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luvmysuper

My elbows leak
Staff member
I got my first real sex dream,
got it at the five and dime

Bryan Adams
Summer of 69
 

luvmysuper

My elbows leak
Staff member
We've got to hold on to what
we've got, it doesn’t make a
difference if we’re naked or not

Bon Jovi
Livin’ On a prayer
 
There's a word for these: Mondegreen. I learned that a few years ago on Randy Bachman's radio show, the Vinyl Tap.

It dates back to November, 1954 when Sylvia Wright published a piece in Harper's about mishearing a song in her childhood. When she was young, her mother would read to her from the “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” a 1765 book of popular poems and ballads. Her favorite verse began with the lines, “Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands / Oh, where hae ye been? / They hae slain the Earl Amurray, / And Lady Mondegreen.”

Except they hadn’t. They left the poor Earl and “laid him on the green.” He was, alas, all by himself.

For those interested in such details, this neologism has been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2002.

This is one of those: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
 

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Fridays are Fishtastic!
My sister thought the part of Jingle Bells that went:

Making spirits bright.

She heard

Making beer and Sprite.

How a five year old knew about beer is all you need to know about her.
We used to do half beer and half sprite during the summer. It was oddly refreshing.
 
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