhaps that's a reference to the effects of a slow-acting purgative?

Spotted in the wild today, this relative of my "soft peddle" gaffe:

"Peddle to the metal".