There’s common everyday words I can no longer hear properly thanks to their association to a joke / punchline.
Despair.
Supplies.
Honor.
Pretty much anything ending in “er,” ie. Poker.
Any others?
Definitely the -er – anything you can add “Damn near killed her” after.
What’s the despair joke?
Liquor
Pumpkin.
From a morning radio show nearly 30 years ago which had a character parodying your typical activist southern preacher. He had a big rant about how Halloween is an incestuos holiday…
He also ruined Red Snapper (the fish) for me.
Rats.
Sheet, piece, fork.
Rectum.
Angina.
Possible.
Important.
Gladiator?
You bet he is
Taint.
[spoiler]A guy has a costume party and tells all of his friends to come dressed as a human emotion.
The night arrives and his first guest shows up an dressed entirely in green.
“What emotion are you?” the host asks
“I’m green with envy,” replies the guest. The host smiles and ushers him in.
Next guest is beautiful woman wearing only a feathery pink boa wrapped around all the luscious parts.
The host asks, “And which emotion are you?”
She replies, “I’m tickled pink!”
The host nods and grins, and lets her in.
The doorbell rings again. The host answers, only to find to find a naked guy with his penis poked into a pear.
Flustered, he asks, “What the hell are you?”
The guy replies “I’m fucking dis pear.”[/spoiler]
The Aristocrats!
Eisenhower
Dictate
It’s not very common, but, “horticulture.”
seconded. I remember Dorothy (erm…) and my brain stops while that line runs through my head. Impossible to stop.
I can’t hear “It’s possible” without mentally adding “, pig.”
Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty. Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper… or you can go for what’s in the box that Hiro-San is bringing down the aisle right now! What’s it gonna be?
Rectum
Upgrade (which I mentally spell in the Idiocracy style)
And the “er” thing.
not a joke, but Jersey Shore has ruined the word “situation” for me.
I actually love that one.
My ruined joke word: Molasses.
It’s two words, Nacho Cheese
Thirded. And it is Dorothy Parker.
My other one is innuendo. From Monkey Business.
Dowager to Groucho: I don’t like this innuendo.
Groucho: That’s what I always say, love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.
Dimaggio?