Sign in a Dubai Metro station.
Cats with two good lives
"There was a fierce storm that swept through our neighbourhood and when it subsided I went to check on the neighbours," writes a reader from Browns Bay. "I knocked on the door of a woman I hadn't met before. She was all good but as I went to leave she stopped me and asked if I had cats. 'Yes I do, a grey tabby and a small black cat called Felix and Sooty,' I said. She beckoned me down the hall, into her bedroom. There was Felix, curled up in a ball on her kid's bed. 'We call him Jeremy,' she said. 'He comes here all the time,' she said. 'They both do.' Then she proceeded to show me through a photo album featuring pictures of my cats, throughout the four years we had been living next door. Sitting on the laps of other people, frolicking in the garden and straight portraits. My pets were leading a double life."
You looking at me, vegetable?
Police in the rural town of Ludwigslust, Germany, said a man called their emergency number to report having seen "10 to 15 people armed with knives and sticks" on a local road. Within minutes, six police cars were on their way to the scene. Officers quickly discovered, however, that the 'mob' was asparagus harvesters walking along the road with their work tools as they went to take a lunch break. White asparagus is a popular delicacy in Germany. (Source: newser.com)
A good deal
Cosy, quintessentially New Zealand drink.
Lyrics that are not what they seem
Mishearing song lyrics - now called "eggcorn" - is also known as mondegreen. according to Max Cryer's book, Who Said That First: "Until 1954 this phenomenon didn't have a name. Then Harper's Magazine wrote of people feeling sorry for the bonny Earl of Moray's wife, as mentioned in the old folk song: 'They have slain the Earl of Moray, and Lady Mondegreen.' In fact, the only death in the song is the Earl's, then: 'they laid him on the green'. This unleashed a tide of examples [including] the hymn at Christmas time 'God rest ye married gentlemen'."
Cryer also writes that someone thought Santa had a female reindeer called Olive ('Olive, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names'), Bob Dylan sang 'The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind', the Beatles said 'She's got a chicken to ride' and Simon and Garfunkel's well-known bridge was over 'troubled Walter'.
"Quite rapidly the word 'mondegreen' settled firmly into the language," Cryer writes.
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