Saturday, December 20, 2008

Mishearing fish

Twice in the past week I have misheard ordinary phrases as fish-related. I think this may be the beginning of a fish-related time in my life. I know, deep, huh? Sometimes these things are not just coincidence. I think they may have been whatever the aural equivalent of a Freudian slip is. (I guess I should have mis-spelled that as oral. At least that's what your mother said.)

So, seeing as you're so curious, here were the phrases:
Mackerel conference (actually MacWorld Conference). I did wonder why my friend was suddenly so into mackerel, but hey, he works at Apple and they're all pretty weird.
You're a doctor not a cod - obviously meant to be "God". Or maybe not... are cod particularly useful in first-aid situations?

However, neither of these are as bad as when I mis-read a line in a blog post about particle physics as "Large Hardon Collider". Man, that image had me laughing so hard coffee came out of my nose. And I wasn't even drinking coffee.

PS sorry for the holiday hiatus, but I was too busy getting drunk to avoid talking to my mother to write any blog posts.

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