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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Google Counts on Oct 12, 2006
1,070,000 “Candid Camera”
2420 “Canded Camera”
“Candid Camera” was a 1960’s – 70’s TV show involving a hidden camera which revealed candid behavior of people in unusual circumstances. Some viewers—perhaps mostly kids—thought that the term “candid” meant that the camera was concealed in an item such as a can! This interpretation of “candid” would serve as an eggcorn without any spelling change, but one can also find incidences of respelling to “canded.”
Examples:
Things to do when home sick and bored! [Archive] – HLCCL Forumsput a shoe box in some bushes and pretend that ur shootin for canded camera. Sit down on a bench and make funny noices when someone sits next to you, ...
www.hlccl.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-33986.html – 5k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
So Midwestern: Did they tape Canded Camera at DTW yesterday?Did they tape Canded Camera at DTW yesterday ? I walked out of the bathroom at the airport just as this little , chubby girl , who is probably about seven …
somidwestern.blogspot.com/2005/07/did-they-tape-canded-camera-at-dtw.html – 21k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
FLIPBOOK! – smile your on canded camera by ashleysmile your on canded camera (Download as PDF) Created by ashley from here ha ha ha smile. About Flipbook! Privacy policy FABRICA.
www.fabrica.it/flipbook/flipbook_player … ashley&... – 5k – Supplemental Result – Cached – Similar pages
Luicd dreams examples dreamers stories and diariesI was wandering the neighborhood at night once and ran into some people who were filming a TV show similar to canded camera. At one point, I became lucid. ...
www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/dream.htm – 104k – Cached – Similar pages
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