# Intentionally misheard **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929 "2020-07-31T18:21:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/21 "2020-08-14T20:27:01Z")
For songs that have “the rain” I change it to “Lorraine”. CCR wants to know who will stop Lorraine. Adele set fire to her. Lorraine has a lot of adventures in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/22 "2020-08-14T20:30:17Z")
That is actually a Mondegreen of mine. “I want to know, have you ever seen Lorraine? Comin’ down on a sunny day” ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/23 "2020-08-14T21:39:42Z")
When Weird Al came out with his album Alpocalypse, I purposely misheard it as “alpaca lips”. Actually, considering it’s Weird Al, that may have been how he intended it to be heard. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/24 "2020-08-16T16:54:15Z")
This is actually ‘intentionally mis- **read** ’. Mrs. L.A. has some [Nourish body wash](https://www.kroger.com/product/images/xlarge/front/0004126037734). Due to the font, the angle from which I view it, and because I’m pretty much asleep when I take a shower, I always intentionally misread it as ‘No Irish’. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/25 "2020-08-16T17:34:28Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > For songs that have “the rain” I change it to “Lorraine”. CCR wants to know who will stop Lorraine. Adele set fire to her. Lorraine has a lot of adventures in my mind. As to CCR misheard lyrics, saw this one some years ago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIop4mhRro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIop4mhRro) ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/26 "2020-08-17T00:27:42Z")
In Love Will Keep Us Alive by the Eagles. Instead of “I will die for you” I hear it as “I will diaper you”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/27 "2020-08-19T22:26:17Z")
In _Star Trek_, whenever someone says ‘Qapla’!’ (Klingon: ‘Success!’), I intentionally mishear it as ‘Ker-plop!’ ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/28 "2020-08-20T20:57:42Z")
All those men suffering from reptile disfunction. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/29 "2020-08-20T23:54:48Z")
Whenever I hear Steve Winwood’s song “Higher Love,” I picture a guy walking into a brothel and singing, “Bring me a hired love…” ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/30 "2020-08-21T03:09:48Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > When NPR first started talking about the sponsor “Noom,” I was positive they were saying “Moo.” I thought that was an unfortunate name for a weight loss program. You’d be surprised at how many diet ice cream products have “cow” in the name. It doesn’t seem like the best marketing strategy. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/31 "2020-08-22T03:05:10Z")
Whenever I hear the NPR reporter Rob Stein, I always hear Rammstein, the as in the German heavy metal band. And then I end up singing “Rob Stein” to the tune of the song of the same name. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_sM2sKk4DPM/maxresdefault.jpg "Rammstein - Rammstein (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sM2sKk4DPM) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/32 "2020-08-22T14:36:27Z")
I was just reminded of an intentional misinterpretation. Decades ago we gathered for a D&D game. The DM was rolling up my character. As he rolled and stated my character’s attribute he said, ‘Slaver…’ So I started slavering. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/33 "2020-08-22T18:04:07Z")
Back in the 80s, my friends and I always thought Paul Young was singing: “Every time you go away, you take a piece of _meat_ with you…” ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/34 "2020-08-31T03:04:04Z")
This is more intentionally misinterpreted than misheard, but I think it fits here. Whenever I hear NPR\* mention their sponsor Progressive Insurance and their Home Quote Explorer tool, I picture the announcer doing air quotes when he says “explorer”. As if he was calling it the so called Home Quote Unquote “Explorer” (with air quotes) tool. \*Yes, another NPR one. I always have it on in the background now that I’m working from home. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/35 "2020-09-03T20:33:17Z")
We always thought we were pretty funny when we would put on our best hillbilly accent and make fun of the girls wearing their “Juicy Cooter” pants. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/36 "2020-09-03T21:12:06Z")
I don’t get it. 😕 But then, the only designer women’s jeans I know of were Jordache (pronounced by me, ‘Lard Ass’). The only ‘Juicy’ name that comes to mind is J.C. Penny. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929/37 "2020-09-03T22:26:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I don’t get it. 😕 Juicy Couture. Velour sweatsuits with “Juicy” written across the butt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intentionally-misheard/916929.md?page=1)