Presenting Jimi Hendrix for Orkin...

So there are certain song lyrics out there that are doomed to being mis-heard. A few years back there was a commercial featuring Def Leppard's "Pour Some Shook-Up Ramen." The Steve Miller Band had a huge hit with "Bingo Jed Had a Light On" (don't carry me too far away...) When Club Nouveau remade "Lean on Me," it was "we be German" heard 'round the world - except for my hard-of-hearing Daddy, who wondered why they were announcing that "we take showers." Of course, this is the same man who couldn't understand why Debbie Gibson wanted to "shake and bake your love." Just this afternoon in the car, Little Bit swore up and down that Savage Garden wanted to "sandwich you on the mountain."

But my favorite time was a couple of weeks ago. We were driving a fairly long distance, for over an hour, in the rain. We were minutes from our destination but the girls were getting cranky. And then Jimi Hendrix came on the radio, and I figured we could play a fun and distracting game, the one called, "what does it sound like he's saying?" The song, of course, was "Purple Haze" and I was eagerly waiting for the sound of merry giggles as they contemplated "'scuse me while I kiss this guy" (which is, of course, the standard misinterpretation). Well, leave it to the Clone to come up with something totally original. I am so proud to say that she discovered that ol' James Marshall Hendrix was actually shilling for corporate America and the Orkin Man. You see, apparently, Jimi was asking...

"'scuse me, where's the pesticide?"

*guitar solo*