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[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did you notice we never got details where he walked the second 500 miles? He may walked in one direction. Then he found out she lives next to him and walked the whole 500 miles back!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is basically the SpongeBob pizza delivery episode

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

...oh my God! You're right

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His goal was "just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at your door" so it's not impossible he just walked 2000 laps around the block she lives on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His goals are beyond our understanding

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's like that scene from A Knights Tale.

"What are you doing?"

"L O S I N G."

"I don't understand?!"

"Oh, neither do I."

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Walking to show commitment was the point of the song...

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

Also, the very next line in Hey There Delilah is "I'd walk to you if I had no other way."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

"Just to be the guy that walked 500 miles". Not exactly subtle.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

"I would nap 1 hour in air travel first class, and I would nap 1 hour more, just to be that guy who napped 2 hours and took a taxi to you door."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Ah man, you're right, the post isn't funny anymore

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To be fair, he did say he'd walk to her if he had no other way. However, since there are said planes, trains and cars, he's just being efficient.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Today I found out it's 'Hey there Delilah' and not 'Hey dirty lilah'.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

So many songs like that, you go through life singing one lyric then one day the illusion is shattered. Like me singing "I can feel it, coming in the yellow night" it had meaning... Then one day what? Coming in the air tonight?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I had the same problem with "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. Instead of "Ladies" I heard "Legs" So it was a song about people losing a leg because they got careless and didn't show appreciation. So now they are on the look out for new ones.

Once you hear it, it is hard to stop.

All the single legs (All the single legs)

All the single legs (All the single legs)

All the single legs (All the single legs)

All the single legs

Now put your hands up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not long ago i heard the Theme from one of my favourite Animes as a child and it was just one word I sung wrong but theat one word ruined the song for somehow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm still disappointed about when I found out that one Soul Coughing song wasn't about con men: "You get the angles, and I'll get the rest", but the lyrics were actually "you get the ankles, and I'll get the wrists"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

😂 😂 😂 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This topic would make a great post

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They're called mondegreens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My wife stumbled onto a tiktoker who had this schtick. It was actually pretty funny.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Neither of those sound remotely like the version you heard though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I have a really hard time understanding the lyrics when I listen to songs (maybe because I'm autistic and have some auditory processing issues) so I'm often wildly wrong about them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the point.... When you hear it wrong the first time and your brain locks it in that's what you "hear", until you finally get it forcibly corrected.. It's perception reality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I suspect they've also just heard the song in the background, and never really actively listened to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Often it just may be a song you hear a lot that's a bit catchy.. It may not be like an artist or genre that you are really into, if it were you'd probably take the time to get into it and not remain with the wrong lyrics for a long time... But it is funny when it happens, and it happens a lot... More than we might think, because when it's happening to someone they may go years before they realize it's happening, if they ever realize at all 😅

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

da da da daaa da da da daaa da da da daaa da da da daaa da da damdididamdididamdidididamdididaaaaa

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey maybe proofread your memes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The meme economy will not be regulated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A kilometer compensating for something.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: all the imperial units are now fixed on the SI system. Meaning that their formal definitions use SI units. So it's literally just SI with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: the mile was originally defined as 1000 paces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So he walked 1 million paces?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

He only said he would, never said he did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Kilometer Classic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1.6 kilometers. "But I would walk 804.67 kilometers and I would walk 804.67 more..."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I walked 500 miles once. Took like a month. It's called the Camino de Santiago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where in the world is Carmino de Santiago?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hit it, Rockapella!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I waked for 500 miles on a train, then I went to sleep

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ffs Now I've got this song in my head

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

OOOOHHH IT'S WHAT YOU DO TO MEEEEEE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't understand the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago