Can somebody explain "rub the mexican monkey" to me?

[Voice for Peace]

?

[panader0]

1. Really?

[Voice for Peace]

58. yes but... so many funny posts in this thread, but I had to give it the first rec just now..

[Electric Monk]

2. I haven't heard that one before. Apparently, it's in a song by Daft Punk,

but that doesn't explain it.

The comments section isn't very helpful, either...

edit: Here's one explanation from the youtube comments, fwiw

the serious words are: "the robot makes you get funky" - "the robot makes you get lucky"

[Voice for Peace]

18. LOLOL ok I think I got it.. it was mixed up lyrics from another song that has now become a

thing? a meme?

Somebody posted it on their fb status and because
I had immigration reform on my mind I was
wondering if there was some connection. Or
if it was a derogatory anti-immigrant rw joke
thingy.. you get my drift.

[Jesus Malverde]

35. yes a meme

[Revanchist]

40. She's got a chicken to ride

[Jesus Malverde]

42. lol!..nt

[Voice for Peace]

53. ahaha a hahaaa a a

ok found it

The internet has everything.. a site for misheard lyrics

http://www.kissthisguy.com/search_results.php?SearchType=Misheard&SearchAccuracy=contains&SearchTerm=mexican+monkey

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: I'm up all night to get lucky
Misheard Lyric: I smell a Mexican monkey
User: ,=¦ ª¬2¢rôn±
Genre: Alternative

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: We're up all night to get lucky
Misheard Lyric: We rub a Mexican monkey
User: mÏ‘Ô¾Û:Ì+nÞóá«Ò
Genre: Alternative

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: "We're up all night, we're up all night to get lucky!"
Misheard Lyric: "We'll rob a Mexican, we'll rob a Mexican monkey!"
User: ,§þMÅÿâZoѐ')
Genre: Alternative

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: we're up all night We can get back together we're up all night Let's get back together we're up all night. to get lucky. we're up all night. to get lucky.
Misheard Lyric: we'll rub a mexican we'll rub a mexican we'll rub a mexican monkey then ride all night to kentucky
User: +V ӁS„þ[BÏÝgîÂo
Genre: Alternative

[LittleBlue]

3. Never heard of it. nt

[leeroysphitz]

4. Sounds like what we used to call "tickling the hobo". n/t

[Tanuki]

5. Is it anything like soaping the ferret?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405331

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[VanillaRhapsody]

7. The ferret apparently thinks so....

he's nodding in agreement!

[Glassunion]

6. Excuse me while I kiss this guy

There's a bathroom on the right
Might as well face it your a dick with a glove
There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do
I'll never leave your pizza burnin'
It doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not
I left my brains down in Africa
Let’s pee in the corner, let’s pee in the spotlight

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. and i will never forget my Ex Husband's

Pink Floyd lyric...."tongue tied and twisted....just an earthbound biscuit".

(and he believed with all he was worth that it was the actual lyric)

I always wanted to name a band "Earth Bound Biscuit"!

[Glassunion]

12. And now we can all add Daft Punk "rub the Mexican Monkey"

I love misheard lyrics.

[Voice for Peace]

20. it's kind of on par with the star spangled lyrics

José can you see?

I had immigration reform on my mind when I
encountered the question in my OP.. a friend
posted on FB and it seemed like it might be
a bigoty thing.

[sweetloukillbot]

14. My favorite Pink Floyd lyric when I was 10...

"The Dukes of Hazzard, in the classroom."

[missingthebigdog]

37. Oh! That's awesome!

Momentary Lapse of Reason is my favorite Pink Floyd album. An earthbound biscuit indeed!

My personal mondegreen was "do you like bean enchiladas?" I was a kid- never heard of a piña colada.

[VanillaRhapsody]

39. LOL!

My ex was so serious....what the hell is an "earth bound biscuit"? He couldn't answer of course....but STILL swore that was the lyric! It was one of our few more amusing...uh... "disagreements".

[NightWatcher]

10. Let's pee in the corner....

Never heard that one, but now that's how I'll hear the song from now on.



If you pee in the corner, you'll get a Time Out for sure

[Glassunion]

11. R.E.M.

That's me in the corner... That's me in the spotlight.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

26. How about: Whoa-oh Nipsee Russell

[Ellipsis]

13. Up till a few years ago I wondered why Huey Lewis wanted a new truck

"I want new truck"...
One with no doubt
One that won't make me talk too much
Or make my face break out

One that won't make me nervous
Wonderin' what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you
All alone with you
All alone with you, yea, yea


Seriously.

[Tigress DEM]

66. Yeah, well a new drug - a new truck, without ACA they cost about the same.

rimshot!

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Ah, the ever-entertaining Mondegreen.

I am partial to Eddie Money's song about "I've got fleas, rickets and parasites"

[Luminous Animal]

25. Isn't a mondegreen a misheard lyric?

What you posted was parody.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Hmm, I thought that the fleas rickets and parasites WAS a misheard lyric.

Like "Don't go round tonight, it's bound to take your life... There's a bathroom on the right"

Did Weird al do the Fleas Rickets etc. thing? I know he did "I lost on Jeopardy"

[Luminous Animal]

31. Misheard by cats maybe.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. If you really feel you must battle me on this, fine! En Garde, you!

http://www.kissthisguy.com/two-tickets-to-paradise-eddie-money-misheard-song-422.htm

Apparently not verbatim, but someone did hear "I've got two ticks and a parasite"

Pretty damn close, if you ask me. Which you didn't.

[Luminous Animal]

45. Now that is a mondegreen!

[Warren DeMontague]

48. Okay, I have to say, "I've got two dicks and I'm paralyzed" is even better.

Seriously, it sounds like one of those obscure Southern aphorisms that only Bill Clinton would use.

[Voice for Peace]

51. "take my hand, I'm a dangerous parasite"

[FSogol]

15. I see dems

[Jesus Malverde]

44. that was great..nt

[Go Vols]

46. +1

[Luminous Animal]

22. She's got electric boobs and a mohair suit.

[Glassunion]

29. Wasn't that Jane Fonda's outfit in Barbarella?

[Luminous Animal]

32. ! Thank you for that!

[Glassunion]

67. I'm too young for that movie

But I like to consider myself refined and cultured.

[NightWatcher]

9. alerting?

or not?

Maybe I should, but I'm not sure.

WTH, let it ride.

[Voice for Peace]

19. I don't mind if the thread gets trashed but the reason I came to DU with the question

is that a friend posted this as status on FB,
and this is an (R) friend, and it struck me as
offensive. However this person doesn't post
nasty offensive RW things, ever. So I started
googling, but just got more confused, and
thought to meself:
surely somebody on DU will know

[NightWatcher]

24. just messin with ya

but you have to admit it sounds dirty

[Voice for Peace]

49. oof I thought you were thinking bigotry.. lol

[Orrex]

16. Is that another name for "The Knockout Game?"

[RebelOne]

21. Just Google it. Lots of info. n/t

[Voice for Peace]

23. I did but couldn't get a simple explanation of what it meant, origin etc..

that's why I came here.

I think I understand now it is a mis-hearing of some
other lyrics in somebody's song and it's taking on a
life of its own. I thought it was a bigot joke which is
why I posed the Q here, I thought DUers would know.

[Luminous Animal]

28. Mishearing a lyric is called a Mondagreen.

But that is not written in stone.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Indeed. The origin of that term is explained here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

[Luminous Animal]

34. My mother was chronically prone to Mumpsimusism.

[Vashta Nerada]

38. My mother is more of an eggcorn type of person.

[Voice for Peace]

59. this could come in handy

If a person stubbornly sticks to a mispronunciation after
being corrected, that person has committed a mumpsimus.

I wonder what a person is called if they do this all the time?

[countryjake]

36. Happy Enchilada

[Revanchist]

41. Blinded by the light skit.

[Jesus Malverde]

43. Took me ages, until I learned it wasn't...Oh jose can you see....

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22oh+jose+can+you+see%22+lyrics&sm=3

[freshwest]

47. Uh, mixup. Like Led Zeppelin's The Immigrant Song... Yes, I thought it really said this...

Screwed up America The Beautiful in elementary school, too. Sigh.

[Voice for Peace]

60. o beautiful, for spaceship guys? like that?

[Paulie]

50. Songs to sing along to

[MannyGoldstein]

52. Are you over 18?

Or accompanied by a parent or legal guardian?

[Voice for Peace]

54. I am.

I have found the answer.

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: I'm up all night to get lucky
Misheard Lyric: I smell a Mexican monkey
User: ,=¦ ª¬2¢rôn±
Genre: Alternative

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: We're up all night to get lucky
Misheard Lyric: We rub a Mexican monkey
User: mÏ‘Ô¾Û:Ì+nÞóá«Ò
Genre: Alternative

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: "We're up all night, we're up all night to get lucky!"
Misheard Lyric: "We'll rob a Mexican, we'll rob a Mexican monkey!"
User: ,§þMÅÿâZoѐ')
Genre: Alternative

Artist: Daft Punk
Song: Get Lucky
Real Lyric: we're up all night We can get back together we're up all night Let's get back together we're up all night. to get lucky. we're up all night. to get lucky.
Misheard Lyric: we'll rub a mexican we'll rub a mexican we'll rub a mexican monkey then ride all night to kentucky
User: +V ӁS„þ[BÏÝgîÂo
Genre: Alternative

[MannyGoldstein]

55. That's what "they" want you to think. nt

[Voice for Peace]

57. they have apparently succeeded.

[ohheckyeah]

56. My 2 1/2 year old

niece sings: Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary like a spider's dream.

[Voice for Peace]

62. good one

Spiders dream of creepy clown
drawing by Stephen_FloatingLeaf

[ohheckyeah]

64. LOL n/t

[tularetom]

61. My mom caught me doing it once with my dad's playboy magazine

She told me I'd go blind if I didn't quit.

[Voice for Peace]

63. rubbing a monkey with a magazine? so confusing