Philomena Cunk
Famous Misspellings
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Philomena Cunk
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King Cnut
Jethro Toe
Alan B’Stard
Mrs D recently suggested we visit a Vagiterian Restaurant.
It might be peurile, but beer came out of my nose
Steeleye Dan
Is there gas all around my hat pt. 94
Steely Tom
My dear old mum refers to my kitchen appliance as ‘your George Formby grill’.
Every time I use it now, I feel compelled to say “Turned out nice again!”
OK, not a misspelling but things were going that way.
Do you also feel reminded to clean those kitchen windows?
I’m afraid so. To no avail though.
In other news, in Zaire in 1974 Mohammed Ali had a very well-publicised fight with a goofy banjolele player from Lanacashire.
“Iiiiii’m leanin’ on the lampost at the corner-OOF, ya bugger!”
His name was Muhammad Ali, Mooseyperson..
Couple that got my goat:
Stephen Hawking…s
Matalan…d
That, right there, illustrates the range of my existence (more to the Matalan end if I’m honest!).
See also Mary Hopkin. She must despair.
Yes indeed. Funnily enough, it doesn’t seem to apply the other way. Anthony Hopkins is never erroneously named Anthony Hopkin.
Interesting. What about Cliff & Keith – another example of same phenomenon?
Didn’t Keith deliberately style himself ‘Richard, no s’ for many years? Something to do with a fall-out with his father, IIRC.
true but I’m referring to people’s annoying but seemingly natural tendency to add an ‘s’ rather than remove one.
I liked Keef’s puppet on Spitting Images.
The really annoying one is “Suits you” from The Fast Show. No wonder Whitehouse is so miserable when the people shouting it at him in the street can’t even get it right in the first place.
Richard Herring used to call the then PM “John Majors” and I found very funny because I am sure that many bewildered people genuinely added the ‘s’ like they do with Cliff.
The day Hawking’s death was announced, a quick search on Twitter for “Stephen Hawkins” led to page after page of irritating results.
Written by a bunch of people from Essex?
My mum famously went into HMV to ask for ‘the INKS album’ as a Christmas present for me. I have greatly enjoyed Kick ever since.
Remember King’s X?
Was it King’s Cross or King Sex?
Having worked for Camden Council in the late 1970s I can confirm it was definitely “King Sex”. Our office overlooked Argyle Street where there are many hotels who rent the room by the hour !
Crikey. What do they do for the other 59 minutes?
Ha ha. On a similar tip my grandmother announced to us, at the height of Britpop,
“I don’t like that Ozzis”.
It took us a while to work out who she was on about, but longer to stop laughing.
Mrs M referred to “Squashing Pumpkins” the other day
(Not really a mis-spelling but close enough)
It’s gotten this far and no-one’s mentioned Odessey And Oracle…?
The cover artist couldn’t spell so they were stuck with it.
Similarly, the track Roll Em Easy by Little Feat should be called Roll Me Easy, but was a victim of a typesetting mistake that nobody spotted, so they left it that way
One word: Electrif.
Ditto
Also Pretzel Logic and Pretzle Logic.
Supposedly that one was deliberate. The photographer took the photo because of the mis-spelling, and the title was chosen to suit the photo. Either the song (in which pretzels are not mentioned at all) was named after the album or vice-versa.
I have never met a pretzel seller, but I plan to find the time.
Nick Lowe apparently released an ep called Bowi after Bowie released his Low album.
What a wag.
And The Rumour (without Graham Parker) released an album call Max.
Not apparently, he did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T032HA7C4Iw
And, bloody hell, having that very Max LP, apart from thinking it an odd name, only now, on perhaps the 3rd or 4th reading of this post do I “get” it.
How droll.
My best man’s mum drinks Decapitated Coffee
That’s made my day!⬆️
Not a campuccino or an expresso?
I’ll have a cuppa chino
I’ve heard it said
It has crossed my mind in the past to launch a frothy PG Tips based beverage called a “Cuppa Tea-no” but I’m not sure it would be very nice.
This reminds me of the Boo Hewerdine game of remove one letter from an act to imagine on a theatre sign. I believe Chin Crisis was the winner.
Or The Grateful Dad
There’s a lot going on there.
Only because The Cunt Bishops was considered too rude
A friend once referred to the Arctic Mondays.
My stepdaughter famously chooses inaccurate guesses as to the name of things, forever remembered by the time sh complained about how jehovah’s witnesses made her fart. It was jerusalem artichokes.
My non-native mother-in-law, God rest her soul, described buying a pair of Cod Liver Oil trousers.
For those not fluent in Spanglish, she meant Corduroy.
Not famous but I once saw a t shirt printing place with a t shirt on display outside advertising the colours that were available.
Flourescent Red
Flourescent Blue etc
Not the best of adverts.
Oh not forgetting Patrick Thistle.
My wife sat next to a nervous woman on a plane who told her that she couldn’t wait to get her feet back on Terracotta.
A work colleague couldn’t decide to tell a telephone caller that something required a condition or regulation, and flustered told them there was a constipation.
Perhaps she has a stone floor in her kitchen.
That she really likes.
The one that has always annoyed me is the many and ongoing references to some singer by the name of Ian Drury.
An ex girlfriend of mine whose first language was German was introduced to a card game in the UK, she famously then asked for another game of “Bugger thy Neighbour”
Years ago I took my class of language school students to Lewes Crown Court to watch a trial. At one point the prosecution outlined what the alleged rapist had done to his victim. I leant over to my group in the gallery and whispered “Do you understand what ‘buggery’ is?” and a Spanish girl said: “Oh yes – it’s when someone goes into your house and steals your things.”
In a metaphorical sense, she’s correct.
second mention of Lewes in a week!
If it wasn’t for Lewes Crown Court nobody would know the place existed.
I wonder how many people spell it Lewis..
” . . . nobody would know the place existed.”
Ummm – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Bonfire
Spelling? In my experience, not many.
Even my ma knew the difference, born on Lewis then lived in Lewes. It’s the buggers who confuse it with the Looes of Cornwall, calling it the same as their plural is pronounced.
Van der Graaf Generator.
When Viagra first appeared on the scene,a discussion at work led to a colleague announcing “I don’t need Viagra,I’m not incompetent!”
When this bald aussie singer sings: “Who’s gonna shave me?”, I don’t care about the blue sky mine, but I know an easy job when I see it…
Keith Moon must be the only member of the Who not to be plagued by misspellings. I wonder if Daltry, Entwhistle and Townsend got used to it.
And not only “Daltry, Entwhistle and Townsend”
There’s ‘Kenny’ Jones, too