Diamond Dozen

[chickenhead]

I love when people (including me) hear something wrong, and then say it a few times, wrongly, but it sounds enough like the right thing that no one notices, which further embeds in that persons mind that they must be using it correctly, even tho it doesn't make any sense.

Just now read someone in a comments section saying dismissively that something was a diamond dozen.

[PhantomOnTour]

Those are called Mondegreens, and they come from the term Lady Mondegreen, which was mistakenly understood instead of 'Laid him on the green'
The term comes from a poem about a murder:

"They hae slay the Earl of Murray
And laid him on the green"

Someone mistook that to mean a double murder..that of the Earl and Lady Mondegreen.

The last line of our Pledge Of Allegiance?...with liver tea and justice for all.

[chickenhead]

I had no idea there was a word for that. Lady Mondegreen, that's great.

[bigmack]

http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/wp-content/uploads/hedley_lamarr_voodoo.jpg

It's not Heady, it's Hedley.

[PhantomOnTour]

'scuse me while I kiss this guy...Jimi Hendrix

[ElKabong]

Fair to meddling

[TJDave]

I'm still trying to figure out the words to Louie Louie.

[Overlay]

a nominal egg (as in "That car cost me a nominal egg.")

[PhantomOnTour]

What in the world can they get done...girls just wanna have fun
-Cyndi Lauper

(instead of the real words: when the working day is done...)

[ArlJim78]

I have one of these when I hear the song "Our Lips Are Sealed" by the Go-Go's.

My mind hears "Honest I'll See You"

[rastajenk]

One of the more famous ones is CCR's "There's a bathroom on the right" :D

[OTM Al]

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe

[Steve 'StatMan']

I love when people (including me) hear something wrong, and then say it a few times, wrongly, but it sounds enough like the right thing that no one notices, which further embeds in that persons mind that they must be using it correctly, even tho it doesn't make any sense.

Just now read someone in a comments section saying dismissively that something was a diamond dozen.

"Diamond Dozen"! I love it!

I remember one kid in HS got mad at someone and passed a note and called a kid (or was it me?) a sumnavich.

[Steve 'StatMan']

True chicago pressbox newbie error back in the 80-90's, person edited the change of rider to Racer Bill instead of Ray Sibille. I don't know who made the error - just a long-lasting story.

[PaceAdvantage]

Surprised nobody has mentioned one of the most famous instances of all in song...."Blinded by the Light"

The Earth Band's recording of the song features several changed lyrics. The most prominent change is in the chorus, where Springsteen's "cut loose like a deuce" is replaced with "revved up like a deuce."[2][3][4]

This is commonly misheard as "wrapped up like a douche."[5][6] Springsteen himself has joked about the controversy, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a "feminine hygiene product" that it became popular.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light

[Tom]

Jose can you see, by the dawn's early light....


Out Father, Art, in heaven......

[PhantomOnTour]

Big old jet had a light on
-Steve Miller (Big Old Jet Airliner)

Bakin' carrot biscuits
-Bachmann Turner Overdrive

I'm a pool hall ace...with every step you take, every move you make...
-The Police

(i can do these all night)

[GameTheory]

I want to rock and roll all night and part of every day...
-- KISS

[LottaKash]

Way back when my son was very young, I was reading him some bible stories, and he asked me to tell him more about "Ponchus the Pilot", and where was his airplane in the story...:jump:

best,

[turninforhome10]

What the hell are they saying in tha Manfredd Mann song Blinded by the Light
Wrapped by a what in the roller of the night?

[newtothegame]

What the hell are they saying in tha Manfredd Mann song Blinded by the Light
Wrapped by a what in the roller of the night?

I think the part you're referring to is this....

The Earth Band's recording of the song features several changed lyrics. The most prominent change is in the chorus, where Springsteen's "cut loose like a deuce" is replaced with "revved up like a deuce."

This is commonly misheard as "wrapped up like a douche ." Springsteen himself has joked about the controversy, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a "feminine hygiene product" that it became popular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light#Lyrics

[TiznowfaninNY]

Surprised nobody has mentioned one of the most famous instances of all in song...."Blinded by the Light"



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light

That was the first one that came to mind for me.

[PhantomOnTour]

Donuts make my brown eyes blue
-Crystal Gale

[PaceAdvantage]

What the hell are they saying in tha Manfredd Mann song Blinded by the Light
Wrapped by a what in the roller of the night?What am I, invisible? :lol:

[Steve 'StatMan']

;)

[ShenanigansGirl]

Musn't forget "The girl with colitis goes by"

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds! Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!

[Pace Cap'n]

After ten years of hearing the Huey Lewis song, my wife says "Why does he want a new truck?"

BTW, there is a website for this...

www.kissthisguy.com/ (http://www.kissthisguy.com/)

[Tom]

I left my brains down in Africa! :D

Jimi....Excuse me while I kiss this guy!

[Steve 'StatMan']

That "Revved up like a deuce" vs. "Wrapped up like a douche" has always fooled me, I've had lots of trouble with some lyrics/rapid/joined spoken words.

After that song came out which I natuarlly thought was wierd, I really had no interest in the song "Only Women Bleed", I didn't pay much attention to the whole song. I was wondering as a late-teen what the heck music was coming to with all the women's special private issues.

Didn't the band, the sound engineers, anybody realize the lyrics sounded peculiar?

[johnhannibalsmith]

I would of thought of a song too but that one always makes me cringe.

[Steve 'StatMan']

I left my brains down in Africa! :D


dumb-dumb dumb dumb-dumb dumb-dumb dumb DUMB
do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de
dumb-dumb dumb dumb-dumb dumb-dumb dumb DUMB
do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de do-de
:eek:
:D

[Tom]

Elton John's....."someone shaved my wife tonight!"

[Tom]

It just hit me, one I have mis-heard for along time.
The last bumper tune on ATR - Where's Your head At.
I always heard the chorus as:

Ra-chel Ha-ter
Ra-chel Ha-ter

Rachel Hater, Rachel Hater.