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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2010 at 07:06
Originally posted by American Khatru American Khatru wrote:

As it turns out it's "Jeux sans frontières"!  That's just French for "games without frontiers".


Hence the line 'it's a knockout' - in the 1970s/1980s there was a TV show in the UK called 'It's A Knockout' where teams from various towns would compete in ludicrous games - it became so popular the format extended to include other European countries too - the name of the show? Jeux Sans Frontieres

And this is how ridiculous it all was


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Points: 24392 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2010 at 07:04
There are a few threads about Misheard Lyrics in the Just for Fun section - some of them are absolutely hilariousLOL. One that has become legendary here in our home is a line at the beginning of Opeth's "The Baying of the Hounds", which goes, "Festering jackals of the earth" - but, according to one of our members, sounded like "Pass me the tacos of the earth". Needless to say, every time we eat tacos, we think of that lineWink.
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Points: 4515 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2010 at 07:01
Lol!
My wife had that with the Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up". In all her girlie innocence she thought the line was "Smack My Picture" LOL


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Points: 732 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2010 at 06:57
Did you ever have a similar thing happen?...

With ages as a prog fan, I've known Peter Gabriel's 3rd album (the melting-face one) since it came out.  However I had a cassette of this particular record, followed by mp3 downloads in the 'modern era'. 

Just last week I found a nice vinyl copy and picked it up.  The sleeve has the words; I never had the lyrics before.  And I saw something that cracked me up.

In Games Without Frontiers, I always assumed that the refrain went "She's so funky yeah".  I know, nonsensical of course, but not out of the realm of possibility.  Plus it sounds good.

As it turns out it's "Jeux sans frontières"!  That's just French for "games without frontiers".

Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"?

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