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"Sappy moms everywhere are shopping on Zulily.com"

Huh?*lightbulb*

Oh, savvy moms...

I wonder if the announcer read the word "savvy" as "sappy" on purpose (I haven't heard it). I can ask this because I was one of those mothers who sewed my kids' pajamas in the 80s rather than clothe them in the required-by-law flame retardant polyester, so it sounds like they're talking about my tribe, LOL. Edited by shapeshifter

I figured maybe it would be an assassination service that specializes in fathers.

Tonight when I was only half-listening to the TV, I thought I heard the news telling me that a student was arrested for bringing his homemade Glock to school. Well, duh! That's a gun. Turns out that it was a homemade clock.

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When "legendary news man" Bill Curtis intoned what we could expect for MLK Day on the over-the-air channel Decades I had to stop to mentally correct what I thought I heard. Surely not MLK's "psychotic speech" but his "iconic speech."

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With One Day at a Time getting a reboot I finally looked up the lyrics for the theme song since I was pretty sure it didn't actually go "Whomp on you knees, do it please for your blue eyed baby" (The actual lyric is "Get up on your feet, (get on your feet) somewhere there's music playing")

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Not really paying attention to the TV again, I heard "Sometimes I just don't eat the way I should, so I drink booze to get the nutrition that I'm missing." Hell yeah, sign me up for that diet! Rewinding the DVR (love that automatic one hour memory) revealed that it was an ad for Boost.

 

With One Day at a Time getting a reboot I finally looked up the lyrics for the theme song since I was pretty sure it didn't actually go "Whomp on you knees, do it please for your blue eyed baby" (The actual lyric is "Get up on your feet, (get on your feet) somewhere there's music playing")

Someone in the Mondegreens thread of the Music forum thought it was "Whomp on the beef", which is either something naughty, or what Rocky Balboa did in the meat locker.

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Today I heard on NPR that 60% of North Dakota's economy was based on oil and anarchy.

Anyone hear it differently?

ETA: Since nobody replied, I looked up the economy of North Dakota and read that agriculture was key before the oil boom. So I guess they said "agriculture," but I heard "anarchy," unless the reporter read it wrong.

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Last night's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca made the news in a good way and got some nice attention from her mother. Rebecca hoped that meant her mom would be sending her rugelach, which she explained to her friend was a delicious dessert. It wasn't until the end of that conversation that I figured out she wasn't talking about how amazing arugula was as a dessert.

 

I mean, I love good arugula (so hard to find some that's peppery and not just bitter AF) and for a moment I thought the joke was that West Covina was a part of California where people didn't know what arugula is but it would be challenging to turn that into a dessert.

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More of an example of what I thought I saw: At one point during Dimension W on Saturday there was a fight scene with some Batman-esque sound effect graphics ("Biff!", "Pow!", that sort of thing). One of them was "9 Hit Combo!" but the style of the lettering made it look like "Shit Combo!"

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I'm not an American and not very familiar with American colleges. So I was watching an episode of Liv and Maddie where Maddie was considering basketball scholarship offers from colleges and I thought she said that one of her options was Yukon. But then they showed the hat and it said UCONN.

 

That's why UCONN calls their sports teams the Huskies.  Because, Yukon.

 

And it def. makes sense for a female basketball player to want to go to UCONN.  They by far, dominate women's collegiate basketball.

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As the show cut away for a commercial I thought I heard:

"How many hypocrits entered the United States between 1870 and...?"

but I glanced up at the quiz words on the TV and saw:

"How many immigrants entered the United States between 1870 and...?"

I'm guessing the ones that were hypocrits explains folks like Trump.

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On tonight's BBC America news I heard the anchor report on "...wildfires in the American southwest, due in large part to rectal temperatures of over 100 degrees." Time to start deploying tanker planes loaded with Anusol!

I had to turn up the volume significantly and re-watch the segment several times to hear him saying record instead of rectal.

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