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.)

 

[alexhu]

tsdryden

Its here

http://www.interweavers.com/brett/humor/rat-rotten-hut.html

Alex

 

[tsdragon]

alexhu

Thanks! I've been looking for that one for ages!


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

 

[ESquared]

Beautiful! Quite hard to read for me! I wonder what non-native-English speakers do with it.

 

[tsdragon]

Did you stop to read anything else on that site while you were there? I spend over an hour and I still have brealy scratched the surface. The site is a gem!


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

 

[TTF]

I wouldn't lie - it was no fun but I read it easy.

 

[PreacherUK]

This may very well be appropriate

You could try reading a book by Iain M. Banks called 'Feersum Endjinn' , or Fearsome Engine in non pidgin/phonetical speech. Half the book is conducted in an odd cyber scape with someone of seemingly (while in the cyber scape) reduced mental stature.

Iain plays very fast and loose with the language, very much in the vein of 'More cheesier'.

Food for thought maybe

 

[BobRodes]

When I was a kid, there was a book called "Boners" in the house, illustrated by a then very young Dr. Seuss. Apparently, they were taken from schoolkids' answers to test questions and so on. One of my favorites was
"Achilles' mother dipped him in the river Stinx until he was intollerable."
The other one I remember is
"A polygon is a dead parrot."

 

[SilentAiche]

Curses - For Year Old Again!" I love it.

On religion, some think God is a baseball fan since the Good Book starts "In the big inning,..."

From high school (but I still giggle at it): The word of the day is Lawyer. Use the word of the day in a sentence. Answer: "Law' you're ugly." (it helps to have a southern accent).

Confession, ESquared: I didn't get the "much easier" meaning at first (okay, not til it was spelled out). Must not have been in the wordplay mode yet. Great thread, by the way.

THanks,
Tim

 

[mscallisto]

SilentAiche


I thought it was a tennis match...Moses served in the court of David.

 

[SantaMufasa]

...And to add full disclosure to a previous post about God's name...His full name is Howard Niven. Remember: "Our Father who art a Niven, Howard be thy name..." (with apologies to St. Luke 11:2)

Amen.

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[SilentAiche]

Good grief, it's "Curses - Four Year Old Again"

Stupid, stupid, stupid (it's okay, folks, I'm talking to myself about yesterday's post...)

THanks,
Tim

 

[ESquared]

And I'm hoping people got the "foiled again" that "four-year-old again" is supposed to sound like. When you say it fast, it's really quite amusing.

 

[SilentAiche]

I actually did "get" it (I just ca'nt type).

THanks,
Tim
(apostrophe catastrophe intended... something struck me as kinda funny about having a typo when you're talking about typing inability)

 

[tsdragon]

This thought occurred to me this weekend while I was making a cheese omelet:

It's cheaper to buy cheese in a block and grate it yourself, but it's more cheesier to just buy it already grated.


Tracy Dryden

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

 

[tsdragon]

Here's some new ones courtesy of comedian Jeff Foxworthy:

Aorta: "Aorta cut that grass, it's getting long."

Odyssey: "Man you odyssey the mess those kids made!"

Initiate: "My wife ate two hamburgers initiate a bag of potato chips!"

Mayonaisse: "Mayonaisse sure a lot of postings in this thread."

And a made-up word:

Widjadidja: "You didn't bring your truck widjadidja?"


Tracy Dryden

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