The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Personaly I saw exactly why you started a second thread. I saw the same problem in here you did. I thought that maybe just maybe your second place might be an answer. I even commented a while back that there was no reason we couldn't exchange muffin recipes.

However let me give you a tip about such things. Never say it's "My" thread or anything close. You might have gave birth to it , but let it grow on its own, go with the flow, don't police it. It's like how much of Alex do you see around here? Not much. There is a reason for it. If he had used "my" Wp it would have gone down in flames. I dunno he might be in here now with an alt, I don't know and I don't care. Have fun with it. Some threads work and some don't, it's not a personal insult. People get political, not talking voting stuff, but you'll see it all over this site in it's many forms. One of the reasons I stopped getting into guilds in the online gaming world, some how always ended up being an officer in the things. I had to spend all my time smoothing out the ruffles between the members. That wasn't the reason I wanted to game at all, I was in it for the fun, it was healthy for me to have a good time. I have beaten myself up worse then any bully on the street could ever do. I'm in it for the fun now, maybe you see why a little. Flame wars aren't fun and I'm trying to be an officer again.

OH NO!! NOT AN ASPIE!! . I just realized that I am in a different time zone than everyone else. As I send this it is only 9:12 pm here. That explains why everyone is gone when I am here.
Well, I guess I'll go introduce my teen sons to some more Monty Python and return here in the morning. G'night all

Yeah, I sort of have strange hours. This place ebs and flows.

WOOT!! Monty Python, good stuff. Wish they'd put in sub titles though.

Why can't the English learn to speak? The rainnn innnn spainnn falllls mainnnly onnnn the plainnnn. I think she's go it!!

Sit on the Bully Pulpit all day long? Hell, Postie, some of us have to work and move and read about a million pages just to keep up with all the Power, Control, Sex, Drugs and ROCK AND ROLL!! !

Merle

Aye postpaleo.....that's what we Scots folk say about the English accent too.

Here is a little gift for the Cafe. I fixated and obsessed on Mondegreens and I would like to share them with you!

Merle

Here at the Center for the Humane Study of Mondegreens, we've been toting up the entries and applying the latest statistical correlative methods, even using our toes, to arrive at a semi-definitive answer.

We believe that the most frequently submitted Mondegreen is still "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear" (known in the real world as that fine old hymn "Gladly The Cross I'd Bear"). A close second is "There's a bathroom on the right," a mishearing of "There's a bad moon on the rise" from the old Creedence Clearwater song "Bad Moon Rising."

Third place is still firmly held by "Excuse me while I kiss this guy," actually "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" from the Jimi Hendrix song "Purple Haze." Mr. Hendrix was himself aware that he had been Mondegreened, and would occasionally, in performance, actually kiss a guy after saying that line.

Fourth place is probably occupied by Round John Virgin, a Shakespearean figure occasionally found in "Silent Night." Also high on the charts is a Mondegreen from "Groovin'", a popular song of an earlier era. (Kids, "groovin'" was kind of like "chillin'" except the clothing fit more tightly).

In that song, the Rascals were singing "You and me endlessly," but many people heard "You and me and Leslie," leading to speculation about the exact identity of Leslie and the popularity of multiple couplings in the music world.

For those of you who have not yet received the pamphlet (mailed free to anyone who buys me an automobile), the word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright.

As a child she had heard the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray" and had believed that one stanza went like this:

Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands
Oh where hae you been?
They hae slay the Earl of Murray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

Poor Lady Mondegreen, thought Sylvia Wright. A tragic heroine dying with her liege; how poetic. When it turned out, some years later, that what they had actually done was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, Wright was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism.

This space has been for some years the chief publicity agent for Mondegreens. The Oxford English Dictionary has not yet seen the light, but it will, it will.

The pledge of allegiance is such a hotbed of Mondegreens that one could create a composite of submitted entries: "I pledge a lesion to the flag, of the United State of America, and to the republic for Richard Stans, one naked individual, with liver tea and just this for all."

This formulation is elderly enough to have predated "under God," which is just as well; it would be a shame to lose "one naked individual."

There are Mondegreens in familiar phrases. A friend of Adair Lara's believed for years that we live in a "doggy dog world" populated by pushy people with a "no holes barred" attitude, while a friend of Carolyn Stone's believed that World War II was fought between the Zees and the Not Zees.

B. Young was charmed to hear that both Coke and Pepsi came in "cheerleader size." Later, he was disappointed to learn that it was actually "two litre size." Florence Jarreth was interested in the new "Jeep Parakeet," but less interested in the new "Jeep Cherokee."

James Lauder recounted the story of the pet shop clerk who told him, in all seriousness, that her parents' wealth did them no good at all because they just sat around their backyard deck in Marin and "drank themselves to Bolivia."

Geoffrey Gould's mother was convinced that if, say, you were moving a vase to a high shelf because small children were about to come over, you were moving said vase "out of arm's sway." Stephanie von Buchau always believed, correctly, I should think, that "a soft dancer turneth away wrath."

But the overwhelming majority of Mondegreens come from song lyrics. Remember on the East Side and the West Side when me and Mamie O'Rourke "risked our lives in traffic"? Remember when Simon and Garfunkel sang hauntingly about how "partially saved was Mary and Tom"? Remember that touching moment in "I'm in the Mood for Love" when the singer reveals his favorite nickname for his beloved?

I'm in the mood for love,
Simply because you're near me,
Funny Butt, when you're near me ...


There was the Bob Dylan song with the memorable refrain: "Dead ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind." There was the great Crystal Gayle song "Doughnuts Make Your Brown Eyes Blue." There was the equally wonderful Maria Muldaur song "Midnight After You're Wasted."

Val Kruger heard Jose Feliciano's famous recording of "Feliz Navidad" as "Police naughty dog," and now so will you. Barry McCarthy mentioned another popular Spanish song, "One Ton Tomato." Melissa McChesney always heard "My baby likes the Western movies" as "My baby's like a wet sock moving."

Two great Paul McCartney Mondegreens: The lines of French in "Michelle" were heard by Kathy Stawhorn's daughter as "Michelle, ma bell, Sunday monkey won't play piano song, play piano song." Several people have heard the line in "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" that goes "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes" as "the girl with colitis goes by."

There are many more; many more -- I have envelopes stuffed with them. But our eyes grow weary and our stomachs grow hungry; we must now, in the words of the old Christmas carol, "sleep in heavenly peas."

Do I know about time contrsaints? My vacations are moments. I had a good mini vacay around the corner at my neighbor's.My socializations are in moments,too. My beau told me last night the two things he hated about me were my love of my two cats and my five hour sleep pattern. He added "that's not bad." Actually, he's discovering the wonders of cats. I have an extreem phobia of rodents save for Guinea Pigs and I know with the two murderous creatures who have me I will not encounter them in any way but their entrails. the nose, whiskers and maybe a bone.

That is great stuff sinsboldly

An old girlfriend of mine loved the song King Of The Road:

Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let...fifty cents.

She sang.......Sailor for sale or rent
Rooms to let...50 cents

Who knows where the girls mind was?

That was very funny. I had to sniggle as snorting laughing would wake beau from his nap. I have another for your envelope...Foriegner's " I got a lot on my head" I knew someone who had had a string of physically abusive relationships and thought they were saying " I got a knot on my head, it must have been you". Thank you for the diversion while beau naps and I'm still wide awake.

Those who have been diagnosed:

Who diagnosed you? Like what type of doctor?

Where?

When?

How did it affect your life?

Did you know about Asperger's before?

Did you seek out the diagnosis?

My surname is Scott, although I'm about as American Mutt as they come. Some how the thoughts of painting myself blue and terrorizing Romans and the English are very appealing.

Yeah, I sit here in my castle and wonder what you poor people are doing all day.

Welcome back, I didn't miss you or anything so don't get all teary eyed.

so, Postie, did you have any Mondegreens to contibute?


Merle



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Umm probably, didn't know what that was till just a second ago. But I can tell you this, I see them too. I mean I look at something and read it all wrong, not talking about the that went over my head thing, which happens too. No I look at something and it reads something completely different. Can be funny as hell. I do it here a lot too. Hardly popular culture, but it's the same thing.

Can't come up with any off the top of my head, in a strange place, messed up my meds, take me another 12 or so hours to come back from space city.

Ok here's one for you I read this in your starting of this thing "mailed free to anyone who buys me an automobile" I read it as "who mails me an automobile" Might not be the same thing, but you can see how easily I amuse myself. No, don't get all excited when the mail man comes either.

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I do! I do! The classic "Blinded By the Light" (Manfred Mann) seems to be a Mondegreen Factory:

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another troller in the night...

lol, yeah I got the douche, but never got the troller, good one, I like douche better version anyway.