Secret Asian Man

[Dr. Strange]

Secret Asian Man

There's a man who leads a life of danger
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes another chance he takes
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Asian man, secret Asian man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Beware of pretty faces that you find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind
Ah, be careful what you say
Or you'll give yourself away
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Asian man, secret Asian man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Secret agent man, secret agent man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Swingin' on the Riviera one day
And then layin' in the Bombay alley next day
Oh no, you let the wrong word slip
While kissing persuasive lips
The odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Asian man, secret Asian man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

[lost-in-nj]

1. He has moob sweat

lost


:hi:

thats really creepy

[TZ]

2. Ugh.

Why do you hate the Lounge DuStrange..that was...um earbleed material
And to think when I was a teenager I loved Hasselhoff and even had his pic posted in my room...Glad I outgrew that...:puke:

[nomorenomore08]

3. Yeah, that's how I always heard it on the oldies station as a kid.

I'd always think, what the hell does the guy being Asian have to do with anything? LOL

[kath]

24. The times I've heard this song in the past year or two, I've wondered "why are they pronouncing it

like "ay-zhent" (like the French "j" sound. or the beginning of the 2nd syllable in "measure") rather than "ay-jent"?? I've sure never heard anyone else pronounce "agent" that way. Weird.

[PVnRT]

4. I hear he's good at gardening

:hide:

[BrotherBuzz]

11. And carving wood

[IronLionZion]

5. http://www.secretasianman.com/

http://www.secretasianman.com/home.htm

[BeachBaby]

6. Yo Dude.....here's a story for ya.

One of my buddies works for one of those govt agencies where he can't talk about his job. You get the picture.

Anyway......a few years ago, he was in an accident on the Beltway. He was taken to Walter Reed. I got the call in the middle of the night - and was asked if I would come and sit with him and talk to him. Turns out he was in a coma but the doctors were hopeful he'd snap out of it. They just didn't know what would do it.

So, I headed down there the next morning. After getting through what felt like Fort Knox security, I sat on his bed, talking to him. I didn't know what else to do, and then it hit me. I used to tease him all the time by calling him "Secret Agent Man" and sometimes I would even sing the song. I decided to sing it for him at the hospital - so I sang it to him twice, but he didn't wake up (and the two guards who were standing by his door looked at me like I was some kind of loon). Whatever.

He woke up 4 days later. I was going to wait to call him, to let him get his bearings back - but he called me. First thing he said to me was "My guards showed me the log of my visitors, so I know you were here; but I would've known that anyway - you were singing my favorite song. I just couldn't respond to you." Ahhhhh, the power of song. :rofl:

And in case you're wondering what snapped him out of the coma, it was his brother and one of his college buddies, who roused up a stirring rendition of the Wake Forest Fight Song, his alma mater. Yeesh. :)

[TZ]

7. And you know what...

I bet you sang it better than Hasselhoff did....;-)

[Dr. Strange]

8. And more sober!

:D

[Sequoia]

13. Well now that's a nice story.

[Book Lover]

9. Um, why is changing agent to asian funny? (nm)

[Connonym]

10. I think it's funny because when I was a kid I thought that was what they were singing

this is especially funny timing for this post because I heard the song over the weekend on a commercial and I admitted my childhood misunderstanding. Made the people I was with laugh. We were laughing at the misheard lyrics and not any sort of prejudicial thing. Surely there have been songs at some point in time where you misheard the lyrics?

[Book Lover]

12. Oh gosh! I was not thinking this was

racist in *any* way - my apologies! I guess I am still humor-impaired. I need to get that fixed before I come into the Lounge again.

[BeachBaby]

14. I got a couple misheard lyrics for ya.....

I was one of the millions of people who thought that Jimi Hendrix was singing "kiss this guy" instead of "kiss the sky" in his song "Purple Haze".

Also, the song "Blinded by the Light" - I still swear he's singing "wrapped up like a douche" instead of "wrapped up like a deuce".

And my favorite - my little cousins decided to give our family a concert one nice, summer evening. They brought out their boom box, found the track to the Eagles' song "Take it to the Limit", and proceeded to sing "Take me to the Olympics, one more time".

;)

[TZ]

15. Oh gosh my family still laughs at this one

This is not a rock song but its a misheard lyric nonetheless..From "Row,row, row your boat"..I thought for the longest time that the last line was "Life is down the drain" instead of "Life is just a dream" and yes, I sort of do remember singing it that way....:blush:

[BeachBaby]

19. I think that's CUTE!!!!

:hug:

Hey - it just hit me - where's the tamale? I haven't seen him around - have I just missed his posts or somethin?

[TZ]

21. He's swamped with work.....

Says he'll try to drop in now and again and "raise mayhem".

[BeachBaby]

22. Oh jeezuz. Mayhem.

I THOUGHT there was something missing around here. Madness, chaos, something.

But you're right - it's definitely MAYHEM. And I got my shirt today! D'oh!!!!

[TZ]

23. Really..the Spinal Cap one?

BTW, You know I am going to raise a little mayhem later tonight right?:evilgrin:

[quip]

27. I don't feel much like Mayhem these days. I swear the weather here is sucking

the life right out of me. Sounds stupid, but I think I suffer from SAD. My face muscles hurt from grinning and bearing it too much...

:hi:

[nomorenomore08]

17. Yeah, the Hendrix one must've raised some eyebrows in 1967.

And I have friends who still SWEAR that Manfred Mann is saying "douche" and not "deuce" (i.e. "joint"). I can't convince them otherwise.

[BeachBaby]

20. You're right - you can't.

People have been trying to convince me for years now.....but no matter how many times I hear it, I still hear DOUCHE.

:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

32. Here's a whole website devoted to them:

http://www.amiright.com/

[RainDog]

34. one from my son

when he was in k-garden -

Bob Marley's "I don't wanna wait in vain," to him, was "I don't wanna wear a band-aid for your love."

[REP]

16. Ask Tak Toyoshima; he thought it was funny enough to call his comic strip that

And it's usually a pretty amusing comic strip.

[quip]

26. It's a malaprop. Malaprops are funny. So relax.

[Book Lover]

28. Post 12, 'kay.

[quip]

30. You've never misheard a lyric? Or better yet, never heard anyone else sing a wrong

(and funny) lyric? Maybe you are humor impaired!

"He's got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun, he's got a raisin in his shoe."

Heck, we used to make them up!

[RainDog]

18. loungo-perfecto. a wayne newtonian universe.

not secret, but ummmhmmm asian mæn


tony leung chiu-wai


jet li


chow yn fat

[KamaAina]

25. Excellent mondegreen!

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

The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in an essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954.<1> In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line from the 17th century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray." She wrote:

When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:
Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green." As Wright explained the need for a new term, "The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original."

The SF Chron's Jon Carroll is a longtime mondegreen fan.

[DarkTirade]

29. I'll do one better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bStNwFRVz9g

[Dr. Strange]

31. Okay, that's funny.

Maybe Adam Sandler should revive his "Cajun Man" character and perform this song.

[DarkTirade]

33. This is by the same guy who brought us such classics as...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYTGZIUKoj0">The Comrade Moon theme song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyFU-icrqrk">Deep Space Nine (was Terek Nor) and the inventor of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-CCMnBpQoU">the Hubjo.