Flyrick

Flyrick: verb. To flyrick means to be constantly mishearing lyrics of different songs, lending them very strange meanings. One of the most famous mishearings comes from a well known musical, incidentally called Sound of Music. After the first airing of the soon-to-be popular film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, many people, especially those living in retirement homes, rung up to ask Oscar Hammerstein if he was being serious in writing a song about singing bees, biking dogs and "wild beasts that fly with the moon on their wings." Evidently these people had never experienced the elated fantasies that are mentioned in another frequently flyricked song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, where according to some, "A girl with colitis goes by." However, this phenomenon was brought to the highest possible level when several people with hearing disorders got together to write a transcript of an old CD recording of Carmina Burana´s poem "O Fortuna," devising intricate rhymes like "Suck juice from moose, fun handsome goose" and so on...