I'm just the devil with a lung to spare

[venta]

On Sunday, wimble and I went to visit the Uffington White Horse (and in the way of these things, completely failed to be able to see it). It was a lovely winter day, crunchy and clear with a glorious golden sunset. This is, however, irrelevant.

What was relevant was that on the way back, Wimble's mp3 player decided to treat us to a bit of Pop Will Eat Itself - in particular, Beaver Patrol. During the line Beeeeeaver... patrol! in the chorus, I always find myself being surprised by the word "patrol". By then, some strange level of mishearing has me expecting the line to end "Las Vegas". Yes, I know it's "beaver" not "viva", but somehow every single time the line appears in the song it catches me out.

Last night I dreamt that I was somehow involved in the production of a porn film about a large number of women (no, I can't remember any details at all, including what my involvement was, before you ask). The dream, appropriately enough, had Beaver Patrol as its soundtrack. And even while dreaming, I still kept getting distracted by the fact that the chorus doesn't contain any references to Las Vegas.

No, I realise this isn't particularly relevant to anything. But if I'm confused by my subconscious, I don't see why you should escape.

Comments

[neilh.livejournal.com]

'v' is another of the sounds that doesn't appear in the Japanese language, so they replace it with 'b', as in 'teribi' for television and 'combini' for convinience store.... so both 'viva' and 'beaver' would be pronounced 'biba'.