mis-understood words

[Wheel Rider]

Inspired by yoopers:


JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: "The man named
Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked
back and was turned to salt." Concerned, James asked: "What happened to the flea?"

BETH (age 6) was listening to the Sunday sermon. "Dear Lord," the minister
began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. "Without you, we are but dust." He would have continued but at that moment the little girl leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her
shrill voice, "Mommy, what is butt dust?"

Some of my earliest memories of Christmas songs were from when I was about 4-years-old. Even back then, I knew what a sleigh was but I did not know about a sopen sleigh. We would sing, "dashing through the snow in a one whore sopen sleigh". I was only concerned about the sleigh.

Another lyric that also turned out to be wrong was "in the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he is Parson Brown". I did not understand why they built a brown snowman.

I still grin when I hear these songs.

[JJuggle]

This is more of a reading problem, but I remember wondering as a young child when looking at some of my folk's albums why Phil Ochs, Joan Baez among other performed Live in "Concrete".

[Mikefule]

Somewhere there is a website devoted to such thngs.

The famous one is Jimi Hendrix: "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy."

(For younger readers, Mr. Hendrix was a pop star. The real song goes, "Excuse me while I kiss the sky," which makes a lot more sense when you think about it.)

In the 1970s, the egregious Paul McCartney found chart success with a county 'n' bagpipes number called Mull of Kintyre. I was visiting my elderly next door neighbour when the song came on the radio. She remarked, "I love this song: 'Rollicking Times'." I smirked, because I thought it was called 'Mother Kentuck' - neither of us having ever heard of the place called the Mull of Kintyre.

Rollicking Times would have been a far better song.

[phil]

Somewhere there is a website devoted to such thngs.
Coincidentally it is called www.kissthisguy.com...

Phil

[Mikefule]

Not quit e a misunderstood lyric, but it amused me. I have a workmate who is a keen music fan and musician. We work in a busy insurance claims office with hundreds of phone calls a day. Because of the area we cover, we have a large number of Asian customers. I left him a note on his desk while whe was at lunch asking if he knew anything about Ali Vazami Azir.

It took him 5 minutes.

[THE dave]

Inspired by yoopers:



Some of my earliest memories of Christmas songs were from when I was about 4-years-old. Even back then, I knew what a sleigh was but I did not know about a sopen sleigh. We would sing, "dashing through the snow in a one whore sopen sleigh". I was only concerned about the sleigh.

Another lyric that also turned out to be wrong was "in the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he is Parson Brown". I did not understand why they built a brown snowman.

I still grin when I hear these songs.


speaking of christmas song... i though the song O' Tanenbaum (sp?) was O' Timebomb...

[darchibald]

A friend of a friend of mine used to sing "Missed the boat Jangles". And another friend who has never sang one song correct in his life swears that the song is "Raindrops keep falling on my 'fore' head."

David

[kington99]

Somewhere there is a website devoted to such thngs.

The famous one is Jimi Hendrix: "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy."

(For younger readers, Mr. Hendrix was a pop star. The real song goes, "Excuse me while I kiss the sky," which makes a lot more sense when you think about it.)


OMG as a man of 20 i have believed all my life that Jimi was asking permission to be excused to perform a homosexual act, rather than just talking rubbish because he was off his tits on LSD.

[uniMcPeat]

Gay.

[cathwood]

My son once asked if there were more blades of grass than infinity.

(try explaining the concept of infinity to a 6 year old after a hard day's swimming and baking in the Turkish heat)

Cathy

[Wheel Rider]

A friend of a friend of mine used to sing "Missed the boat Jangles".
David
That's funny. That made me laugh. :)

[Mikefule]

A new one, from last night. I have a bluegrass/old time CD of a local band, The Slow Down Boys, and the first track startled me when I heard,

"Can you change your knickers*,
Can you change in mine?"

Shocked by this sordid question, I waited agog for the next chorus to hear the correct words:

"Can you change a nickel
Can you change a dime?"

(Note for US readers, over here, knickers = ladies' panties, not gentleman's trousers that reach just below the knee.)

[James_Potter]

All we are saying, is give Jesus pants!

- John Lennon

[s7ev0]

There are two Bethanies in my 6 year-old daughter's class at school. You need to know this.

So there she was at Xmas singing with gusto at the school carol service:

"Ring out those Christmas bells - Bethany M, Bethany M!"

[phlegm]

My son once asked if there were more blades of grass than infinity.

I thought, given your social constructivist view of reality, that you would've told him that infinity doesn't really exist. ;)

[Wheel Rider]

All we are saying, is give Jesus pants!

- John Lennon
I had to Google that to find out what it means.

The internet is a wonderful thing.

[Naomi]

I had to Google that to find out what it means.

The internet is a wonderful thing.


It surely is... apart from those rare times when you simply cannot find a suitable search string for that essential piece of information. Then it should be damned to hell .


Nao

[Mikefule]

I thought, given your social constructivist view of reality, that you would've told him that infinity doesn't really exist. ;)

Not all social constructionists contend that social constructionism makes ontological statements. The element of construction is in our perception of and reaction to reality. We can certainly only perceive reality through the filters of our senses, and analyse it through the filters of our preconceptions of how to analyse.

Others do contend that everything is socially constructed, and that there is no reality. No definite ontological statements can be made, except of course the ontological statement that all reality is socially constructed.

That would mean that the statement, "All reality is no more than a social construction" would be self contradictory. You could envisage (many) societies in which this statement was not believed to be true, and therefore, in its own terms, it wouldn't be true.

Yes, I have been reading up on it, and I give parts of it a cautious thumbs up, and parts of it a definite thumbs down. It reads to me like existentialism with a committee.

[Wheel Rider]

Not all social constructionists contend that social constructionism makes ontological statements. The element of construction is in our perception of and reaction to reality. We can certainly only perceive reality through the filters of our senses, and analyse it through the filters of our preconceptions of how to analyse.
Right on topic. There are lots of words here that I don't understand. :rolleyes:

[Mikefule]

Right on topic. There are lots of words here that I don't understand. :rolleyes:

Sorry, bad day at work, left early, shot from the hip. Just teasing Cathwood, really.;)

Joking apart, the Social Constructionism thing is interesting, but some of the claims made for it are over-ambitious.

[cathwood]

Sorry, bad day at work, left early, shot from the hip. Just teasing Cathwood, really.;)

Joking apart, the Social Constructionism thing is interesting, but some of the claims made for it are over-ambitious.

Glad to see you've been doing your homework. :)

The 'extreme' social constructionism just gives me a headache and kind of feels like disappearing up my own backside in a puff of smoke so I'd have to say that the way I construct the world is through the filter of my senses and so on.

Cathy

[Mikefule]

just gives me a headache and kind of feels like disappearing up my own backside in a puff of smoke

The cure for a mixed metaphor is to ask the person using it to draw a picture of it...:D

[darchibald]

My favorite which I just remembered is from the song that goes: "Ra, Rah, Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen". Another friend of a friend thought it was "Run, run, refugee, try and get away from me".

There is an ongoing debate among my friends and I on whether in the song "Paradise City", Axl Rose ever says "Very nice city" or "Very last city." Thoughts?

David

[darchibald]

This reminds me of this flash animation, some guy made about his interpretation of Fall Out Boy lyrics in Sugar We're Going Down. I thought it was really funny the first time I saw it but it lacks that same charm. Older folks likely won't know the song:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1651997757427874922&q=Fall+out+boy&pl=true

There is a whole bunch the others aren't as good. I don' know if this came first or not.

David

[epistolize]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/corrugatedair/uniav.jpg
unicycle or dicycle

[Mikefule]

Two of which I was reminded today, when listening to a particularly dreadful Slaughter and the Dogs live recording. Early "live" punk recordings combine appalling sound quality with excessively poor diction. I only started buying this stuff over the last few years, and I heard "Boston Babies" as "Bob the Builder".

(Note for non-UK readers: Bob the Builder is a children's TV series documenting the activities of a construction worker called Robert.)

The other one: Chinese Rock. Treating my body as a temple (although one that has fallen into disrepair, and needs major work doing on the steeple), I don't do drugs, and I had never heard of a Chinese rock. Listening to Sid singing it live, I heard, variously: "I'm cooking in a Chinese wok", "I've really got a tiny c*ck," and all manner of strange things before I read the lyrics: I'm living on a Chinese rock.":o

[dudewithasock]

(Note for non-UK readers: Bob the Builder is a children's TV series documenting the activities of a construction worker called Robert.)


Just a side note, Bob the Builder is a TV series here as well.

Bob the Builder!
Can he fix it?
Bob the Builder!
Yes he can!

[Brian O.]

My favorite which I just remembered is from the song that goes: "Ra, Rah, Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen". Another friend of a friend thought it was "Run, run, refugee, try and get away from me".

There is an ongoing debate among my friends and I on whether in the song "Paradise City", Axl Rose ever says "Very nice city" or "Very last city." Thoughts?

David

Google the lyrics? I tried and didnt see either.

[JJuggle]

Google the lyrics? I tried and didnt see either.
I Google lyrics all time and sometimes find that incorrect words are repeated across a number of the "lyric" sites.

There is a new song out by a guy name Sean Paul. It's called Temperature. Apparently it is popular with the pre-teen and teen crowd. At least my 12 year old daughter and her scene.

Anyway, I drive her crazy because there is a line that sounds, to me at least, like, "Wanna be a pot pie."

I dance around the house singing that now and again and call it the Pot Pie Song just to remind her who's the boss. :D

[Into the blue]

Alas, I too, up until last year, always thought that Hendrix was excusing himself to kiss a guy. :o
Anyone remember the old Maxell ads that ran years ago?
The idea behind the campaign was that you could hear songs and lyrics better with Maxell tapes, and they parodied (or homaged) the old Bob Dylan video where he's holding cards with his lyrics written on.
The one that sticks out in my mind is Desmond Dekkers 'The Isrealites'.
Here's the lyrics used in the ad...

"Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast
Sold out to every monk and beefhead
Woah-ohhhh, me ears are alight!
Why find me kids, they buck up and a-leave me
Darling cheese head I was yards too greasy
Woah-ohhhh! Me ears are alight!"

There was another one too. I think it was 'Into The Valley' by The Skids but I don't remember that one to well.
It was around a decade ago!

[unisteez]

This reminds me of this flash animation, some guy made about his interpretation of Fall Out Boy lyrics in Sugar We're Going Down. I thought it was really funny the first time I saw it but it lacks that same charm. Older folks likely won't know the song:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1651997757427874922&q=Fall+out+boy&pl=true

There is a whole bunch the others aren't as good. I don' know if this came first or not.

David

thats so funny. im laughing so hard right now.
i hate that band and i hate that song.
oh boy..thanks for showing us that.
they played that crappy song like 50 times at every single one of our football games this season, and i remember the crowd would sing along with the "we goin blah blah in the lurrlelah" or whatever and im pretty sure no one actually knew the words.