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From: rose@sdcsvax.UUCP (Dan Rose)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Shoddy Gag Story
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 03:42:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 03:42:29 1985
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In article <1931@zehntel.UUCP> raymond@zehntel.UUCP (Doug Raymond) writes:
>Isn't it amazing how the most insignificant historical events
>can be immortalized in song?  . . .
>
>O Beautiful for sagacious spies
>For anger'd Braves of Wayne . . .

William Safire did a funny piece about this kind of mistake (I
think it was originally in the N.Y.Times Magazine, reprinted in
his book "On Language").  He called them "mondegreens," for
funny reasons he explains.  My favorites were

From the pledge of allegiance:

"I led the pigeons to the flag . . ."
"And to the republic for Richard Stans . . "
"One nation, in a dirigible . . ."

From the twenty-third psalm:

"Shirley, good Mrs. Murphy, shall follow me all the days of my life . . ."

From "God Bless America":

". . . In the night, with a light from a bulb."

Actually, when I was a little kid I wondered what "donzerly"
meant.  You know, as in "O say can you see / by the donzerly light."

			Dan (not Broadway Danny) Rose
			rose@UCSD
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			Dan (not Broadway Danny) Rose
			rose@UCSD