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Nudie tales
The One Big Happy from 6/11 (in my comics feed today), in which Ruthie mishears a stock expression from tv news reporting: Said: new details. Heard: nudie tales. The stock expression is new details...
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Count of Denmark
The One Big Happy cartoon I posted about this morning, in “Nudie Tales”, had Ruthie mishearing new details as nudie tales. That reminded Gadi Niram of this Mexican cartoon (from the webcomic La Viñeta...
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Warren swings (like a gecko tail do)
What I heard from an MSNBC announcer, about Elizabeth Warren at the 2/19/20 Democratic candidates’ debate: She came out swinging from the gecko. I had this moment of visualizing Warren, her hands...
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Chaka Khan and post-Freudian psychoanalytic thought
Margalit Fox on Facebook on the 29th: Time to get my hearing checked. This evening’s dialogue: Husband: “Jacques Lacan is the thinker who merged post-Freudian psychoanalytic thought with...
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The horse on Seventh Avenue
A cartoon posted on Facebook by Stephen Zunes, who might or might not be its artist (hat tip to David Kathman): Ah, a mishearing, leading to this excellent phonologically minimal mondegreen. The model...
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Patsy Baloney
On Twitter yesterday, given a little push by my posting “Did that actually just happen?”, Merrill Markoe tweeted: The Jan 6 hearings were once again amazing, stunning and magnificent. In a related...
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Lizardry
(#1) Xmas card from Tiny Bee Cards, offered on Amazon Lizard warnings, lizzard warnings, lizards falling from the trees. Lizard warnings. I wrote on Facebook on 12/22: I know these dire weather...
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Iddle-Do and Not Zarella
As a temporary diversion from some truly awful times in my life (which I will eventually post about), two reprised One Big Happy strips recently in my comics feed, in which Ruthie struggles to...
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The vipers of Santa Clara County
I wrote on Facebook a little while ago: Just heard on a tv public service announcement from Santa Clara County: … Watch for walkers and vipers. (Ah, that must have been: bikers. Fortunately, vipers are...
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Nutellahealth services
Well, what the tv commercial said was: … our telehealth services But what I heard was: … our Nutellahealth services A clear example of mishearing fostered by context, since I had recently ordered (and...
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