# "Bacon Rots In The Hot Sun.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405 "2003-06-30T19:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/1 "2003-06-30T19:12:04Z")
… I fought the law and the law won." “I’ll never leave your pizza burnin’” (got that one here, I think:D) and my all-time favorite, “There’s a bathroom on the right!” All of those are mis-understood song lyrics and we’ve done threads on these before, but what I wanna know is what that mistake is **called**. I heard a bit of **Word To The Wise** on NPR a little while ago, but my cell phone rang just when that lady was naming that grammatical error. So what do we call that, and do y’all have any more? Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/2 "2003-06-30T19:24:11Z")
I only know them by “misheard lyrics” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/3 "2003-06-30T19:26:23Z")
Lady Mondegreens - after a line in an old song misheard as that, instead of “laid him on the green.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/4 "2003-06-30T19:30:57Z")
Manfred Mann’s Blinded by the light… _And Misses Early-Birdie gave my anus Curley wurley._ and… _racked up like a douche, another moaner in the night._ ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/5 "2003-06-30T19:44:01Z")
No, no **lieu** , it’s “revved up like a douche, you know a runner in the night…” and “all that is left is the pantyhose (Band of Gold)…” and “Me and you and a doggie poo…” (Dog named Boo) and (courtesy of my 10 year old daughter and the reworked “Drift Away” originally by Dobie Gray) “…Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul…” ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/6 "2003-06-30T20:13:10Z")
Don’t forget “…Big old jet had a light on…” ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/7 "2003-06-30T20:32:15Z")
_Oh, oh, my ears are alight._ Isrealite. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/8 "2003-06-30T20:34:54Z")
Israelite. I can’t hear OR spell it correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/9 "2003-06-30T20:41:22Z")
Sadly, the “The Ants Are My Friends” site is no longer up; the only mondegreen link I could find is to [Jon Carroll’s columns](http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-rots-in-the-hot-sun/185405/10 "2003-06-30T20:52:31Z")
**Salem** , I like your daughter’s version better!