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Mondegreen

Word of the day on 29 October 2009.

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routermonkey
mondegreen - definition: Miss Heard's peach. At least I think that's what they said...
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  • caslexplorers
    75
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    I mondegreen team but I'd rather be on the red team. #itsapuntoo
    @caslexplorers
  • tWordBird
    60
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    ♬ Jo-oh-sé, can you seee: they laid him mondegreen ♪…but his twe-eet still won, though it was a sung-pun! ♬ #artwiculate #poem #OhSayCanUSee
    @tWordBird
  • ZimmerJohn
    55
    Points
    Spoonerism Sam wed Mondegreen Maud. Quite the extravaganza. The loom was great. And their song? Just wait: Elton John's "Tony Danza".
    @ZimmerJohn
  • caslexplorers
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    The vulture was a victim of a mondegreen when the airline wouldn't let him board with his carrion bag.
    @caslexplorers
  • marcosarroyos
    55
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    Our Father who art in Heaven, halloween be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be fun on earth as it is in mondegreen.
    @marcosarroyos
  • tWordBird
    54
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    Olive, the other reindeer, really wished Rudolph’s nose didn’t glow red but mondegreen instead.
    @tWordBird
  • tWordBird
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    He’d overheard her being introduced as Ms. Poke ‘n Prays. Finally – the ideal woman for him! But, alas, it turned out she was a Mondegreen.
    @tWordBird
  • routermonkey
    50
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    True mondegreen story: My son was disappointed when I returned from Winnipeg. He thought I'd gone to win a pig.
    @routermonkey
  • tWordBird
    50
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    The girl with colitis goes by… on her way to the loo to do some more mondegreen poo. #Beatles #LucyintheSkywithDiamonds
    @tWordBird
  • JoeyCoonce
    45
    Points
    "Let's pee in the corner, Let's pee in the spotlight." - REM, Losing My Religion #Mondegreen
    @JoeyCoonce
  • MaryJenkins
    45
    Points
    Save Endangered Feces, Violins on Television, Presidential Erections,the Eagle Rights Amendment.Gilda Radner: Mondegreen was her lunch pine.
    @MaryJenkins
  • tWordBird
    45
    Points
    Pun (n): A mondegreen born from a planned conception. Monde Green was a ‘mistake’, but his little brother, Pun Green, was planned.
    @tWordBird
  • ZimmerJohn
    40
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    As a boy, I was sure that Deep Purple was not singing "Smoke on the Water" but rather "Home, Come Home Walter". #mondegreen #artwiculate
    @ZimmerJohn
  • AizenTal
    40
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    I like to wear orange clothes on Wednesday; Sunday is black, Friday is yellow, and Mondegreen.
    @AizenTal
  • MaryJenkins
    40
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    Oh, squirrels and chickens love eggcorns, while sweet dreams are made of cheese;Fred is buying cop porn, and Tiger Woods made it mondegreen.
    @MaryJenkins
  • DoogieHowser_MD
    40
    Points
    W/the top down on his Miata&Elton John blaring, @artwiculate belted a big lyrical mondegreen-Hold me closer Tony Danza!
    @DoogieHowser_MD
  • dmriver
    35
    Points
    Embarrassing mondegreen at the picnic. I thought she said get your pants off but she said "get the ants off".
    @dmriver
  • indymavs
    35
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    We free kings of Oregon are... #mondegreen
    @indymavs
  • TheSupercargo
    35
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    Do YOU need monger to rend genomes? Call the red gnome En. S/He (gender me no!) will be most willing to enndo-merge. (Mondegreen anagrams.)
    @TheSupercargo
  • tinaburridge
    35
    Points
    Weird @ alyankovic has a knack of turning a mondegreen into a hit song like "Eat It". @artwiculate
    @tinaburridge
  • CaliforniaKara
    35
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    Musical mondegreen: He was blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night
    @CaliforniaKara
  • JoeyCoonce
    35
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    "It's not fair to deny me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me..." - Alanis Morissette, You Oughta Know #Mondegreen
    @JoeyCoonce
  • JoeyCoonce
    35
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    "I thought my mom sat on you." - George Harrison, Got My Mind Set On You #Mondegreen
    @JoeyCoonce
  • JoeyCoonce
    35
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    "Might as well face it, you're a dick with a glove." - Robert Palmer, Addicted To Love. An ode to Michael Jackson? Perhaps. #Mondegreen
    @JoeyCoonce
  • marcosarroyos
    35
    Points
    Hello, I'm Seeth Pre-theo Human Saleration. A five year-old's mondegreen for "Hello, I'm C3PO Human Cyborg Relations.
    @marcosarroyos
  • DoogieHowser_MD
    35
    Points
    W/the top down on his Miata & Elton John blaring, @artwiculate belted a big lyrical mondegreen-Hold me closer Tony Danza!
    @DoogieHowser_MD
  • DaveCurry
    30
    Points
    "Twit her his with outer downed the bets way twos hare and disc culver what his help pen in write gnaw." - Common Internet Mondegreen
    @DaveCurry
  • DaveCurry
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    "Faye's book is a sew shell you tiller tee that corn hecks pee pull with fur ends hand utters who leave aground them." - Internet Mondegreen
    @DaveCurry
  • fogOjones
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    Diplomatic mondegreen: "Would you like peas?" "Only if I'm in charge." - Mohammed Karzai blunders badly at the United Nations canteen.
    @fogOjones
  • Ysabeluna
    30
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    Chinese mondegreen notice: "Please keep chair on position and keep table cleaned after dying [drying], thank you for your corporation "
    @Ysabeluna
  • tWordBird
    30
    Points
    I think I need a translator for everyone’s mondegreen tweets. Who d’ya call, for that? Jessica Simpson, maybe? Or Yogi Berra??! ;)
    @tWordBird
  • TheSupercargo
    30
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    True mondegreen: For years I was under the impression that the Bee Gees sang a song about a Bald Headed Woman (bald headed woman to me-ee).
    @TheSupercargo
  • tama001
    30
    Points
    "sora-mimi" in Japanese means "Mondegreen". There is "Tamori club's SORA-MIMI hour" by a Japanese popular TV program. #artwiculate
    @tama001
  • lithiumzombie
    30
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    Greenpeace's new ship MS Mondegreen set sail to save the Welsh.
    @lithiumzombie
  • thebigmonty
    30
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    @artwiculate His inability to understand common sayings made him mondegreen with envy.
    @thebigmonty
  • tama001
    30
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    "Mondegreen" is what I'm learnt from working on the artwiculate. #artwiculate
    @tama001
  • harrarp
    30
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    I just can tweet till Mondegreen becomes a new universal language.
    @harrarp
  • JoeyCoonce
    30
    Points
    "I'm blue and I believe I will die if I eat apple pie." - Eiffel 65, BLue #Mondegreen
    @JoeyCoonce
  • JoeyCoonce
    30
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    "Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like a douche, another rumour in the night" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Blinded by the Light #Mondegreen
    @JoeyCoonce
  • marcosarroyos
    30
    Points
    Dina knew what a mondegreen was, but never figured out why they called Don's Place a Carry Okie bar. She never saw anyone carry Okies there.
    @marcosarroyos
  • tWordBird
    30
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    “Telephone”: A game of intentionally-incited mondegreen-making.
    @tWordBird
  • nkyadav
    30
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    My first trip to Britain left me with a mondegreen of sorts, when I misheard the infamous "Mind the Gap" as "Find the cap?!?" @artwiculate
    @nkyadav
  • fogOjones
    30
    Points
    A non sequitur - at current comedic exchange rates - is worth two mondegreen, or 7.5 spoonerisms. #artwiculate
    @fogOjones
  • Ysabeluna
    30
    Points
    Mondegreen prayer :Now I lay me down 2 sleep, I pray d Lord my shape 2 keep. Pls no wrinkles,no eyebags,n lift my butt before it sags. Amen.
    @Ysabeluna
  • OddlyStarry
    30
    Points
    Mondegreen is every punster's dream come true!
    @OddlyStarry
  • seeesquared
    30
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    Bill started dinner and shouted a fateful mondegreen to his wife, "honey I boned the chick! she's good and ready!"
    @seeesquared
  • Smoodle
    30
    Points
    "Visualize Whirled Peas" is my favorite mondegreen bumper sticker.
    @Smoodle
  • tWordBird
    30
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    I’m often mondegreen @ artwic/So I really can’t complain/When MY entry d tweeps don’t pick/2Bthe 1 which reigns (OR let me hoard the board).
    @tWordBird
  • Sean_Oliver
    29
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    Stripclub invites are rife with mondegreen. "You can come if you want to"
    @Sean_Oliver

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