# Funny mishearings/misreadings

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-mishearings-misreadings/320516>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 7, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-mishearings-misreadings/320516 "2005-09-07T14:38:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-mishearings-misreadings/320516/41 "2005-09-09T15:34:50Z")

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An employee inquired as to when she’d receive “the retirement plague”.

I was happy to give it to her. 😃

I made a joke out of it but it fell flat with her. No. Sense. Of. Humor. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Wolfgrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wolfgrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfgrrl)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-mishearings-misreadings/320516/42 "2005-09-12T01:19:52Z")

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Because of my job, and because I have a 25-mile highway commute to get there, I’m pretty familiar with most makes and models of cars and trucks. Yesterday while out running errands, I had to wait for a truck to go by before pulling out of my parking space, and when I saw the model name on it, I had to ask myself, “Who makes the Yarmulke?”

On second look, it was a GMC Yukon XL.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-mishearings-misreadings/320516/43 "2005-09-12T01:54:22Z")

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> [@SisterCoyote](#):
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> Any time I see “subtitles” on a DVD menu I read it “subtleties”.

That’s awesome.

My dear old mum would be so stoked if she could turn those off. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-mishearings-misreadings/320516/44 "2005-09-12T02:38:45Z")

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Just this morning my husband was discussing his plans for the afternoon - playing fantasy baseball and watching a football game with an old friend in the basement. Then, he announced, at half-time it was possible that they would do each other, with light sabers. :eek:

“Do” does sound a lot like “duel”, in my defense.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-mishearings-misreadings/320516/45 "2005-09-12T14:03:09Z")

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In you defense, “duel” is less often used as a verb than as a participle: eg, “dueling banjos.” You’d be more likely still to hear it as a noun: “We’ll fight a duel,” than “We’ll duel each other.”

I heard a couple goodies myself in re Katrina. One Israeli gal said “they’re evacuating the golf course” (gulf coast - her misspeaking, not my mishearing). Then this morning, thru my earwax, I heard that New Orleans is spraying for “wet smell virus” (West Nile virus - they oughta spray for both, actually).

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