Ray S Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) Hello all. Being very sad, I was half listening to the TV in the background as I was looking through Britmodeller and heard Brian Blessed shouting: "SPRAY! WHITE! DUNG!" I was perplexed and looked around at the screen, whereupon the words "Spray! Wipe! Done!" were showing for a Flash advert. I think what I heard was better... All the best, Ray wotisobvsgoingdeaf Edited June 18, 2021 by Ray S Edited Title 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 One i remember is Starships "We Built this City on Rock and Roll",if you listen they sing 'Sausage Rolls'.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I think the sausage rolls thing was on an advert for Greggs. I've been mishearing song lyrics for years. At least with the internet (if you care enough) you can get the lyrics on screen and check. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorfinn Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 9 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: I've been mishearing song lyrics for years. At least with the internet (if you care enough) you can get the lyrics on screen and check. Heard an interview years ago with a famous radio dj here in the states, recounting the barrage of requests they'd get daily (during the disco era) for the Bee Gees' latest smash hit "Bald Headed Woman...." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham T Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 My youngest daughter (now 23) vividly recalls that when I played Don Henley's "Down at the Sunset Grill" in the car, he was singing "Down at the SAUSAGE grill"!🤣 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whofan Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 16 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: I think the sausage rolls thing was on an advert for Greggs. I've been mishearing song lyrics for years. At least with the internet (if you care enough) you can get the lyrics on screen and check. Pete, Misheard lyrics in music are almost a given. Examples include (I'm sure you'll work out the real line!!) Hendrix' " 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"; Queen's "Down in the dungeon with Peters and Lee" The Police "Sue Lawley" and "A year has passed since I broke my nose" CCR "There's a bathroom on the right" And a quick check on t'internet will find hundreds more. I was amazed to discover that there's a word for misheard lyrics, mondegreens, because Sylvia Wright, an American writer, published a piece in Harpers where she admitted to a gross childhood mishearing. When she was young, her mother would read to her from the “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” a 1765 book of popular poems and ballads. Her favourite verse began with the lines, “Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands / Oh, where hae ye been? / They hae slain the Earl Amurray, / And Lady Mondegreen.” Except they hadn’t. She misheard the real last words “laid him on the green.” as Lady Mondegreen. It works if you read it out. 4 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Going back a great many years one of what must have been the earliest ads on tv was for Rael Brook shirts. (Anyone remember them?) The jingle had the phrase 'Rael Brook poplin, the shirts you don't iron', which I heard as 'Rael Brook poplin, the church is on fire'. Confused the hell out of me! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 16 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: I think the sausage rolls thing was on an advert for Greggs. I've been mishearing song lyrics for years. At least with the internet (if you care enough) you can get the lyrics on screen and check. Easily done,so have i but i'd rather listen on scratchy vinyl than some overpaid computer genius... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 5 minutes ago, Whofan said: Pete, Misheard lyrics in music are almost a given. Examples include (I'm sure you'll work out the real line!!) Hendrix' " 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"; Queen's "Down in the dungeon with Peters and Lee" The Police "Sue Lawley" and "A year has passed since I broke my nose" CCR "There's a bathroom on the right" And a quick check on t'internet will find hundreds more. I was amazed to discover that there's a word for misheard lyrics, mondegreens, because Sylvia Wright, an American writer, published a piece in Harpers where she admitted to a gross childhood mishearing. When she was young, her mother would read to her from the “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” a 1765 book of popular poems and ballads. Her favourite verse began with the lines, “Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands / Oh, where hae ye been? / They hae slain the Earl Amurray, / And Lady Mondegreen.” Except they hadn’t. She misheard the real last words “laid him on the green.” as Lady Mondegreen. It works if you read it out. Could you leave a few for the rest of us,run out of idea's now... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorfinn Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, Vince1159 said: Could you leave a few for the rest of us,run out of idea's now... How 'bout Sir Elton singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza....???" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_djg Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I could never understand what the Devil and his sideboard was about in Bohemian Rhapsody 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAF4EVER Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Another Brick in the Wall..."We don't need no Education" sounds like "We don't need no Sex Vacation"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 kd lang - Can’t Stand Gravy Trevor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stever219 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Radio 2, Sunday evenings from five ‘til seven “the Porno Gravy show.”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jockster Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 And from the Stones, "it's only turkey roll but I like it!". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XV571 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 For those of us who remember cassette tapes there's this masterpiece of advertising: Followed up by this: 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Billy Ocean - Go and Get Stuffed 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Abba and 'Chicken Tikka' Regards, Steve 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ian- Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Madonna: 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body' 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 One lyric I have always misheard (or not) is from the Kinks' 'Apeman' '...air pollution is a-foggin* up my eyes...' Well, I think he sings 'foggin' ... Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upnorth Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 19 hours ago, thorfinn said: How 'bout Sir Elton singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza....???" Elton had some classics! "Someone shaved my wife tonight..." "She's got electric boobs, her mum has too..." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelD Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Poetry in motion, mis heard as Oh a tree in motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Kenny Rodgers: Lucille. "Four hundred children and a Croc in the fields" I used to hear "Betty Davis eyes" as "she's got better days to die". And I won't mention the time I heard my wifes Scottish Great aunt describe her cousin as "he's a fine pianist"... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 3 hours ago, -Ian- said: Madonna: 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body' Ew......! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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