# What are your favorite Mondegreens?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 8, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-mondegreens/167361 "2003-04-08T19:03:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-mondegreens/167361/21 "2003-04-09T18:02:25Z")

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OK, first of all…

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> \*Originally posted by Earl Snake-Hips Tucker \*  
> \*\*_Boyda wakelin milla blade_  
> and  
> _Gee are Ola Sal rat grate_ \*\*

😕

Secondly, here are a few. I love these threads when they pop up.

1. From Hall and Oates’s “Rich Girl”: “You can rely on the old bad bunny” (rather than “…on the old man’s money”)
2. Also from AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds…”: “Dirty jeans…Dun-ga-rees!”  
Much funnier if chanted loudly when the song comes on.
3. From “Steal Away” (not sure who it’s by): “Why don’t we silouhette…into the night.”
4. From Blind Melon’s “No Rain”: “You know I like to keep my cheese dried and aged” (rather than “…cheeks dry today” – I think.)

I have so many more that I can’t think of right now… Back later.

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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-mondegreens/167361/22 "2003-04-09T18:04:20Z")

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Oh, I just got the “All in the Family” one. It took a while for me to make the connection!

I thought (when very very young) that “Boy, our old Lasalle ran great” was, inexplicably, “G-O-L-O Sal ress pray.”

Those were the days.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-mondegreens/167361/23 "2003-04-09T18:48:41Z")

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> \*Originally posted by godzillatemple \*  
> \*\*Some of the most famous mondegreens include “Pardon me while I kiss this guy” (“Pardon me while I _kiss the sky_”) \*\*

[nitpick] That’s “_'Scuse_ me while I kiss the sky.” [/nitpick] Hendrix was aware of this one, and he sometimes would sing “kiss this guy” onstage–punctuating it by aiming a smooch at bassist Noel Redding’s cheek.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-mondegreens/167361/24 "2003-04-09T18:58:01Z")

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Bee Gees again:  
_Four-letter Woman,  
Four-letter woman to me_

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**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-mondegreens/167361/25 "2003-04-09T19:53:26Z")

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Dave Barry wrote a column on this; I haven’t read it in years, but I still laugh at the bit where he claims to have thought the first line of the Beach Boys’ _Help Me Rhonda_ was:

“Well, since she put me down, I got owls puking in my bed.”

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