This reminds me of a conversation I had with my daughter Monika, when she was maybe 12, as we drove in my car. She wanted to listen to her favorite station, so I indulged her, and here was what I thought was an awful caterwauling.

I said, "Who's that?"

She said, "Dad, that's Def Leppard."

I said, "Well, that explains the noise: He's deaf!"

Monika: "Daa-aad, it's D-E-F!"

Me: "Oh! So he can't SPELL, either!"

Dave Oesterreich