# Fun mis-hearings
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 13, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044 "2017-01-13T16:23:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044/21 "2017-01-16T11:45:44Z")
> [@furryman](#):
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> For some reason my sister got the words hydrogen and hydrant mixed up.
Keep your sister the hell away from fires.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044/22 "2017-01-16T13:40:49Z")
The below quote made me post my favorite ridiculous mondegreen even though I don’t assume the intention of the thread was to be another mondegreen thread. I just have to post it because like this quote it is quite a stretch, but _many_ people also heard it the way I do:
In the All Time Low song “This is how we do”, it sounds like they’re singing “We’re the butt\*\*\*\*ing believers,” whereas they’re actually singing “we’re the back pocket believers.” I don’t know how I and hundreds of others could hear such differently-pronounced words.
> [@FloatyGimpy](#):
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> Nurse: “and a Mexican’s your mother?”
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> Me: “what??”
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> Nurse: “next of kin?”
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### Author:  [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044/23 "2017-01-26T18:59:07Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> There was briefly a commercial for Tide detergent, that ran hear in Canada, that began with the announcer saying; “Tide asks Canadians…blah, blah, blah.”
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> Every time I heard it, I heard; “Tightass Canadians…”
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> I’m pretty sure that’s why it was so short lived!
Wait–what!?!
Because the target audience was too sparse a population?
–G! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044/24 "2017-01-26T21:26:13Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I just have to post it because like this quote it is quite a stretch, but _many_ people also heard it the way I do:
Speaking of mondegreens and Southern drawls, my mom heard Tom Petty’s “goood love is hard to find” as “silly willy love” 😕
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044/25 "2017-01-26T23:42:02Z")
No examples that wouldn’t be boring, but just wanted to rant against my brain. Specifically how it processes my bad hearing.
Why can’t it just say “And a _[sorry, didn’t catch that part]_ your mother?” instead of “And a Mexican’s your mother?”
It’s my brain’s need to fill in the gaps with anything (rarely even remotely close) that gets me in trouble.
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### Author:  [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-mis-hearings/777044/26 "2017-01-27T03:00:03Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#):
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> My beloved late Australian/NZ husband always called on his way home from work to ask if I needed him to pick up something from the market. One night we had guests coming to dinner, and I thought it would be nice to have some chocolate mint squares to serve with the after-dinner coffee. We frequently had these mint squares in the larder, so I figured he would know what I meant when I asked him to pick up some mints.
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> He came home with a pound of hamburger.
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> 😃
he heard you perfectly. Mints = [mince](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_beef)
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