Misheard Lines

[Mr Cosmo]

Quite often in music you can mishear lyrics and take a completely different meaning from them and there are many sites devoted to this - but I am now beginning to mishear lines in films and on TV which completely change the meaning of the film.
The one that came to me last night was when I was watching Miss Marple - Nemesis. The lady courier from the coach company is greeting her passengers on one of their trips and I could have sworn she said to one old gent "Good morning - how's the syphillis?" To which he said "It's getting better". Only after I asked my wife to replay it a couple of times did I realize she had said "How's the STIFFNESS?"
Any other misheard lines that changed the meaning of the film?

[vaggmk1938]

What you are describing are "mondegreens" coined in the 1950s and first used in an article in The Atlantic Monthly. The mishearing of a line in an old Scottish ballad lead to its name: "They slew the Earl of Murray and Lady Mondegreen"— Lady Mondegreen should actually be "Laid him on the green."

There are many examples, mostly lyrics misheard by children, and staying with them for years before finally being corrected: "Lead on, oh Kinky Turtle" for "Lead On, O King Eternal" and "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear" for "Glady the cross I'll bear". And "José, can you see?" for the American National Anthem's real "O say, can you see?" are just a few of these charmers which are found in most families. My own mother was very disappointed on her first visit to the seaside by the absence of all the little tinimies for the is how she heard "The sea and all that in it is".

[lordtednfs]

How about the Billy Ocean ditty "When the going gets tough". During the middle of the song he sings "Going gets tough, Going gets tough, Going gets tough". Sounds like "Go and get stuffed".

Must be more songs out there with what sounds like pisspronounced worms.

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[batman]

There was an old 'African adventure' film which I remember watching which had me in stitches. Dana Andrews (I think) was travelling down river in a canoe with some African guys. They were singing and it sound just like the old advertising jingle for Abbey National!

Bats.

[orpheum]

Originally Posted by batman There was an old 'African adventure' film which I remember watching which had me in stitches. Dana Andrews (I think) was travelling down river in a canoe with some African guys. They were singing and it sound just like the old advertising jingle for Abbey National! Bats.

you sure it wasnt paul robeson singing the virtues of Sanders(Leslie banks)in Sanders of the River.

[batman]

Originally Posted by orpheum you sure it wasnt paul robeson singing the virtues of Sanders(Leslie banks)in Sanders of the River.

Could have been .... I have always thought it was Dana Andrews in the canoe, but then I once thought Maida Vale was a type of posh beer.

Bats.

[PS68060]

I heard one recently. A friend of mine said that she always thought her mother called an untidy room a "bomsy tit".
As in "it looks like a bomsy tit".




Instead of "it looks like a bomb has hit it".

[orpheum]

I think you must have been drinking Maida Vale or maybe Bayswater or you could have been trying to drink Canada Dry if you didnt notice a major difference between Robeson and Andrews!

[batman]

Originally Posted by orpheum I think you must have been drinking Maida Vale or maybe Bayswater or you could have been trying to drink Canada Dry if you didnt notice a major difference between Robeson and Andrews!

I assumed Robeson was singing to Banks .... 'cos in my 'Dana Andrews version' the African guy was singing to him. Therefore it would be a Banks/Andrews mix up .... I've got a headache .

Bats.

ps - Banks is a good beer IIRC

[orpheum]

Sanders the strong sanders the wise righter of wrongs fighter of lies.....or sometging like that.Cant imagine Dana Andrews singing that.

[batman]

Originally Posted by orpheum Sanders the strong sanders the wise righter of wrongs fighter of lies.....or sometging like that.Cant imagine Dana Andrews singing that.

Can't be Sanders .... my Africans were singing in their own language.

Bats.

[orpheum]

Ok what about Carry on Up The Khyber and Cardew Robison as the faqhir.Also in OK For Sound Nervo and Know refer in a sketch to "stupid farquahar".

[batman]

Originally Posted by orpheum Ok what about Carry on Up The Khyber and Cardew Robison as the faqhir.Also in OK For Sound Nervo and Know refer in a sketch to "stupid farquahar".

I know that one .

I think the film is Duel In The Jungle with Dana Andrews and David Farrar.

Bats.