Misheard or misread as....

LAT1963

(fragment of a TV news report)

...police report the cause of death was respiratory failure, due to monkeys.



(this thread is a place to share when you encounter hilarity, or at least mild amusement, as the result of mis-hearing or mis-reading something)

Teenybudda

What actually happened to the guy who died though? What was it due to?

Only one I can think of off the top of my head is when I used to sing that song "show me heaven" When I was younger. Instead of saying "breathless" I thought it was "breakfast"
So I'd go around bleating out "leave meeee breakfast! Oh oh oooh!"
This went on for a number of years until someone pointed it out. 😳

LAT1963

The iconic example of this sort of thing is that song lyric "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" that about half the population hears as "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"

LAT1963

I never found out what the actual cause of death was.

corinasue1143

Peter Fonda died of respiratory failure due to lung cancer. Could lung cancer sound like monkeys?

LAT1963

I dunno, corna--maybe. I didn't hear enough of the story to know who it was who died. However it probably wasn't Peter Fonda because the information came from police and lung cancer doesn't usually result in a police call.

JustSomeEm

The only one that comes to mind for me is really NSF...MFP. But it has to do with managing to misread the word Fuel at gas station pumps on the little scrolling message screen.

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glassyo

It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me

TheMrWobbly

I wasn't paying attention and about 40 seconds in I could swear this said "the UK's best selling f***ing hybrid"

https://youtu.be/R0pNVxXcguk

ghudson92

TheMrWobbly wrote: »

I wasn't paying attention and about 40 seconds in I could swear this said "the UK's best selling f***ing hybrid"

https://youtu.be/R0pNVxXcguk

Haha I heard that too!