Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Cannons in Love
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.
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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'.
I 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!
Thanks 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.
You're very welcome ct.
You probably need to look up the word Mondegreen :)
A mondegreen (also sometimes spelled "mondagreen") is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase in such a way that it acquires a new meaning.
Thank 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.
I 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... :)
Guy, it's the New Zealanders who go for sheep :-)
I 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.
My 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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