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[Victor Steinbok]

There are at least two separate parodies that I know of that actually
use "Secret Asian Man".

VS-)

On 7/15/2012 2:09 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/lady-mondegreen-and-the-miracle-of-misheard-song-lyrics.html
>>
>> Nothing terribly new here, but a new example or two...
>>
>> LH
> In addition to having heard the record probably hundreds of thousands
> of times, by now, I've even seen the guy in person at the Whiskey a
> go-go - he was barefooted [sic] - and I still hear "secret _Asian_
> man." It's nice to find out that I'm not the only one!
>
> OTOH, I've heard, and still hear, only "… kiss _the sky_."
>
> Iouneverknow.
>
> --
> -Wilson

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