Musical puns
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Econoline
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People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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Musical puns
Rolls of hay? I don't get it. And why is Prince singing to it?
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Perhaps they were dyed by the purple rain? Although why only the bales/rolls and not the field were dyed eludes me.
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Bicycle Bill
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I think that's supposed to be Jimi, not His Purpleness.RayThom wrote:Rolls of hay? I don't get it. And why is Prince singing to it?
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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Do you think?Bicycle Bill wrote:I think that's supposed to be Jimi, not His Purpleness.RayThom wrote:Rolls of hay? I don't get it. And why is Prince singing to it?
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Econoline
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Re: Musical puns
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
— God @The Tweet of God
— God @The Tweet of God
Re: Musical puns
It's rolls of Purple Rayon, silly.RayThom wrote:Rolls of hay? I don't get it. And why is Prince singing to it?
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It's rolls of Purple Rayon, silly
that one has to get the prize.
Musical puns
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Bicycle Bill
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Re: Musical puns
Those last two aren't puns; they're mondegreens.
A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪɡriːn/) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing about how as a girl she had misheard the lyric "...and laid him on the green" in a Scottish ballad as "...and Lady Mondegreen".
In her essay, "The Death of Lady Mondegreen", published in Harper's Magazine, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray". She wrote:
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A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪɡriːn/) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing about how as a girl she had misheard the lyric "...and laid him on the green" in a Scottish ballad as "...and Lady Mondegreen".
In her essay, "The Death of Lady Mondegreen", published in Harper's Magazine, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray". She wrote:
The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green". Wright explained the need for a new term:When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's 'Reliques', and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:
Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl o' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen.
Her essay had already described the bonny Earl holding the beautiful Lady Mondegreen's hand, both bleeding profusely but faithful unto death. She disputed:"The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original."
"I know, but I won't give in to it. Leaving him to die all alone without even anyone to hold his hand? I WON'T HAVE IT!!!"
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?