Lady Mondegreen

[Sam Clements]

P.S.

If you have money to foolishly bet on horses, while poor Barry is slaving
away in a windowless cell in the catacombs somewhere, I'm sure we're gonna
hear about it.  You HAD to post, didn't you.

SC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Clements" <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Lady Mondegreen


> She was a three-times stakes winner.
>
> I think the term became widespread outside of the linguistic community
with
> Jimmy Hendrix and "kiss this guy"/"kiss the sky."  Almost elevated to
> parlour game status.
> http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990811
>
> SC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Thompson" <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:37 PM
> Subject: Lady Mondegreen
>
>
> > A filly ran at Belmont on Saturday who was the daughter of "Lady
> Mondegreen" -- I didn't realize that this was such a widely known term, or
> does one of us keep a racing stable?  I invested $5 on the daughter,
having
> no better thoughts, and she finished up the track.  The racing career of
the
> mommy, if she had one, escaped my attention.
> >
> > GAT
> >
> > George A. Thompson
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African
> > Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.
> >
>