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In Kibology, wackyparsing is the practice of misreading text to humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist Kibological humor. The term has its origins in the computer science term parsing, and is a compound of that term and wacky.
Though wackyparsing as a concept probably originated on alt.religion.kibology at least as early as 1998[1], the term has come to have wider usage, particularly on USENET. The typical usage is found in the phrase I wackyparsed that as..., followed by a description of the humorous effect created by the wackyparsing.
The term "misparsed" is probably more common.
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