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Beancooker
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Someone plays this at the gym a lot. Moody Blues - Wildest Dreams

I heard: In your wild island streams… when the music fades, once upon a time, in your wild island streams…

Metallica Sad but True, a guy I worked with thought it was Skelator (from the He-Man comics).


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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
 
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Rolling Stones , Satisfaction When I'm ridin' round the world and I'm doin' this and I'm signin' that
And I'm tryin' to make some girl, who tells me

Me: And I'm trying to make some girl, Pregnant.
 
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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Forgot too mention that my little kid thinks the Nirvanas Smells like teen spirit song, says .....enchiladas and potatoes...when the lyric actually is ...”here we are now, entertain us”....

Don’t ask me...he’s ten


Is your son Weird Al?? That would explain it perfectly. Lot of good examples here that I’ve had issues with in the past that make me laugh. Thirty thieves and the Thunder Chief. A lot of weird example and probably my biggest one already mentioned here. I’ll have to see if I can think of another.



...Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, was just a freight train coming your way...
 
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gjgalligan
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Little Deuce coupe: I've got the pink slip Daddy.
I heard: I've got the big slip daddy. (a brand of clutch)

Love potion #9: The woman with the gold capped tooth
The woman with the gold tatto


Integrity is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking.
 
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sigmonkey
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Yep.

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Little Deuce coupe


The lyric is:
"I've got the Pink Slip, Daddy"

California issued Pink titles.



"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
 
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Bluegrass favorites:

"Make me a salad on your floor"

"Bowling on the sweet potato farm"


הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
 
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I don't see that anyone has told of the origin of the term "mondegreen" for these mishearing.
There it is:

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Etymology
In a 1954 essay in Harper's Magazine, Sylvia Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" (from Thomas Percy's 1765 book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry). She wrote:

When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen .[6]

The correct lines are, "They hae slain the Earl o' Moray / And laid him on the green ." Wright explained the need for a new term:

The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original.[6]


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No. Limited slip differential. "Big slip, Daddy." I've heard it that way thousands of times over 60+ years.

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Yep.

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Little Deuce coupe


The lyric is:
"I've got the Pink Slip, Daddy"

California issued Pink titles.
 
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Pipe Smoker
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There’s no sex in your violets

“In a Songfacts interview with Gavin Rossdale, he explained the meaning behind the line, "There's no sex in your violence." It comes from a line in the Jane's Addiction song "Ted, Just Admit It..."


Serious about crackers.
 
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sigmonkey
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Originally posted by Some Shot:
No. Limited slip differential. "Big slip, Daddy." I've heard it that way thousands of times over 60+ years..


It's pink slip.
Always was, always will be.

Here is the demo by the BB. (Preceding any other recording) Brian Wilson stated it was "Pink Slip" in a couple interviews over the years.




"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
 
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radioman
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Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds:

"somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, a girl with Colitis goes by"
 
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Originally posted by Floyd D. Barber:

There's a youtube video where Fogarty sings "bathroom on the right".


That's awesome! It was almost a universally misunderstood lyric back in the days of cheap am radios and the poor enunciation common in rock & roll. I remember thinking "bathroom on the right" also, as did my teenage older sister.



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you are all wrong, it's "baboon on the right"


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