It's More Cheesier if you do it right the first time! 4

[ESquared]

There are several phrases I like to use, consisting of real words, that when spoken aloud suggest something else entirely. There is definitely room for fudging, because half the fun is for the correct phrase to end up being slightly mispronounced but unmistakable. It can help to say the words rather quickly.

Perhaps we could call these Reverse Mondegreens. Or maybe Intentional Malapropisms. Or maybe someone can come up with a better name.

Here are some of my favorites:

It's "More Cheesier" if you do it right the first time! [say this like Sean Connery! And we all know it's better to be cheesier than not to be!]
[deep sigh] Oil Well...
Water you doing?
Why? No reason. I did it just for the halibut.
[and my newest I noticed a couple months ago] Curses! Four-Year-Old Again!

Recently in a thread in the Making An Impression forum, someone said, "King of the Wild Front Ear." That definitely works, but it's not completely in the spirit of what I'm talking about, because the pronunciation is correct. I enjoy it more when the pronunciation is slightly off.

What examples can you invent?

Stick with ones that you personally invented or heard first hand (that is, please don't search the internet or use universally-known, oft-repeated and overused examples).

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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[ZoomerZ]

ESquared, for no price I would believe you didn't get that Happy Honda Day is a Happy Holiday!
You just love to tease me, dontya? (dontya means "do not you" - if you wish).
They sing it to On First Day Of Christmas tune...and this commercial was created with "MOST population will get it" in mind. I don't think creators meant "except smart IT people".LOL HAHAHA

chessbot, THANKS

 

[chessbot]

lol np

--Chessbot

There is a level of Hell reserved for probability theorists in which every monkey that types on a typewriter produces a Shakespearean sonnet.

 

[chessbot]

wow... decreasing my letter count... 5-character posts?!

--Chessbot

There is a level of Hell reserved for probability theorists in which every monkey that types on a typewriter produces a Shakespearean sonnet.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Well, actually, Chessbot, it's 6-characters:

select length('lol np') from dual;

LENGTH('LOLNP')
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              6

...but who's counting?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)

http://www.dasages.com

@ 03:43 (23Dec04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 20:43 (22Dec04) Mountain Time

 

[chessbot]

I think I made the same two posts in another forum (I believe it was Squaring the Circle) and said 6 there, so I guess I figured it out eventually...

ZoomerZ (cc SantaMufasa)
lolnp

--Chessbot

There is a level of Hell reserved for probability theorists in which every monkey that types on a typewriter produces a Shakespearean sonnet.

 

[ESquared]

Sheesh. "Happy Honda Day?" It doesn't sound like "Happy Holiday." Not even close. Maybe if I heard the commercial.

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• Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.
• It is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the k

 

[BobRodes]

Here's one of my favorites, if a little sort of latin is permitted:

O, sibili, si emgo.
Fortibuses i naro.
O, nobili, demis trux.
Vatis inem? Caus an dux.

 

[BobRodes]

Another military one:

A guy comes into the recruiting office, saying he'd like to join the army. The recruiter says "I suppose you want a commission." The guy says "Oh, no, I'd rather have straight salary, I'm not a very good shot.

 

[ZoomerZ]

BobRodes, your post makes me wanna yell..
"Am I the one who doesn't speak ANY latin here?"

 

[SF0751]

Zoomer - try just reading BobRodes's message in English. Remember, it's a "little sort of latin".

[white]Oh, see Billy, see 'em go,
Forty buses in a row.
Oh no Billy, dem is trucks.
What is in them? Cows and ducks.[/white]

Susan
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

 

[ZoomerZ]

Thanks SF...but I can always do it after reading de-coded version...never before. Is this curable you think? :-D

 

[ESquared]

With hard work and lots of practice it might be! But when English is not your first language, it will be much harder to find the words that fit the nonsense.

I was able to do it but it took some effort. I was still working on "caus" but had everything else. (cars?)

 

[SF0751]

Think "caws" - "cars" with a Bostonian accent.

Susan
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

 

[ESquared]

well, caus = cows, but I would have spelled it kaus.

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• Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.
• It is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the k

 

[BobRodes]

Well, there's a latin word "caus" (burn, heat; we get "cauterize", "caustic", etc. from it), and "au" in latin is thought to have been pronounced "ow". So, ESq, although it is fine to spell it "kaus", your average Roman would have wondered what that strange letter "k" was. As I vaguely recall from my high school Latin, they didn't have the letter.

Although I haven't looked up each word to be sure, it's my understanding that each one is a valid Latin word, whose pronunciation is pretty well accurate. I can just see some crusty old British schoolmaster reading that aloud in a class, trying to make sense of it, and all the kids snickering.

You guys are quick! I began to figure it out from "fortibuses" and kind of unraveled it from there.

Bob

 

[BobRodes]

FUNEM?
SVFM?
FUNEX?
SVFX?
OKMNX.

[white]Have you any ham?
Yes, we have ham.
Have you any eggs?
(etc.)
[/white]

 

[tsdragon]

DOn't forget the advice that Mrs. Hood gave to her daughter Little Red Riding:

"Yonder no sorghum stenches don't torque wet strainers!"

(There used to be the whole story written like that floating around, but I can't find it any more.)


Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[BobRodes]

Favorite bumper sticker, seen around Sedona, Arizona:

"Ankh if you love Isis

 

[ESquared]

I'm not getting the "Isis" part

 

[AngelB]

Isis was an egyptian goddess, wife of Osiris. I'm sure you know that an Ankh is an egyptian symbol for life and/or fertility.

Gez