...with showers forecast for later this week...

Job status update: I REALLY!! hate my current one (I'm never a happy camper after my 9 hour Saturdays, my apologies). I have been called for a second interview at Colorado with the store manager. So that's a good sign. I hope. Please pray I get this jobat Colorado, and then have the guts to quit the current one. There seem to be some added complications with the current one and what will happen if I quit.

Other than that, not much else to report. Not from the real world anyway. Not that I'd really call anywhere I go "the real world".

I have been contemplating some oxymorons of late (no my face ISN'T, Sean Taylor). Some of my favourites are: Microsoft Worx, MTV's "Real World", free - will offering, virtual reality, unbiased opinion, steel wool, specialize in everything, American English and waterproof sponge.

Also, thanks to the aid of ABC's "Spicks and Specks" (watch it, not just cos it's named after an fantastic Bee Gees song), I have taken more interest in what is known as "mondegreens". The origin, according to John Carrol of the San Francisco Chronicle is thus:

"As a child, the writer Sylvia Wright heard a plaintive Scottish ballad titled ``The Bonny Earl of Murray.'' One stanza, she believed, went like this:

Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands/ Oh Where hae you been?/ They hae slay the Earl of Murray/ And Lady Mondegreen.

How romantic, she thought, Lady Mondegreen perishing with her lord in the fierce, romantic wars of medieval Scotland. It was only much later that she realized that they had actually slain the Earl of Murray and ``laid him on the green.''

She began to collect similar mishearings of song lyrics, poems, patriotic utterances and the like, and in 1954 published a small article about them, coining the word ``mondegreen.'' Then she died and 30 years passed and, voila, a columnist in San Francisco discovered the term and founded a small cottage industry -- the collection and dissemination of mondegreens.

So here are a few of my favourites (DISCLAIMER: None of these are my own. Some are lyrics my sister misheard, but to my knowledge I've haven't misheard lyrics since the Caramello Koala ad where I thought he said, right at the end, "I go with the flow", but my sister insists it's, "I overflow". I'm still open to hearing others opinions on this one).

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
The real lyrics were: 'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky
But were misheard as: 'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.
Creedance Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
The real lyrics were: There's a Bad Moon on the Rise
But were misheard as: There's a bathroom on the right
Toby Mac - Extreme Days
The real lyrics were: I spy the eye of aprehension
But were misheard as: I spy the eye of every mansion

I makes me realise the complexity of both language and human perception. It's amazing that our brains can put together sounds in a different order to what we heard them, but not only that, often be able to correct it.

So after a monumental post, the floor is yours once again.