Holiday Cheer

As finals draw to a close, faculty, students, and staff could all use a little chuckle.  We recently came across a side-splitting list of holiday song mondegreens from Snopes.com that is guaranteed to make even the most frazzled among us crack a smile! 

What's a mondegreen, you ask?  As Snopes describes it, it is a "series of words resulting from the mishearing of a statement or song lyric."  My personal favorite from the list is this mangled version of the opening lines of "Good King Wenceslas":  "Good King Wences' car backed out, on the feet of heathens."

Happy holidays, everyone!

[Update: if you crave more mondegreens, check out the mondegreen columns from the San Francisco Chronicle's Jon Carroll.]