Webster's Collegiate Dictionary just came out with its list of newly added words. One of them, which was new to me, involved something radio folk talk about whenever they get together.

From CNN:
And then there's "mondegreen." In a category of its own, it describes words mistaken for other words. A mondegreen most often comes from misunderstood phrases or lyrics.
It comes from an old Scottish ballad in which the lyric "laid him on the green" has been confused over time with "Lady Mondegreen."
Among the best-known modern examples: "There's a bathroom on the right" in place of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "There's a bad moon on the rise" and "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy" in place of "kiss the sky" in the 1967 Jimi Hendrix classic "Purple Haze."
Even Sokolowski, a word expert by trade, has a favorite mondegreen: "Lucy in the sky with diamonds," as sung by the Beatles in 1967, made obvious sense to the preteen Peanuts comic fan as "Lucy in the sky with Linus."
Merriam-Webster's editors were so amused by the mondegreen concept that they plan to ask people to submit their favorites on the publishing company's Web site.

At 62KGW, the request line operators would write down requests, and we would sit around trying to figure out what they wanted to hear!

Reverend Blue Jeans = foreever in Blue Jeans (still gives me a chuckle.)

And one that took us days to figure out....

Chocolate Aphrodite =






Troglodyte (sp)

Have fun. (Seems like the perfect silly season topic for this board -- and doesn't use the term HD!)

Here's a fun site to check out (Archive of Misheard Lyrics).

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Cheap Trick: "Tonight Achoo" ("Tonite It's You")
10CC: "Be Moist and Quiet" ("Big Boys Don't Cry"--I'm Not In Love)
Steppenwolf: "Like a Tenacious Child" ("True Nature's Child"--Born to be Wild)

1st verse from #181, The Bonny Earl of Murray:

Ye Highlands, and ye Lawlands,
Oh where have you been?
The have slain the Earl of Murray,
And they layd him on the green

F.J. Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 3, 1888

Oh Lord, stuck in an old dyin' man............

(that would be 'Lodi' by "Creeks Can Clear Water For Survival")



......Which reminds me:

Of all the posts in all the world's blogs, I had to return back to this one.
Damn you, Herb!
(whom I supposedly quit on my 12-step Quit-Herb program, but of course, who can quit Herb? - wrong is soooo right!!!)

......also, my apologies, since this thread wasn't about Herb at all.

Damn you, Herbal extract!!

(which I mean in the best "damn you" way!)

Bob Miller had a comedy bit that he used to play years ago about misheard lyrics. I only remember a part about "Cross-eyed Hurricane" instead of "Cross-fire Hurricane" by the Rolling Stones.