Roger's Hearing Aid Thread

I recall the thread, of course. Thought maybe it was yours, but Aa is one of the usual suspects.

Hearing Aid Prices

This is the only site I've found that actually lists prices. You can browse it by type or by brand. They're not great prices, but fairly typical. On one particular model, I found 3 shops that were somewhat higher, and one that was marginally lower. In other words, you don't need an internet to get the best price, but this does give a pretty good idea what you are up against.

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Ok, here we are:

"Aa (u.19629) Quick stats
Added on Sun, May 26, 2002 1:11 PM

"Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear" is probably the best known example
of a mondegreen. This concept is a most felicitous beginning to
your new digressional thread, Deb.

A journalist in San Francisco is known for his love of
mondegreens and his excursive columns about them.
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml "


http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml



dlowan( just a wee number again - 266846) Quick stats
Added on Sun, May 26, 2002 1:30 PM

A mondegreen! Such a lovely name - who would have known!

Who would have known?

Aa would have known - and did - all's right with the world!

Off to explore the link......


"dlowan( just a wee number again - 266846) Quick stats
Added on Sun, May 26, 2002 2:45 PM

Seattlefriend - "It's a cinch to tell a lie'! wonderful.

One I remember is from a song by .... Juice Newton, was it?, "
Angel of the Morning" ... the song says something like "Just
touch my cheek before you leave me, darling" - which a friend of
mine always vowed was "Just brush my teeth before you leave me,
darling"!

Does anyone remember the song from Hair - which goes - with due
deference to the Abuzz censors:

S*domy, fullatio, c*nnilingus, p*derasty,
Father, why do these words sound so nasty?.... etc

A friend of mine thought the song was

Song to me,
For Latio,
Gonna linger,
Ever after .... etc, which was sort of true to the commonly
rather confusing, pretentious lyrics of the time, so its
senselessness made sense to her!"

And Roger's tale:

"akaRoger - u.1323836 Quick stats
Added on Sun, May 26, 2002 4:05 PM

I got a story I want to tell. Is it okay? Huh?

So, okay, this guy came into the office with something to sell.
Now I should warn you, I don't hear very well, and he had a
fairly heavy Hispanic accent. Anyway, he asks me if we ever use
any flat tires. Being polite, if not a little puzzled, I tell him
we sometimes have flat tires, but don't use them anymore than we
have to. With this for encouragement, he goes into this grandiose
spiel about how his company has the finest inventory of flat
tires in this corner of New Mexico. Still polite, though
completely dumbfounded, I thank him for dropping in, wish him the
best of luck in his venture, and kind of imply that we just might
give him a call one of these days. The guy leaves happy, and as
he is leaving, he drops a business card on my desk.

LIGHT TOWERS! The guy was renting light towers for night time
operations.

Well, I guess you had to be there."



"dlowan( just a wee number again - 266846) Quick stats
Added on Sun, May 26, 2002 4:58 PM

I am minded of a wonderful story told by James Thurber, whose
maid once told him in a very alarmed way that a guest who was
soon to arrive had called and asked if he could bring a cock-eyed
Spaniard.

Enormous energy was spent wondering WHY the guest wanted to bring
such a person, and where how he had come to have such a person in
his train, so to speak. Was the drunken Spaniard likely to be
aggressive, did he speak English, how long was he planning to
stay?

It was something of a let-down when the guest finally arrived,
with his perfectly well-behaved cocker spaniel in tow."


"pfkflyer Quick stats
Added on Mon, May 27, 2002 8:33 AM

Another (Lady)Modegreen was hatched by Malachy McCourt, the bad
brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes). Malachy wrote a book
whose title, A Monk Swimming, was an allusion to the Hail Mary's
Blessed art thou "amongst women."

I was shocked to read in John Carroll's columns that it wasn't
You and Me and Leslie. I've misheard so many songs: Jane, Jane,
Jane... Jane's a fool.... being another."


"ossobuco.1552469 Quick stats
Added on Mon, May 27, 2002 3:33 AM

egads, there shouldn't be a there there. I had to post it, as it
often happens to me when I go to do links, in the little tiny box
on the thread...

ok,

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/ "

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/


"Ceili Tyme {#1237176} Quick stats
Added on Mon, May 27, 2002 12:23 PM

My daughter has alway been fond of singing at the top of her
lungs. I think she had it coming, genetically speaking, because
I sing constantly. One day while shopping in Costco, she sat
perched high in the buggy and began to bellow...'It's a long way
to the ferry, it's a long way to go'. I mean really, who expects
a toddler to understand Tiperary...

Another friend of mine recently came back from Vegas. He and his
wife were seated next to an American businessman and the two of
them started up a conversation. At one point during the flight
the man turned to him and said, he'd heard that Canada suffered
from alot of Black Guys. My friend was stunned and quickly went
on the defence. He told the man, that yes Canada did have alot
of black guys but that we didn't have the problems they did down
south. He went on to say that racism and segregation had never
really been problem. When his wife elbowed him hard and
said...'Black Ice you idiot, he said black ice.

Here's another site to check out, the archives of misheard
lyrics.
http://www.kissthisguy.com/
Thanks,
Ceili. "

"mmediane/u.401115 Quick stats
Added on Mon, May 27, 2002 9:24 PM

Yes, Yes, yes, I guess abuzz realized I was just bubbling over
and mercifully let me in to say YES, I would and have driven over
four hours to have lunch and would do it again at the drop of a
hat. Exceptional people are all too rare to miss the chance for a
face to face visit!!! That's all from this corner.

I remember reading about Madam De Gaulle being asked what she
wished for. Her reply was, "A penis." President De Gaulle bent
down and said to her, "My dear, I think you mean 'appiness.'" "


From Pyewhackett:

"1)One of my many nieces played this pop tune over and over - as
teenies are wont to do - and I kept hearing 'I'm dancing with the
chicken's legs'. Over and over. I asked her about it. She denied
that any such words occurred, so we played it. Sure enough, there
they were. She still disagreed so we replayed it.
"That's 'I'm dancing with the chick in slacks' dummy!"
"OK; but it still sounds like 'chicken's legs'to me".
She stopped playing it shortly after. Her reason was that she'd
liked it before but had gone right off it because it now sings of
'chicken's legs' to her as well.

2) My nephew, Stewart, had a really sweet voice as a kid. He'd
also picked up the local dialect from the kids he played with. In
this dialect prefacing somebody's name with 'little old . . . '
meant that what you were about to say was meant as friendly but
was still mocking that person (All small tightly-knit communities
have a wealth of these little 'lubricants') He was picked to sing
a solo at the kids carol concert; 'Away in a manger'. He was
rehearsed and it all sounded good. Then on the day of the concert
some fool told him to make sure he articulated every word
carefully. And he did. Clear as a bell he sang, 'Little old Jesus
asleep in the hay'. (Just in case anyone doesn't know the words,
the original was 'Little Lord Jesus') The other kids and all of
the 'locals' found this highly amusing.

3) And one of mine; as a kid, my favorite piece of operatic music
was 'Elephant's Ear'. It got so that everyone called 'La Donna e
Mobile' 'Elephant's ear'. And if you listen to it you will find
that every verse ends with the words 'elephant's ear'. Just
listen to it and see; it will sing 'elephant's ear' to you too.
(For those with nit-picking minds, Rigoletto's original words
were 'E di pensier' but it will always be 'elephant's ear' to me)

Not a mondegreen but my sister actually came out with this:
She was around eight years old and was taking one of our cows to
a neighbor's bull - far side of the village - when a passing
'towny' spoke to her.
"That's a big cow for such a little girl to be herding. Where are
you taking it?"
"To the bull"
The towny was horrified.
"That is no task for a little girl! Couldn't your father do it?"
A moments thought then . . .
"No. It has to be a bull". "

Oh, thanks. Caught me telling the same story twice.

And I gave the same sfgate link twice, heh. But, that link is better for Jon Carroll's mondegreen columns (many listed, with links) than the casual wave I just gave.

And I had forgotten all about 'appiness.'

But we've just had 'appiness reinforcement...

Seattlefriend! Long time, no see.

You didn't. I did.

I got the idea that links sometimes don't seem to work in a big swathe of copied stuff, so I added that one on.

Ahh, so..
Still, it is a richly enjoyable set of his mondegreen columns.

Went in for an adjustment/reprogramming on Monday. I was expecting to have the volumn turned up, but since I complained of high frequency clutter, he lowered the high freq curve on the backup program, which is appropriately called "Restaurant". That's good enough for now. I can understand the Burger King Kids on their low dollar audio system. He's wanting me to hang tough with the main program, and says I really need the high end to distinguish sounds clearly. Okay, I'm still trying, and it is getting better.

This Metrix is a smart little critter. I told him about how much I was using it. Then he plugs it in and checks my story. It snitched on me for forgetting to turn it off one night. Also told him how much I was using it, and for how long at a time.

<paying attention>

After this, I can't afford to pay for anything, not even attention.

Aaaawww.....

No, really! If pickles were ten cents a carload, I couldn't afford the wart off a cucumber.

I understand, and protest, these things shouldn't cost this much.

Used to be that people talked about the hard of hearing older folk in a mocking way as they were in denial.

I dunno, I am guessing they couldn't afford help, or deal with the primitive devices.

I and my cohorts here, younger or older, have no trouble mentioning we have hearing problems. We just have trouble affording dealing with it.

I know what you mean, osso. I think Lady Mondegreen has struck again, cuz whenever someone says 'hearing aid', all I hear is 2,600.00 dollars - American.

Well, I got it turned up again, today, and it's as annoying at this level as the original setting was at the very beginning. I adapted to the original, after a few weeks, so this will work out too. Now, I've got the normal setting, which is definately higher than before,and the "restaurant" program, which is at the volumn of the original normal program, but with the highest frequencies backed off. Additionally, there is a third program installed, which I usually call the 'evesdropper special' which is set almost to the level of normal hearing. Once again, I feel like I'm under physical assault, but that's the one I'm using in an attempt to become acclimated to normal hearing.

I'll let you know how it goes, from time to time.

geez, louise.

I never did ask you, or don't remember if I did, do you have any tinnitus?

or, in lieu of that, tin cans?