Sinister: mishearings and other ear rings

Jake Reichert ajax at xxx.com
Thu Oct 15 20:24:09 BST 1998


> 
> At 14:18 -0400 10/15/98, mark del lima wrote:
> [It's called a mondegreen (though I'm not sure of the spelling). One of
> [the most famous examples being the Creedence Clearwater Revival line
> ["There's a bathroom on the right"

Oh thank god I'm not the only one.  That song made my childhood a living
hell, because our bathroom was conspicuously on the left.  It was like
that damn Cal Worthington "Pussy Cow" commercial (if you're not from LA,
just let that one go).

-mrjake
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