Is it just me...[seeing names as other words]

…or do you always see Santorum as Sanatorium?

Changed the thread title to give more detail what the thread is about.

Please try to make topic titles be less vague when you start a new one.

Sorry 'bout that. I was hoping the thread might just go where individuals took it. The “seeing names as other words” was just a jumping-off point. The threads with Santorum’s name in the title just made me think of how that name affects me in print. Nothing against then man, necessarily.

Yes. Especially names like “Astrida Penis” (pronounced exactly liker “astride a penis”).

Well, as I had not run across that one before, I did a Yahoo! Search on it and guess what I found:

The funniest (human) names you’ve come across

Wow a magic penis

I guess it helps if one pays attention…

There must be at least one other thread dealing with this notion, you reckon?

I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but a few weeks back my husband and I were looking for bakeries in our area. We were striking out with finding one that would handle our breads for us and starting to feel a bit nervous about it. So one day, we’re driving down the road and see a sign that reads Basically Beads. We were so excited.

It wasn’t until we were practically inside the store that we realized that we both read beads as breads. Both of us saw what we wanted to see. We drive by it every day now and laugh at how strange that was. Because it is very clearly beads and not breads.

Excellemt variation on the theme. Fun story to boot. Thanks.

As we run across older threads that have this “mondegreen” characteristic for everyday words and names, maybe linking to them from this thread will let us start a collection of them. In any event I’m going to be on the lookout for other threads like this one.

Illinois Department of Transportation is abbreviated as IDOT on their trucks and signs. I always read it as IDIOT.

I would have misread it as “beards.”

It’s probably due to one of those do-it-yourself add-a-letter portable signs they have in such places, where somebody had to use an upside-down M in place of a W to spell out CAR MASH, but that’s what I always see now!

Whenever I see Santorum, I start hearing Metallica’s Sanitarium in my head.

Can we expand this to Doper names? There’s Mangetout, but there’s also Mangeogre…uh oops that is Mangeorge. You see I assumed the latter was French-derived just like the former was, and only noticed the actual spelling a few months ago. At first I was like, “What is an ‘orge’?” before I finally got it 100%. I mean, a “Mangy Ogre” makes sense, right?

EVERY time I see it, that is the first thing I think. haha, guess I am not as weird as I thought!

…Don’t ask me what goes through my mind! I see this, and immediately I see ‘man root’ (I know a guy who, rumor among our circle of friends is that he is very well endowed. His friends jokingly used to call him ‘man-root’ I don’t know why Mangetout reminds me of that though!)

I feel less insane now.
Thanks.

You mean like Wookie In A Pub?

Well, I’ll be a monkey’s bare-assed uncle…I always thought the exact same thing until just now. “Mange orge” just seems correct.