mondegreen: /mon-di-green/

a word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been heard

how to use in casual conversation:

"i learned the hard way that excessive marijuana consumption and a filthy mind lead to hours of laughing at dirty mondegreens"

not to be confused with:

collared greens

how it makes me feel:

i like it! this is a fun word with fun implications across the board. i myself am a big fan of finding things that people say and turning it into a mondegreen. it's pretty entertaining. also, it's good to have a word for those weird little cultural moments where popular, or at least, well known lyrics and/or phrases are misconstrued to mean something else: the most famous of which being jimi hendrix's '' 'scuse me while i kiss this guy" ('scuse me while i kiss the sky). other notable mondegreens:

"thirty theives and the the thunder chief"- AC/DC (dirty deeds done dirt cheep)
"human bean" - my friend from high school (human being)

the list could go on for some time...

something that has nothing to do with anything that i feel i need to share:

so yesterday i went to breakfast in west seattle. on the way home i had to transfer buses downtown. i got off the bus at 3rd and pine and milled around while i checked the schedule. then i started to notice a ruckus between two caucasian males. one, (whom we will henceforth refer to as 'old man') was a clean-cut gentleman in his late 40's to early 50's with a full head of grey hair, wearing shorts. he wasn't a bum or anything but he wasn't an executive type either. the other was probably 20, or early 20's (whom we will henceforth refer to as 'punk ass' or 'the kid'). he had a puffy jacket, baggy jeans, baseball cap, shit-stache - pretty much looked exactly like what your preconceived notion of a white thuggy-tagger looking kid would make you think he looks like.

the old man had caught the punk ass doing something he shouldn't - i don't know exactly what. the part i heard started with the old man saying "i saw what you did, and there's cameras. you see those cameras there, they saw what you did". this caused the kid to fly into a rage. he started by saying "listen old man, you better shut your f__king mouth, you don't want any part of this". the old man then got a look on his face like he had opened up a big old can of worms and started walking away. punk ass kept after him as he walked down pine, intimidating him with check-swings and shit talking. then the kid did squiggly fingers on the old guys neck when the old guy told him not to touch him. the kid pretended to swing a few more times and the old guy kept flinching, obviously scared.

the old man then pushed punk ass, which i figured would be a big mistake for the old man and left me under the impression the old man's day was about to get a lot worse. then, as the kid recovered from the shove and came back at the old man:

BAM!

old man lands a left hook to the kids face! punk ass doubled back and fell to the ground. the old man then proceeded to jump on top of this little son-of-a-bitch and repeatedly punch him in the face before placing his hand over the kids mouth and saying something about him learning to keep his mouth shut. there was a fairly significant crowd as it is a fairly busy bus stop, all of which started laughing at the kid. popular sentiment was overwhelmingly sympathetic to the kid in the end though - as he had just gotten his ass kicked by an old man.

best. transfer. ever.