18 February 2009

Obama's Elf - a new mondegreen


"Mondegreen" explained.

(Link found at Neatorama.)

2 comments:

  1. Hysterical. Must send to all the Probamas and Nobamas I know.

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  2. My favorite mondegreen is from "Kokomo" (Beach Boys):

    To Martinique, that Monserrat mystique

    misheard as

    Vermont’s unique, Vermont’s a rotten state

    I have a friend, Mandy Green, whose name is a mondegreen of "mondegreen.” She wrote a kids' book, "Gazoon High Twizzle," about a mondegreen of "gesundheit whistle," which means whistling after a sneeze. See it in animation at GazoonHighTwizzle.com.

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