If you’re of a certain age and musical bent, you’ll recognize this as the garbled version everyone sang of Jimi Hendrix’s song Purple Haze (it’s really “scuse me while I kiss the sky”). If you just want to kill some time and reminisce over similarly absurd misheard song lyrics, kissthisguy.com is a great way to procrastinate doing any real work on a Friday afternoon!

For the hospitality industry, here’s one cute one from the Eagles’ Hotel California:
The real lyrics were: “What a nice surprise. Bring your alibis.” But they’re misheard as: “What a nice surprise, when you’re out of ice.”

Another from the same song: “On a dark desert highway, Cool wind in my hair” morphs into: “On a dark desert highway, Cool Whip in my hair.”

I love the Mrs. Robinson mishear under the recent submissions, but it’s probably a little blue for the blog. Anyway, you get the idea. It’s a little too much fun searching for the actual lyrics to songs I just know I have wrong…and I can’t help but think there’s got to be some way to use this as an icebreaker. Maybe play a snippet of a song that your group would probably know, then ask them to guess the actual lyrics? Break people into small groups and task them with coming up with three song lyrics they know are wrong?

Thanks to Corbin Ball for pointing this one to my attention through his e-newsletter.

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We published this one in our e-newsletter, MeetingsNet Extra, a while back, but it’s still funny, I think!

Top 10 signs your child may turn out to be a meeting planner…
10. When packing clothes for a sleepover, has a list of what coordinates with what.
9. Practices different room set-ups with stuffed animals.
8. Has a powerpoint presentation called “Ways to Organize Your Toy Chest.”
7. Insists on being in a room that is near the elevator.
6. Rearranges the tables and chairs in the classroom every
day.
5. Has different color folders for every state on the family vacation.
4. Knows where the emergency exits are at kindergarten.
3. Teacher writes “very detail oriented and organized” on nursery school report card.
2. Can watch Sesame Street, talk on Barbie phone, and type on computer at the same time.
1. Categorizes all videotapes and books by both subject and author (on
spreadsheet, of course)

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Worried that terrorists might dress up like airline and airport workers to get access to our planes, the Transportation Security Administration is piloting some new antiterrorism measures at airports in Miami; Newark, N.J.; Boise; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Savannah, Ga.; Fort Myers, Fla.; Providence; and Tampa, according to this article from the Associated Press.

Sounds like they’ll be doing everything from videotaping employees to using fingerprint and eye-scan biometrics to make sure the only ones going into employee-only areas are, in fact, employees.

Wasn’t too long ago that eye-scans were something you’d see in a sci-fi flick, but they may just be coming to an airport near you.

My question about this and the other security measures that have been put in place since 9/11 is: Are we any safer for all this?

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