Stalling before Meowing

[rareboy]

It may just be me, but increasingly I read things wrong. Which is to say I read them THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE. The way that I think that Beowulf through Joyce and Burroughs intended

So Stalling before Mowing became...well....you see.

Do you have favourite imaginary misreads?

 

[Vannie]

I once made a thread "Do you cuddle with your liver after sex" ?

I told everyone it was a typo but I did it on purpose.

 

[Araucaria]

I just saw a post by LoveMyPepperMill which said "Stemming sour cherries." I first read it as "stammering sour cherries."

 

[Dargelos]

That happens with song words. The misshearing becomes fixed even though I know it is wrong.
Thus Simon and Garfunkel will always sing 'I am butter poor boy' and Gladys Knight is forever 'Hoovering by my suitcase'

 

[Araucaria]

I remember as a kid hearing the song Walk Away Renee by the Four Tops. In the song is a lyric "you won't see me follow you back home." I always heard it as "you won't see me by the UFO."

 

[Vannie]

I like that song by Elton John

Hold me closer Tony Danza

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

That happens with song words. The misshearing becomes fixed even though I know it is wrong.
Thus Simon and Garfunkel will always sing 'I am butter poor boy' and Gladys Knight is forever 'Hoovering by my suitcase'

Those are called mondegreens.

In a 1954 essay in Harper's Magazine, Sylvia Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the seventeenth-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Moray". She wrote:

When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl o' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen.[4]

The correct fourth line is, "And laid him on the green".

 

[HoodedRat]

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

 

[NotHardUp1]

 

[Araucaria]

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

That's the way I originally heard the lyric as an 11-12 year old kid. The way Jimi Hendrix sang it sounded flippant and transgressive.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

 

[NotHardUp1]

You can be sure he nailed the landing.

 

[Kahaih]

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There's a huge yellow and white tomcat that wonders the neighbourhood that belongs to no-one, yet, everyone. I call him Butternut because he looks like ice cream.

He comes down through the woods to hang out in the sun in a small patch of lawn behind the carriage house that I maintain for wild critter control before he comes to the deck for two meals a day.

I decided to cut him a trail to make it easier for him. It's grassed in, now, and he acts like a kitten bouncing around and watching me to see if I'm watching him every time I give his trail a fresh mow.

 

[Kahaih]

Shit!

Wanders, not wonders.

 

[rareboy]

Thanks. Apropos to the thread.

 

[pigface]

With four hundred kids and a crop in the field.

 

[NotHardUp1]

There's a huge yellow and white tomcat that wonders the neighbourhood that belongs to no-one, yet, everyone. I call him Butternut because he looks like ice cream.

He comes down through the woods to hang out in the sun in a small patch of lawn behind the carriage house that I maintain for wild critter control before he comes to the deck for two meals a day.

I decided to cut him a trail to make it easier for him. It's grassed in, now, and he acts like a kitten bouncing around and watching me to see if I'm watching him every time I give his trail a fresh mow.

I also leave areas for wildlife. I ihave a large 8 ft. fence at the south end of the pool, and beyond it is a hillside and slope that drains to the front yard, under another fence. That area is under large trees, and I leave it to grow up seasonally and only cut it late to take out saplings or noxious stuff like privet.

At the back of my property, I let it grow up similarly, adjoining the woods just beyond. It doesn't get enough sun to become meadow, but it is a transition zone between woods and lawn.

At the low end of the two acres, along the creek, I leave about 1/3 of an acre to grow up with grasses, providing more cover for the rabbits and possibly forage for the many deer. And I leave the low creek banks uncut ever, as they are habitat for frogs and others.

Mowing is usually the front lawn, and another 1/3 acre beside the drive, so I do have appealing grass to wrap the house and perennial beds, but plenty of taller rough for the critters. My Coco loves stalking each and every thing around the place. I think it makes her less dependent on me for entertainment, which is healthier. She's also about 15 and not fat, so I think it helps her get enough exercise.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Dargelos]

In the same way that the town of Scunthorpe has a cunt in it.
Probably more than one.