tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post115857075378043135..comments2023-10-29T21:28:41.709+10:30Comments on Pavlov's Cat: They hae slain the Earl O'Murray and laid him on the greenKerryn Goldsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1164977190672156402006-12-01T23:16:00.000+10:302006-12-01T23:16:00.000+10:30Anyone care to explain to me wtf... the phrase "...Anyone care to explain to me wtf... the phrase "a whang-dang-doodle" means?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1160031305294748062006-10-05T16:25:00.000+09:302006-10-05T16:25:00.000+09:30I've seen at least three instances of "grin and ba...I've seen at least three instances of "grin and bare it" this week.missticklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890060421069914561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159786431706180932006-10-02T20:23:00.000+09:302006-10-02T20:23:00.000+09:30and a Sydney fashion label was called "I peck you ...and a Sydney fashion label was called "I peck you pun", from the designer's Spanish mama's version of "I beg your pardon"Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546885088503890394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159617911508904162006-09-30T21:35:00.000+09:302006-09-30T21:35:00.000+09:30When my (non-Anglo) aunt had to go into hospital, ...When my (non-Anglo) aunt had to go into hospital, she explained that she had to have some 'very close veins' removed.Stegetroniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15881823966680751798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159532316422043942006-09-29T21:48:00.000+09:302006-09-29T21:48:00.000+09:30This post and the comments are gold. Here's anothe...This post and the comments are gold. Here's another little ingot:<BR/><BR/>Many years ago I was looking at a child's drawing of the crucifixion. She'd drawn the cross tilted about 45 degrees (resembling an X) and there were red flashing lights and what looked like boom gates. When questioned she explained that Jesus died on the crossing for our sins...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159427876946721072006-09-28T16:47:00.000+09:302006-09-28T16:47:00.000+09:30When I was working as a sub-editor I actually came...When I was working as a sub-editor I actually came across one that I had believed until then was mythical: 'A fine toothcomb'. I'm not sure into which category it fits, but it gave me such a great mental image that I was almost sorry to correct it.<BR/><BR/>My little girl told me that at her school, they had put down 'sympathetic grass'. She meant synthetic, of course, but again - lovely imagery.<BR/><BR/>One of her classmates, a little boy, told his teacher that when his grandpa died, his family had to bury him because 'it cost too much to have him castrated'.<BR/><BR/>And my very favourite 'Irish' joke: A Pommy overseer on a building site sees an Irishman approaching, cloth cap, corncob pipe, etc. The Irish guy asks if there's any work going. 'My good man,' says the Englishman, 'You don't look like you could tell the difference between a girder and a joist.' 'I can, too!' says the Irishman, 'The first wrote "Faust" and the second, "Ulysses".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159269329169893322006-09-26T20:45:00.000+09:302006-09-26T20:45:00.000+09:30My friend's nephew proudly announced to his Nanna ...My friend's nephew proudly announced to his Nanna that he'd "learned a prayer: Hail Mary, full of grass".<BR/><BR/>A friend spent all of prep singing (with gusto, and I was too amused to correct him) "Australians all eat ostriches".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159234604137685842006-09-26T11:06:00.000+09:302006-09-26T11:06:00.000+09:30My fave mondegreen: 'there's a bathroom on the rig...My fave mondegreen: 'there's a bathroom on the right', instead of 'there's a bad moon on the rise'. Or 'we built this city on sausage rolls' instead of 'we built this city on rock 'n' roll'.<BR/><BR/>Is this an eggcorn? My little brother, aged 3, who declared he had found an 'arsegroper' in the backyard when what he really meant was a grasshopper. Still cracks me up 15 years later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159185543380800112006-09-25T21:29:00.000+09:302006-09-25T21:29:00.000+09:30I love your post, and the comments thrown in. Late...I love your post, and the comments thrown in. Lately, though, my preoccupation has been with what comes out of my mouth, rather than what goes in my ears. It's what I call my 'verbal dyslexia'. <BR/><BR/>To make matters worse, my son has started picking up on the and correcting me! Thanks. Now I can blame it on <I>his</I> mondegreens…Mark Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02504002779156297181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159167731024596922006-09-25T16:32:00.000+09:302006-09-25T16:32:00.000+09:30Funny you should post this. I only learnt about th...Funny you should post this. I only learnt about the mondegreen (and the orgin thereof) 2 days ago. I always called them 'kissthisguys', from the website, www.kissthisguy.com (mondegreens of rock music). Not having the mondegreen in my vocab, I was obliged to work with what I had.<BR/><BR/>Did you know that the Pompetus of Love really is just that? <BR/><BR/>'A thousand eyes' is infinitely preferable, by the way.<BR/><BR/>Our favourite family mondegreens are from my daughter:<BR/><BR/>101 Allmasons (instead of 101 Dalmatians)<BR/><BR/>and The Hunchback of Natural Down.<BR/><BR/>But she was 3 at the time.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and Miss Tickle? We also had sunscream, but our remote is still known, to this day, as The Emote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159167067207480982006-09-25T16:21:00.000+09:302006-09-25T16:21:00.000+09:30Oh, and my favourite mondegreen is "does she still...Oh, and my favourite mondegreen is <BR/>"does she still love me? she still has my donkey" (door key) in Billy Bragg's 'The Short Answer'.missticklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890060421069914561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159162564466205162006-09-25T15:06:00.000+09:302006-09-25T15:06:00.000+09:30My son uses "sunscream" and thinks the TV is contr...My son uses "sunscream" and thinks the TV is controlled by "demote control".missticklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890060421069914561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159077192720740812006-09-24T15:23:00.000+09:302006-09-24T15:23:00.000+09:30An old friend who picked up English as a third lan...An old friend who picked up English as a third language used to refer to his "elbone" or "L-bone". Isn't this the perfect eggcorn! It scores extra points because both the word and the referent are absolutely commonplace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159073586856815192006-09-24T14:23:00.000+09:302006-09-24T14:23:00.000+09:30I like "our land abounds with nature strips." Rea...I like "our land abounds with nature strips." Read recently on a blog somewhere - apologies for forgetting whose child brought this one home, it's excellent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159070181569433302006-09-24T13:26:00.000+09:302006-09-24T13:26:00.000+09:30'Cockstrong' is ... well, there are no words. It r...'Cockstrong' is ... well, there are no words. It reminds me of another excellent mondegreen I forgot to include in the post: 'He's got the whole world in his pants.' <BR/><BR/>That one also sounds like a particular kind of man. The same particular kind of man.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159069809886448442006-09-24T13:20:00.000+09:302006-09-24T13:20:00.000+09:30I think I must have a permanently mondegreenic bra...I think I must have a permanently mondegreenic brain as I probably misremember more lines of songs than I remember (not that I think of any examples off the top of my head -- which might be why), as well as scrambling names for things and people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17433936.post-1159069013618741692006-09-24T13:06:00.000+09:302006-09-24T13:06:00.000+09:30What a lovely Sunday afternoon post. My first hus...What a lovely Sunday afternoon post. <BR/><BR/>My first husband used to think The Smiths were singing "Will Neitzsche make a man of me yet?" instead of "Will nature ..."<BR/><BR/>He also made up the word "cockstrong" which describes a particular kind of man very well, I think.Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546885088503890394noreply@blogger.com