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Thought this might be suitable for a crossword forum with its many homophones.

Listening to a trailer for a world service programme, the presenter mentioned:

Popeye con Boy George.

It has been repeated several times and I still mishear it.

Seventy odd years ago, a favourite was Charles Penrose's Laughing Policeman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhDKnRSMAwQ

He tells us that:

Once he did arrest a man and laughed until he cried.

I spent my childhood wondering what a resterman was.

On Popmaster this morning I heard Ken Bruce say "monkey instrumentalist" (it was actually "multi"). I thought he was referring to The Monkees, of course!

I used to think Micky Dolenz was an exotic skin disease

As a child I could never work out why the two countries of Orry and Tarr required three kings.

More recently I was able to share with my brother (a minister of the church in Toronto) a screenshot of the automatic subtitles for that morning’s weather forecast:
“There’ll be Grace, guys; coming from the East.”

There’s a bathroom on the right.

Thread locked 😁

I always liked my niece's version of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'. Hers featured 'Five cold drinks', rather than five gold rings.

When my daughter was about 3 she sang the last line of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” as "life’s a butter dream."

And then there’s the time Jimi actually sang “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” in a live performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqISGeOTYs&list=RDsDqISGeOTYs&start_radio=1

Not a mondegreen as such, but related. Try singing these words to the tune of Frere Jacques:
Life is but a
Life is but a
Melancholy flower
Life is but a
Melancholy flower

It took me quite a while to work out that “pay-per-view” wasn’t “paper view”.