Last night in my dozen observations on the debate I wrote:
5. [Romney] also made some sort of reference to coming from the “streets of America.” Romney is a fine man, but if there’s anyone less “street” than Mitt Romney I don’t know who it could be. If he’s street than I’m the shock collar for a vicious Mexican drug gang.
Well it turns out that the term is “shot caller” as in “he who calls the shots.” I’ve always heard “shock caller” when watching such shows as Sons of Anarchy. The term made vague sense to me in that it seems like the “shock collars” were the folks who took care of things on the inside of prison when it was time to pull some the leash on someone or some such. Before I wrote that last night I even googled “gang” and “shock collar.” There were enough results that I figured I could move on. But this morning, after being corrected by readers, I went and re-checked. I was wrong.
I used to think “The vile tyranny of men” was a lyric in “Just One of Those Things” (it was actually “Goodbye, dear, amen” and in fairness to me, I had the Shane Magowan cover of the song), so who am I to judge?
Open thread to make fun of Jonah Goldberg or share your favorite misheard phrases/lyrics/etc.
Elliott
I shot Sherry,
But I did not shoot her dead you see.
Villago Delenda Est
Lady Mondegreen.
‘Nuff said.
Urza
Is that really the biggest thing he can admit he’s wrong on?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Mittens is taking it to the streets, then he needs a street name.
I offer
“Tree Trunk Dog Bouncer”
Villago Delenda Est
Not to mention the Republic of Richard Stands, and ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy.
patroclus
Four-legged woman. Four-legged woman to me-e.
Actually, Jonah’s criticism of Andrew Adler’s call for Mossad to assassinate Obama in the Atlanta Jewish Times as borderline seditious seemed spot on.
Villago Delenda Est
BTW, covers are great for mangling lyrics. Joan Baez’ original version of “The Night They Drove ol’ Dixie Down” is filled with them.
drew42
When I first heard Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” I heard “Yoshimi” as “Though She May” — and that the song was about the singer confiding to his friend how he suspected his girlfriend was secretly in league with the evil robots:
They won’t believe me
But you won’t let those robots defeat me
Though she may…
After a few listens, I figured out what he was really saying. But I’ve always thought my original interpretation made for a much cooler song.
Danny Wagz
I used to think that “Statley Wayne Manor” was the name of Batman’s house.
patroclus
CCR. Oh yeah, the bathroom’s on the right.
canuckistani
I heard Peter Gabriel’s Jeux Sans Frontières as “She’s So Popular”
grampus
Creedence’s famous one: There’s a bathroom on the right.
patroclus
I’m so hot for her, I’m so hot for her, I’m so hot for her and she’s so stoned.
Comrade Mary
Blinded by the Light
David Koch
Mittens was raised on the mean streets of Grosse Point, Michigan
Robert Sneddon
Knights in White Satin — it seemed so poetical an image. It was decades before I realised…
Interrobang
Hearing “shock collar” for “shot caller” is actually an eggcorn, not a mondegreen (which refers to a misheard song lyric specifically). I suppose Jonah might also think I’m lack-toast and tolerant (an actual eggcorn I’ve encountered), being as I can’t do dairy products, and he can’t interpret words for context.
Context, Jonah, context! I mean, I realise that you’re dumber than used toilet paper, but surely you must have maybe been exposed to something in that expensive education you wasted…
No One of Consequence
“… sold out of every monkey and beef-head.
ohhh.
ohhh.
Me ears are alight.”
At least I think that is what I heard. I’d have to hear it on Memorex though…
– NOoC
scav
Married in a Coal Mine. I’d even imagined out a terrific mental video for it. There was another song that was entirely about Lysol, but I can’t remember it.
Tonybrown74
Done! I am done! You’ve just slain me! LMMFBAO!
Mark S.
If there’s a bustle in your hedegerow
Don’t be alarmed now
It’s just a sprinkling for the bakery
ornery_curmudgeon
Awesome a National Review link! Thank you for the important information!
The Right-wing ain’t going to stay zombie-alive and relevant all by itself, amirite? Gotta keep giving it the juice!
Special Patrol Group
tbogg covered this:
Jonah Goldberg Is Surprisingly Less Gangsta Than You Probably Thought
Mark S.
@Comrade Mary:
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night
General Stuck
This is why I predicted a major political shift, began in 2006
The potential GOP candidates that could have come without spoilage, are sitting this one out. Not wanting to be tarnished with the ugly to come, directed at Barack Obama and in general. In addition to, I suspect at this stage, a recognition of unspoken high respect for his political skills.
It is a setting of the table for a leap of political realignment I predicted yesterday, that was begun in 2006, and briefly stalled in 2010. That portends to extend past the current economic straights, with a strong ideological undertow, created by the GOP itself. And the failure of its 30 year conservative movement. What we are seeing is the last bright burning of hyper dogma from the party, a dying convulsion leading to brief re animation. Brought on by pride and entitlement longstanding and run amuck.
There may well be some more last gasp convulsions before the worm turns, but it must turn, because the current carcass of a movement has nothing to offer but pure negative politicking on whatever the target of the day is.
But soon there will be no place else to hide, and the gooper braintrust will have to act to salvage something to create another avenue to power. And it cannot include the tea party manifesto of destruction and hatred. And must include the fact that the American Pie must be shared by all.
So long as something drastic and bad does not happen to the economy or something else, we are on the Newtsters last chance rocket ship to irrelevant Hell. The GOP won’t vanish into the ethers, but it must reconstitute, and beyond the usual jingoistic bullshit.
gbear
Everything in Brooklyn costs an onimal egg (I’ll confess that I remember that one from my parents’ Reader’s Digest magazines).
burnspbesq
eckcetera, eckcetera.
That one bugs me beyond reason.
There’s a whole TV ad about blown/misunderstood lyrics, which is unintentionally hilarious to guitarists, because it touts the supposed clarity of the Fender audio system in new VWs, and everybody knows that what makes Fender amps good is the way they distort.
grampus
Oh, and then there’s this-
Greasewave! (Greasewave!)
Greasewave! (Greasewave!)
Greasewave! (Greasewave!)
Greasewave! Now Grease!
by J. Geils
Gus
@ornery_curmudgeon: Oh, is this blog supposed to be informative?
burnspbesq
@canuckistani:
I heard it as “She’s So Confident.”
Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)
For the Eagles’ “Life In the Fast Lane,” I knew someone who seriously thought it was “Slidin’ In the Vaseline.” Dead serious.
Zifnab
I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve always consider Romney to be streets ahead.
/Community
Bud
For years I reverantly sang “Grandpa speeds,” in church instead of “Grant us peace.”
Also – Jonah Goldberg? Wasn’t he killed when twenty boxes of his book “Liberal Fascism” fell on him in his garage when he was clearing out the last of the beef jerky he hoarded for Y2K?
pragmatism
jonah, you are neither baller nor shot caller. also, too, in the new new FSM testament, you ate the whale.
from 1990 through 1993 i believed that “I Wanna Be Adored” was “I Wanna Be Your Dog”.
burnspbesq
Has anyone ever figured out what the lyrics to “I Zimbra” are?
Kilkee
Not a song lyric, but Malachy McCourts memoir, “A Monk Swimming,” is derived from his childhood recitation of the Hail Mary: “Hail Mary, Full of Grace, blessed art Thou Amoungst Women…”
MikeJ
The classic Joe Cocker subtitled video is always good for a chuckle.
JAF Rusty Shackleford
…and the chair is not my son.
MikeJ
@burnspbesq: Hugo Ball knows.
burnspbesq
@Mark S.:
Plant was one of the all-time great lyric-manglers:
I shouldn’t be here with all my lemons, down on this killin’ floor.
burnspbesq
I always heard the second line of Richard Thompson’s “Persuasion” as “dead-bang lie” instead of “different life” until I heard Tim Finn’s version.
FlipYrWhig
@pragmatism: Probably because “I Wanna Be Your Dog” is also a song, by Iggy Pop.
Schlemizel
The one that drove me nuts for weeks was CCR
Oh Lord, Suckin an old diaper pin
instead of
Oh Lord, stuck in ol Lodi again.
pragmatism
@FlipYrWhig: yeah, i like both of them. but i wasn’t conflating them, i just swore that was what ian was singing in the chorus and i had it on a mixtape so i didn’t know the actual song title. also, too, the mixtape had some horrible name like “Mixdown Kickdown volume 5”. dammit.
FlipYrWhig
I thought that song from Jimmy Eat World had part of the chorus that was something like, “It’ll even out, do right.”
Lojasmo
@burnspbesq:
Dane Byrne probably knows.
third of two
It’s not “wrapped up like a douche, rolled in the night?” Really??
FlipYrWhig
@pragmatism: Ah, got it.
CaptainFwiffo
Everybody who ever writes “all intensive purposes” gets punched in the face hard by me, twice. Using it correctly only earns you one punch for use of cliché that probably doesn’t even make sense in context.
Jamie
This monkey’s bound to happen.
(I had a copied cassette, and no song titles. )
FlipYrWhig
@Jamie: I like that one.
pragmatism
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: (R)Money. his gang is The Liquidators.
Chet Manly
I had a lot of musicians in the family and I thought “My Sharona” was “My Scrotum” until sometime in my teens because that’s how my uncles always sang it.
MikeJ
@Lojasmo: Here’s Gadji beri bimba.
elmo
It’s not a misheard song lyric, but once when I was with my partner in the checkout lane, the cashier asked if we had seen the nudist play at Sea World.
The what? I said, blinking furiously and sure I had misheard.
The nudist play, she said. At Sea World.
Wait, are you serious? I said.
At which point my partner, who understands that I’m a little hard of hearing, leaned over and said with great individual emphasis on each word,
Honey. There is a new display. At Sea World.
Oh.
This happened almost twenty years ago, but to this day, “nudist play” is our code for words that I mishear.
It’s OT, but somewhat related, but I also remember being horrified by the box of “small animal dessert” that I saw at a Petco once. Little pictures of happy gerbils on the box. I thought it was in horribly poor taste but screamingly funny, until my partner patiently explained that No, honey, that isn’t snake food. It’s a snack FOR small animals.
Oh.
LT
The saying “For all intents and purposes” – I thought until at least my late twenties that it was “For all intensive purposes.” Never mind that that makes no sense whatsoever.
Gah.
Tone In DC
@CaptainFwiffo:
Didn’t really know “all intents and purposes” was enough to get worked up about.
And, “my sightless eyes” are “telling me no lies”. I have at least 10 albums by AC/DC, and I have no idea what Brian Johnson/Bon Scott are saying most of the time.
CaptainFwiffo
An exchange between two of my friends:
“Argle bargle!”
“I’m immortal?”
“No, I’m just speaking gibberish.”
“You’re speaking Jewish?”
Buffalo Rude
For all intensive purposes.
Cris (without an H)
“Bus stop, wet day, she’s bare-assing.”
For years my mom honestly thought the Hollies were being foul-mouthed.
LT
@CaptainFwiffo: Holy crap. See my comment #54. I thought it was only me!
maurinsky
I have that same cover of Just One Of Those Things, and I have to say I giggle everytime I hear Shane McGowan growl “A trip to the moon on gossamer wings.”
Also, Shane McGowan shares a strong vocal similarity to whoever did the voice of the Muppet who sings Mnah-mnah.
maurinsky
I have that same cover of Just One Of Those Things, and I have to say I giggle everytime I hear Shane McGowan growl “A trip to the moon on gossamer wings.”
Also, Shane McGowan shares a strong vocal similarity to whoever did the voice of the Muppet who sings Mnah-mnah.
LT
@Mark S.:
The thing about that is that Manfred Mann got it wrong, or it sure sounds like it.
And Jimi Hendrix didn’t know the fucking lyrics to “All Along the Watchtower.” “None will level, all are lyin'”. I mean that’s what he mumbles, isn’t it?
Tone In DC
@LT:
LMFAO! Like Dylan’s enunciation/diction is any f*cking better!
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
the girl with colitis goes bye, or bi, depending i suppose.
the oatmeal has a dick
LT
@Tone In DC: That was ’66 or something! That was pre-mumble Dylan!
Larryb
I had a lot of reading/speaking disconnects. My favorite:
“candlestine” for clandestine (hey, made sense to me!).
and this one from my daughter:
“cow manuever” for manure
LT
@Tone In DC: Holy fuck.
and you can even hear the line clearly in that version. “None of them along the line, know what any of it is worth.”
pepper
someone already talked about kissing this guy and where the bathroom is, so i will go with ‘she’s got electric boobs’.
Stoggy
At the end of Smells Like Teen Spirit I thought Cobain was droning on about a “Bloody nail. Bloody nail. Bloody nail…” and so on. Turns out it was “A denial”. Oops.
My favorite was not mine. At a party one time back when “Love Shack” first came out it came on and got us all whooped up and the part where Fred Schneider sings, “Huggin’ and a kissin’, dancin’ and a lovin’, wearin’ next to nothing Cause it’s hot as an oven” an overzealous reveler was heard to sing with sincerity and vigor, “… Cause it’s as hard as a nubbin.” Mr. Nubbin did not soon live that down.
different-church-lady
Well, this is just great — I’m going to have “Bad Moon” running through my head for the next six hours….
Amir Khalid
Und jetzt, etwas ganz Anderes: Come Give Me Diner Ham.
different-church-lady
@CaptainFwiffo: You’re going to be a busy man.
LT
@Tone In DC: Oops. Sorry. Here. Please go listn.
Tone In DC
@LT:
I can only picture in my mind an old comedy sketch of Orbison, Petty, Dylan and maybe Jeff Lynn all speaking (and possibly translating) a new language known as Wilbury.
They’ll stone you when you’re trying to make a buck
They’ll stone you then they’ll say “good luck”
Tone In DC
@Tone In DC:
Thanks for the link.
I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
Maeve
Until this year I thought it was
Bus stop, wednesday …
It made sense because I thought the singer went to that particular bus stop on Wednesday
And my mom thought “there’s a bad moon on the rise”. Was “there’s a bathroom on the right”, which she had to admit, made no sense
Maeve
Until this year I thought it was
Bus stop, wednesday …
It made sense because I thought the singer went to that particular bus stop on Wednesday
And my mom thought “there’s a bad moon on the rise”. Was “there’s a bathroom on the right”, which she had to admit, made no sense
gaz
shock collar? effin’ lol
If there’s anyone less “street” than Willard Romney it’s Jonah Goldberg.
Don K
@David Koch:
Actually Bloomfield Hills, I believe, but same difference. And let’s not forget the mean hallways of the Cranbrook School.
Back OT, there’s the the Dixie Cups’ “Goin’ to the jack o’lantern, gonna get married”, and my partner’s sister heard “Ticket to Ride” as “Tick in her eye”.
The Moar You Know
The girl with colitis goes by.
trollhattan
“There’s a bathroom on the right”
“Secret…Asian man!”
Please allow me to help y’all kill some more time.
http://www.kissthisguy.com/
nastybrutishntall
Take your pants down,
And make it happen.
What a feeling.
(I was 9, I think, and the lyric made perfect sense to me when I saw the trailer.)
srv
Yeah, +eleventy billion on Blinded by the Light.
Which was apparently written by Springsteen. I guess it’s clearer in his version.
p.a.
There was practically a small cottage industry trying to figure out what Cobain was singing in “…Teen Spirit”. My friends and I heard “a denial’ as “bloody night out”. Bit of a comment on our state of mind.
CCR’s “Travelin’ Band” is one of my favorite songs; it’s not retro for me as I was just entering my teens at the time, and to this day I don’t know what Fogarty is saying in the first line up to “won’t you take me down to Memphis…” And I’m not sure I want to do an online lyric search. 40 years of ignorance is a tough tradition to break!
grampus
@ trollhattan:
that website is most excellent!!
e.g.:
There’s a baboon on the right….
Theres a bathroom on the right…
There’s a fat man on your wife…
There’s Batman on the right…
MD Rackham
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
Double bell euphoniums and horse spitoons.
EvolutionaryDesign
“You know I’m searching food for you…”
Linger – The Cranberries.
Took me 10 years to find out the real lyric.
Amir Khalid
@p.a.:
If I’ve heard it right, the first line in Travelin’ Band is “737 coming out of the sky”.
srv
@p.a.: Y’all do know J. Edgar had a huge investigation into Louie Louie?
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/108606
Real lyrics there if you want to know.
Bill in Section 147
You and me and Leslie, groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon.
I always pictured Leslie as a dog.
g
‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy.
zonker
’89 or ’90 while working in a warehouse in Nitro West Virginia, in the next aisle I heard a coworker singing “don’t wanna be no Bob Seger, don’t wanna sing no Bob songs”. As a Mellencamp fan, I could not stop laughing!
g
thank you to whoever increased my vocabulary with the word “eggcorn.”
One of my favorite eggcorns was coined by an old friend of mine who was full of malapropisms and (now that I know what they are) eggcorns.
He was a union official, and at one union meeting when dealing with a tricky legal issue, he told the membership that it was good thing we kept our lawyer “in a container” (on a retainer)to deal with such things.
Another time while electing new officers, he “dominated” another member for Vice President.
DFH no.6
@General Stuck:
Ah, but wouldn’t it be pretty to think so?
Sadly, I don’t see it.
Still way too many over-65s who vote in high percentages, and vote largely Republican. Largely because of soshulist Medicare, we’ll have these folks with us for some time yet.
And right behind them? Boomers (I am one). The 70 million-strong demographic lump still passing through the American Anaconda.
The majority of them (maybe just a bare majority, but still) vote Republican. Sell-out motherfuckers. Likely that only gets worse as my cohort ages. And they’ll still be the largest age group for the next 20 years or more.
Gen-X? Famously “Reagan Generation” Republicans. Probably the most Republican age group of all. Relatively small in numbers, though, thank the FSM.
Still, the Democratic coalition of women, minorities, and young people could defeat the Republicans in election after election, if only minorities and young people voted in anything close to the percentages older white people do. But they don’t.
2008 was the anomaly, IMAO.
American Fascism, Neo-Confederate, whatever label, will be powerful, often even dominant, for a long time yet. Love to be proven wrong.
kimalanus
I always heard the chorus line of Traffic’s “Sea of Joy” as “All ships in trouble are following me”, until I finally heard the correct pronunciation ‘Hardship and trouble are following me.’
jonas
If you grew up in suburban Southern California in the 70s and 80s, you grew up with TV spots for this big car dealer named Cal Worthington who ran this used car empire down in the South Bay area. Worthington advertised on LA daytime tv the way gold investment scams advertise on talk radio nowadays — all day all the time. Anyway, he ran these campy commercials featuring himself in a dandy-ish cowboy outfit with an exotic animal (his “dog” Spot) while a little theme song played in the background to the effect that, if you require a new car, “go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal.”
Virtually every childhood friend I know, and myself, grew up thinking the lyrics were “pussy cow, pussy cow, pussy cow.” Even today, I run into adult Angelenos, and when I bring this up, say “you mean it’s not saying ‘pussy cow?’ Yeah, that really never made sense, did it?”
jonas
@jonas: Aw, crap, now I realize that was going to get the hell moderated out of it.
Citizen_X
I originally heard the chorus to Garageland as “Where are Johnny’s spats?/We can’t find Johnny’s spats,” which I knew wasn’t right, but who knows what the hell Strummer’s singing, anyway?
Then I learned that the English decided to mispronounce garage as “GAIR-idge.” Whoever let them fuck around with our language?
pragmatism
@Citizen_X: they were purposely fucking with the frenchies by mispronouncing it. i’m reminded of an early episode of the simpsons where homer mentions his garage.
Moe: Hey fellas, the “garage”! Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.
Homer: Well what do you call it?
Moe: A car hole!
Also, too, us ‘muricans did the same thing to many spanish words.
Svensker
Hey, Shadow Vays! Hey, Shadow Vays! Hey, Shadow Vay-hay-hay-hay-hay-hays.
Van Morrison — Ancient of Days.
LongHairedWeirdo
Most embarrassing misheard lyric EVAH: “Hold Me” by Fleetwood Mac. How could *anyone* mishear that? Sigh.
General Stuck
@DFH no.6:
You will be. Stay tuned
everything is changing, long as we have free and fair elections. It is why the wingers are going supernova. They change or die, electorally on the national level. Twenty seven percent won’t cut the mustard, but they could use plastic explosives at some point.
Southern Beale
Love that TV ad mangling the “Rocket Man” lyrics. There’s a whole website devoted to Rocket Man misheard lyrics.
My favorite: “Rocket Man … burning up the shoes I’ve ever owned … “
Tja
As I grow older, and my hearing deteriorates, there is hardly a day that goes by that I don’t mishear something. And this is a true delight; because my version is always better, and way more entertaining than the original.
One of my all-time favorites — not my own — was that of one of Quentin Tarantino’s girlfriends, whose mishearing of ‘Au revoir, mes enfants‘ has given us ‘Reservoir Dogs‘.
steve
Do you know god’s name is Harold?
“Hark old Harold’s angels sing …”
and
“Our father which art in heaven, Harold be thy name …”
DFH no.6
Oh, and to get back on topic (and showing my – our – age) my wife for years (till after we were married) thought the song from “Sound of Music” was about “eidelMICE… small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me”.
I mostly listen to new indie music anymore, so I’m ALWAYS looking up lyrics to be sure (or even to have the first clue).
Going back a while further, I dare anyone to make out all the lyrics just listening to the Midnight Dexy Runner’s great 80s song “Come On, Eileen”. As far as I know, there are no “official” lyrics, just lyrics that some believe are correct (and these vary, of course). The bands that play at the local Irish pubs here make up their own (far as I can tell, anyway).
And Weezer songs sound mostly intelligible, but there are plenty of their lyrics that are ambiguous (and they have no “official” text, so what you come up with is as good as anyone else).
Southern Beale
It’s not a misheard lyric but when I was in college we used to make up fake lyrics to songs that rhymed with the real ones.
A few that I remember are:
“She’s not a squirrel who misses nuts … ” (Beatles, “She’s not a girl who misses much…”)
“In the Garden of Eden, baby …” (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida …)
There were some others and I can’t remember them. There was a Fleetwood Mac one. Now I’m embarrassed.
AA+ Bonds
Jonah Goldberg, you a bitch
AA+ Bonds
I don’t mishear lyrics
ruby slippers
@ g@g:
Were we in the same local? My business agent used to do that all the time. My favorites were “…if I may germane on that subject”, and when rejecting an offer from management “I told them to go jump off a kite”.
Bill in Section 147
@Southern Beale: Was the third one EPA?
JasonF
@Tone In DC:
In Highway to Hell, Bon Scott sings “Season ticket on a one-way ride,” but if you didn’t know better, you’d swear he was saying “She’s a n*****r on a one-way ride.”
mothra
From Beverly Cleary’s Ramona series:
Oh say can you see from the dawnser’s lee light?
WaterGirl
Years ago, I worked with a guy who used to screw up phrases as often as Ziva on NCSI, only it wasn’t nearly as charming.
My personal favorite: Necessity is my mother’s invention.
JasonF
@Southern Beale:
The story I’ve heard is that those actually were the original lyrics. The problem is that Iron Butterfly used to do that song as their closing number and by that point in their shows, the band was always so drunk that the singer could only approximate the lyrics. It sounds like one of those too-good-to-be-true stories, but I suppose it’s possible.
Cacti
“I’m Seamus”
-Garth Brooks
metricpenny
@JAF Rusty Shackleford:
The bitch is not my lover, she’s just a girl who thinks that I am the one.
hitchhiker
My 5 yr old daughter, lo those years ago, in her existential christian phase:
Oh well, oh well
Oh well, oh well
Born is the king of israel!
gelfling545
@steve: Perhaps where the H comes from in Jesus H. Christ – named for his Dad, I guess. My nephew when young hear his little Bible School sone as “Praise Jeez the Lord”. We felt it was a bit too informal.
evilgreenpastry
in the mid 80’s Bananarama covered “i am your venus”
I was working my first job as a dishwasher, paired with a 50 year old stoner burnout born again x-tian. He would sing: “I am your fetus, I am the product of your desire.” I still cant hear that song any other way-cover or not
harson
My late aunt Bertha had what I still regard as one of the best mondegreens in modern times:
Neil Diamonds, “Song Sung Blue”
“Hong Kong Flu”
Smiling Mortician
@Southern Beale:
In a bag of Velveeta, baby . . .
burnspbesq
@WaterGirl:
Oopsie.
WaterGirl
@burnspbesq: FYWP. How’s a girl supposed to fix that when there is no edit?
Julie
Wear my love like headphones, by Donovan.
ice9
With Jonah, it’s six and a half of one, a dozen of the other. He’s no rocket surgeon.
Neither Mondegreen nor eggcorn, malaprop nor solecism. The Original Simple Unthought Erroneous Idiom, brought to you by Sophomores who Must Write Essays.
ice9
c u n d gulag
A friend of mine thought The Police were singing, “I’m a pool hall ace.”
Oscarbob
You can’t make it up…
Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear Jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well you’re where you should be all the time
And when you’re not you’re with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a clothespin
Wife of a clothespin
Tony J
Years went by before I discovered they weren’t singing about “Odour of a Lonely Heart (It’s quite bitter)”
Friday Jones
@Interrobang:
Well, it’s a mute point, now.
Procopius
I’m appalled. Has he never read Tom Wolfe’s “A Man In Full?” The term is used many times in that book. I haven’t been able to make out the words to any song since The Beatles. And aside from music, rap is an utterly foreign language to me. I can understand the lyrics to Thai popular songs better than American rap (which is absolutely not music).
Tim Ellis
There’s a hardcore song called “Here I Am” and one of the lyrics is “you hold me, you feel me, I want you eternally” but the way they draw out the syllables in “eternally” has taught the entire hardcore scene to hear “I want you inside of me.”
I was actually stunned to learn the real words.