[UPDATE: Hmm. As much fun as the mondegreens and 2nd grade jokes are, I'm a bit surprised that no one has guessed yet, so I've added some more] LAST UPDATE: Amazingly, we seems to have stumped the peanut gallery. Spoiler links added for the first four and the very last.]
Taking a couple of minutes between large blocks of work.
Identify these titles:
"The Treasure of C. Errol Madre"
"The Mess of Adrian Listenger"
I have one more, but I'll save it on the chance that these titles mean nothing to anybody. The last one:
And some more:
"Satan Place"
"Island of the Darned"
"Bronzefinger"
"Absorbe the Greek"
"Valerie of the Dolls"
"Widow Often Annie"
"Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm"
"How Green Was My Valet"
"What's It All About, Algie?"
"I Am Curiously Yellow"
Also, I moved the bulk of them above the fold, and added what I think HAS to be a spoiler below. Don't peek unless you need to:
Posted by Ken S at August 21, 2007 09:29 AM | TrackBack (0) |What about "The Yellow River" by I.P. Daylee?
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 21, 2007 09:41 AMI had a cat named Tequila Mockingbird when I was in high school? No?
Posted by: Tanya at August 21, 2007 09:41 AMBingley, I thought that author was I.P. Freeley.
And then there's "The Spot on the Wall" by Hoo Flung Dung....
Posted by: ricki at August 21, 2007 10:18 AM"The Long Run to the Outhouse" by Willie Makeit and Betty Dont.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 21, 2007 10:20 AM"The Wonders Of Life Insurance" by Justin Case.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 21, 2007 10:49 AM"The Fuel Efficiency Hoax" by Phil R. Hupp
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 21, 2007 10:53 AMThe Treasure of Sierra Madre
To Kill a Mockingbird
No Clue
The Grapes of Wrath (or Planet of the Apes, one of the two)
I tend to prefer the misheard lyrics game:
-There's a bathroom on the right
-Excuse me while I kiss this guy
"Antlers in the Treetop" by U. Gooseda Moose
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 21, 2007 10:56 AMTo clarify, I'm not looking for the titles parodied but for where they were used. And #3 was a parody of "The List of Adrian Messenger".
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 21, 2007 11:02 AM"The List of Adrian Messenger" was actually pretty good - if you like famous actors made up to be unrecognizable.
Posted by: mojo at August 21, 2007 11:50 AMKG, my favorite misheard lyric was:
"The girl with colitis goes by"
And Ken, we have a mutual friend who thought Crystal Gayle was singing "Donuts make my brown eyes blue."
:-)
Posted by: Julie at August 21, 2007 03:42 PMHey, I'm a prone to mishearing lyrics as the next person, but somehow I think I would have assumed that "colitis" was not the correct lyric.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 21, 2007 04:26 PMHow about some blog-o-tastic titles:
"For Whom The Blog Trolls"
"Paper Moonbat"
"Fisks of Fury"
"Harry Blogger and the Half-Wit Prints", where the boy wizard tangles with the dead-tree media
Do it man!
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 22, 2007 07:14 AMKen, they all sound like book titles you'd see on the Simpsons, if that's what you're looking for.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 22, 2007 07:49 AMOkay, television. Getting a little closer.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 22, 2007 08:00 AMI haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about, but I'll note that "The Apes of Wrath" was the title of a Darkwing Duck episode. None of the others were, though.
Posted by: Angie Schultz at August 22, 2007 10:19 AMI had a cat named Tequila Mockingbird when I was in high school? No?
Reminds me of Dorothy Parker naming her parakeet Onan, because he spilled his seed upon the ground.
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at August 22, 2007 10:28 AMThat sounds like stuff Archie Bunker would say.
Posted by: Val Prieto at August 22, 2007 10:29 AMThey couldn't have been the mock TV shows in the movie "Stay Tuned," could they?
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at August 22, 2007 10:31 AM"Darkwing Duck" was much later than this usage, and while they do sound a bit like Archie Bunker, they predate both him and "Stay Tuned".
Actually, it's possible that a few of them don't predate Archie Bunker.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 22, 2007 10:51 AMIf it weren't for the "predate" warning, I'd say it was all Rocky and Bullwinkle stuff.
Posted by: Shannon at August 22, 2007 11:10 AMZorba the Greek ;-)
Posted by: Qatar Cat at August 22, 2007 11:48 AMDamn, missed it by that much
Posted by: KG at August 22, 2007 03:26 PMSorry about that, Chief.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 22, 2007 03:35 PMHere's a title from an actual obscure comic book: "Dalmation Alley."
Once Rush Limbaugh make a remark that merged the Beach Boys with Friedrich Hayek: "Serfin' USA."
Posted by: Alan K. Henderson. Katie Couric's sparring partner at August 23, 2007 07:20 AM