Mondegreen

Subject: Mondegreen
From: Mo the caller
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 03:28 PM

One from the New Scientist
"WE CALLED a halt to religious mondegreens - misremembered religious phrases that still make an incongruous kind of sense (2 December 2006) - but couldn't resist the one Mary Maher has told us about. A friend's daughter, she says, recently started at a denominational school in Brisbane, Australia. Maher asked her what was different about it. She said that they say prayers in the morning and elaborated by reciting the one she had just learned: "Our Father which art in heaven, Allah be thy name.""

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 08:50 PM

Lead a snot into Penn Station.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 10:21 PM

Have heard these:

.... intend to need a lewd life.....

... Thine ever-failing love....

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: mandotim
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:32 AM

To be a Penguin...
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:51 AM

Our Father who art in Devon.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 10:53 AM

Gladly my cross eyed bear...

Once had a vicar who read the collect for the day as 'O Lord, who art the lover of peas and author of concorde...'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: RangerSteve
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 03:13 PM

Andy walks with me,
Andy talks with me,
Andy tells me I am his own.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: RangerSteve
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 03:14 PM

While shephers washed their socks by night.

The Lord is my chaufeur, I shall not walk.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: autolycus
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 05:56 PM

Forgive us our crisps(ses)
   
   As we forgive those who crispses against us.


    Never understood at the time - i was about 7.

    (Crisps are british potato chips)






       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 07:12 PM

Really oughtta rename this thread "St. Mondegreen."

Can I get an Amen?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 04:21 PM

My fave isn't so much from church, but from a Christmas carol - I wonder as I wander all under the sky / How jesus our savior did come for to die / for poor ornery people like you...

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Alec
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 02:02 AM

"Onward Christian Soldiers,marching as to war
with the Cross of Jesus left behind the door..."

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:41 AM

So we're going from mondegreens to parodies now?

No thanks.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Alec
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:49 AM

So were going from mondegreens to parodies now?
No,this was something my Dad remembered somebody genuinely believing to be the words of this Hymn from his schooldays.
However,I ought to have made that clear in the first place.Mea Culpa.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 08:55 AM

A mondegreen is when a phrase or word is honestly misheard and the brain fills in the next closest, possible thing. I think it's pretty unlikely that "going on before" was misheard as "left behind the door." Maybe that's how your dad heard it, but it isn't a mondegreen.

The classic: "Lady Mondegreen" for "Laid him on the Green." See?

This thread will go where it will, but then the thread title should be changed to "Religious Parodies V. Umptyzillion," and moved up top to the music section.

Happy Lent,

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:10 PM

if it was genuinely misheard and the gaps filled with comprehensibly credible homopohones it is a Mondegreen, however big a stretch. If it is a parody I guess it is a Maondegree or a degree of maon.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:52 PM

I dislike the sound of the word 'mondegreen'.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 06:29 AM

well leave it on the side of your plate.

Think of all those starving kids in Africa who would be only too glad to consume a bit of paronamasia.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: JennyO
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 08:02 AM

"Our father, who art in heaven,
Harold be thy name..."

At a burial - "Glory be to the Father and to the Son, into the hole he goes."

"What a friend we have in cheeses."

"Round John Virgin, mother and child,
Holy Vincent, so tender and mild"

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Mo the caller
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 08:54 AM

Well, not quite miss-hearing, as trying to make sense of a word that, in my 'simplicity' I did not understand -
Pity mice in Plicity.

Not that I knew where Plicity was, or why it was so bad for mice there.

Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 07:57 PM

From Handel's Messiah: Yea, tin my flesh.