My mind generally slips into low thoughts when I mishear things. I thought that the line in that song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was "Girls just want to get f****d" and was shocked that it would be permitted on daytime radio. In fact when I hear it, I am still convinced that is what she is really singing. Who was that-- Madonna? Cindy Whatshername?

For years I heard the line in the John Prine song "Grampa Was A Carpenter" as "urinate in every pew". Years later I learned it was "hearing aids in every pew." And of course, with Prine, as I might have mentioned, I heard "eat a lot of peaches" as "eat a lot of pizza", which I thought an odd thing for a back to the land person to do.

Speaking of peaches, I once took a course from an Australian professor whose accent I could not fathom, and who taught a subject that was to me rather difficult. One day in answer to a question of mine he stated "perhaps some peaches would be of assistance." I was in the depths of despair -- what had I missed? What could peaches possibly have to do with the subject at hand? Was he mocking me in some subtle Australian way? I was doomed to fail in disgrace. Then he drew some pictures on the blackboard. . .