# It's not quite a mondegreen... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855 "2017-04-20T16:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/1 "2017-04-20T16:32:20Z")
Is there a word for when you know the correct lyrics, you hear it perfectly clearly, but your brain insists on inserting something else when you think about it? For example, _A Whole New World_: there’s a line about “shining, shimmering splendor”. Something in my mind stubbornly parses it as “shining, shimmering Splenda”. And while we’re on the subject of Disney songs, there’s a line in _Under The Sea_ about something “here on the ocean floor”. When my brain replays it, it’s “here on the bathroom floor”. I could go on (”Give me the Beach Boys, to save my soul…”) but I hate typing on this stupid phone, so I’ll be back later. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/2 "2017-04-21T23:58:55Z")
All I can think of is a Freudian slip, but that’s usually out loud. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/3 "2017-04-22T00:59:17Z")
The Boss, always hear “revved up like a douche” even tho I know it is something a bit different… ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/4 "2017-04-22T17:39:11Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > ”Give me the Beach Boys, to save my soul…” In that song, my brain always changes “the world outside looks so unkind” to “my ex-wife is so unkind”. “Life is a highway, I want to ride it all night long” “Your Hershey highway, I want to ride it all night long” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/5 "2017-04-22T18:10:30Z")
I suppose it is just “punning.” Marmoset they’d be days like this. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/6 "2017-04-22T21:41:41Z")
I’m a crepe I’m a weirdough What am I doughing here I donut belong here ---
**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:** [April 22, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/7 "2017-04-22T21:51:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I suppose it is just “punning.” Marmoset they’d be days like this. You just have to monkey around, don’t 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:** [April 22, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/8 "2017-04-22T21:59:15Z")
I often make up lyrics when I never bothered to learn the real ones. ♬ _On the road again Ain’t had no chicken since I don’t know when So I went and stole myself a hen Hey, it’s good to be on the road again_ ♬ Or: ♬ _I see that train a-comin’ A-comin’ round the bend I ain’t had no chicken Since I don’t know when Now I’m stuck in Kansas City With a case of the blues So bye-bye, baby boy I haven’t got a clue_ ♬ Hm. There seems to be a chicken theme going on there. Anyway, the lines make no sense. But waddaya gonna do? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-quite-a-mondegreen/784855/9 "2017-04-22T23:19:09Z")
My Shot, from \*Hamilton \*; the line is “I’m just like my country, I’m young, scrappy and hungry”. Og Help Me, I keep expecting “young, scrappy and horny” :eek: