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June 24, 2004
Mark in a comment sends us to Kiss This Guy, a site that aggregates misheard lyrics (kiss this guy = kiss the sky). Which reminds me of something I heard at the Seattle airport yesterday... Two parents where shepherding their 8-yr-old daughter through the long "security" line. The parents took off their shoes and the girl started laboriously to unbuckle hers. "Does she have to take off hers?" the father asked the security guy. "Children are exempt," he said with a slight Southern accent. Still the girl insisted on taking off her shoes. After urging her not to a few times, the parents decided it would be faster just to let her finish. After they had cleared the inspection, as the girl was putting her shoes back on, the mother said, "Why did you take off your shoes? We kept telling you not to." "Because," she said, clearly upset by the stress, "the guard said that childred are exammed." Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 24, 2004 09:19 AM
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David,
You reminded me to submit a lyric to Kiss this Guy: The Beatles' well-known hit, "She's a state trooper, yeah!"
Heh. Now you'll never be able to sing the original.
Posted by: Britt Blaser | June 24, 2004 10:22 AM
Stephen Pinker calls these 'oronyms':
"[In speech] it is impossible to tell where one word ends and the next begins. The seamlessness of speech is... apparent in "oronyms," strings of sound that can be carved into words in two different ways:
The good can decay many ways.
The good candy came anyways.
The stuffy nose can lead to problems.
The stuff he knows can lead to problems."
Recently a waiter announced one of the evening's specials as "herb-encrusted salmon". Which I heard as "urban crusted salmon", and decided I wasn't in the mood for fish that had been sitting out on the curb way too long.
Posted by: Stu Rubinow | June 25, 2004 11:29 AM