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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 天前

TIL mondegreen is the mishearing of the words in a song.

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TIL mondegreen is the mishearing of the words in a song.

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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 天前
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  • Quicky@piefed.social
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    “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”

    Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze

    • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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      That’s exactly what I thought of too lol

    • Maven (famous)@piefed.zip
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      Youre excused

  • LumpyPancakes@piefed.social
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    “She was a fax machine, she kept her modem clean.”

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      She had the best damn baud rate that I’d ever seen.

  • prettybunnys@piefed.social
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    Blinded by the light

    Wrapped up like a douche

    Another runner in the night

    • Skeezix@lemmy.world
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      What? It’s not wrapped up like a douche?

      • rigatti@lemmy.world
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        Deuce, apparently.

        • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
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          9 天前

          and ‘revved up’

  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
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    Dirty deeds and the thunder jeep!

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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      I always heard “Dirty deeds in those dungarees”

      • Patron_of_Nohbdy@sh.itjust.works
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        For me, it was “Dirty deeds done with sheep” / “Dirty deeds and they’re done with sheep”

        • Gerblat@lemmy.world
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          That is an actual parody song though

          • Patron_of_Nohbdy@sh.itjust.works
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            News to me! I’ll have to look it up.

        • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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          No, its Dirty Deeds and the Dunder Chief.

    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Dirty deeds and they’re done Don sheep

  • Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nl
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    In Dutch, we call it “Mama Appelsap” (“Mommy Apple Juice”), after the Rihanna song Don’t Stop The Music, in which the bridge (which is apparently sampled from Michael Jackson who took it from Manu Dibango, TIL) sounds like that rather than ma-ma-ko-ssa.

    • Sidyctism II.@discuss.tchncs.de
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      In germany its “agathe bauer” as a mishearing of “ive got the power”

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    imho it should be called “Are those reebok or nike”.

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      Nike, Reebok, Talbot kids

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
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    I’m your penis, I’m your fire, your desire.

    • Skeezix@lemmy.world
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      And if it was war she wouldn’t wear much more.

  • sidelove@lemmy.world
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    Under pressure! Pushing down on me, pressing down on you, you’re an asshole

    • Nima@leminal.space
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      i literally have heard this all my life and my brain refuses to hear the actual lyrics.

  • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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    When Linkin Parks “In the End” came out, I misheard it as “Indian”

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    Let’s hear it for New York, concrete jungle with green tomatoes.

    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      https://youtu.be/93Xb3wbEBiw

  • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
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    ‘Hold me close, young Tony Danza’ - me at 9.

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    Mondegreen is a mondegreen, got it.

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      Sweet, I added autological word to my vocabulary just in time to use it.

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    Hamster!
    A dentist!
    Hard Porn.
    Steven Seagull

    Warrior
    this rifle
    in me
    the fishmaster!

    my god fishmaster is nearly 20 years old!

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    These threads are always filled with the same lyrics so let me add a new one:

    My friend heard the first verse of Thunderstruck as “I was cold in the middle of the ringer of time”

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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      I got a new one for you: until I was in my late 20s I thought the song was Caribou Queen instead of Caribbean Queen.

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        It totally sounds like caribou.

  • Almacca@aussie.zone
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    Peter Kay’s bit always has me in stitches.

    • Quilotoa@lemmy.caOP
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      HIlarious. I think by him saying it, your brain atunes to the words.

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