Mis-reading provides more entertainment than it should

[thistlechaser]

I'm not sure if it's because I'm old, because I'm tired all the time, or because I read to fast, but I keep making these odd "mistakes" ("assumptions"? "guesses"?) when reading. When I get to a word, I read the first letter, take in how long the word is, consider the context of the sentence, and my brain makes a guess as to what the word is -- without reading it. (This isn't a conscious thing, it just happens.) So I get mistakes like this:

What I read this news story as:

Madhouse to Animate Natural Born Killers

Corsham Entertainment has issued a press release announcing that they are in talks with Madhouse to animate Larry Bundy Junior's Natural Born Killers.

So my first thought was 'Wow! I guess Natural Born Killers could make a pretty cool anime! ...but did Larry Bundy Junior write it or something? I don't recall ever hearing that name before...'.

Then I re-read and discovered it was "Natural Born Kittens"! Quite a big difference! This sort of thing is happening more and more, which isn't really a good thing.

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In the continued trend of "let's mess with Thistle's head", co-worker came in today. Buh?

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I have two eps left of Witch Hunter Robin. I'm going to be so glad to finish that darned series! While talking with Hyper the other night, I think I discovered why I can't get into the series much: I don't like or have interest in ANY of the characters! How can you like a series when you have no connections with any of the characters? Two more eps, then I'll be done with the darned thing and can delete it.

It was a pretty series animation-wise, and there was a bit of the story arc that I liked a lot, but as a whole Witch Hunter Robin did nothing for me.

I hope some of next month's new series will be really good. I need something new to get into...