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Title: Is Sir Mick clairvoyant?
Post by: Geezer on 27/11/2009 01:55:07

While trolling through some of my records recently (you know, the round things you put on a gramaphone*) I happened upon an album by the Rolling Stones. On it, Sir Mick Jagger sings that he "Can't get no status function."

Obviously, he is clairvoyant. Who knew anything about such things when the album was produced?

*ask your grandparents

Title: Is Sir Mick clairvoyant?
Post by: RD on 27/11/2009 02:51:16

That's almost a mondegreen ...

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The "top 3" mondegreens submitted regularly to mondegreen expert Jon Carroll are:

       1. "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear (from the line in the hymn "Keep Thou My Way" by Fanny Crosby, "Kept by Thy tender care, gladly the cross I'll bear") Carroll and many others quote it as "Gladly the cross I'd bear".
       2. There's a bathroom on the right (the line at the end of each verse of "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival: "There's a bad moon on the rise")
       3. 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from a lyric in the song "Purple Haze", by Jimi Hendrix: "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen#Examples

Title: Is Sir Mick clairvoyant?
Post by: Geezer on 27/11/2009 03:11:03

Didn't Blondie do "The end is nigh"?

My nephew was convinced the Queen lived at "Bucket and Palace"

My son often admonished us by pointing out that our actions were "against the log"

(The last two are quite true)

Title: Is Sir Mick clairvoyant?
Post by: peppercorn on 27/11/2009 13:22:33

For years I was convinced Madonna was singing "Poppadom Pete" not "Papa don't preach"!

Title: Is Sir Mick clairvoyant?
Post by: LeeE on 27/11/2009 16:24:33

The two mondegreens I remember most clearly were 'Holding back the ears' by Simply Red (Holding back the years) and 'Sue Lawley' by The Police (So lonely)

Title: Is Sir Mick clairvoyant?
Post by: RD on 29/11/2009 20:41:22

Another mondegreen from The Police was "a year has passed since I broke my nose".

@ 1:05

(actually "a year has passed since I wrote my note")