# Words or phrases once misheard that can't be unheard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496 "2014-09-25T03:58:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**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 25, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/1 "2014-09-25T03:58:53Z")
I had two of these happen to me lately that I can’t unhear even though I now know I misheard them. One is the tv ad for a new medication for IBS called Linzess. I wasn’t paying attention the first time I heard it and it caught my attention since they kept saying what I heard as “ask your doctor about Lynn’s ass”, “Lynn’s ass can cause serious side effects.” Now that’s all I hear whenever it airs. The other was a song I heard on the radio that I had never heard. It made me laugh cause the chorus was “I’m a black widdle baby” with ‘widdle’ sounding like baby talk for ‘little’. I thought it was an odd song till the dj said the song was Iggy Azalea’s Black Widow. Even though I’ve been corrected I can’t not hear “black widdle baby” and laugh at it every time. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/2 "2014-09-25T06:05:14Z")
One time I swore I heard someone call Sarah Jessica Parker “Sarica Jessica Parker” and since then I always hear it that way. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2014, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/3 "2014-09-25T06:06:06Z")
Louie Armstrong: _the bright blessed day, the dogs say goodnight…_ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/4 "2014-09-25T06:12:33Z")
There’s a local jewelry place that runs frequent TV ads. The name is The Gold and Diamond Source. I have had two people point out that it sounds like they’re saying Golden Dinosaur and now that is all I hear whenever the ads play. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/5 "2014-09-25T06:19:51Z")
There was a thread here debating Hotel California lyrics whether they said “the pink Champagne on ice” or “depict Champagne on ice” and I always thought it was the former but now every time I listen to the song I hear the latter ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/6 "2014-09-25T13:56:26Z")
There’s a radio ad for “Hitch City” that I hear as “Bitch City”. Another radio ad was for the Ontario Lottery Corporation, what would you do if you won the millions. I heard “fresh lemons on the bed every day.” A friend corrected me: it’s “linens”. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/7 "2014-09-25T17:42:31Z")
My friend used to love to sing Offspring’s _Pretty Fly for a White Guy_ out loud. He thought the line that goes “The world wants wannabes” was “The world wants one-eyed pizza.” I thought about correcting him, but then thought that one-eyed pizza would be something cool to have. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-once-misheard-that-cant-be-unheard/699496/8 "2014-09-25T23:56:48Z")
I honestly thought that the name of that infamous Queen song really was _Another One Rides the Bus_ even before Weird Al parodied it.