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Misreadings

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Cat Chant

14:00 / 20.10.05

I am very old and responsible now, to the extent that I just saw a student flyer advertising

SUPERVISION

Much better for the students than what the flyer was actually advertising (or recommending, I dunno, I didn't read the rest of it):

SUBVERSION.

Saveloy

14:28 / 20.10.05

Ha ha, that's *brilliant*! Conjurs all sorts of lovely images of a club where people go to be supervised. Like a mild, officey / library-ey version of a BDSM nite.

fuckbaked

14:47 / 20.10.05

SUPERVISION

I think it's appropriate for this thread that when I read that my brain somehow didn't immediatly connect the word to it's meaning, and instead of reading it supervision, I read it super-vision. So I figured it would be a club for learning superhero-type skills like x-ray vision, or how to see things that are 10 miles away without a telescope.

I think maybe I need to get some sleep.

Saveloy

11:36 / 30.11.05

Gary Potter Penis Envy

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:42 / 30.11.05

And then I had the privilege of taking the band to bed

Melt Banana's visit to Southampton went better than Seth could ever have expected.

and breakfast.

Or possibly, I didn't see the "the" before "bed".

Eloi Tsabaoth

21:18 / 05.01.06

The headline says:
Comedian Stewart to host Oscars

My eyes see:
Cameron Stewart to host Oscars

And my brain for a split-second thinks 'Yeah, why the hell not!'

mondo a-go-go

16:20 / 06.01.06

Earlier today: "Sexplicitors" instead of the more prosaic "solicitors".

Char Aina

02:46 / 10.01.06

over in the policy i saw a new thread:

So, if we're burning anti-Semites...

it is, of course, the same thread i know from posting to it, the rather less exciting So, if we're banning anti-Semites....

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:48 / 10.01.06

To compound the confusion, I just misread your "burning" as "bumming".

Char Aina

02:55 / 10.01.06

classic.

best thing for 'em i say; a quick bumming and then onto the fire.

electric monk

11:39 / 10.01.06

Bum them from space. Takes a bit of planning and effort, mind, but it's the only way.

electric monk

11:59 / 10.01.06

Oh, misreading...right: Sometimes due to lack of sleep, I will read the logo on the box of

Huggies

as

Huggles.

Saveloy

12:04 / 10.01.06

I had a mis-looking just now. As I was coming up the stairs I saw to my left (on the floor that I was climbing to) a man laying flat on his stomach and holding a couple of golf clubs parrallel to his body. I looked again and it was a row of cardboard boxes.

Shrug

03:58 / 13.01.06

I keep misreading the "Favourite first line?" thread in the Books Forum as "Favourite First Lime?".
The amusing or the strange being that I repeatedly catch myself considering the question before the realisation dawns.

William Sack

09:41 / 13.01.06

I had a misreading the other day that really disturbed me but I can't remember it now.

Shrug - I like it; reminds me of a task a few years ago on Just a Minute. The subject was "Advice to a girl on her first date." What followed was a surreal 60 second tour-de-force from Kenneth Williams on how to eat the dried fruit of a certain palm tree.

Saveloy

10:41 / 13.01.06

Liger Null, in the Urgh Fuck thread, sez:

"Fuckbaked, listen to these people, for they are Swiss"

Spaniel

10:46 / 13.01.06

That is, indeed, very funny.

Axolotl

12:14 / 29.01.06

In a restaurant I was idly examining the menu when I noticed "boiled baby". I thought this rather outré until I noticed the next line: "new potatoes". It had me confused for a moment though.

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:45 / 02.02.06

Broomvondle, in the photo thread

Yeah, falling off a bloke is embarressing enough

Actually, it is

Yeah, falling off a bike is embarressing enough

Hmmm.

Triplets

06:56 / 07.02.06

A customer's e-mail this morning said:

Any idea why this has occurred again.I desperately need to e mail Captain America

But when I looked again someone had changed it to "Canada/America".

electric monk

12:44 / 07.02.06

I rrrrrreally want that on a t-shirt now. Or a button. A button would do.

Triplets

21:37 / 06.03.06

The other day I was reminded of my friend and I's favourite misspeaking of the intro to Flash Gordon.

DISPATCH WARLOCK AND AJAX TO BRING BACK GORDON'S DEAD BODY ALIVE!

miss wonderstarr

21:59 / 06.03.06

Is my long-standing notion that it's "DISPATCH WAR-ROCKET AJAX..." a mishearing, then?

Baobab Branches and Plastic

08:40 / 07.03.06

A friend was impletmenting a patient tracking computer system at a hospital and had to talk to one of the doctors abot it. He was in a hurry and entering the doctors office sat down earnestly and said 'I'm here with Electronic Discharge' the doctor apparently looked very very worried... before they both started laughing.

Feverfew

18:03 / 07.03.06

As I walked past a room at a London office of the organisation I work for today, I was fairly surprised to see that someone had written on a flip-chart

IMPROVE COMMUNISM!

Which is what my tired mind had read into IMPROVE COMMUNICATIONS.

Still, I think my reading would have been more exciting.

Lama glama

08:18 / 08.03.06

Continuing with the communism theme, while I was walking across a hospital parking lot yesterday I read:

Parking for Communists Only

..which should of course have been for Consultants only..

Triplets

11:24 / 08.03.06

"DISPATCH WAR-ROCKET AJAX..." is spot on, Dale.

Sax

11:27 / 08.03.06

Better than my long-held misconception that it was "DISPATCH ROLLICKING AJAX"...

miss wonderstarr

11:40 / 08.03.06

DISPATCH WARLOCK AND AJAX TO BRING BACK GORDON'S DEAD BODY ALIVE!

I'm not sure how you could hear this unless the C60 cassette you held up to the TV screen had a jump in it. Perhaps you are conflating

"dispatch war-rocket Ajax to bring back his body"

with a subsequent line sampled in the Queen song:

"Gordon's alive? (live, live, live?) [echo to fade]"

happy to help

Triplets

12:30 / 08.03.06

I'm not sure how you could hear this unless

It's just me and a mate taking the piss.

Klytus, I'm bored

Lysander Stark

09:50 / 09.03.06

Reading about the artist Yves Klein just now, I was intrigued to find a chapter heading

Masturbation and Blossoming

but was disappointed to find that the chapter tackled his 'maturation and blossoming' instead. Oh so briefly we had shared something, Yves and I, and oh so quickly, as is the case with masturbation, I found myself alone again...

Evil Scientist

12:54 / 15.03.06

Two misreadings, and both from the Gives me a happy thread.

First off Stoatie reveals an affiliation with time-travelling eeevil pixie-people when it is revealed that:

I took Sheeda (my puppy) to Greenwich today

Which turned out to be:

I took Sheena (my puppy) to Greenwich today

I always knew Stoat was Seven Soldiers-friendly.

Then, proving I've got comics on the brain today, I discover another budding supervillain in our midst when Eldritch Shrub reveals that they:

Went to A.I.M last night.

Unfortunately my chance of getting one of the Advanced Ideas Mechanics helmets to flog on Ebay were squelched when I noticed that it actually read:

Went to A.M.I (Alternative Miss Ireland) last night.

Which actually sounds like a much more fun organisation.

gingerbop

15:56 / 15.03.06

Grafitti on a street sign, I read as Alegria and wondered who, in Hackney, gave enough of a shit about Cirque du Soleil to brand their neighbourhood with their shows.

Or perhaps Algeria .

Whisky Priestess

14:42 / 30.03.06

Scanning a row of shops today I saw that one was selling

Fish and Christ

I don't know what is wrong with my brain. I mean, it's not like Fish and Chips is an unexpected combination.

Shrug

14:08 / 21.04.06

How do you buy a baby? Misreading it constantly. (should be "What")
I was further confused when a cursory glance revealed that Xoc recommended Camden market.

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