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Dug
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 Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:33 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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Scuse me while I kiss this fly
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| Quote: | The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954.[3] In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O'Murray." 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 O'Murray,
And Lady Mondegreen.
The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green". As 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".
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thecatsgrin
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:32 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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Follow the meswark down to Gorky Park....
(Follow them as one, down to Gorky Park)... this was pointed out to me as I sang along in a car full of my teenage friends many years ago.... It was embarassing... |
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gggraph
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:14 am Post subject: Re: Re - I need help |
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I'm a big Queen fan. I was convinced that a line in one of their lesser-known tunes went:
"I'm just a poor boy, I need nose thrift"
The family has since cured me of this delusion, many times.
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thecatsgrin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:26 am Post subject: Re - I need help |
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There is a Gorillaz song,feel good inc... I am not sure of the real word, but to me it sounds something like
arse crack.... chocolate attack........
I googled it.... I am not far off.
Laughing gas these hazmats, fast cats,
Lining them up-a like ass cracks,
Lay these ponies at the track
Its my chocolate attack. |
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Devilbiss
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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pugwash
Joined: 04 Jul 2007
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Location: Perth
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:35 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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A small schoolgirl was describing her drawing of the Nativity to her mum.
"This is Mary and this is Joseph and this is the baby Jesus."
"Who is the little fat fellow at the back? asks mum.
"Oh. That's Round John Virgin." |
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belle2
Joined: 21 Jan 2010
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Location: Newcastle
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:20 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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My little brother always sang
"Twinkle twinkle little star
Up the pup the world so high"
Since then that is the version the kids in our family know. |
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thecatsgrin
Joined: 18 Apr 2009
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Location: Gippsland
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:26 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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We have Ipsy wipsy spider.... My Partner pointed out to me last year that it is meant to be incy wincy.... ipsy is the only version we know...
and my nephew sang the alphabet song...
A B C D E F G H I J K elemenope Q R S T U me.....
kids are so cute!  |
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Hayley
Joined: 05 Feb 2007
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Location: Geelong
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:35 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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I've got one... my mum is a master of the misheard lyric...
Billy Joel was belting 'Innocent Man' out of our stereo as she sang along, she casually asked my sister and I if we had seen this movie? 'What movie?' we asked.
'Elephant Man' she replied, and kept singing...'I aaam..an Elephant Ma-a-an!'[/i] |
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The Pook
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
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Location: Tasmania
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:17 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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"I need help"?
You all need help. 
Nobody knows what Elton John sang in Rocket Man.
Burning down the streams of heaven along? |
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thecatsgrin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:21 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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My Daughter was caught out singing along to Eric Claptons 'Cocaine' but insted it was ...
She dont like... She dont like ..... She dont like .... Cooking.....
Da na na na na naaaaaaa.... Da na na na na naaaaaaa..... |
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thecatsgrin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:24 pm Post subject: Re - I need help |
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Stevie Wonder (and Red Hot Chilli Peppers) version of Higher ground....
People... keep on peopling....
Bad.... |
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heartco
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Location: Near Latrobe Valley, Vic.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:44 am Post subject: Re - I need help |
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| I like music that takes me away, get high on, or should be high to listen to....Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, etc. When I need attitude or am in party mode Disturbed, Linkin Park, Filter, etc, come out to play with me. (no, I'm not 19) Even tho they've been around for a while, I have just discovered Porcupine Tree. If you like Pink Floyd you'll like Porcupine Tree. Mumford and Sons, Triple j music, Lemon Jelly, Nickelback........too many to mention. Yes I have an iPod, it goes with me everywhere. |
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gggraph
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Re - I need help |
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| Daniel wrote: | Australian Crawl/James Reyne I couldn't understand a thing that guy said.
Let alone when he sung. |
"In the maw-aw-ning, when ah wet ah ma bed.."
The band I used to be a roadie with (in a previous life) did a cover of Chisel's "Cheap wine" The singer thought the lyric was "Cheap wine... and a three legged goat"
Cheers
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Tango
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