Quick hit — misquotes as the source of inspiration

This morning, driving in, listening to the Pogues’ “Hell’s Ditch” for the first time in a long while, I misheard a line in a song I once knew well. I thought it said someone had “vinegar hair.”

Vinegar hair.

What would vinegar hair look like? taste like? Under what circumstances would you describe someone as having vinegar hair? Is it necessary to know that before you do describe someone that way?

It’s going in the poem.

I’m off to doctor’s appointments, hope to c’mon back with a first draft before SPEAK… tonight.

I’d love to read it there. Theme is “flight”, by the way.

T

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45 responses to “Quick hit — misquotes as the source of inspiration

  • pelelawngoddess

    Re: vinegar hair

    “rock the casbah”= “drop the tampon”

    I agree that IS the best misheard lyric of all time!

  • pelelawngoddess

    Re: vinegar hair

    “rock the casbah”= “drop the tampon”

    I agree that IS the best misheard lyric of all time!

  • pelelawngoddess

    Re: vinegar hair

    “rock the casbah”= “drop the tampon”

    I agree that IS the best misheard lyric of all time!

  • pelelawngoddess

    Re: vinegar hair

    “rock the casbah”= “drop the tampon”

    I agree that IS the best misheard lyric of all time!

  • pelelawngoddess

    Re: vinegar hair

    “rock the casbah”= “drop the tampon”

    I agree that IS the best misheard lyric of all time!

  • pelelawngoddess

    LMAO!!!

    “Hold me closer Tiny Dancer. Lady darling she’s so splendid” (Lay me down in sheets of linen)

    FOR YEARS I was convinced Elton John REALLY liked girls.
    (Yes, I also was very young and now I know he didn’t even write his lyrics.)

    It didn’t help that my Mom could not understand the words to ANY contemporary music (no matter the genre) and my siblings enjoyed watching me make an ass of myself.

  • pelelawngoddess

    LMAO!!!

    “Hold me closer Tiny Dancer. Lady darling she’s so splendid” (Lay me down in sheets of linen)

    FOR YEARS I was convinced Elton John REALLY liked girls.
    (Yes, I also was very young and now I know he didn’t even write his lyrics.)

    It didn’t help that my Mom could not understand the words to ANY contemporary music (no matter the genre) and my siblings enjoyed watching me make an ass of myself.

  • pelelawngoddess

    LMAO!!!

    “Hold me closer Tiny Dancer. Lady darling she’s so splendid” (Lay me down in sheets of linen)

    FOR YEARS I was convinced Elton John REALLY liked girls.
    (Yes, I also was very young and now I know he didn’t even write his lyrics.)

    It didn’t help that my Mom could not understand the words to ANY contemporary music (no matter the genre) and my siblings enjoyed watching me make an ass of myself.

  • pelelawngoddess

    LMAO!!!

    “Hold me closer Tiny Dancer. Lady darling she’s so splendid” (Lay me down in sheets of linen)

    FOR YEARS I was convinced Elton John REALLY liked girls.
    (Yes, I also was very young and now I know he didn’t even write his lyrics.)

    It didn’t help that my Mom could not understand the words to ANY contemporary music (no matter the genre) and my siblings enjoyed watching me make an ass of myself.

  • pelelawngoddess

    LMAO!!!

    “Hold me closer Tiny Dancer. Lady darling she’s so splendid” (Lay me down in sheets of linen)

    FOR YEARS I was convinced Elton John REALLY liked girls.
    (Yes, I also was very young and now I know he didn’t even write his lyrics.)

    It didn’t help that my Mom could not understand the words to ANY contemporary music (no matter the genre) and my siblings enjoyed watching me make an ass of myself.

  • emceereeree

    Re: vinegar hair

    vinegar is actually GREAT for your hair! it seals the cuticle providing EXCELLENT shine. no shit. use cider vinegar for best results and rinse with COLD water.

    when we were in 4th grade, my friend heather used to think that “rock the casbah” was “drop the tampon”

    that is the best misheard lyric ever in the history of ear wax and cognitive breakdown

  • emceereeree

    Re: vinegar hair

    vinegar is actually GREAT for your hair! it seals the cuticle providing EXCELLENT shine. no shit. use cider vinegar for best results and rinse with COLD water.

    when we were in 4th grade, my friend heather used to think that “rock the casbah” was “drop the tampon”

    that is the best misheard lyric ever in the history of ear wax and cognitive breakdown

  • emceereeree

    Re: vinegar hair

    vinegar is actually GREAT for your hair! it seals the cuticle providing EXCELLENT shine. no shit. use cider vinegar for best results and rinse with COLD water.

    when we were in 4th grade, my friend heather used to think that “rock the casbah” was “drop the tampon”

    that is the best misheard lyric ever in the history of ear wax and cognitive breakdown

  • emceereeree

    Re: vinegar hair

    vinegar is actually GREAT for your hair! it seals the cuticle providing EXCELLENT shine. no shit. use cider vinegar for best results and rinse with COLD water.

    when we were in 4th grade, my friend heather used to think that “rock the casbah” was “drop the tampon”

    that is the best misheard lyric ever in the history of ear wax and cognitive breakdown

  • emceereeree

    Re: vinegar hair

    vinegar is actually GREAT for your hair! it seals the cuticle providing EXCELLENT shine. no shit. use cider vinegar for best results and rinse with COLD water.

    when we were in 4th grade, my friend heather used to think that “rock the casbah” was “drop the tampon”

    that is the best misheard lyric ever in the history of ear wax and cognitive breakdown

  • radioactiveart

    Don’t feel bad.

    My brothers in law thought “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” was “Give the devil his rebate.”

  • radioactiveart

    Don’t feel bad.

    My brothers in law thought “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” was “Give the devil his rebate.”

  • radioactiveart

    Don’t feel bad.

    My brothers in law thought “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” was “Give the devil his rebate.”

  • radioactiveart

    Don’t feel bad.

    My brothers in law thought “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” was “Give the devil his rebate.”

  • radioactiveart

    Don’t feel bad.

    My brothers in law thought “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” was “Give the devil his rebate.”

  • monkeypudding

    vinegar hair

    the unwashed hair of early morning after a night of long hard sex.

    the lash in the eye of a potato.

    uncle’s beard after eating vinegar soup.

    the hair of a horse’s mane on a horse that’s been shot and dumped in a creek to rot.

    the hair of a whisk broom used to sweep up the piss and placenta in a barn after a cow has given birth to a still born.

  • monkeypudding

    vinegar hair

    the unwashed hair of early morning after a night of long hard sex.

    the lash in the eye of a potato.

    uncle’s beard after eating vinegar soup.

    the hair of a horse’s mane on a horse that’s been shot and dumped in a creek to rot.

    the hair of a whisk broom used to sweep up the piss and placenta in a barn after a cow has given birth to a still born.

  • monkeypudding

    vinegar hair

    the unwashed hair of early morning after a night of long hard sex.

    the lash in the eye of a potato.

    uncle’s beard after eating vinegar soup.

    the hair of a horse’s mane on a horse that’s been shot and dumped in a creek to rot.

    the hair of a whisk broom used to sweep up the piss and placenta in a barn after a cow has given birth to a still born.

  • monkeypudding

    vinegar hair

    the unwashed hair of early morning after a night of long hard sex.

    the lash in the eye of a potato.

    uncle’s beard after eating vinegar soup.

    the hair of a horse’s mane on a horse that’s been shot and dumped in a creek to rot.

    the hair of a whisk broom used to sweep up the piss and placenta in a barn after a cow has given birth to a still born.

  • monkeypudding

    vinegar hair

    the unwashed hair of early morning after a night of long hard sex.

    the lash in the eye of a potato.

    uncle’s beard after eating vinegar soup.

    the hair of a horse’s mane on a horse that’s been shot and dumped in a creek to rot.

    the hair of a whisk broom used to sweep up the piss and placenta in a barn after a cow has given birth to a still born.

  • brags2bitches

    My favorite mis-quotes for song lyrics:

    Donuts make my brown eyes blue. (Don’t it make my brown eyes blue.)

    There’s a bathroom on the right. (There’s a bad moon on the rise.)

    Just call me angel of the morning, Just wash my feet before you leave me. (Just brush my cheek before you leave me.)

    Big ole Jed left a light on. (Big ole Jet Airliner.)

    You think after all that someone would have figured out I had a hearing problem as a child.

  • brags2bitches

    My favorite mis-quotes for song lyrics:

    Donuts make my brown eyes blue. (Don’t it make my brown eyes blue.)

    There’s a bathroom on the right. (There’s a bad moon on the rise.)

    Just call me angel of the morning, Just wash my feet before you leave me. (Just brush my cheek before you leave me.)

    Big ole Jed left a light on. (Big ole Jet Airliner.)

    You think after all that someone would have figured out I had a hearing problem as a child.

  • brags2bitches

    My favorite mis-quotes for song lyrics:

    Donuts make my brown eyes blue. (Don’t it make my brown eyes blue.)

    There’s a bathroom on the right. (There’s a bad moon on the rise.)

    Just call me angel of the morning, Just wash my feet before you leave me. (Just brush my cheek before you leave me.)

    Big ole Jed left a light on. (Big ole Jet Airliner.)

    You think after all that someone would have figured out I had a hearing problem as a child.

  • brags2bitches

    My favorite mis-quotes for song lyrics:

    Donuts make my brown eyes blue. (Don’t it make my brown eyes blue.)

    There’s a bathroom on the right. (There’s a bad moon on the rise.)

    Just call me angel of the morning, Just wash my feet before you leave me. (Just brush my cheek before you leave me.)

    Big ole Jed left a light on. (Big ole Jet Airliner.)

    You think after all that someone would have figured out I had a hearing problem as a child.

  • brags2bitches

    My favorite mis-quotes for song lyrics:

    Donuts make my brown eyes blue. (Don’t it make my brown eyes blue.)

    There’s a bathroom on the right. (There’s a bad moon on the rise.)

    Just call me angel of the morning, Just wash my feet before you leave me. (Just brush my cheek before you leave me.)

    Big ole Jed left a light on. (Big ole Jet Airliner.)

    You think after all that someone would have figured out I had a hearing problem as a child.

  • lowhumcrush

    Vinegar Hair

    is the scent of any shampoo that repulses the nose by igniting a bad memory.

    for me, Pert Shampoo now creates vinegar hair.

  • lowhumcrush

    Vinegar Hair

    is the scent of any shampoo that repulses the nose by igniting a bad memory.

    for me, Pert Shampoo now creates vinegar hair.

  • lowhumcrush

    Vinegar Hair

    is the scent of any shampoo that repulses the nose by igniting a bad memory.

    for me, Pert Shampoo now creates vinegar hair.

  • lowhumcrush

    Vinegar Hair

    is the scent of any shampoo that repulses the nose by igniting a bad memory.

    for me, Pert Shampoo now creates vinegar hair.

  • lowhumcrush

    Vinegar Hair

    is the scent of any shampoo that repulses the nose by igniting a bad memory.

    for me, Pert Shampoo now creates vinegar hair.

  • ocvictor

    >What would vinegar hair look like? taste like? Under what circumstances would you describe someone as having vinegar hair? Is it necessary to know that before you do describe someone that way?

    I have vinegar hair right now!

    Seriously. There’s vinegar in the home-made hair wash Lea makes.

  • ocvictor

    >What would vinegar hair look like? taste like? Under what circumstances would you describe someone as having vinegar hair? Is it necessary to know that before you do describe someone that way?

    I have vinegar hair right now!

    Seriously. There’s vinegar in the home-made hair wash Lea makes.

  • ocvictor

    >What would vinegar hair look like? taste like? Under what circumstances would you describe someone as having vinegar hair? Is it necessary to know that before you do describe someone that way?

    I have vinegar hair right now!

    Seriously. There’s vinegar in the home-made hair wash Lea makes.

  • ocvictor

    >What would vinegar hair look like? taste like? Under what circumstances would you describe someone as having vinegar hair? Is it necessary to know that before you do describe someone that way?

    I have vinegar hair right now!

    Seriously. There’s vinegar in the home-made hair wash Lea makes.

  • ocvictor

    >What would vinegar hair look like? taste like? Under what circumstances would you describe someone as having vinegar hair? Is it necessary to know that before you do describe someone that way?

    I have vinegar hair right now!

    Seriously. There’s vinegar in the home-made hair wash Lea makes.

  • just_jeff

    my fave of these is Dwight Yoakum’s

    odd claim in “Thousand Miles from Nowhere”: “I’ve got pickles in my head.” Oh, you do not, you liar.

  • just_jeff

    my fave of these is Dwight Yoakum’s

    odd claim in “Thousand Miles from Nowhere”: “I’ve got pickles in my head.” Oh, you do not, you liar.

  • just_jeff

    my fave of these is Dwight Yoakum’s

    odd claim in “Thousand Miles from Nowhere”: “I’ve got pickles in my head.” Oh, you do not, you liar.

  • just_jeff

    my fave of these is Dwight Yoakum’s

    odd claim in “Thousand Miles from Nowhere”: “I’ve got pickles in my head.” Oh, you do not, you liar.

  • just_jeff

    my fave of these is Dwight Yoakum’s

    odd claim in “Thousand Miles from Nowhere”: “I’ve got pickles in my head.” Oh, you do not, you liar.

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