I have a red cap. I don’t wear it often. I fear it might be confused with a MAGA hat. [I also have a Make America Grateful t-shirt that I seldom wear, as it might be confused with MAGA merch]
The cap was a give-me at a sailing regatta in Florida a couple of centuries ago. It reads Leukemia Cup Regatta ’99. [It was sponsored by Mount Gay and Barbados Rum. Open bar!!!]
A century before that, there were two sailing clubs on a lake close to Birmingham. The other club had been hosting the Stan Wroble Memorial regatta for several years. Stan had contracted an acute form of Leukemia and passed away. I casually mentioned that our club would be pleased to host it, and so increase the number of boats and contributions.
They accepted. Then something in the universe tilted, and Leukemia Cup Regattas were being held at clubs across the US. They are still going.
My involvement was limited to one sentence. You guys wanna hold it at our club next year?
Closing the circle, a century later, I developed Leukemia. The best kind - it does kill you right away.
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Publix Supermarket always puts its prime rib on sale on certain holidays. Last year, the sale price was $6.99. This year it was $11.99. Bacall ages it. It's going to be so good.
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Misheard Lyrics
Bacall always groaned when S&G's Kodachome played. I could not fathom how the song could be offensive. So I asked. She said it was the line So mama don’t take my cornpone away.
Other Misheard Lyrics: I've got two chickens to paralyze
Other Misheard Lyrics: “On a dark desert highway, cool whip in my hair”
"hot dogs go on" Celine Dion (heart does go on).
ReplyDeleteI have a book called 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics' by by Gavin Edwards. It has over 275 lines people think they've heard in pop songs
ReplyDelete"The ants are my friends/They're blowin' in the wind" ("The answer my friend/Is blowing' in the
wind"-Bob Dylan)
I would have never guessed there were so many misheard lyrics.
DeleteThere are four books now by thr author including a Christmas one, Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly: And Other Misheard Christmas Lyrics.
Delete“Fly my pretties Fly”… was never said in the Wizard of Oz
ReplyDeleteSo how about the 1970 song by Free: "lets move before they raise the f'ing rent" is what I always heard. But actually they sung: "Lets move before they raise the parking rate"
ReplyDeleteand of course there is the Manfred Mann song Blinded by the night". "wrapped up like a douche" is what I always heard but it was actually "revved up like a deuce" ( as in Little deuce coupe)
Or the best of all, the 1968 song "In na Gadda Da Vida" instead of "In the Garden of Eden" Lesson learned: get stoned before the recording session and you get a major hit and no one cares u were inebriated and slurring the words.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!
My personal misheard is in the England Dan song I'd Really Love To See You Tonight. The lyrics are I'm not talking 'bout moving in. After 20+ years, I still hear I'm not talking 'bout Validia. Who the heck was Validia?
DeleteIn a Gadda Da Vida takes Bacall and I back to the tiny house we rented on the crest of the mountain. Always stoned. Shiela with the long blonde hair and her Afghan dog. The days when we could move with a single pickup truck.
How about “There’s a bathroom on the right”
ReplyDelete(There’s a bad moon on the rise)
That's new for me. Did you hear that way?
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