Misheard Things

[SifuPhil]

I have a little bit of a hearing problem - had it all my life - where certain frequencies just don't register. As a result I often get free laughs when I watch TV or listen to someone speaking.

An example: for the last week or so there's been a commercial running on TV whose sing-song jingle sounds to me like:

"Ace is the place with the helpful hardware balls".

My mind just cannot comprehend such a hardware store.

Have you ever misheard part of a conversation, movie line or TV show?

 

[QuickSilver]

When I was very little... and learning the Star-spangled Banner.. Here's what I thought

Oh say can you see..
By the donserly light..



I figured a donserly light was just a special kind of light that was for the flag.. and I just didn't know what it was..

 

[Shalimar]

Lolololol. Cute!

 

[Shalimar]

Just reminded me, as a tiny girl I thought our anthem said "Oh Canada, true north stong in fleas." Who knows, perhaps it is true!

 

[Shalimar]

Oops, actual content is "true north strong and free."

 

[SifuPhil]

"I pledge allegience
To Queen Frag
And her mighty state of hysteria ... "

 

[Shalimar]

Philly, please explain last post? I just doesn't gets it.

 

[SifuPhil]

Philly, please explain last post? I just doesn't gets it.

Dang, sorry.

"Pledge of Allegiance" is what we were taught to recite in elementary school. We would face the American flag (found in every classroom), cross our right hand over our heart and recite the pledge:

I pledge allegiance
To the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic
For which it stands
One nation
Under God
Indivisible
With liberty and justice for all

 

[Shalimar]

Thanks, no wonder I was confused, although I do know what the pledge of allegiance is.

 

[Lon]

As a kid I heard a WW 2 song this way------Maresie Doats & Dosie Doats & Little Lambseedises. It should be Mares eat Oats and Doe"s eat Oats 7 Little Lambs eat Daisies.

 

[SifuPhil]

As a kid I heard a WW 2 song this way------Maresie Doats & Dosie Doats & Little Lambseedises. It should be Mares eat Oats and Doe"s eat Oats 7 Little Lambs eat Daisies.

Wow, Lon ... just wow!!!

I always heard it as:

"Mares eat oats and dosi dotes and little lamb-ski-divey
And kidsel-ee-ivy-too, wooden you?"


LOL - amazing!

 

[SifuPhil]

And of course the classic Jimi Hendrix singing:

'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy"

 

[fureverywhere]

"I pledge allegience
To Queen Frag
And her mighty state of hysteria ... "

I'll be the first to raise my hand...how many of us repeated that for years by rote...if we had to write the actual words not a clue. I have one I have to look up " Bei Mir Bist du Schon", what were they singing there?

 

[SifuPhil]

You've stumped me on that one, Fur!

 

[Pappy]

My hearing sucks too. The Knacks sing My Sharona. I thought they were saying Mac arona. And the song, Blinded by the light, wrapped up a douche.

 

[AZ Jim]

As a kid I heard a WW 2 song this way------Maresie Doats & Dosie Doats & Little Lambseedises. It should be Mares eat Oats and Doe"s eat Oats 7 Little Lambs eat Daisies.

I believe it's IVY they eat but I also thought as a child the rest went as you did.

 

[SeaBreeze]

I always thought it was Mares eat oats and goats eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.

 

[Happyflowerlady]

I am intrigued by that one, too, Fur. Can you give us a bit more of a hint.....like where you were singing it (Christmas, school, etc.?), and maybe more of the words.
I am sure we can figure it out then.

I remember singing "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer", and happily singing "you'll go down in his story" . I was pretty disappointed when my mom explained that I was NOT going to be part of Rudolph's story after all.

 

[SeaBreeze]

And the song, Blinded by the light, wrapped up a douche.

You're not alone Pappy, those are the words I always used when I sang along. Just listened to it, it still sounds like douche and not deuce.

 

[SifuPhil]

I just read something about Blinded by the Light somewhere - how the original lyrics writer originally started off with deuce, actually changed it to douche, then went back to deuce again.

Maybe it was just an urban legend. I can't remember where I saw it - maybe I just imagined it ...

 

[QuickSilver]

As a kid I heard a WW 2 song this way------Maresie Doats & Dosie Doats & Little Lambseedises. It should be Mares eat Oats and Doe"s eat Oats 7 Little Lambs eat Daisies.

NOT Daisies.... IVY.... and a Kid will IVY too... Wouldn't you?

 

[AZ Jim]

NOT Daisies.... IVY.... and a Kid will IVY too... Wouldn't you?

Yep.

 

[Falcon]

Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.

Mares= female horses. Does = female deer. Lambs = baby sheep.

Kid = baby goat

 

[SifuPhil]

Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.

Mares= female horses. Does = female deer. Lambs = baby sheep.

Kid = baby goat

Awww ... you've killed off my childhood dreams!

 

[fureverywhere]

My hearing sucks too. The Knacks sing My Sharona. I thought they were saying Mac arona. And the song, Blinded by the light, wrapped up a douche.

Oh my, I was a teen with My Sharona, it turned toadly sophomoric with reference to manhood...

But um okay back to The Andrew's Sisters

The song became famous with an English lyric but retaining the Yiddish title, "Bei Mir Bistu Shein". It also appeared with a Germanized title "Bei mir bist du schön". The pronunciation of the schein/schön in the title has occasionally been a source of controversy. The majority of performers, including native German speakers such as Max Raabe, have adopted the Yiddish pronunciation [ʃeːn] ("sheyn") rather than the standard German [ʃøːn] (approximately "shən", with lips rounded for the ö).

Even reading the actual lyrics I'm still confused.