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Sep 10, 2012
Overheard on your lawn this year
What's the funniest thing you've heard this year?
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The misheard lyrics (scroll down) of O Fortuna (video).
Including the immortal line, "This octopus! Let's give him boots! Send him to NORTH KOREA!" Damn catchy, I say.
(I told my brother the opera singer that, being nearly deaf, this is rather how I hear the world most days. A hearing aid helps, but sometimes you're still left wondering what that poor damn octopus did to get himself exiled, booted, to a dictatorship...)
Posted by: Nenya | Sep 11, 2012 at 01:43 AM
For some reason, O Fortuna seems to be a favourite for this kind of thing. There's loads of creative subtitltes for it on YouTube.
TRiG.
Posted by: Timothy (TRiG) | Sep 11, 2012 at 03:51 AM
I'm just glad somebody was thoughtful enough to write a song about a fish we usually think of simply as a food animal.
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Posted by: Raj | Sep 11, 2012 at 09:34 PM