A:"I went to Steves
house last night and it stank."
B:"EH ? What?"
A:"I said, I went to Steve's
house last night and it stank."
B:"Oh, I thought you said I went to Steve's
house last night and it's a tank"
Therefore person B misheard it stank, thinking person A described Steve's house as Military Hardware. "It's a tank" became the gingword