When young and stupid I used to think that the words for Phil Colin's song "Can't Hurry Love" were "Cannons in Love." I could never figure out why a pair of fighting weapons would fall in love with each other. Now that I'm old and wise I see that it was less a problem with interpretation and more a problem of listening.
John Larroquette starred in a series about life at a night court (not Night Court, the other one). In one series I recall an argument between him and a big stupid guy (not Bull, the other one) as to whether the saying went 'to all intensive purposes', or 'to all in tents and purpoises'.
ReplyDeleteI also recall Joey from Friends arguing with Rachel (also from Friends), saying it was a moo point, not a moot point.
Hahaha... that's so funny!
ReplyDeleteThanks for making me laugh today.
I never saw the night court episode that you're referring to but they just re-ran the Friends episode with the moo point. Joey came up with a good cow explanation about why it was a moo point as well.
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome ct.
You probably need to look up the word Mondegreen :)
ReplyDeleteA mondegreen (also sometimes spelled "mondagreen") is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase in such a way that it acquires a new meaning.
ReplyDeleteThank you for educating me Rob. I never knew that before. And thank you wikipedia for the definition and an excellent explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
I've also just discovered The Archive of Misheard Lyrics: http://www.kissthisguy.com/ but my mishearing is not in there as I suspect that I am the only person to have misheard this song this way.
ReplyDeleteI always thought that Aussies favored sheep over goats but maybe a 3 legged goat is attractive because of its rarity and perhaps a much prized partner... :)
ReplyDeleteGuy, it's the New Zealanders who go for sheep :-)
ReplyDeleteI once heard a Kiwi say "we are an island of 40 million sheep of which 2 million of us think we're human." He then went on to describe why so many Aussies visit Kiwi Land (hotter sheep apparently) and that's where I got that impression.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies to all Aussies and thank you for setting me straight Rob!
One anomaly that I have noticed is that since goats and sheep have been mentioned on this blog, visitors from both Australia and New Zealand have increased...
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