Another Mondegreen

rogersgeorge on May 22nd, 2020

I’ve mentioned mondegreens before; do a search on the word in the upper right corner for more posts on the subject.

Here’s one I never thought of. (Maybe you have to be old enough to have heard this, by the way.) It’s in the last panel:

Boomerangs Comic Strip for March 19, 2020
https://www.gocomics.com/boomerangs/2020/03/19

I never thought of this one because the context supplies a clue. The ad starts with the line, “Everybody doesn’t like something, but…” The parallelism caused by the “but” gives us a clue about how to interpret the ambiguous-sounding phrase in the second half of the motto. But maybe the first half could have been “everybody does it like something,” maybe? huh?

If you have a mondegreen you like, share it in the comments.

PS—”nobody doesn’t like” is a good double negative, by the way.

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