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06 Mar 07 - 03:28 PM (#1988535) Subject: Mondegreen From: Mo the caller 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."" |
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06 Mar 07 - 08:50 PM (#1988971) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Joe_F Lead a snot into Penn Station. |
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06 Mar 07 - 10:21 PM (#1989018) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: wysiwyg Have heard these: .... intend to need a lewd life..... ... Thine ever-failing love.... ~S~ |
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07 Mar 07 - 04:32 AM (#1989184) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: mandotim To be a Penguin... Tim |
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07 Mar 07 - 04:51 AM (#1989194) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Dave Hanson Our Father who art in Devon. eric |
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07 Mar 07 - 10:53 AM (#1989537) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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07 Mar 07 - 03:13 PM (#1989777) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: RangerSteve Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me I am his own. |
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07 Mar 07 - 03:14 PM (#1989778) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: RangerSteve While shephers washed their socks by night. The Lord is my chaufeur, I shall not walk. |
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07 Mar 07 - 05:56 PM (#1989967) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: autolycus 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 |
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07 Mar 07 - 07:12 PM (#1990035) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: wysiwyg Really oughtta rename this thread "St. Mondegreen." Can I get an Amen? ~S~ |
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08 Mar 07 - 04:21 PM (#1990813) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Mrrzy 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... |
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09 Mar 07 - 02:02 AM (#1991122) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Alec "Onward Christian Soldiers,marching as to war with the Cross of Jesus left behind the door..." |
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09 Mar 07 - 08:41 AM (#1991386) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: wysiwyg So we're going from mondegreens to parodies now? No thanks. ~Susan |
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09 Mar 07 - 08:49 AM (#1991393) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Alec 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. |
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09 Mar 07 - 08:55 AM (#1991399) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: wysiwyg 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 |
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09 Mar 07 - 04:10 PM (#1991864) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Mr Red 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. |
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09 Mar 07 - 04:52 PM (#1991906) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Peace I dislike the sound of the word 'mondegreen'. |
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10 Mar 07 - 06:29 AM (#1992397) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Mr Red 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. |
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10 Mar 07 - 08:02 AM (#1992442) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: JennyO "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" |
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10 Mar 07 - 08:54 AM (#1992469) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Mo the caller 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. |
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10 Mar 07 - 07:57 PM (#1993043) Subject: RE: BS: Mondegreen From: Tattie Bogle From Handel's Messiah: Yea, tin my flesh. |