From mcmahon@mail.lemoyne.edu Sun Jun 17 05:26:16 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f5HCQF046014 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:26:15 -0700 Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f5HCQEF15369 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:26:14 -0700 Received: from mail.lemoyne.edu (sdn-ar-003nysyraP298.dialsprint.net [63.178.90.36]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA18922 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B2CA2A0.E680DE18@mail.lemoyne.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 08:29:20 -0400 From: "John M. McMahon" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Tan to Classics: misconstrued lyrics and ad slogans References: <000f01c0f6db$11dada40$82519318@Rourke.ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Patrick T. Rourke" wrote: > > 'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy. [ok, not quoted, but alluded to.] > > The worst misheard lyric I ever committed was *Blues Traveler*'s song "The > Hook," which I heard (for a month or two) as "Hope brings you back." Given > the incredible cynicism of the song, that's one hell of a miss. Two decades or so ago my daughters had to be told that "No dark sunglasses in the classroom" was most definitely *not* what Roger Waters had written. and EJM wrote: > Example, when I first heard on TV the Chevrolet slogan, "Like a Rock," I heard for the longest time "Lock her Up," and even "Knock her Up," and I found these "anti-feminine" slogans funny, only because they were obviously out of sync with the context. Considering the clear and targetted appeal of these kinds ads to the muscular, male-bonding, sidelong-wheeling, mud-spattered, monster truck market, I'm not so sure they are out *that* of sync with the context -- or, in these parts at least, with social and cultural realities. John McMahon Le Moyne College .