Making Sense from Nonsense

A very trivial incident, but it has such enormous repercussions both now and throughout history. Have you ever read something quickly, so quickly that you misread a word and then instantly made sense from it in some hypothetical scenario sparked by your fertile imagination?  The same can happen when you mishear a word, either a lyric in a song or in a conversation with some one.

This morning, I happened to see a slogan on the soy milk carton that read: 'Three Cheeses for the Plant!''  I immediately thought, 'Oh, they are using soy milk to make cheese and there are recipes for three cheese pasta evidently.'

Well, the word was NOT Cheeses.  It was Cheers and simply was declaring the traditional three Cheers for the milk made from plants... Ah well... My reading was more intriguing.

Through the years, so many songs acquired my own peculiar lyrics because the singer was not clear in his/her rendition of the words.  Sometimes I could not make sense of it, but often it resulted in a significance quite unintended by the writer.

After this little incident, I began to think about history and books and especially those hefty tomes considered the 'word of God'.  Often these were found in a very poor condition.  The misreading of a single letter could result in entirely different words from the ones written originally and yet there are those literalists and fundamentalists who never even will consider that some one could have been wrong!

Really on a roll today... just saw a bit of news on the internet:  Atlantis Pride, Festival celebrating LOST community continues on Sunday.

How much more interesting than the real headline: Atlanta Pride, Festival celebrating LGBT Community continues on Sunday...