Thursday, November 16, 2006

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   I believe I have devised the ultimate self-referential pun:
   "So, who is this Monty Green guy, anyway?"

   Ten points to the first person to identify the reference (Bright Weavers exempted from competition).


   So, a little Googling reveals that I am not, in fact, the first person to make this joke. And why would I be? It's so simple and obvious. I had fun with it anyway. So there!

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love mondegreens. The holiday movie "Olive the Other Rendeer" is full of them.

Anonymous said...

Hey, didn't "Round John Virgin" make a cameo in that movie?

Simon

Anonymous said...

Oh no, I haven't a clue!  :(

be well,
Dawn

Anonymous said...

I have no idea....maybe...Monty Python when he won the lottery...lol..-Raven

Anonymous said...

Don't know who he is, but when he died, I hear they laid him on the green.  Tina

Anonymous said...

Never mind the green... come to the Light side, Paul...

http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/entries/2006/11/16/weekend-assignment-139---light-or-dark/2307

be well,
Dawn

Anonymous said...

I used Teh Google and came up with some recently retired guy from a University in New Foundland.  

But, as always, I'll go with my stock answer and say that Monty Green portrayed the very first "Not The Regular Pool Boy" in the adult film industry.  

-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/

Anonymous said...

Everybody go back and read Cin's comment, and then use Teh Google again.
-Paul

Anonymous said...

Too much clue methinks.
***
The term 'mondegreen' — representing a series of words resulting from the mishearing of a statement or song lyric — is generally attributed to Sylvia Wright, who is credited with coining the neologism in a 1954 Harper's column. Ms. Wright was chagrined to discover that for many years she had misunderstood the last line of the first stanza in the Scottish folk ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray," which reads:

Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands,
Oh! Where ha'e ye been:
They ha'e slain the Earl of Murray,
And they laid him on the Green.


Ms. Wright misheard this stanza as:

Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands,
Oh! Where ha'e ye been:
They ha'e slain the Earl of Murray,
And Lady Mondegreen.


From the disappearance of Sylvia Wright's tragic heroine, Lady Mondegreen, came the term for describing unconventional interpretations or understandings of oral repetition, usually in the form of song lyrics.
***
Directly from Snopes.com

Did I ween???
I don't want the prize... do I.
Brent

Anonymous said...

ummm :0 so waht is a true Bright Weaver Paul! lol!
umm... is this guy related to the guy named Green in the Godfather?
natalie

Anonymous said...

what?...
oh  do Canadians eat turkey this week?:)
(tiptoes out...)
nat