weird habits

[serene]

You know that weird-habits thing that was going around? I couldn't think
of many that I hadn't already talked about here, but I just did one that
I haven't done in a long time, and I thought I'd post about it.

Since I was a teenager, I've done this strange thing where I write the
initial letters of a song, but write each phrase as a word. For example,
"Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave / o'er the land of the
free / and the home of the brave?" would come out as this, in cursive:
Osdtsbyw otlotf athotb? I would just sit doing that with songs, as though
I were doodling. And the fun part was later, when I would try to read
"Osdtsbyw otlotf athotb?" and try to decide what song I was writing.

Right now, on my scratch pad on my desk, is "wyltbapt", and though I wrote
it five minutes or so ago, I have no idea what song was going through my
head at the time. Hmm.

A real common one in the day was "Awasigpac". Any guesses?

Comments

[ailbhe]

Would you like to be a pop-tart?
All we are saying...

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yay! You jogged my memory. A cow-orker was singing "Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?" and that's what it was. And yeah, all we are saying...

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

See, I used to do the same thing, but with forced mondegreens.

"Dersaleh didatzur aldatglit tersis goldan shisba yinaster uetu ehevin."

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me that I also used to try to render lyrics in English into phonetic spanish:

Je barri jao dullu get discar auto seconguir?

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

*laugh!* Little Nash Rambler, right?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yep.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Shades of "Mots d'heures: gousses, rames" (http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/lae/mots.html).

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I do that all the time, but not as random doodling; I write down the initial letters when I'm trying to memorize the lyrics.