Everyone's been caught out singing the wrong words at one point, like one listener who thought Fleetwood Mac's "You can go your own way" was "You can grow your own weed". Another thought "I've got the moves like Jagger" was "I wanna remove my jacket".
One texter's friend was convinced the words to Snoopy's Christmas went "When Snoopy went out, in search of his bone". Which actually makes perfect sense considering Snoopy is a dog.
And then there was the lady whose daughter thought The Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" was "Steak and Knife". It's not just song lyrics that confuse us.
A friend of mine sent a text to someone recently in which she admitted she is very superficial. She claims she meant to say superstitious but I've seen how long she spends in front of the mirror so who knows? When I was younger, I watched a cartoon about someone giving a man mouth to mouth in which they must have mentioned artificial respiration.
I liked to write stories and pretend I was smarter than I am by using what I considered to be big words. And so, thinking I was clever, I wrote a story about a drowning man who was given artificial insemination, much to my parents and teacher's delight. In the story, the man survived after this medical intervention. No word on the baby though.
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