Forrest Gump Dies And Goes To heaven

[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?"