Forrest Gump Dies And Goes To heaven

[jgcunningham]

Scuse me while I kiss this guy!

or

A girl with colitis goes by.

[Geoff Withnell]

God Bless America - "through the night with the light from a bulb"

[Frank McGrath]

There's a bathroom on the right.......

[sydnie7]

There's a bathroom on the right.......

When Fogerty appeared on Today show w/in last few years, playing on that open-air street stage, he sang one refrain that way

[Watson42]

There was a hymn we used to sing at church, "A Banquet is Prepared". However, the man who usually led the congregation in song had a very nasally voice. We didn't really think about just how nasally until one of my sisters leans over and asked my dad, "Why does he keep saying that a penguin is prepared, Dad?"

[jeremy j starche]

When I taught Sunday school, many years ago, the pastor's son was caught singing:

And may your enemies be splattered
May the righteous be stabbed

And may your enemies be scattered
May the righteous be glad

[Dale Seago]

These kinds of things (which are a bit different from what's going on in the original joke) are called Mondegreens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

And, both oddly and appropriately for this forum, there's a Scottish connection of sorts in the origin of the term:

In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonny Earl O'Moray". She wrote:

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.

The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green". Wright explained the need for a new term: "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 was subject to a "mondegreen moment" earlier this year as I was driving to work and an advertisement was run on the radio. Strangely, what I distinctly heard was still very much in keeping with the actual wording and intent of the ad:

"Do you suffer from a reptile dysfunction?"

[ABG0819]

They make pills for that ... I think. My pet snake seems to like them (no pun intended...Well maybe a little).

[Bugbear]

These kinds of things (which are a bit different from what's going on in the original joke) are called Mondegreens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

And, both oddly and appropriately for this forum, there's a Scottish connection of sorts in the origin of the term:



I was subject to a "mondegreen attack" earlier this year as I was driving to work and an advertisement was run on the radio. Strangely, what I distinctly heard was still very much in keeping with the actual wording and intent of the ad:

"Do you suffer from a reptile dysfunction?"

There are discussions like this in relation to Meme theory*, as well. Thanks for posting that.

I think the OP does use a mondegreen in the last part of the joke: "Andy"= "and he".

Used to have a large pet iguana lizard, btw.

* Memetics would probably be a more correct term than "meme theory"; the experts are still fist fighting about the details etc.

[Dale Seago]

I think the OP does use a mondegreen in the last part of the joke: "Andy"= "and he".

Actually yes, you're quite right.