Josh Gross: "Don't Listen Here: Nickelback, June 13, Idaho Center" (Boise Weekly)
You can spend $45 to go see Nickelback this week. Or you could buy 45 hammers from the dollar store, hang them from the ceiling at eye level and spend an evening banging the demons out of your dome. That $45 would also buy you a lot of pickles, which have more fans on Facebook than the band. It would also buy you an introduction to rock guitar video course that would allow you to surpass the band's skill level in five hours or less.
Froma Harrop: Why the U.S. is Not Greece (Creators Syndicate)
America is not going the way of Greece, and North Dakota has shown us why. Residents were given the opportunity Tuesday to vote their property taxes out of existence, and they chose not to take it.
Zoe Williams: What is an internet troll? (Guardian)
Victims of anonymous trolls on Twitter and other social media may soon have the power to discover their tormentors' identities, thanks to a new law. But what's the difference between a troll and somebody who just has very bad manners?
Tim Dowling: "Dealing with trolls: a guide" (Guardian)
4. Unmask your troll. Trolls thrive on anonymity, but they're not, in my experience, too careful about guarding it. A little digging will usually turn up something that makes their bile seem beside the point. The information you uncover needn't include names, addresses or photographs - just enough to turn your rage into pity. I, for example, enjoy reading the blogs of people who tell me I can't write.
Diabetes in the USA (Neatorama)
We've been told before that more and more Americans are getting Type 2 diabetes (which is brought upon by obesity), but you may be surprised that the geographical distribution of the disease is actually quite striking.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
At a signing for his book, who described Bush as "A sad figure, not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards fascism."?
In "Purple Haze", by Jimi Hendrix, a frequently mis-heard lyric is "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" (instead of "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky"). This is an example of a(n) _____?_____
A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song. American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954. "Mondegreen" was included in the 2000 edition of the Random House Webster's College Dictionary. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added the word in 2008.
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Baron Dave ("My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure." -- Ashleigh Brilliant) was first, and correct, with:
I will assume you mean "mondegreen". I just think of them as "poorly recorded, mumbled lyrics".
PS. No, I haven't read Ulysses. A typed mondegreen, or typo. That's what I get for being up at 5am.
BttbBob wrote:
A 'Mondegreen'... is an invented word by the writer Sylvia Wright in her 1954 essay, "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" which describes the phenomenon. As a child she misheard the fourth line of Percy's 'The Bonny Earl O'Moray' as "And Lady Mondegreen" instead of "And laid him on the green"... The word has since been accepted and included in various dictionaries.
Alan J answered:
A Mondegreen
Charlie responded:
Mondegreen
Jim from CA, retired to ID replied:
Misheard lyric....."There's a bathroom on the right" instead of there's a
bad moon on he rise" is another example
Sally said:
In "Purple Haze", by Jimi Hendrix, a frequently mis-heard lyric is "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" (instead of "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky"). This is an example of a mondergreen.
'nuff said here!
PS: I am spending the week with my grandkids. Their school is out, and their camp starts the week after that. Tomorrow, Father's Day we have a full scheduled day. Jessie is closing in her play, and JJ has a baseball game. I may not make it to the keyboard, but I shall be here in spirit!
Adam took the day off.
Marian replied:
selective hearing?
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
They're called a Mondegreen. My favorite Mondegreen is Deep Purples' ("Marijuana and cocaine yo, it makes you see")---"Met a Woman in Tokyo". That's what I wanted to hear.
MAM wrote:
'Mondegreen' ~ Coined by author Sylvia Wright in 1954, when she wrote an article for Atlantic magazine confessing to a childhood misinterpretation of the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Moray." When she first heard the lyric "they had slain the Earl of Moray and had laid him on the green," she felt terribly sorry for the "poor Lady Mondegreen."
Earl of Moray the Bonny Earl became a favourite with the ultra protestant faction and his religious leanings exacerbated his family's feud with the earl of Huntly who murdered him at Donibristle in 1592.
And, Joe S answered:
A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.
I pictured a mondegreen as an ancient English dance, like all the Druids got together and performed the Mondegreen to honor Green Stuff and the like.
(Bronchitis)
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Blue Bloods', then a RERUN'The Good Wife', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'US Open Tennis', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Betty White's Off Their Rockers', or two.
ABC begins the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball Finals', followed by a FRESH'Jimmy Kimmel Live', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'The Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'The Glades', then a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'The Killing', followed by a FRESH'The Killing', and another 'The Killing'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 9-Episode 4
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR SEASON 15 SPECIAL
[8:30AM] ALL ABOUT APES
[9:30AM] JUNGLE: UNDERWORLD
[10:30AM] THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
[1:30PM] GOLDENEYE
[4:30PM] TOMORROW NEVER DIES
[7:00PM] THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
[10:00PM] GOLDENEYE
[1:00AM] DIE ANOTHER DAY
[3:30AM] TOMORROW NEVER DIES (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', 'Don't Be Tardy For The Wedding', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
FX has the movie 'Wanted', followed by the movie 'Taken'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', and 'Swamp People'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
[7:30AM] Four Weddings and a Funeral
[10:00AM] Don't Answer the Phone
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Making a Stand
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-S.O.B.s
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Fakin' It
[1:30PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[1:45PM] Man About Town
[3:45PM] Four Weddings and a Funeral
[6:15PM] Don't Answer the Phone
[8:15PM] King Arthur
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Amy Poehler Wears a Black Jacket & Grey Pants
[11:30PM] Bunk
[12:00AM] King Arthur
[2:45AM] The Last King of Scotland
[5:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Frontrunners
[7:25A] Faintheart
[9:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Pilot (Episode 1, Season 1)
[10:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Beers and Weirs (Episode 2, Season 1)
[11:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Tricks and Treats (Episode 3, Season 1)
[12:00P] The Deep End
[1:45P] Sorry, Thanks
[3:20P] Frontrunners
[4:45P] The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
[6:30P] PUSH GIRLS - Everyone Stares (Episode 1, Season 1)
[7:00P] PUSH GIRLS - Watch Me (Episode 2, Season 1)
[8:00P] 24 Hour Party People
[10:00P] Happy Endings
[1:25A] 24 Hour Party People
[3:25A] Happy Endings
[5:40A] Minot, North Dakota (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Edward Scissorhands', followed by the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End'.
French director Jean Jacques Annaud (L) and U.S. actress Heather Graham arrive at the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival June 16, 2012.
Photo by Aly Song
Myanmar Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country's full transformation to democracy was still far off.
Suu Kyi, 66, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, said much remained to be resolved in her country.
Suu Kyi, who spent a total of 15 years under house arrest between 1989 and her release in late 2010, never left Myanmar even during brief periods of freedom after 1989, afraid the military would not let back in.
Her sons Kim and Alexander accepted the Nobel prize on her behalf in 1991, with her husband Michael Aris also attending the ceremony. A year later Suu Kyi said she would use the $1.3 million prize money to establish a health and education trust for Burmese people.
On Saturday, Kim and Anthony Aris, her late husband's identical twin brother, attended the ceremony.
Stevie Nicks prefers writing a song over meeting a handsome prince. Ne-Yo claimed songwriting saved his life. And Bob Seger said writing a song is the hardest, yet most rewarding thing that he does.
Converging opinions thrived at the 43rd annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in New York where Seger, along with Canadian folk rocker Gordon Lightfoot, "Gambler" songwriter Don Schlitz, and Jim Steinman of "Bat Out of Hell" fame became the latest members of the prestigious club. The writers of the long-running musical "The Fantasticks" were also inducted.
Seger opened the show with a spirited version of his 1973 classic, "Turn the Page." He was then inducted by Valerie Simpson who performed "We've Got Tonight" in his honor.
Ne-Yo was honored with the Hal David Starlight Award. It's given to young artists who are making a significant impact with their original music.
While Nicks was not inducted, she did honor Bette Midler with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, and even performed "The Rose,' the song made famous by Midler in the 1979 movie of the same name.
In an elegant white tent nestled among the barn-shaped houses that dot her oceanfront compound, Barbra Streisand sang and former President Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd gathered to raise funds for women's heart health.
Comedian Martin Short was the master of ceremonies at the intimate fundraising dinner Thursday at the Malibu home Streisand shares with her husband, James Brolin.
Guests who paid as much as $100,000 per couple to support the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center enjoyed sweeping ocean views and the singer's blooming rose garden before sitting down to a "heart-healthy," gluten-free dinner of tofu, fish or grilled vegetables.
She donated $10 million to create the new research and treatment facility at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and solicited million-dollar donations from wealthy friends she called personally. Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, NBCUniversal chief Ron Meyer, designer Donna Karan and actors Josh Brolin (Streisand's stepson) and Diane Lane were among the donors and guests at the event.
Streisand said she was motivated to contribute to women's heart health because she "can't stand inequality, whether it's about civil rights, gay rights or gender discrimination."
Heart disease kills more women each year than all cancers combined, but most of the research on the disease for the past five decades has been conducted on men.
A participant of the the "Dirndlspringen" contest leaves the water after jumping into a swimming pool in Vienna June 16, 2012. At "Dirndlspringen", a jury votes over the best performance of people jumping into a swimming pool in traditional Austrian "Dirndl" dresses.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (the former Mr. Eva Longoria) says he suffered a scratched retina on one of his eyes during a New York City nightclub brawl involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage.
Parker, wearing dark sunglasses, described the incident Friday in Paris during a news conference posted on YouTube. He said he expects to be sidelined for about a week while the French team prepares for the Summer Olympics.
Parker said he was wearing a "therapeutic" contact lens and had to go to an emergency room for treatment after arriving in Paris.
Parker said: "I was with my friend Chris Brown and me and my friends took some punches, so I'll be missing the start of the French team because I can't do anything for a week except keep the lens in and then take drops."
A concert by the British rock band Radiohead was canceled after a section of the stage collapsed during sound checks and rehearsals before the show on Saturday, killing one person and injuring three others, police said.
The band was not on stage at the time, police said, and members of the group were not believed to have been involved in the accident, which occurred at about 4 p.m. local time at Downsview Park, about 5 miles north of downtown Toronto.
A Canadian musician named Dan Snaith, who performs under the name Caribou, had been set to open for Radiohead on Saturday, according to his website, but there was no word on whether he was on stage when the mishap occurred.
Representatives for the concert's promotion company, Live Nation, were not immediately available for comment. Downsview Park officials had no comment on the incident except to confirm that the Radiohead concert had been canceled as a result.
An undated handout of an Apple I Computer supplied to Reuters June 15, 2102 by Sotheby's in New York. The 1976 device that heralded the start of the personal computing revolution ' sold for $374,500, more than doubling the high estimate of $180,000 at the Sotheby's auction house in New York June 15, 2012. The exceptionally rare computer is one of only a handful that remains in fully working condition and was a highlight of Sotheby's sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts.
Paramount Pictures has delayed its planned "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reboot, TheWrap has learned.
The film was set to be released in December 2013, and pre-production was under way in Vancouver. Shooting would have started in the fall. An individual with knowledge of the project said the delay is due to issues with the script, and the studio did not want to further inflate the budget given its dissatisfaction.
A spokeswoman for the studio said the film is now slated for a May 16, 2014, release and declined to comment further.
With a budget well north of $100 million and an indefinite delay, Ninja Turtles is just the latest in a string of major projects Paramount has pushed. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," initially was set to bow June 29, but will not hit screens until March 2013 because of a crowded summer schedule and the need for more Channing Tatum, among other reasons.
The studio has also pushed "World War Z," starring Brad Pitt, to next summer so it could rework the script and stage re-shoots.
Almost 200 years after Prussian and English troops defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, Belgian archeologists have unearthed the complete remains of a young soldier in what they dubbed a rare find.
"You can almost see him dying," Belgian archeologist Dominique Bosquet said of the skeleton, lying on its back with the spherical musket bullet that felled the soldier still between his ribs.
Believed to have died June 18, 1815, the remains were found under 40 centimetres (15 inches) of soil as if the young soldier's comrades had hurriedly buried him when he fell on the battleground.
His uniform had been eaten away but archaeologists were studying a spoon, a coin, a leather strap and a piece of wood carved with the initials C.B. to see whether they might help to identify the skeleton.
A woman looks at a sex toy during the Expo Sex, Health and Beauty 2012 in Caracas June 14, 2012. Picture taken June 14, 2012.
Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins
A 527-year-old home that is believed to be the oldest in Amsterdam has been discovered in the city's famous red-light district, officials said Saturday.
"We have discovered what is believed (to be) Amsterdam's oldest home, dating back to 1485," Boudewijn Oranje, an alderman for thecity centre, told AFP.
The wooden structure of the historic house, situated in the Old Side district, lay hidden behind a facade built in the 1800s.
Until now, Amsterdam's oldest home was believed to have dated from 1530, situated about a kilometre away.
Called the "wallen", the Dutch word for the banks of the city's old canals, the red-light district has been around since the 1400s, with prostitutes doing business with visiting sailors and tourists ever since.
The Beatles' classic 1968 animated film "Yellow Submarine" has been relaunched on Blu-ray and iTunes for the first time, as well as on DVD, and this remastered version brings fresh details on how the original came together.
The movie, featuring cartoons of The Fab Four battling the evil Blue Meanies and their army of odd monsters in the mythical, peaceful world of Pepperland, had been released on DVD in 1999 but that is out of circulation.
Almost as intriguing as the tale told in the film and its restoration is the story of how the milestone in experimental, psychedelic animation was made - especially since The Beatles originally wanted little to do with it, several of the original makers told Reuters.
The group had a three-picture deal with United Artists and the first two, "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and "Help!" (1965), were worldwide hits. But by 1967, the quartet had had enough.
Left-wing Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Bertolucci has died aged 65 after a long illness, his brother and longtime collaborator Bernardo Bertolucci said Saturday.
Giuseppe Bertolucci's film credits include the 1977 comedy "Berlinguer Ti Voglio Bene" (Berlinguer I Love You) starring Roberto Benigni, a homage to Italian communist reformer Enrico Berlinguer.
He also co-wrote the screenplay of his brother's 1976 epic film "Novecento" (Nineteenth Century), and directed "Panni Sporchi" (Dirty Linen), a documentary commissioned by the Italian Communist Party.
Bertolucci, who was for many years the director of the Bologna Cineteca, died in the southern city of Lecce.
One-year-old Monroe, a western lowland gorilla, inspects his first birthday cake at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in San Diego, California, in this June 15, 2012 handout photo. The cake is made of ice with pieces of fruit and vegetables frozen inside, with a candle carved out of a carrot. Monroe was born June 17, 2011.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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