'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy 2004 Day-To-Day Calendar [Calendar]

Gavin Edwards (Author)

Book Description

Series: Day-To-Day | Publication Date: July 1, 2003

Singing your favorite song can be risky with Gavin Edwards or his contributors around. Belt out "the piano sounds like a power mower" while crooning to Billy Joel's "Piano Man" or "mice aroma" while rocking to The Knack's "My Sharona," and you might just find yourself in the "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy calendar. Each page of this calendar--based on the books "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, He's Got the Whole World in His Pants, When a Man Loves a Walnut, and "Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly and including new entries as well--presents an actual misheard lyric, the song title and artist, and the real lyric. Many pages also include singers' birthdays and drawings illustrating the incorrect lyric. While you'll certainly find these lyrical gaffes from other people endlessly amusing, it might be safer for you if you just hummed.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?

Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is a hilarious collection of over 275 lines people think they've heard in pop songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. Now you can come out of that closet and proudly sing whatever you think you hear. Don't deny it! You know you've sung totally absurd lyrics in place of the real-and usually less interesting-ones. (It's nothing to ashamed of-most rock stars never took elocution classes.) Breeze through some of the world's most widely misinterpreted lyrics, including:

"The ants are my friends/They're blowin' in the wind" ("The answer my friend/Is blowing' in the wind"-Bob Dylan)

"Sweet dreams are made of cheese" ("Sweet dreams are made of this"-Eurythmics)

"The girl with colitis goes by" ("The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"-The Beatles)

Whether it's Eddie Vedder singing about "forty-five versions of a pelican" or Bruce Springsteen proclaiming "everybody's got a hungry horse," 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is sure to make you want to get your hearing checked. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

GAVIN EDWARDS is a contributing editor to Details magazine and lives in Brooklyn, New York. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Calendar
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Pag edition (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740736930
• ISBN-13: 978-0740736933
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 5.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,432,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oh, so THAT'S what he said..., December 24, 2001

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Zagnorch (Terra, Sol System) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics (Paperback)

The title of this book was the big thing that caught me, since that's exactly what I thought Jimi was actually saying when I first heard `Purple Haze'! Small world, huh? And being someone who comes from a long line of song lyric-manglers, this book proved that I wasn't alone in this world when it came to makin' some of the words up as I went along. Heck, even to this day ma & I still argue over whether that guy's little bottle in `Love Potion Number 9' was broken by a cop or a clock! I'm going with the cop on this one, by the way. Needless to say, this little paperback was the perfect gag gift for ma on her birthday!

The only real problem I had with this book was its brevity. At most, each page has only two sets of lyrics (the incorrect version(s) above, the song & artist in the middle, & the proper words below). Because of this, I found it to be a bit pricey for the amount of content it contains. However, it does have an index at the end, which is a real plus if you're looking for a particular verse that you've been tryin' to figure out. And if it's not in this tome, you can always check the indexes of the other `...Kiss This Guy' books that have been published!

Although I agree with the thought that some of the incorrect lyrics in this book seem too far off the mark to be legitimate equivocations, I've personally experienced and have been a witness to far worse verse-mangling. So it's no real surprise to me when I read some of the more seemingly far-fetched examples!

`Late

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nobody has perfect ears.., August 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics (Paperback)

Do you think that you hear every song on radio perfectly? Do you think that you know every lyrics to all of your favorite songs? Well, You are about to be wrong after you open and read this book. This book contains the most outraged, hilarious, and humorous misunderstood lyrics. You can't help yourself or someone from stop laughing when you sing outloud every songs in this book..

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mishearing lyrics has become a new hobby!, December 31, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics (Paperback)

'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, and its followup, He's Got The Whole World in His Pants (both by Gavin Edwards) had me, as well as everyone in my office, laughing so hard we couldn't speak. After you read these books, you sing the wrong lyrics on purpose when you hear the songs on the radio! You also find yourself making up wrong lyrics just for the fun of it! Edwards provide the right and wrong lyrics, as well as the name of the song and the artist(s)! For some of the songs, illustrations are included (although Edwards used a different illustrator for each book). In some cases, the illustrations are the best part of the book. My third favorite misheard lyric was: Oh, beautiful for spaceship guys instead of Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, from America the Beautiful! My favorite two lyrics are actually a little too risque to print here, but they alone are worth buying these books for.