What have you misread today, again.

The other thread was 416 posts, so thought i'd start a new one. No shortage of misreads, that's for sure.

On the Kitteh thread, Luna wrote:

We just used the kitchen scales to weigh them

I read:

We just used the kitten scales to weigh them

Which makes perfect sense, i think.

And on the chatroom aka piano thread, mem said:

You're great for running the chat for us.

Which i read as:
You're great for ruining the chat for us.

I think my eyes are tired.

#1

Lol, it does indeed. they might not try to crawl off kitten scales either! Not sure what we'd use them for once they're all grown up though

I misread the topic of this post as "What have you missed today, again." I was trying to think if I was missing something. I probably am -- I should get a Remembrall!

You don't know how hard it was for me to resist putting a typo in the subject. I think i managed to do a subject title with high misread potential anyway.

4> Me too!

Read:

Hah! I save the other cats from up in the trees. I can't afford to get stuck. Luckily, I can always hop onto JP's shoulders if I have trouble getting all the way down.

As: Hah! I save the other cats from up in the trees. I can't afford to get stuck. Luckily, I can always hoop through JP's shoulders if I have trouble getting all the way down.

Yes, she will hoop through my shoulders and perform a double triple somersault with a half Nelson before landing on her feet.

It could happen.

Hey, I've seen the two of them performing...I'd believe it!

8- And then I shall go on to win the Olympics.

Okay, this is kinda complicated:

On the Rumors thread, talking about superheroes, Lefty said, Cat, I'll save any embroidery and embellishments and ship them to you soon. But I cannot reveal to you the identity of the person who will be wearing the finished product.

Then JP and Ron joked about the guys in their glittery, flowery costumes.

Then Cat said, Yay! *goes to mailbox to wait* . . . only, I thought Ron was the one who made that comment! I had a mental image of him pulling a glittery, flowery superhero costume out of his mailbox. It was quite funny!

#12: Shhhh!! It's a secret!! LOL

LOL! That's great, Foggi. Thanks for explaining that one -- it was worth it!

In "What are you Eating?" Ejj wrote:

...tomato butter sauce, which entails melting some butter in a pan and putting in a can of whole tomatoes...

I read:

...tomato butter sauce with entrails, melting some butter in a pan and putting in a can of whole tomatoes...

LOL! You sent me into a coughing fit when I read that! Entrails in a sauce. Sounds a little messy (and it makes me wonder what kind of entrails would be used)!

I don't know what I was thinking. Perhaps I've been spending a bit too much time in Potions lately.

Ron wrote "Suit up" on the Word Association thread, but every time I look at it, I read "Shut up," which I admit makes me feel a little defensive.

Kirby wrote: "I love dying my hair, because I have an excuse to read for 20 minutes without moving. I also need to get a haircut. I haven't done that since August."

I read: "I love dying my hair, because I have an excuse to read for 20 minutes without moving. I haven't done that since August."

I thought, wow, I can't believe she hasn't had 20 minutes at a stretch to read since August!

On "call for submissions", MsD wrote:

*getting out apology template*
On behalf... meh couldn't be bothered, you should all know it off by heart now.


I read:

*getting out apology template*
On behalf... men couldn't be bothered, you should all know it off by heart now.


...which works pretty well, i think. Maybe that should be the new short apology template.

#20 - I think maybe even the short version is redundant. We should all just...know! ;-)

Bib said, "Are you intending to remind me of Into the Woods or is that a convenient side effect?"

I read, "Are you intending to remind me of Into the Woods or is that a convenient snide effect?"

Well, I wasn't trying to be snide. . . . :-)

LadyN said: "When I was a nipper..."

I read: "When I was a ripper..."

LadyN was a little ripper?

#15 - LOL! I haven't caught up on the Eating thread but I just read your post as "with entrails" as I was scrolling down!

*blush* I just misread themeganoob's name.

As themegaboob.

*blush*

*snort*
My daughter said "boob."

At least it was your daughter and not your son...

Meh. He's still at the age where he runs screaming from the room if anyone kisses on TV.

Yeah, it's hilarious. Sometimes he sticks a pillow in front of his face. Well, not while he is running. That would be bad for his health.

#29 - It could be precautionary. If he accidentally ran into a wall, for example, the pillow would be an excellent buffer.

#30

Now there is a good idea. Do you think it would work as a buffer if I covered myself with pillows, front/back/head included? I'm always bumping into things.

#30 & 31- LOL!! That's true!

#31 -- Oh, me too! I think we could start a trend.

*Pictures HEers running round like nutters, covered in pillows, bumping into things left right and centre*

Tee hee hee!! This could be fun!

Sign me up!

I'll supply the pillows!



Note: Please tell me if this isn't a picture of lots of pillows.

Now all you need is to tie them on!

I always see Ashly7 as Ashly? like she's not really sure who she is...

I just misread Kerian's post on good news/bad new:

I caught someone with a majorly humongous bag stealing today

I read:

I caught someone with a majorly humongous bug stealing today

I'm amazed K was able to even look at someone with a majorly humongous bug...

puppet wrote:
Thanks, guys!! Thanks polly, it took like about 5 mintues to conder up, but im glad i thought about it. If i sell some, im using that! :)

I read:
Thanks, guys!! Thanks polly, it took like about 5 mintues to consider up, but im glad i thought about it. If i smell some, im using that! :)

On the new info thread pico wrote:

You can learn more bout me on my profile.

I read:

You can learn bore bout me on my profile.

I thought it was a clever pun until I reread it.

On the "What Are you Eating?" thread, bib wrote:

"Last night I made a delicious salad with green and yellow bell pepper"

I read:

"Last night I made a delicious salad with green and yellow paper"

I was wondering for a second if she was doing some sort of craft project. Or if she was eating paper...

confirming all my deepest suspicions about vegetarian diets.

I read that Kirby was taking her pups to the pet sematary. Poor pups! Turns out it was PetSmart. Lucky pups!

ETA: Oh my lefty! Well, hopefully we just visit PetSmart today.

Over in the News thread MsD wrote:
GN: *sings* I got a present


I read:
GN: *sings* I got a pregnant

On the What are you reading in April thread, Maren said:

I finished The Old Man and Me and now I am reading Novel on Yellow Paper.

I read this:

I finished The Old Man and Me and now I am reading The Yellow Wallpaper.

Was The Yellow Wallpaper the book where the main character sees the writing on the wall and quits using yellow journalism, and later becomes a famous interior decorator?

Or was it just yellow wallpaper that was particularly interesting to stare at for hours on end?

KIK! The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story about a mentally unstable woman in non-modern day who vacations at her husband aka doctor's decision. There is a room in the house with yellow wallpaper. I'm trying to avoid spoilers. Every time I've read it I see something that I didn't see before. It's a really interesting short story! I highly recommend it. I've read it for at least three literature classes.

Bib posted: "Don't you love it when you make something up on the fly and it's awesome?!"

I read: "Don't you love it when you make something fly and it's awesome?!"

Wingardium Leviosa!

mindy said: Work tonight. Good because I can make money. Bad because I can't quilt.

I read: Work tonight. Good because I can make money. Bad because I can't quit.

Which made me a little upset. I mean, this is America! If mindy wants to quit, she should be able to quit!

hahaha, i just read it as quit, too.

Ha, me three.

Me four!

polly said:
Yay! I got out in my garden today for the first time this year! As its a new garden to me. I got to explore it and dig dig dig around some bulbs and stuff, said hello to some worms and rearranged some rocks. It was fun

I read:
Yay! I got out in my garden today for the first time this year! As its a new garden to me. I got to explore it and dig dig dig around some bulbs and stuff, said hello to some worms and rename some rocks. It was fun

of course all my rocks have names! Don't yours?

#55 Only my favorite rocks get names. ;)

Mem said she was getting books for Missie on the Renaissance, but I read that she was getting books for Missie and Renaissance.

I didn't remember her having named one of her kids such a peculiar name, but who am I to judge?

#55 I can't keep up with who is who. So I just name all my rocks Bob. It's easier to remember.

#56 LOL hmmmm Renaissance. I like it. Kinda....old fashion ;}

#57 hehehehehehe

kirby, if you have some rock piles you could call them the Stones. Just don't stand in front of them in case they start rolling.

kik

I just misread foggi on the 'How does you garden grow' thread.

What she said:
The fourth corner is held together by hook-and-eye latches, so I can easily open up the front to turn the pile.

What I read:
The fourth corner is held together by hooks and eyelashes, so I can easily open up the front to turn the pile.

I have a song stuck in my head now. It might be called 'Some of My Favorite Things'? I'm sure everyone knows it.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that lie on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into spring,
These are a few of favorite things!

That will be in my head the rest of the day now.

when the dog barks
when the bee stings
when I'm feeling saaad
I simply remember my favorite things
and then I don't feeeeellll sooo baaad

Right there with you JP.

Great. Now it's stuck in my head. I often get "Your My Sunshine" stuck in my head.

*snicker*
"schnauzers with noodles"

We should add lyrics we mishear along with our misreads. I could fill a book...

Not really a misread, but kirby wrote:
"I get an all gender class next year!"

And before I could read any farther my mind went off on a tangent. Don't they usually have genders by the time they get to you?

#67 -- I, on the other hand, thought, "Doesn't Kirby usually have a class with all genders represented? I mean, there are still just two, right?"

There are still only two, right?

You guys haven't been in school in a while apparently. ;)

KIK! Right now I'm getting an all girl class unless 2 more teachers want to volunteer. If they do, then I'll get an all boy class. It's a big action research project my district is looking into.

#62-65:
Sorry. ;)

#67-70:
I had misread it as kirby saying she might get to have both genders in her class next year, which made me wonder why she either doesn't usually or doesn't this academic year.

I just had a funny misread on a library news site: the headline was "Black Cat Loves the Deal Library," but I misread it as, "Black Cat Loves the Dead Library." "How macabre," I thought! (Also, what is a "dead library"? But I have just been listening to the Deathday Party scene in Chamber of Secrets, so maybe that's to blame!)

In "Weather Watch", K said:
It probably would be were I not afraid of the geese. I have childhood memories of them chasing me.

I read it as:
It probably would be were I not afraid of the cheese. I have childhood memories of them chasing me.

I don't trust cheese myself. Especially brie. {{{shudder}}}

KIK! Cheese. Silly MrA...Unless...Should I put locks on my refrigerator at night to be safe from it going after me in my sleep? I'm not a sleep walker, but the cheese, you know. It's so dangerous and may just wobble across the house. ;)

Stilton is the most dangerous. All that mould makes it extremely angry.

On GN/BN, wingert said:
I spent over an hour and a half at the gym this morning

I read:

I slept over an hour and a half at the gym this morning

And Ron said:

I have too many misread messages to read all of them

I didn't misread that, i just wanted to post it ;-D

On the April reading thread (yes, april), JP posted:

*pushes four year old self back into subconscious*

I read:

*pushes four year old self back into unconsciousness*

Which seemed like inner-child-abuse. JP, play nice!

For the record, my inner child is not abused. In fact, she's more of an inner spoiled brat. :o)

laia said:
Started Mistborn the other night; great read so far. Also working on Lamplighter, which requires a bit more brain than I've got to give sometimes. I have a love/hate relationship with authors who create their own worlds - including vocabularies - and it takes me significantly more time to absorb books like that.


I read:
Started Mistborn the other night; great read so far. Also working on Lamplighter, which requires a bit more brain than I've got noodles sometimes. I have a love/hate relationship with authors who create their own words - including vocabularies - and it takes me significantly more time to absorb books like that.

Now see, I had to read that twice because I didn't see the difference even when you pointed it out!

mindylou wrote:
I drew the circle first (which was just the trash can in my room).

I read:

I drew the circle first (which I then threw in the trash can in my room).

Temperamental artist. :o)

>#81: noodles?

I misread that post too, but i misread "lamplighter" as "lampfighter", which made my brain think it was something to do with the "streetfighter" video game... lampfighter/streetlamp/streetfighter... mist/myst/videogame... it all makes sense... no really.

ETA post reference, required due to delays caused by excessive rambling. Carry on.

Polly said:
I planted impatiens and salvia around a large rock there. It looks so pretty! Soon I will plant stuff along our fence!

Which I read as:
I planted impatiens and saliva around a large rock there. It looks so pretty! Soon I will plant stuff along our fence!

I read that as saliva too. I don't know what salvia is so I guess saliva made more sense. Except for the whole planting thing.

Salvia

Oohhh. Thanks Bib! I like those.

That looks beautiful!

lol. I misread #87 as "Saliva" rather than "salvia"

possibly because I'm eating/drinking an icee (do you drink those or eat those??)

I've sometimes joked that icees should come with warning labels, not just for the brain freezes but for causing light-headedness and disorientation. You're brave for drinking those, mindy. ;)

Icees make you dizzy, K? I've never heard of that before. Is that why you go for smoothies instead? ;)

lg wrote:
I'm behind on Make Me a Supermodel, tho, so I'm thinking I'll probably give it a miss. At least until they run a marathon on the weekend during the winter (no baseball).

I read:
I'm behind on Make Me a Stupid Model tho, so I'm thinking I'll probably give it a miss. At least until they run a marathon on the weekend during the winter (no baseball).

I'm wondering what network that's on.

Didn't they actually have something like that last year. I wanna say on VH1....America's Smartest Model or something. I think Ben Stein had something to do with it.

It sounds familiar. I can't remember if that's the exact title, but it sounds like it's probably right.

Yeah, that was a show. I think it was called "America's Most Smartest Models" or something like that.

Least Dumbest.

#92 lefty:
It's from the brain freeze. Horrible, horrible feeling I wish to not repeat. Surely people cannot pass out from brain freezes, but I tell you I questioned it two particularly bad times.

ETA: No smoothie's freezing ability compares to the icees at Wetzel's Pretzels that I've had.

In word association, MrA said:

you don't even have to use capitalisation if you don't want to. and i don't want to. so there.

I read:

you don't even have to use capitalism if you don't want to. and i don't want to. so there.

commy.

You said it, not me.

I know you are, but what am i?

This was a direct quote that I misread from you. :oP~~~~

commie

Look out JP, he'll call you a towel soon.

commar

put up your apostrophe.

JP wrote: "I already consider you a member of my extensive family!"
I read: "I already consider you a member of my expensive family!"

Have you seen how many people she is now including in that family? Reunions will be quite expensive indeed!

Birthdays alone are going to break me!
And Christmas! 8-O

At least you know what to get all of us. BOOKS! :D

And cakes. We all get a birthday cake.

*wonders what kind of cake MrA will ask for. Will it beat suge's HEG/pony/shark request?*

Wonders what a HEG/pony/shark look like?

I was thinking sea centaur...

kik!! I so want to see that cake, JP.

Let's just hope MrA's cake doesn't involve any pictures of "sock puppets"..

ROFL!!!

suge, I'm so sorry, my eyes are very tired today from the beginnings of a headache. You said:

I've come up with a list fo Things About Me A HEG Might Like

And I read:

I've come up with a list of Thongs About Me A HEG Might Like

Well, yes. Most men appreciate a nice thong.

OMW! *wipes of the keyboard and screen*

LadyN said "GN: My dad's paying!"

I read:
"GN: My dad's praying!"

119 - Ha ha ha!!! well, he is a vicar.... :-)

JP said Cat says she spends so much time shelving books, she has no time to read.

I read "Cat says she spends so much time shoveling books, she has no time to read."

Earlier, I misread the thread topic "bookish cakes" as "bookshakes." Is that like a milkshake that you drink while reading, I wonder?

I like chocolate bookshakes myself. Nice and classic. Much better than those bookshakes that are all sugar and no flavor. :o)

I will find out if cat has been shoveling books. Some days, I think it seems like that to her!

I just read Jp's post as

I like chocolate bookshelves myself.

instead of

I like chocolate bookshakes myself.

How do you do it JP? don't they melt during summer?

Not if you keep a shelf full of ice cream books with sprinkle covers!

*Pictures a library fashioned much like the castle in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.*

That would be so yummy.

*imagines getting locked in the library*

So are the books made of chocolate too?

...

I'll be over in a few hours.

On the 'What are you eating in June?' thread, ejj said:

Made pepper steak last night and put too much cornstarch in the sauce, so it was rather gummy.

I read:

Made pepper steak last night and put too much cornstarch in the sauce, so it had gummy worms.

mmm gummy worms and pepper steak...
sounds like a fabulous combo =P

grkmwk said: People keep telling me that I look great for being 38+ weeks pregnant

I read: People keep telling me that I look great for being 38

Which would be insulting if you were under 38, but not so bad if you were over 38. :o)

On Good News/Bad News, K said:

Bad news: Two dead cat toys in a single day. They're going to have to be tossed.

I read:

Bad news: Two dead cats in a single day. They're going to have to be tossed.

I couldn't believe K would be so callus about her cats! Or even stray cats!

I wondered about the wording on that but knew no one would think me so without feeling. All are well, thank goodness!! My thoughts are that I now know why those cat toys were on sale - they break easily. Slinky tore one of the toys apart in about two minutes.

#132

I misread the same initially, was rather confused!!

From the HE regional meet up thread Bib said

"I can't actually afford to buy a tee at this juncture..."

I read

"I can't actually afford to buy a tree at this juncture..."

Silly sister.

K from the good news thread said

"Good news: There are Half-Price Books coupons."

I read

"Good news: There are Half-blood Prince coupons."

#136: I read it like that, too. :D

Hmm, I think we're all suffering from movie-impatience. ;)

137: good i'm glad i'm not the only one. I got so excited at first. "There are Half-blood Prince coupons!? oh no 'half-price books' well that's not at all the same thing...better go to the misread thread"

While cleaning today a tag on a shirt I had said
"Pro Wedgie"

When I looked closer I realized it said "Pro Weight".

Everyone knows that the Pro Wedgie brand is underwear.

Ms Donna said:
BN: I've thrown my back out
GN: I've found an ok physio and for once my health fund actually seems to be paying a decent mount toward the cost
BN: the pysio likes acupuncture
GN: He now comprehends that I mean it, when I say "don't show me the needles and it will be ok"

I read:
BN: I've thrown my back out
GN: I've found an ok psycho and for once my health fund actually seems to be paying a decent mount toward the cost
BN: the psycho likes acupuncture
GN: He now comprehends that I mean it, when I say "don't show me the needles and it will be ok"

You've gotta watch those psychos with needles.

ROFL!! I can't look at 142 or 143 without laughing!

Anyone who enjoys sticking needles in someone has to be a psycho. its official.

Heehee! My mother has a pretend hurt look on her face to appear crushed and says, "I don't think that's true." ;)

foggi wrote:
"...we had yummy Indian food and then walked around Millennium Park. We saw a neat fountain, and also Cloudgate (commonly known as "The Bean") -- a really cool piece of modern art."

Somehow I missed a whole line and read:
"we had yummy Indian food and modern art."

Meanwhile...

MsDonna wrote:
"Although it did not have a lot of crucial scenes in it, I still enjoyed it."

I read:
"Although it did not have a lot of cruel scenes in it, I still enjoyed it."

#147 -- Well, that summarizes things pretty well, though I expect a rumor within minutes stating that Maren and I eat modern art.

You should try pop art. I think it's less calories. :o)

lots of calories in pop tarts, i think.

I don't think this counts as a misread, more just the way my mind works. When i read this in #147:
"we had yummy Indian food and modern art."

my mind translated it as:
"we had yummy Indian food and fart."

8-S

Maybe it was the Indian food.

#132 I misread it as that, too! At first I was like, "What?!" but then I read it again. :)

#150 That's like when my dad says it's not Smart and Final it's Fart and Smile...

ETA: Okay, this wasn't on LT but I just misread something that scared me on FB.
He said: "didn't win any $ but grandma did. So when are we bingoing???"

I read it as: "didn't win any $ but grandma died. So when are we bingoing???"

I can't believe how long it's been since someone misread something!
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I misread what MsBella was eating

She said--cream of chicken soup

I read--ice cream chicken soup.

ah yes, soup made from the fabulous ice-cream chickens that roam the frozen north. A rare delicacy.

Ron said: I bought a new cellphone!! And it's great because it has many many more functions than my old one!!

I read: I bought a new cellophane!! And it's great because it has many many more functions than my old one!!

I didn't even know plastic wrap had other functions.

That's what I read too! Glad I wasn't the only one!

#155: LOL! Yes, it came with a very long manual on how to use it! kik

Hmm... I'm feeling embarrassed that I seem to be the only one misreading things. It must be the heat.

Anyway, PollyAnnaHP said:
"I watched a thing once about minnows being used to give pedicures..."

I read:

"I watched a thing once about giving minnows pedicures..."

You're not the only one, JP. The latest LT blog post is titled, "Hugos for two LT authors," which I, of course, read as, "Hugs for two LT authors."

Hugs, Hugos, same thing, really. Except with an O.

lol! That's too funny JP!

On Good News/Bad News thread theexiledlibrarian wrote:

"two days in Macinac Island, Michigan (gorgeous! will definitely go back!)"

I read:
"two days in Maniac Island, Michigan (gorgeous! will definitely go back!)"

On the weather thread, polly really wrote:

hot and dry! My poor plants! I can't water them enough to keep them from drying up!

Which I read as:
hot and dry! My poor pants! I can't water them enough to keep them from drying up!

Another one.

On the facts thread LadyN wrote:
GN: I had an awesome time at my friend's Hen Party

Which I read as:
GN: I had an awesome time at my friend's Henny Penny Party

That must be an intersting party.

I'm so glad I wasn't drinking or eating when I read #163. :o)

Nothing worst than dried up shriveled pants.

I was just skimming headlines and ran across one that appeared to say:

"Rare mop thief arrested in Spain"

Oh . . .

"Rare map thief . . ."

Never mind.

Foggi, I think I read something with a headline like that as well
I did the excact same thing.

I don't know if I'm allowed to write this but I'm writing it anyway. It's more something that I misheard.
I was chatting to a friend and she said:

Ama- f******-zing! (expressing emotion)
I heard it as:
I'm a f****** zing!
and I said:
What's a f******* zing???

In the What are you Eating in September thread, bib said:

"Everything bagel and Coke."

I read:

"Everything bagel on cake"

That must be a very misread-able thread -- grkmwk said:
"Not sure what dinner will be, but I'm pretty sure that whatever it is, my husband will be cooking it!"

I read:
"Not sure what dinner will be, but I'm pretty sure that whatever it is, my husband will be choking on it!"

Yikes!

Hmm.......I am concerned by grkmwk's cooking now.

On the "What are you watching in September" thread susiesharp posted a reply to LG's Project Runway question and called her "little". At first glance I'd seen the "su" and the fact that it was about PR and assumed it was suge, making me wonder why she was calling her "little".

yeah... wait, what?

Yeah, it wasn't well written. Basically a newbie made up a nickname for LG that confused me.

gotcha, bibble.

Oh my I made the misread thread..LOL....I clicked on this because I bought a book called The Greek Who Stole Christmas but I bought it because I thought it was the GEEK that Stole Christmas!

On GN/BN I read LadyN's post #223 as 'industrial strength pliers'

Must be the day to misread LadyN's news . . .

She posted, ". . . An early birthday present because I won't be doing a shift here until after the big day."

I read, ". . . An early birthday present because I won't be doing . . ."

Um, never mind. Let's just say, I missed a couple of key letters.

#177 - I wish I had them too!!

#178 - Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!

On "What are you eating", ejj said:

Perfect for what has suddenly become fall weather.


I read:

Perfect for what has suddenly become foul weather.

too much pirating, i warrant. yarrr.

In the good news/bad news, polly said:

okay! I am now gainfully employed

I read:

okay! I am now painfully employed

Which made me wonder what kind of job she got.

It is with a three month old. Maybe the baby has colic.

In this thread, compski wrote:
It is with a three month old. Maybe the baby has colic.

Which I read as:
It is with a three month old. Maybe the baby has a collie.

Which made me think that the baby was instructing the dog to bite polly. Poor polly!

bad baby!

In the LadyN birthday thread, Ron said:
may all your wishes become realities

I read:

may all your wishes become reptiles

unusual birthday wish, i thought... what is he, Slitheryn?

Kirby posted:
"My lunch was a flop."

I read:
"My lunch was a frog."

Hmmm . . . tastes like chicken?

In GN/BN, Ejj wrote that she was going to visit her friend in Tuscon. I kept trying to make it say Tuscany but got stuck when there was no "y." I even convinced myself for a couple of seconds that it was just a typo. Ejj, I just really want you to go to Tuscany! (and to take me with you)

Same post as above, but in GN/BN Ejj wrote:
Hoping everyone sick gets well...

Which I read as:
Hoping everyone gets sick well...

Same post again and same as kirby except I thought Ejj said

Hoping everyone gets sick as well

lol, we are all having trouble!

I read the above as "hopping". Must be the frog reference.

yes, they taste like chicken. But then, everything does. Except chicken.

#187 I read it like that as well! Ejj was really trying to mess with our brains. Lol

On Good News/Bad News foggi said:
"The work day ended on a real downer: I had to listen to whinging, followed by leaving the building to find that it's raining, which I was not prepared for."
I read:
"The work day ended on a real downer: I had to listen to whipping, followed by leaving the building to find that it's raining, which I was not prepared for."
For half a second I wondered if this was how they punished insubordination at her work!

#192 -- By the time I left, I was ready to advocate for it! ;-)

I was checking the online weather forecast, and i read "Dangerous surf conditions" as "Dangerous smurf conditions".

Smurf conditions...{{{{scary}}}}

Don't you mean {{{{smurfing scary}}}}

You know those Smurfs are a trained team of ninjas. Very dangerous.

A student was wearing a baseball t-shirt, and I read "Moodyteat". That can't be right...look closer...oh, her necklace is covering a letter, it's Moodyheat".

We're not smurfing starting this again? Why the smurf would we do something as smurfing crazy as that smurf?

PollyAnnaHP said:
I don't really mind all the nonsense status posts on FB, but I guess that's b/c of my historical background

I read:

I don't really mind all the nonsense status posts on FB, but I guess that's b/c of my hysterical background

Source: Good News / Bad News

ETA: bad italics! down! down! good boy!

This is a RL misread, not a misread from one of the threads -- but it's funny, so I thought I'd share it. Someone had written down a book suggestion for me, including ISBN and publisher name. The book was published by Little, Brown, and Company. They had written, "Little Brown Books" . . . which I read as "Little Brown Socks." I actually spent a minute or two thinking, that must be a new small press that I haven't heard of, before I looked again!

Not my misread, but had to share:

Whenever the 1st grader I drive home everyday has reading homework, she reads the book to me on the way to her mom. Today she was reading a story about the Frog Princess. As she gets to the sentence about the 2nd prince she says
"He shot his arrow and a dizzy ditz came back to him."

What the book really said was
"He shot his arrow and a dainty duchess came back to him."

On the good news/bad news thread Ron said:

"GN: My closest friend's boyfriend is going to the states on Monday for a whole week,"

But I read:

"GN: My closet boyfriend is going to the states on Monday for a whole week,"

I'm not judging or anything...

#203: LOL....Maybe I should have said a close friend and leave it at that :P

Cat wrote: And knitting spools are always useful!

What I read: And knitting spoons are always useful!

What exactly is a knitting spoon? Sounds silly to me.

Source: Hogwarts Express Holiday Party 2009

LOL! It's so she can knit and eat at the same time!

On the Christmas caroling thread, JP wrote "Hear the snow crunch" and Ron said "Hear the kids bunch..."

I read it together as "Hear the kids crunch"

Bad image in my head...

i read that too.

then i wanted to add my own lyrics, but i didn't want to ruin the thread.

Hear the snow crunch
Hear the kids bunch
Hear me worms munch
I might lose lunch...

#208: LOL

I'm actually pretty sure that you see the kids bunch...not hear them.

Hello?

#211 -- This is a message board, not live chat. You can post a message, and people will respond when they are here, but there is not always someone here to chat back and forth.

#208: LOL! And yes, kids should be seen bunching, not heard. Even though they are pretty loud when they bunch. :o)

#210: I googled it and just copied it :P, my bad. I had forgotten the lyrics....oops...

what if they're like, covered in corn chips? You'd hear them when they bunched then. Because they'd crunch.

>#211: Hi! Don't listen to message 212, this really is a live chat session. We're all just really, really slow typers. So, whatcha up to?

Hello?

oh well.

JP said "My husband made veggie nuggets and broccoli for my seven year old."

I read: "My husband made veggie nuggets and broccoli that were seven years old."

Time for some cooking lessons, i thought. My mistake.

Source: What are you eating?

You're confused. That was last night's dinner. :oP

LG wrote in the latest rants thread:


I hate when someone else's incompentence requires me to do something to cover for THEM. Ugh.

I read:


I hate when someone else's incontinence requires me to do something to cover for THEM. Ugh.

Ugh, indeed.

I would hate that, too! ;-)

try coughing loudly. That might work.

Ugh, indeed.

Not so much a misread as a perception error. Kirby offered her sympathies to Kerian on the good news/bad news thread and looked on the brighter side of things:

Glad that you did have some friends and you DM saw how good of a job you were doing.

Instead of me reading DM as District Manager, I read it as Dungeon Master. Man I've been reading too much Order of the Stick and Darths & Droids lately...

JP said: "Right now I'm enjoying a break after a hectic couple of weeks."

I read: "Right now I'm enjoying a break after a heretic couple of weeks."

That bad, huh?

:o)

I was practically burned at the stake!

Or was it that I burned a steak?

Whatever.

Dungeon Master! :P Heehee. I suppose that makes me one of those among us who are kept in a basement. ;)

JP entire family is sleeping in catbastet's brunch scones. Must be some large scones.

Source: What are you eating?

Me misreading thread titles again.

The thread is called "Crafty thread number 5", which I read as "Crazy thread number 5". I want to know what happened to the first 4 threads.

Me again.

In the New Years Eve Celebration thread polly said:
Thank you! Yes the Ohio people are hard to keep down!

I read:
Thank you! Yes the Ohio people are hard to knee down!

Ouch!

Maybe if she tried a sucker punch first. :oP

And I now feel the need to find a crazy thread. Why haven't we started one before? :o)

Well, almost all of our threads are crazy...or crafty. Maybe we're crazy because we're crafty or crafty because we're crazy.

K had a bit of a typo on the GN/BN thread, she said:

Best o fluck Bella! {sic}.

I'll leave it to you all to guess what I read.

*snicker* Yeah, I read it like that too. Spacing malfunction!

Grief! Off to the G/B news thread.

Me three.

In the GN/BN thread, polly wrote:
Going to Cole's Fifth Birthday Party in about an hour!

Which I read as:
Going to Colin Firths' Birthday Party in about an hour!
First I was suprised, then shocked. The next thought that ran through my head was maybe it was a movie marithon in chat. Then I reread the post.

That's what I read first too!

The movie marathon in chat is not a bad idea. I wonder when Colin Firth's birthday is?

*goes to check*

Apparently it's September 10th. Hmmmm. . . .

I was looking at houses online and read "NEW PERGO FLRS" as "NEW PREGO FLRS" and thought the floors were pregnant.

Or, they have lots of spaghetti sauce on the floor.

I was reading a library newsletter and read "Library Inventory Underway" as "Library Underwear Inventory." I sure don't want to help with that inventory project!

Books need underwear? Hmm, I should go make some for my poor books straight away. Right now they are all completely bare!

ETA: Do you think dust jackets count? Only, it would save me on the number of undies I need to make. ;)

Well books wear thongs now, don't they?

Rissa said:

Jason was up all night sick, which means I'm taking care of Adara plus my roommates 22 month old without any help.

I read:

Jason was up all night sick, which means I'm taking care of Adara plus my 22 roommates without any help.

I don't think I would be able to take care of a baby and 22 roommates without help...

In Third Verse pollysmith quoted Oklahoma and then added:

(You did say misquotes were okay, right?)

I read it as "You did say mosquitos were okay, right?"

Which is okay in Minnesota, their state bird, but I don't know about Oklahoma.

No, Oklahoma's state bird is The Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher, a species that, contrary to its name, eats mosquitos.

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

Can't see the picture, but this is weird: I just finished filling out G.I. Joe valentines for the all boys class that we're trading with.

243: That is totally how I just read it now.

244- LOL!

I know I'm tired when I look at the Hangman thread and see:

polly has written How about P
foggi has written H?

And I read them as:

-How about :P~~~~
-Huh?

#248 -- I saw Polly's post as :P~~~~ at first, too.

In the What are you reading in January 2010 thread I read: I finished The Lovely Bones and started on We Need To Talk About Kerian.

MsD actually said: I finished The Lovely Bones and started on We Need To Talk About Kevin.

#250: Yeah, but still we definitely should talk about Kerian....she is great, isn't she? XD

That's funny. Er, the misread. Thank you, Ron! You're awesome. :)

I have two entries:

I *keep* reading
Site Talk: Best search source as Best beach...which could be blamed on the 2+ feet of snow outside.

Then there is
Site Talk:Where do colored checkmarks show up? which I read as colored chalkmarks

I can see where littleshell would prefer it said "beach". :o)

I keep reading the "Links to series discussion threads here!" thread title as
Links to serious discussions here!

I prefer the silly discussions, myself.

How about the seriously silly discussions?

#257: Why are you calling discussions silly, she(silly) has feelings too cat...;)

#259: I think she likes silly's discussions, silly. :o)

Links to sirius discussions here!

Silly's discussions are the best discussions in the world!

Me misreading thread titles again:

I read the threads "Add a Word, Drop a Word #14" and What are you eating in Febraury" as
What are you dropping in February?

The perfect thread for me since I seem to be dropping everything in February.

Good thing it's almost March then!

March is Throwing Things month. Much more fun.

I was doing some homework. I have no idea what was going on in my head, but I meant to write "more" and I write "per". I have no clue how that happened.

Remember this thread?

SRedRose said: "Right this minute I'm waiting for my henna seal to dry".
I read "Right this minute I'm waiting for my hernia seal to dry".

um. think i'm sharing too much again. ew. just ew.

at least i didn't post the rest of the sentence.

Source: What medical procedure are you undergoing right now?

LOL! Love your source!

Mwa ha ha ha ha!

Okay. Last night I was driving some girls that I take to church home. When I'm getting ready to turn on their street (which is not a busy street in the evening) I see a man trying to hitchhike. Look again (because that's very rare in our area) and it's just a mailbox.

I think I need to sleep.

So...foggi said:

Now Espy is starting to mix up a rub for the ribs we'll eat tonight

I read:

Now Espy is starting to rub his ribs. We'll eat tonight

I couldn't figure out how the first thought connected to the second...

I read that Espy moved Foggi's back yard. He didn't, he mowed it.

Espy's been busy lately! :oD

Well, there had to be some reason that my posting was down...

I guess it's hard to get computer access while living in the backyard.

I thought he was living in the basement? He moved?

Oh, you know Espy, he's always on the go. He moved the whole yard, didn't you hear?

Wait, so the yard is now in the basement?

hmmm...sounds like a rumor. We should really spread it verify it.

He has escaped! You round up the villagers, i'll collect the torches and pitchforks.

mamzel wrote:
I highly recommend that you DVR the show so you can fast forward through Mario Lopez's parts.

I read:

I highly recommend that you DVR the show so you can fast forward through Mario Lopez's pants.

Source: What pants are you watching in April

Some girls might wonder why one would want to FF through his pants. ;-)

jp said:
"We went to the native plant sale today at the college nearby."

I read:

"We went to the naive plant sale today at the college nearby."

Oh, those wide-eyed freshman plants.

ejj said:
"I'm not a big fan of heights or roller coasters, although two of the three main rides at the new park are described as being like roller coasters, so we'll see."

I read:
"I'm not a big fan of heights or roller coasters, although two of the three main rides at NewPark are described as being like roller coasters, so we'll see."

NewPark's the name of my city's mall. I had to wonder why ejj would be talking about it and when it got any rides other than the train that goes around the first floor on weekends.

From my home page I read
"Hecklers: Please post here" as one of the group threads.

It was really:
Hogwarts Express: Psst! I heard it from an impeckable source... (Rumours VIII)

Hmmm...Oddly, that sounds correct either way... :o)

PA wrote:

Spaghetti.....then I had a waffle cone with butter pecan ice cream.

I read:

Spaghetti in a waffle cone with butter pecan ice cream.

Then I started trying to visualize that...

Yum!

In a review by Wyvernfriend I misread A light book but made me think about the importance of what we drink and what it has done to society - as -...what it has done to sobriety.

found here

That's sounds interesting. What has drinking done to sobriety? :o)

fixed it.

I think you mean expelled it.

Today, I misread the title of the Mark spam works thread.

I read it as Mark sperm works.

I'm not sure what it is about me misreading thread titles, but I misread What are you watching in May? as Why are you watching Me .
I had to look over my shoulder.

On post #86 of the Train Derailment thread I misread JP's post as:

I had trimmed the front of my teeth about two or three months ago to get some of my curl back...

Yes folks, JP is a Vampire. *thinking of running over to the rumor thread*

hahahahaha! *runs tongue along teeth to see if the fangs need trimming*

In Good News/Bad News I thought K said:


Yes, well we have smelly marshmallows in here. :P Heehee. Actually, I think I've heard that's from the fish. In either case, there's not much to see here.

What she really said was:
Yes, well we have smelly marshland inland. :P Heehee. Actually, I think I've heard that's from the fish. In either case, there's not much to see here.

Alas, only if anyone finds any leftover Easter stuff. ;) I personally don't like marshmallows. My sister always begs for the hot chocolate packets with marshmallows included and it drives me nuts because she never drinks it.

Today I misread a thread title on a teacher site. What I read was:
Dating Editors for the week of 3/14

What it really said was:
Daily Editing for the week of 3/14

My brain is determined to make this an interesting day. Earlier, I read a post in another group that said:
"I like that painting at the top of your thread!" as
"I like that paining on the top of your head!"

An interesting image, to be sure.

And then, later, as I was straightening books in the nonfiction section, I came across the book The Big Caribou Herd . . . which my brain interpreted as The Big Bad Caribou Herd.

Somebody needs to write that one.

foggi, I had a misread on your post about the slipcover you made. The first time I read it, I thought you were using the cotton material you had because you had given up your ghost. I thought it strange that you would have a ghost costume that would be big enough to turn into a slipcover. 8-/

Now if it had been a Dementor costume....

Yesterday I missread a friends post:
"#1 baby-related pet peeve: cradle cap! Arghhh! Any tips on how to get rid of it for good??"
as
"#1 baby-related pet peeve: cradle crap! Arghhh! Any tips on how to get rid of it for good??"

LOL! Mandy, I always called it cradle crap. I used to rub olive oil on my babies' heads and comb out the crap. :o)

I have been watching too much football. I was on FB and looking at upcoming events, one said "Peace Corps at University of Ohio" and I thought "Peace Corps doesn't have a football team!" Duh.

All I have to say is, one tablespoon of baking soda makes a huge difference when what the recipe really wants is one teaspoon.

been there, done that.

The post reads: "Another treat for Tolkien fans!"

What I read: "Another threat for Tolkien fans!"

This week I've been reading my professor's doctoral dissertation (which is deadly boring, by the way) and it's about labor migration to Sweden in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, so he writes a lot about immigrants from different parts of the world. And I swear that every time the word "utomnordiska" (which means people not from Scandinavia) shows up, I read it as "utomjordiska" (which means people not from Earth). Every. Time.

307: Is there a difference?

I saw a post by a girl on a forum saying "Worms are ick." I totally read it as "Women are ick." I think it was a sign that I really needed sleep last night.

307 - That could make it less boring. :)

309 - I like worms better than I like some women.

I gave that girl a stern lecture on why worms are great. They're so humble and very helpful, and eat the scraps of humanity's food and turn it into compost, which is a useful fertilizer. Seriously, what's not to love about worms?

Exactly!  I gave some friends a telling off for squishing worms in the rain.  They're one of the creepy crawlies that I just can't stand to see killed.

Neither can I! Poor wormies. If you ever see a teenaged girl and an older woman crawling around on their hands and knees, picking worms off the sidewalk and driveway after a good rain, that would be me and my mom. We're crazy worm lovers. :)

I do the same thing. ^^

There's a thread over in the Frequently Asked Questions group about the Quick Links feature.

I "tried" to read that as "Quack links."

My brain replaced "Morphy's Mighty Monthly Meteoric Reads" with "Might Morphin' Power Rangers".  I need to get some sleep...

#316: Mine just did that as I read your post. I think it might have more to do with age and level of nerdiness than lack of sleep!

That makes me feel better, but I also just read "acute pain" as "acne pain".

I was just flipping through A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns. The caption below one of the lace patterns caught my eye: I thought it identified the pattern as "Grand Tinfoil." (The pattern is really called "Grand Trefoil" -- as in the clover-like thing, not the would-be aluminum.)