Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

--Whenever I'm in a convenience store and see Tillamook County Smokers beef jerky, I sing "Tillamook County Smokers" it in my head to the tune of Michael Jackson's "You Wanna Be Starting Something"

--Neurot band US Christmas has a CD on my desk called Eat The Low Dogs which I've spent the better part of a year singing to the tune of Bubba Sparxxx's "Take The Load Off"

shit, i was just thinking about this a couple hours ago. my brother said something that happened to be a song lyric I liked and i started singing it. forget now

Because of an old "Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode, I am incapable of hearing the name Anna Maria Alberghetti without breaking into "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi honey..."

My Mom is very good at finding an appropriate song with very little prompting. I stopped testing her after I fed her the word "asparagus" and she sang it to the tune of some old song called "The Pair of Us."

Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike

I'm doing laundry....doin' lauundraaaaaayyyayayayayaya

haha, i do this all the time. must think... a similar phenomenon is when, apparently out of nowhere, you get a melody stuck in your head, and then realize that the lyrics to that song are what you were thinking/talking about.

oh man, this happened to me the other day. for better or worse it was 'dat nigga delmarrrr!' to the melody of 'that girl is poison' by bell biv devoe. i'm sorry ilx

ahahahaha

I think I'm going to be stuck with "I'm doin' laundryyyyy" from now on, thanks...

I'm sure I have tons of these, but can't remember any of them, so I'm glad there's this thread now.

Two trucking companies who work in the Rock n' Roll touring business always start me singing their names to the tune of Eton Rifles:
'Redburn Trans-fer"
and
"Edwin Shir-ley"

"Cheese and crackers" to the tune of "Shaved Women" by Crass. Try it out!

There was a Charlie Brooker article some time ago in which he said that every time Robert Mugabe was mentioned, his name started going around Brooker's head to the tune of Eleanore Rigby. The same thing has started happening to me since I read the article.

zydrunas ilgauskas gets sung to "hakuna matata" in my head
(i can't remember whether i thought it up on my own or not, but google finds some other people doing the same thing)

this isn't really the same thing cuz it isn't a phrase i saw, but i just heard it today on the radio, so: whenever i hear "jet" by paul macca and wings i always sing "jet! ooohhhooohoohoohhoo, RALPH NADEEEEEER, JAMES SPADER!"

been doing that for years. i can't even remember what the real words are.

Fairly often I'll see something that will prompt the melody to "Girlfriend in a Coma" by the Smiths.
For example, I was downtown and there was a midget handing out pamphlets, and I got "Midget with a pamphlet, I know, I know, it's serious..." in my head.

Oddly, I don't even know how the verses to "Girlfriend in a Coma" go. I barely know the song. But it only seems to happen with this song.

This happens to me all the time. Sometimes I'm not even sure I'm conscious of it.

To the tune of Tina Turner's "Steamy Windows" : "Skidby Windmill".

"The sharif don't like it
Lock the Taskbar
Lock the Taskbar"

thread is everything i wanted it to be and more.

Lock the taskbar is hilarious and also reminds me of a couple of years ago in school when we were told to use only sans-serif fonts in our drawings. After a pause, my studiomate Casey declares: "SER-IF: don't like it! ROCK the caption."

The shower in my last house had embossed directions for unscrewing the head:
<-- REMOVE | REFIT -->
ensuring Sepultura's "Refuse/Resist" was always in my head while showering, even for a couple of years after moving out.

"The sharif don't like it
Lock the Taskbar
Lock the Taskbar"

LOL my bf just told me he does exactly this one too!

My brain can't keep track of the Cure's "Wild Mood Swings" vs Stabbing Westward's "Violent Mood Swings". And since the Stabbing Westward tune came out before the Cure's album did, at any mention of the second I hear the melody of the first.

I used to make-up the car adverts for a local newspaper. Every week I’d have a complicated ad which would take 3 or 4 hours for a company called ‘Portland Carriage’ - everytime I’d have Frank Sinatra in my head singing it to the tune ‘Love and Marriage’.

The car dealership near my parents house - Aylesbury Honda - always gets their name sung to the tune of 'Help me Rhonda'

Chaka, Chaka, Chaka
Chicken & waffles
Chicken & waffles
Chicken & waffles
Chicken & waffles

Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
Let me rock you
Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
That's all I wanna do
Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
Let me rock you
Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
'Cause I feel for you
Chicken & waffles

This could be ILM's highest earworm risk thread yet. My version of "I'm doin' laundryyyyy" when I'm checking tags to split up the colds and warms: "I'll tumble dry ya"

Also stuck in my head, ever since record store coworkers tried to help a customer seeking "that Bob Marley song, Pajamas," leaving them mystified until she sang it for them:

Pajamas
Pajamas
I'm in pajamas with you
Pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas
And I hope you like pajamas too
Oh-oh-oh

ahahaha

omg "I'll tumble dry ya" - laundry is never going to be the same!

"The sharif don't like it
Lock the Taskbar
Lock the Taskbar"

Takes me back to my college days, where, stumblinginto yet another cheap-ass mixer, my friends and I would break out into:

"I forgot my wallet...
Oh fuck, it's a cash bar!
Fuck, it's a cash bar!"

Until recently my local corner shop was called Akbar's, and every time I went there I would sing "Akbar's! I wanna take you to Akbar's!" (to the tune of 'Gay Bar', obviously). I do have loads more of these, but usually don't remember them aside from when I do it.

More annoyingly, I've found that whenever someone says "yes" in a certain manner, I have to finish it with "the rhythm the rebel". It is driving me insane.

Argh, "yes, the rhythm the rubbish, without a pause I'm taking out the garbage" went through my head for about a decade whenever I did the trash. What is it about chores that makes them such a breeding ground for these singsongs?

Any street name of the form 2 syllable word + avenue gets 'and I'm caught one more time up on duh-duh avenue' sung to it

On seeing a chinchilla in a city farm: "Chinchilla! Who got the keys to my bima?"

Shih Tzu, that's how we act when we team up.

(there are probably better ways to fill that in)

I'm always on the hunt for names and phrases that can be sung to "Camptown Races." My favorite so far is baseball player Yuniesky Betancourt.

When they lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, my parents used to take advantage of the lower gas prices in the U.S. by driving two miles south across the river to Sault Ste. Marie Michigan and filling up there. And when they passed the appropriate sign... http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/29589361_c80f1d9834.jpg?v=0 ...my dad would usually annoy my mom by singing "Briiidge - to the USA!" Springsteen-style.

"Doug" substituted for the word "love":

Can You Feel The Doug Tonight?
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Doug
Doug Will Tear Us Apart
Now That We've Found Doug
etc.

WHAT

A friend was obsessed with switching out love for lunch: Lunch Will Keep Us Togwether, Lunch Will Tear Us Apart, The Greatest Lunch of All, Stop in the Name of Lunch, When a Man Lunches a Woman....

^^LOL esp. "when a man lunches a woman"

I feel the lunch, baby

then you guys will love this thread

Feel Like Making Lunch

I was hearing "no shakey shakey" to the tune of "push it" after seeing this

http://istor.indyarocks.com/trphotos/NoShakeyShakey1206254587.jpg

the mayor of my town is named fung and while he campaigned I couldn't stop hearing "everybody vote fung tonight" in my head

thank god the election is over

I fear we're veering from the question's intent. Nevertheless, I have to add that whenever I hear the John Denver & the Muppets' version of "Deck the Halls," when Scooter sings "See the blazing yule before us," I sing it as "See the blazing UB40."

as i was shutting my work computer down for the day - 'the server shut down' to the tune of 'the final countdown'

There's a call center company called Ruffalo Cody with an office in Athens that I would ride past, inevitably leading me to sing their name to the tune of "Buffalo Soldier."

There Will be Blood, sung to the tune of "She Will be Loved"

Upon seeing a Ralph Lauren Nautica box unwrapped this morning, I sung in my head, as always:

"Nautica, bloody red eyes go to, Nautica, bloody red eyes go to"

There's a coffee chain here called "Cup o Joe" which I have stuck together with "Poppa Joe" by the Sweet.

hahaha nautica

bendy truly gets the spirit of this thread

Run fast as you can.
You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man.

To the tune of Iron Man. Whenever i see hear anything ginger related.

WIth Michael PARKINSOn, liza goddard, and LIonel blaiR

to the tune of happy house by juan Mclean

"I drowned a girl and I liked it"

Looking at medicines that declare "Pain Reliever / Fever Reducer," I flash on Keith Murray saying "Panty raider / party exciter!" on "Special Delivery."

"I could drink a quesadilla, darling
and I would still be on my feet..."

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

whenever i read the shampoo & face wash bottles in the shower, i start singing "ex-fo-li-aaa-aation, is makin' me scrape."

burrito = "Amoeba" by the Adolescents - Burr - ee -TO! Burr - ee - TO!

and another - 70s artist Blinky Palermo to the tune of "Bitchin' Camaro" by the Dead Milkmen.

Everytime I see a Blu-Ray disc or player, I sing "blu-ray" to the tune of:

if blu-ray technology catches on, I'm screwed!

Congrats Whiney, I am totally going to start doing that in my head now. Man, I haven't heard U-Way in forever.

Actually they were kind of dumb not to license the song!

('they' meaning the blu-ray people, not the Youngbloodz)

the mayor of my town is named fung and while he campaigned I couldn't stop hearing "everybody vote fung tonight" in my head

thank god the election is over

― Edward III, Wednesday, December 3, 2008 4:39 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

At one old job we had a regular customer named Wei Ding (we had to pull the customer's charge accounts from the filing cabinet, so people's names were well-known). This guy came in all the time with large, elaborate orders.... and one day right after he left it clicked in my head: "So tired... Tired of Wei Ding..."

Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike

I'm doing laundry....doin' lauundraaaaaayyyayayayayaya

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:09 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

this will never leave my head ever

Clothes are on the table, the dryer's cookiiiiiiin'

last night I dreamed about this thread. in my dream I posted that I always hear 'Gilgamesh' to the tune of "Silver Bells". that doesn't actually happen to me, but now I think it probably will.

ahhhon mind steelin shirts from the mouth of the dryeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Whenever "Rosemary's Baby" is mentioned I start singing, to the tune of Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby," "It's got to be Rosemary's Baby, oh yeah, it's got to be Rosemary's Baby, cause she's so fine...she's gonna be Rosemary's Baby oh yeahhhh"

Like the very nature of these things, it's pretty obnoxious to other ears prob

The city of Bangalore = "Albacore" by Palomar.

A record store I frequented in my teens had a Papa John Creach poster in the back, which name now and forever sparks a Madonna tune in my head:

Papa John Creach
I'm in trouble deep...

Surprised Papa John's Pizza hasn't picked it up to promote a deep-dish pie. Put it down with "Blu-Ray!"

Our house has several bird nests under the eaves. During the summer months, baby birds will regularly fall out of their nests to meet their demise on the sidewalk below. It sucks a bunch.

Anyway, to the guitar riff from "Baracuda":

Dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead d-d-dead, d-d-dead BA-BY BIRDS!

http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/Beavis_and_Butt-head.gif

WOah...weird...I was just going to revive this to talk about how shelves of daytime and nighttime cold/flu medicine are fused in my mind with "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" by Wings. Which doesn't really require changing the words at all but it sort of relates.

The lyrics to "I've been working on the railroad" nicely fit "fly by night" by rush.

This one is really bothersome: often when I there's a discussion about the motorik beat (as I just read in regards to the new Lindstrom & Prins Thomas) Night Ranger comes alive in my brain, belting out "YOU'RE MOTORIK"

I sing "haters to the left" as "solid as a rock"
I sing "this is why you're fat" (when I'm talking about the blog) as "this is why i'm hot"

I haven't confirmed this, but I strongly suspect they might have been thinking of "This Is Why I'm Hot"...

When I worked on the library desk I always used to sing dewey codes to myself to the tune of the bit on the Wu Tang's first album when Method goes "M-E-T-H-O-D maaaaaaaan"; like, I'd sing "7-9-1-.-43 RAH", so I could remember when when retrieving temporary reserve books.

Fairly often I'll see something that will prompt the melody to "Girlfriend in a Coma" by the Smiths.
For example, I was downtown and there was a midget handing out pamphlets, and I got "Midget with a pamphlet, I know, I know, it's serious..." in my head.

Oddly, I don't even know how the verses to "Girlfriend in a Coma" go. I barely know the song. But it only seems to happen with this song.

― jsimp, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:30 (9 months ago) Bookmark

This is one of mine too, but I suspect it comes from seeing a Never Mind The Buzzcocks Christmas special some years ago, that featured Bill Bailey and Rick Wakeman dressed as wizards with point hats and capes singing "Bender in a ski-lift, I know, I know it's serious..."

None of my other ones come to mind at the moment though.

I am on a continuing mission to sing the entirety of Beethoven's 5th using nothing but the phrase "bacon and eggs".

"Lock the taskbar" wins this thread for me

Was totally thinking about that one today!

I was in mamroneck a couple weeks ago and couldn't stop singing it to the tune of the manah manah song from the muppets

Whenever my kid puts X-Men: Evolution in the DVD player, I sing Tracy Chapman.

"Don't you know, they're talking 'bout X-Men: Evolution?"

i'm so glad i finally returned The Night Porter, because every time i would see the netflix envelope i would sing it to REM's "Nightswimming"

also the movie sucks

In another thread, someone posted a paragraph by Roger Ebert that ended in "How cool is that?" and my mind immediately went to Rivers singing that song from Weezer's Pinkerton album.

er, this thread is about something slightly different, something that I do all the time but can't think of any examples of right now.

There's a convenience store around the corner called "United Foodland" which always triggers Huey Smith & the Clowns' "We Like Birdland."

UUUUU NITE, FOOD LAND!
U-NITE-FOOD-LAND!

a (north american) toilet flush always brings the GI Joe theme to mind.... "Gee-Eye..." on the pull, "Joooooee" on release, "a real american hero...." during the drain. hmmmmm

'Love On A Farmboy's Wages' over 'Love In Elevator'

An

All through Avatar references to Eywa triggered Hey Ya.

hahaha

lol recently with my nephew Omar - Oma-Oma-ma, gaga ooh la-la...

drives me crazy.

'Baked beans and grated cheese' to Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)

http://www.oswego-illinois.org/images/welcome-to-Oswego.jpg

This town, and a woman named Teresa Rentaria, both crop up anytime my family watches The Wizard of Oz.

http://www.coffeeicon.com/core_images/store_images/6423.jpg

Roll 'em up and twist 'em up
A high tuck a-haw

cereal first what the fuck

― i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 18, 2010 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Coca-Cola came and bought it for billions, what the fuck?

....what the fuck?

to the left, to the left

STILL

I occasionally annoy friends when during a lull in a conversation someone says "so....." and I break out into "a needle pulling thread!"
It doesn't help that almost no one I know has seen the Sound of Music.

When I hear "Love's Train" by ConFunkShun:

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
You've just have to keep on hopin'

I sing:

"Sir Too Short comin' straight from Oakland"

I get repeated collection agency calls for one Carlos Molina, despite having actually called and told some people in an office somewhere that I am not Carlos Molina and that I have no idea who he is. Anyway, I have taken to singing (to the tune of "Carlos Dominguez"): Carlos Molina, an unhappy man. . .

I'm really tempted to tell one of these callers that I killed Carlos Molina, burned his corpse, and buried it on the West Mesa here in Albuquerque, because he wouldn't pay back the money he owed me.

So I got up and strolled over to the other side of the cantina
I asked the guy, Why you so fly? he said, Funky Carlos Molina

Lipps, Inc.

I realize that when I see those Coin Star vending machines that turn your loose change into cash vouchers I sing Suede's "Film Star" but with, you know, Coin Star.

juuust the tuomas, we can make it if we trhy-yeee, juuust the tuomas, you and i

i just sing all sorts of different things to the tune of eleanor rigby.

Not singing, but, there is an architect named Winka Dubbeldam, and every time I see her last name on anything my brain immediately goes: Lisa needs braces!

when I see Joe Biden I have to sing "want Joe Biden, need Joe Biden" a la TI's "Whatever You Like"

Lex you say "STILL" like it's not going to be forever associated for the rest of our lives

Lately when I'm getting ready for work and making sure I've got my keys, wallet, etc. I hear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btkDt0zEGAQ
as "check your pockets"

I still do the Lock the Taskbar one whenever I see it on my screen.

Also sing Papa Don't Preach as "papadums please, I need my curry cheap" (I blame the ex for that one).

we are the sons of no one
keggers of yore

Some good ones here: Lyrics You Purposefully Liek to Sing Incorrectly

thanks for ruining a bunch of songs for me guys!

Came up with a couple of these in med school. The one I remember is from Mary Poppins:

Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
Even though the sound of it is simply quite atrocious...

You got the body
Now you want my soul
Don't even think about it
Geir Hongro

this is normally streets...

Walking Down Ella Street (yes, the kirsty maccoll song about 'ull)
Come back to Cranbrook (/Chestnut/Princes/etc) Avenue

or even Rock Down To Cranbrook Avenue. I can't even get that part of the song right. To the tune of Eddy Grant anyway. sheesh.

And I appear to have triangulated my address for the internets. oh well. morning all. yawn.

I once heard Willie Rushton 0n I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clues sing the words of the 'To Be Or Not To Be' speech to the tune of 'A' Your Adorable and nearly had a hernia laughing.

'cause I live and breathe
this PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE!

My children sing "It looks like cheese in another world" to the Libertine's Up the Bracket

the phrase "don't be a dick about it" occasionally enters my head
and it's always to the tune of "don't you forget about me" by Simple minds

the other day i got that "berserker" song from clerks stuck in my head for some reason and after a while it became "GEIRHONGO."

cross ref with "too much time on ilx."

maybe I should've bought a different brand of spaghetti this week. it's hard to follow cooking instructions when you have "yum yum yum yum, Barilla, illa, illa, eh, eh, eh" running through your head on a loop to the tune of the Rihanna song.

When I was about to watch the movie "Fletch" in the theater in 1985, I convinced my little sister that the Kool and the Gang's "Fresh", which was a hit at the time, was actually called "Fletch" and was in fact the theme for the movie we were about to see. So if I see a reference to to Fletch somewhere "He's Fletch...exciting...he's so exciting to me" starts running through my head.

Whenever I see the phrase "simply (something)-able" I pause for a sec and go all Robert Palmer. You have to pause, though, like in the song.

My brain has recently taken to (when prompted by evangelical uses of 'JC' etc.) started singing "Me and JC got it locked, crazy" a la Money Ain't a Thang.

oh god, "the doors" hit me at the worst times and i annoy myself even thinking about it
waiting... waiting... waiting... wai-ai-ting

that and almost every person i know has a song permanently attached to them. "jessie's girl" and "hey joe" are by far the worst, and people with those names soon learn to avoid me. if their name is two syllables and i can't think of anything better, the "feelings" chorus usually does the trick

for a while there were flyers up around town that read "Cash for Comic Books", which i always heard in my head to the tune of "Flesh for Fantasy"....

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:17 PM (3 years ago)

i do this all the time now. thanks thread.

The word "alcoholism" always triggers "There's nothing wrong with alcoholism!" to the tune of Capitalism by Oingo Boingo. Which then usually gets followed up by "There's nothing wrong with drinking some wine."

Now when I step up in the place, ayo, I step correct...
U-HAUL! I got you all in check.

back at Christmastime, once I replaced "Feliz Navidad" with "Phylicia Rashad," there was no turning back.

whenever I'm watching Cheers for some reason I pretend the music that plays when they go to commercial is (to the tune of Elvis Costello's "No Dancing")

There's gonna be
Ted Danson
There's gonna be
Ted Danson
There's gonna be
Ted Danson, when we come back!

Mon. 1/30-Fujiya & Miyagi/The Frail@The Independent

The word "hurting". It always, immediately, makes my mind shoot into "Hurting death is not for you I think you should choose life"... thank you jinglesource for forever ruining the word "hurting" for me.

You know that bit in 36 Chambers when Meth comes in and goes "M-E-T-H-O-D maaaaaaan"? I used to use that to memorise Dewey decimal codes of books when I worked in the library. 7-9-1.43 NOR. Still do it.

Pho restaurant called Pho Supreme brought to mind "a pho supreme.. a pho supreme.. a pho supreme"

whenever I see jamon on a menu I have to sing it like Michael Jackson, "jamon" or "shamone" or "chamone" or whatever it was he sang in Bad.

i bought a bottle of diet mountain dew today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u89_AiQu9BQ

ex-foli-a-a-tion
is makin' me scrape

"brony, brony, my little pony, brony brony, sha na na na"

to the tune of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo

I just absent-mindedly sang "DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL" to the tune of "Everybody Dance Now" by C&C Music Factory.

hahahahahaha

Brilliant

whenever I hear "Dashboard" by Modest Mouse I just start barking like a dog, "arf! arf! arf!"

people named owen approve of devon county-related jokes

I used to sing the 'There was an old lady who swallowed a fly' to the tune of the Adams Family theme a LOT when I was a kid.

when i say oopsie daisy i sing it like "sherry baby"

"ooh-oohp-sie, oopsie DAISY"

you could even do the entire chorus if you were so inclined

browsing tv listings on my computer when all of a sudden in my head:

http://i40.tinypic.com/rmkw0y.png

feel the bass
SCAAOP
talk to em
LOOK
looking for comedy/muslimmmmm
now now now i'm looking for comedy/muslimmmmm

Used to have to reference non-domestic rateable values of properties in a past job and in my head it always became
What's the NDRV?
Aren't you Britney
Let's turn this dancefloor into our own little nasty thing

hahaha speaking of "property" --

MQC (mid-quarter convention for depreciating property)

I'm down with MQC
Yeah you know me

Hi dere. I can never find this thread when I need it. Now that it was recently revived I can't remember what I wanted to post.

"Shock top" beer for whatever reason makes me think "drag you out that bentley coupe and take it to the chop shop" from T.I.'s "what you know".

never gonna top ''i'm doin' laundry'' in terms of impact on my life, but still a great thread

http://youtu.be/6VRNdNIbic4

billboard advertisement: Freeze your Fat Away as "Fuck the Pain Away" by Peaches

never gonna top ''i'm doin' laundry'' in terms of impact on my life...

Hahah...I was gonna post that. It never gets old.

Like everybody else, I am addicted to Candy Crush. And every time I start a new game, In Dreams by Roy Orbison pops into my head.

"A Candy Crushing clown they call the sandman…."

Korean fried chicken joint Bonchon leads to the following from soul coughing:

Move aside, and let the mango through
You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine
Chicken Bonchon Chicken Bonchon Chicken Bonchon

this is maybe something different but every time I hear "Blurred Lines" all the lyrics from Flynt Flo$$y's "Did I Mention to Dance?" pop into my head. like I'm just singing "This beat is crazy baby, you can't be acting lazy" over and over again

I wore two pairs of gloves on the ride home the other night, and thought of "doublin' up on my gloves, yeah" to "do what you want to my body"

Oh word, there's other people who associate "I'm doin' laundry" with "Hunger Strike." That's kind of amazing.

A friend of mine used to sing "I got Tide for cleanin' threads" instead of whatever they sing.. "I don't mind stealin' bread."

Empty the Recycle Bin
Same old trip it was back then

Can never remember the title of this thread when I need it and can't remember why I was looking for it when it is revived.

My avocado don't
My avocado don't
My avocado don't
want none if it's got brown spots, son

don't know that soul coughing track so i just read Chicken Bonchon to the tune of Shake Your Bon Bon .......

http://nypress.com/ricky-martin-stole-my-song/

lol:

Hi dere. I can never find this thread when I need it. Now that it was recently revived I can't remember what I wanted to post.

― Croupier's Cabin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at work we sell a cheese called "evalon" that i can't not say without going "ooooh-ooooooooh eh-vuh-laawhn"

the other day a midget carrying a large trash bag rode by on a bicycle and I thought of this thread and:

midget with a trash bag, I know, I know, it's serious

how often does the phrase "midget with a trash bag" pop up in your life

seeing "sour lean" in the dairy section at the store;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/ShoulderLean.jpg

every time.

xp - now that i think of it, i think he was actually a dwarf, but that doesn't scan

though "dwarf with a trash bag" sounds great to "smoke on the water"......

holy shit!

Dwarf with a trash bag
Riding on a bike

Whenever I opt for cayenne in a recipe, Guided by Voices' "Cheyenne" is never far from my mind

A single glimpse of purity
In a flickering light
Cayenne seems right

xxp: holy shit indeed...
now, i am really hoping i one day will see a little person with a garbage bag on a bicycle...
what a strange thing to hope for....

The album title My Name Is Albert Ayler always makes me start singing

Oh, my name is Albert Ayler,
I hope you like my show
I know you're rootin' for me,
but now I have to SKRONNNNKSREEEEESRIIIERAAARRRK

to the tune of this: http://youtu.be/ESEiJlseLWo

lol:

_Hi dere. I can never find this thread when I need it. Now that it was recently revived I can't remember what I wanted to post.

― Croupier's Cabin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink_

Lock the taskbar = rock the casbah

The code to the bins in my black of flats is C1389 which I sing to TVC 15 by Bowie. It's getting to the point where I'm avoiding taking the recycling out because I don't want that stupid earworm.

I realized just now that besides not remembering the thread title, I do this so often that it is probably not worth posting about.

Of course that's never stopped me before.

Anyway I've committed to memory that this thread's name starts with "Phrases" and it was created by upside-down Whiney so it should be smooth sailing from here on in.

i always sing "The Big Payback" as "It's Vic Tayback!"

Me too! In fact about a week or two ago I posted "Vic Tayback! Revenge!" on Mr. Fine Wine's FB page because I thought we had discussed this years ago on more than one occasion and that he did the same thing, but he claimed ignorance.

huh, i've been doing that more or less since i first heard the song as a kid. I wonder how many of us there are.

I've been doing it for a decade or two, which is maybe since when you were a kid.

Trying to remember who was with me and Mr. FW when we had this discussion so as to triangulate and corroborate.

Seems to me there was sometimes additional discussion about Vic Tayback's appearance on Star Trek TOS.

i've been doing it for three decades so

You win then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPxxG31JOCg

I've said this one elsewhere on ILX, but every time I make a curry it's 'Cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin... after all'

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (5 years ago)

Guess who's playing in SF tonight, and guess what song is now stuck in my head after the DJ read the entertainment listings for tonight

http://www.arlingtonglassrepair.com/files/uploads/2012/08/broken_glass-11.jpg

BROKEN GLASS, everywhere!
people pissin' on the stairs
you know they just don't care

Ooh, I remembered one the other day. Every time I get the train through here:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_TBD/images/photos/800/o3208-0020065.jpg

I sing the station name to the tune of 'True Colours'.

http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_18808.jpg

slicin' up eyeballs, whoahoahoahoa
DEGREASER

not quite the same but anytime somebody says "these are the only X I know of" I have to restrain myself from singing the tag to lehrer's "the elements" -- "these are the only ones of which the news has come to haaaarvard / and there may be any others but they haven't been discaaaavered."

I have kind of the reverse problem - phrases of certain lengths always get stuck in my head to certain tunes. e.g., anything with 7-8 syllables starts reverberating to the tune of "Camptown Races." So the other day I was in the store and, after passing through the dairy aisle, started singing, "Lowfat cultured buttermilk, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

Similarly, six-syllable phrases get the classic conga line rhythm, a la The Simpsons' "You don't win friends with salad, You don't win friends with salad!"

ah shit..... i do that six syllable conga thing sometimes too.......

Carphone Warehouse = 'Cartoon Boyfriend'

Been working on some marketing materials for women in menopause called "Red Hot Mamas" which keeps making think of:

"Red hot mama
Velvet charmer
Time's come to pay your dues

[chorus:]
Now you're messin' with a
A SON OF A BITCH"

Also, working with a clinic in a little town called Cottage Grove which leads to fucking China Grove.

in college a friend and I changed the words to Wings' "Let'em In":

Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Leon Trotsky
all sing along

Fidel Castro
Idi Amin
Vladimir
LEEEENNNIIIIIINNNNN
(ooh yeah)

The Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo's name is a pretty close rhyme to "Song Sung Blue"

Hong Sang-soo
Likes to use his zoom lens...

Not a phrase but an action - I sing "Cold As Ice" by Foreigner (specifically "You're digging for gold/Yet throwing away/A fortune in feelings/But someday you'll pay") whenever I clean the cat box so now that song reminds me of cat poop.

lol. I always sing "I really don't like it/Clean the catbox/Clean the catbox", a 98 Rock Twisted Tune from back in the 80s.

"kurdish peshmurga" to the tune of that rural juror song Jenna songs at the end of 30 rock: I will never forget you, kurdish peshmurga, I'll always be glad I met you, kurdish peshmurga

Whenever I see the "lock the taskbar" option in windows I sing it to the tune of Rock the Casbah.

i saw the thread title 'tight black leggings and big foofy boots' and immediately it was to the chorus melody of 'style'

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

lol

lol!

hahahaha

Just bought a bag of salad 'baby, baby rocket/king of the wild green herbs'

excellent..

phil, just caught myself doing this: too much time on ilx, doo dah doo dah

every time i see these at work

http://i.imgur.com/hZeGvhG.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1aJW0_Bo6I

The revised S&D: Billy Joel thread reminded me of "Pressure," where the lines

But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face

becomes

Where the only thing you feel
A load of cunts in your face

Quatuor pour la fin du temps, doo dah, doo dah

pajamas
to think pajamas were a thing of the past
pajamas
and i hope pajamas gonna last

billy went away with the peace keeping force
cause he liked a bloody good fight of course
went away in an old nakhchivan to the banks of the river jordan

Watching MotD last night and Brede Hangeland came on for Crystal Palace. Which started me off singing his surname to Shang-a-Lang by the Bay City Rollers.

I was in Thailand last spring and there were tropical fruits for sale everywhere which always got "whoa-oh black Betty, rambutan" stuck in my head.

Also went to a ramen place named Nudo last week which has become the chorus of Lido Shuffle

Sometimes when I'm cooking, I'll start singing "I'm using cumin" to the tune of the Human League's "I'm Only Human."

i'm using cumin / a spicy rub i made

ha, I might do that with Billy Joel's "You're Only Human."

I'm assuming I'm not the only one who in their head sings the title of the 'bear say hi to me' thread to the tune of SOS Band - Just Be Good To Me.

this one is truly unfortunate but ...

I've been reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and after a passage where she writes about how Eichmann never really made it into the Nazi inner circle ...

I have "Adolf the Nazi Scapegoat" in my head to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

music website Wondering Sound always gets the Specials/Skatalites song "You're Wondering Now"

You're Wondering Sound
What to do
Now that you know
This is the end

I do a similar thing except it's either one of a number of stock dancehall shoutouts: - 'CHAMPION SOUND', 'THE WICKEDEST SOUND'

i've been speaking to a client called C4th1 St1rl1n9 lately and wondering why I get the Altered Images song 'Happy Birthday' stuck in my head.

Not quite the same thing, but while we're at it:

For years, quite puzzlingly, I found whenever I'd see the word 'bacon' written down, I'd hear it sung in the voice of Neil Tennant.

It just occurred to me that this is because my mind is conflating the word 'bacon' with 'taken', specifically in the way it gets sung on 'How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously'.

Now I'm thinking about copyrighting a vegetarian meat product.

Whenever I saw the poster for the Strangers on a Train play that was on a while back I always sung it in my head to the tune of either 'Strangers in the Night' or 'Riders on the Storm', depending on the mood I was in.

Whenever I think of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, I sing "In Sagrada Familia" to the tune of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."

Not for 17 minutes straight, though.

Oh, that's good! I have a whole list of architecture-related ones of these - "Ronchamp" to the tune of "Oh My Golly!", "We're at American Bar" to the tune of "We're An American Band," etc.

I work across the street from a small airport, and on breezy days the old Windsong perfume jingle plays in my head: "I can't seem to forget you / Your windsock stays on my mi-i-i-ind....."

Ha. I sing the same song for a wine called "Windspiel."

Just started doing:
A Winter's Tale
In a deep and dark December

We have two different sets of baby footie pajamas with a moose on them, which have become known as Moose Suit #1 and Moose Suit #2. Whenever one of them gets installed on the baby I have to sing this to the tune of Roots Train Number One.

Moose Suit 'jamas (jamas!)
Throw back a bottle of milk

Boomkat will now always be known as Boom-boom-boom-KAT! in my head

Pretty obvious but, whenever I see an ad for Shari's Berries I sing it to the tune of Shari Vari by A Number of Names.

I'm snapping to guides (doodle-oo, doodle-oo)
I'm snapping to gui-i-ides

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVte8cdwpXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70QfHtKdh_0

whenever i see you smile

i have a client named Margo, who has outsourced the preparation of various financial reports for the org's board of directors to me

for the past two days

I'm only making reports for Margo to "making plans for Nigel"

We took our cat in to the vet to be neutered today, and all day long I've been singing "cat neuter" in my head to the tune of Apollonia 6's "Sex Shooter."

Cat neuter
'snippin off of my Chewbacca
Come on, lose the balls

thanks to DJP

now Girlfriend in a Coma = "hitler on the toilet"

"isomorphic to a smooth manifold" = "you've been hit by a smooth criminal"

Used to have a white cat and always sang "It's a nice day for a white kitten". I lost the cat and now whenever I hear the words "White Wedding" I think of him and miss him.

Here kitty, kitty. Have a K. D. Lang treat

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81GQ0v0%2Bs5L._SY355_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqPjx94YMg

I know I mentioned this over on a Moody Blues thread, but apparently not on this one:

My daughter's favorite kind of mac and cheese is Shells and White Cheddar. "Never reaching the end..."

Local coffee sellers, Stumptown Roasters:

Stumptown Roasters sing this song,
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!

midget with a trash bag, I know, I know, it's serious

― sarahell, Friday, October 3, 2014 12:12 PM (1 year ago)

saw him again yesterday

VIC TAYBACK

Revenge!

:)

Tom Driberg famously drew attention to the fact that the phrase used to open proceedings in the House of Commons each day, "The Clerk will now proceed to read the orders of the day", could be sung to the tune of 'John Brown's Body'.

"This PC be Warren G"

The word podcaster to the tune of the B-52s Rock Lobster.

Aztec Camera's gonna get you
gonna knock you right on the head

'obama don't like you and he likes everyone'

About 7 results (0.56 seconds)

While walking around Atlanta doing an architecture tour recently I somehow got architect-developer John Portman tied up with "Four Horsemen" by the Clash. Have pretty much not been able to shake it since.

he just built an atrium as big as the sun
john portmaaaaaaan

hahaha exactly

Silk sleep mask!
Poet and a prophet
Silk sleep mask!
Taught me how to off it

almost feel like this is too obvious not to have come up already, but whenever an application says "do you really want to exit?" it's always, always culture club

Maybe not in the spirit of things since they're both names, but "Vin Diesel" is always to the tune of "Ben Weasel" as performed by The Queers.

More RHCP lately when I'm feeding my cat:

My talking leaf speaks of
A TENDER BEEF FEAST

My wife has a real good one for the John Denver classic...

Toothpaste on my shoulder looks like bird pop

"Boricua College" to the theme of "Eureeka's Castle."

"Homi Bhabha" ~ "Floridada"

Roger Corman's wretched Teenage Cave Man has forever transformed the way I hear/sing the climax of "Baba O'Riley."

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.

hahaha

you're crumbelievable

i remember back in 2007 learning from a teenager that they only knew "unbelievable" thanks to the kraft "crumbelievable" commercial. that kid is now working on a ph.d.

maybe this is deliberate but I was cleaning out my oven the other day using a well known oven cleaner and immediately started singing 'That's what my heart yearns for now/Oven Priiiide'

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:33 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, me too every time

"Pictures of chickens

chickens, oh! chickens"

No idea why.

Pictures of lily is terrible for this for me. Generally hearing 'pictures of' something-two-syllabled, which happens surprisingly often.

For some reason, I always sing "Two cheeseburgers and a microphone" during where it's at

"I've been waiting for delivered food" to Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You"

Whenever I have to clock into my work's logging system: "clock in noooowwww honey, clock in nowwww!"

thanks to my stupid ass workplace playlist:

all the other kids with pumped up kicks say CLEVELAND ROCKS! CLEVELAND ROCKS!

maybe this is deliberate but I was cleaning out my oven the other day using a well known oven cleaner and immediately started singing 'That's what my heart yearns for now/Oven Priiiide'

haha, when I was a kid, I used to sing "thats what my stomach yearns for now/sauce on piiiieeee".

But then again I used to change the lyrics to everything, such as Echo and the Bunnymen's "put on a decent record" to the tune of "bring on the dancing horses"

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

domo arigato, D0m P4ssantino

it's the little old lady, D0m P4ssantino

http://i.imgur.com/j3YK5xm.jpg

D0menico P4ssantino
P4ssantino, that is where I'll be
D0menico P4ssantino with me

another one bites the dust?

it's time to catch the bus

(At about 1:20 mins) The chorus of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzhUp8mWgs

to the tune of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMmxyGeEb4

Take that, Creed

was washing fever-sweaty bedclothes yesterday while singing "the secret life of ammonia"

The Winston Wolf/Harvey Keitel Direct Line advert where the guy has a bathroom leak that he's tried and failed to fix.

Keitel: "So, you've got an uncontrollable leak?"
Me: "I've got an uncontrollable leak
He's got an uncontrollable leak
I've got an uncontrollable
It's got style, it's got class
So strong, I can't let it pass
I gotta tell you all about it
I gotta scream and shout it"
Mrs aldo: "Shut the fuck up"
Me: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"
Mrs aldo: "I'm leaving"

This morning:
"Anti-matter? (Shattered)"

"Pepperidge Farm" >>> "Paper In Fire"

My kid has a book called "i dreamt I was a dinosaur" that has lines like "here is sammy stegosauraus busy foraging for food / he likes kay camarosaurus but she's in a grumpy mood" and it's impossible for me to read it without it sounding like the Nails "88 lines about 44 women"

Also just now, at the laundromat (in what must be a spiritual successor to "I'm Doin' Laundry" upthread):

Add the bleach! Add the bleach!
Get out those fuckin' stains!

Trump towers just a sign of the power
Of loving you, oh baby

Most days I have cause to sing...

I'm ah kitty in a box,

I'm ah kitty in a caaaaaaaardbooooard box

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

How does it feel to be
out of the pineapple
pizza?

So not gonna happen
So!
Not gonna happen
So not gonna happen
Anymore...

Infuriatingly, this prompt, when I'm stepping away from the desk for lunch

http://cwtuning.com/imgs/ImageTips/eng/Win_7/DisableLockWorkstation.png

gets mashed up with "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats: "We're gonna lock this computer/lock it inside out/etc."

Whenever I see the words Pop Secret, I always prefix them with a 'gimme gimme' in my head.

Jasper Johns,
What's that flower you have on

My mom was visiting and made one of her old standby vegetarian recipes. Once again I found myself singing "couscous tacos" to the tune of "Zoot Suit Riot."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbA01F6_gns

Graham Lambkin - The Personality

i usually think of the Davy Crockett song ("king of the wild frontier") when i hear the cello here.

lol @ "gimme gimme pop secret"

pretty firmly linked to Arrested Development in my mind but that's great

I now have the phrase "take a knee" going through my head to the tune of "take on me" and I need it to stop.

Kind of the reverse of this scenario, but a thing that's been happening a lot lately is 1) I hear a two-syllable word or phrase, 2) I then sing '(two-syllable word/phrase), baby (two-syllable word/phrase)' to the tune of 'Love Shack'. Like I say, this is happening a lot. Maybe I should see a neurologist.

Shana Tova to the tune of Cuyahoga by R.E.M.

The 'ramblechat' jingle from the Adam Buxton podcast morphs into Now That We've Found Love by Third World when it gets to the 'blah blah blah' bit...

xp oh no

My dog takes one of these daily and we keep the box on top of the fridge, so whenever I get anything from the fridge I end up with ACID REDUCER, I'M NO LOSER stuck in my head
https://www.dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/image.cfm?archiveid=44680&type=img&name=a5cfbbe2-93b4-4015-ae15-5ac11ef9b948-01.jpg

It's been almost nine years since this thread started, and the sight of a midget now always prompts "girlfriend in a coma" -- the other day it was "Midget with a Smoothie" (this was a different midget than the previous years' midget with a trashbag)

sarahell is in my brain, as this is pretty much me 900% of the time. I am an amateur collector of phrases that can be sung to the tune of "Girlfriend in a Coma."

When my children were babies it was "baby in a diaper I know, I know, it's serious."

Recent other examples:

Gerbil with a carrot I know, I know...

Penguin in the men's room...

Robot with a migraine...

Ninja with some hummus...

just now: Cat that looks like Hitler, I know, I know ...

great thread

I do this with times and "Slave to the Rhythm."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones. Eight Twenty Seven.

EIIIIGHT TWENTY SEVENNNNNN

"lock the taskbar" is also timeless, shame on microsoft

No more lock the taskbar, I know, I know, it's serious ...

"Smiling Pizza," neighborhood pizzeria

Smiling Pizza
Smiling Pizza sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling Pizza, Smiling Pizza tell lies, and I got the proof

Every time I see a review for this show that i know nothing about:

Because I'm Nathan for You but I'm not that Nathaaaan.

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:13 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Sadly, toxic algae blooms, doo dah, doo dah"

https://www.facebook.com/NationalWildlife/photos/a.10150122178318987.297864.5644748986/10155890323003987/?type=3&theater

Oh, Camptown Races is another great one.

Often when I get myself some green tea, I'm getting it with Greensleeves playing in my head. It's best whenever it's the Leonard Cohen version.

And if I have anything with old cheese (slice, salad, whatever), it tends to go on Simon & Garfunkel's Old Friends. "Old cheese. Old cheese. Great on a toast made of fine wheats." or similar.

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--Whenever I'm in a convenience store and see Tillamook County Smokers beef jerky, I sing "Tillamook County Smokers" it in my head to the tune of Michael Jackson's "You Wanna Be Starting Something"

someone on fb posted a picture that included a visible package of Tillamook County Smokers .... I had the Michael Jackson song stuck in my head for at least 30 minutes non-stop

basically, it's not just my inexplicable phrases/songs -- I end up with other people's as well

for some reason I started hearing that to the tune of "big rock candy mountain"

oh but I had a new one last night! -- "Windows Defender" to the tune of "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash

it was like some deep subconscious Manchurian Candidate thing, as I had not heard or even thought about that song for at least 20+ years

good one

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:33 (10 hours ago)

Yes, me too every time

― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:50 AM (one year ago)

This one always gets me too.

I do wonder if the entirety of Combat Rock can be inspired through regular use of Windows (pre-Windows 10 - R.I.P. lock the taskbar)

Ha! Speaking of the Clash...

Spanish Bombs - Oh my car is on

Recently been infected by a Steely Dan one - "Breaaaaaaaad - it will come back to you." and "Caaaaaake, it will come back to you.", works with loads of words, it really is a sickness.

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 12:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At some point, I started hearing Iggy's shouted chorus in 'Down in the Street' as 'DEWALT! DEWALT!' and now my brain always tries to turn the song into a commercial for power tools.

Or I guess I should say, for the purposes of this thread, that I always find myself singing 'Down in the Street' when I use my drill.

When I use my drill I invariably sing "I... found... my... DRILL, on Blueberry Hill."

Possibly influenced or reinforced by this cartoon:

https://framasphere.org/camo/9d84d67542bd86d9be33cb145fbb502e527a101b/68747470733a2f2f732d6d656469612d63616368652d616b302e70696e696d672e636f6d2f353634782f64622f30622f65632f64623062656336363238353962313539633538646161346238666638636532332e6a7067

It keeps coming back to this:

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (eight years ago)

My drill is a Makita, so I sing, Makita, Miyagi, ooh i'm gonna drill ya ... to the tune of Kokomo

At work a few years back we were ordering a lot of Wagamama’s when working late. To this day, their Amai Udon makes me go “amai udon - amai - amai udon” to the bridge melody of Livin’ Joy’s Dreamer.

haha, I'm now gonna be doing this too

You can probably guess what song materialized as I wrote 'November rent' on the Memo line of the check.

http://youtu.be/JBy_M4hVHag

Getting a rental car at the Denver airport today, there were four traffic islands between lanes where you had to wait for shuttle buses, labeled island 1-4.

I’ve had “island number three, that is what we are” in my head since.

agh I just read a tweet about Denver airport then read this thread

Upland bog
But to get there is an uphill slog

Casual Pants --> American Band

Moist (vreeeeeeet)
Towelette (vrooooot)

"Fried Egg I'm In Love" to the Cure song

Also my cat is called Moey so we sing

"I can call you Moey,
and Moey when you call me,
you can call MIAOW"

lol

Bloomberg has this little 2-factor authentication gadget for their terminal, the B-B-B-B-B Unit!. Four five years on, still in my head.

awwwwww call MIAOW! <3

Related:

I've spent a good chunk of today going

"I'M PORTER RIIIIICKS! REEEEEE!"

I'm in the target market for that comment, and lol

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

RELATED:
To the tune of Carly Simon's "Anticipation" --> EX FO LI AAAAATION - IS MAKIN' ME FLAKE.

for the past month or so:

"roy moore, juan peron, toscanini, dacron"

To 'Vogue'?

This doesn't really work for this thread, but just walked into The Strand Bookstore and started mentally singing Roxy Music's "Do The Strand."

There's some (unused) boxes of LED wire at work, and I can't pass them without it triggering "LED, LED wire, stay close to meeee"

Now singing “Sweet Baby James” to the tune of “Sweet Lady Jane.”

And, of course, this: Songs That Reference Carry On Films Somehow

Call me by blondie

LeFrak Center (ice skating rink) in Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Aaaaaah... Frak out!
LeFrak... c'est chac!

one day when I was reading the rimming thread I thought of the song by Spanky and Our Gang and now forever, "I'd Like to Get to Know You" goes...

well Id like to lick your butthole
if I could

I like Wolves In The Throne Room but I always end up singing their name in my head to the song Bernard sings in Black Books "cows in the morning 1-2-3 upland at them with a STICK!"

inexplicably, for a few weeks off and on i've had the saw-the-video-once Limp Bizkit comeback failure "Gold Cobra" stuck in my head, except the chorus is

Golan and Globus they're golden,
They're golden, so golden, y'all
Golan-Globus

http://imgur.com/RQT4Us2l.png

These are your orders, seems like it's do it or die
So please read them closely
When you've learnt them be sure that you eat them up

Was in the pub the other night singing along to The Killers' classic "I'm Norman Whiteside"

By Order of the Fire Chief
I know, I know
It's serious

In a local grocery this weekend I spotted some large yellow courgettes, with a the name written on a tag in front of them. I must have looked at the tag for a split second.. Cue my brain singing 'large yellow courgettes' to the tune of Raspberry Beret at me for 3 days straight.

Not to the tune of “Little Red Corvette”(?)

lol

Thanks, I now have a B side for my unshakeable brainworm.

lately been hearing Jack Kirby to the sound of David Lowery singing Jack Ruby.

"total goat rodeo" » "rollin' down Rodeo"

Maria Butina and the jingle for Maria Christina wine. Happens every time.

https://youtu.be/eUWlyLKXEeU

I was visiting our local water park a few weeks ago when I spotted an older guy with a Psychopathic Records Hatchet Man tattoo. Wouldn't you know it, Bob Marley was playing over their sound system at the time. Since then, I've had

He was a Juggalo grandpa
At Six Flags America

stuck in my head.

^This is not quite the right thread for that post, but it was the best I could find.

Every time I see a package of “Baby Arugula” in the grocery store I get Raffi’s “Baby Beluga” stuck in my head. Am I doing this right?

A friend brought a six pack of these to a BBQ the other day and I've been screeching the name to myself in a Brian Johnson voice since
https://untappd.akamaized.net/photos/2018_07_07/bde3196677c33356204e07e97d1b7e52_640x640.jpg

He was a Juggalo grandpa
At Six Flags America

This is v funny, and I don’t want you to think it is going unappreciated

^^^

yes, very good

"Strangers On A Train" and "Blame It On The Rain"

"Man Bun" to the tune of "Slow Ride"

*walks into local specialty grocery store*
*overcome by Elton John voice*
“Well I love to shop / at the International Pantry...”

god fucking damn this is a great revive

Saw Spider Baby tonight and Matthew Sweet's "Super Baby" has been in my head ever since.

We have a kid's book called 'What can rabbit see?', it can only be read to the tune of Mercy Mercy Me.

https://i.redd.it/1oh153dyiiey.jpg

Over the last week I keep hearing "brett kavanaugh" in place of "suntanama" from the Genius' verse on ODB's "Damage".

Max Muncy from the Dodgers always makes me think of Brass Monkey

Message from the wreckage, it is soft-rock shit
TLS handshake, the over-grown super shit

But I can't find my keyring anymore
Is it under something on the floor?
I need to unlock and lock my door
I should have left the house at four
But baby I can't find my keyring anymore

If Beale Street Could Talk to the tune of "These Walls" by Kendrick Lamar

douchebag in an Audi
I know, i know, you're serious

https://img.discogs.com/3oSqTlLZ-QFFPVjEgUuJapyIro4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7032799-1432192692-7771.jpeg.jpg

K-19, The Widowmaker
It was directed by Bigelow
It's hard times befallen, sub survivors
He's Liam Neeson, and I'm just Harry Fooooooord
K-19!

lol

Don't save the file
Don't change a thing
For me

US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled. The dreams in which I'm dying are the dreams in which I'm... killed”

PG Tips (the "tea of the English Working Class") = "I can almost smell [sniff sniff] your TB sheets..."

Various things get sandwiched into Hall & Oates' Maneater these days:

Whoa-oh here she comes
Watch out boy, she'll bomb your home
Whoa-oh here she comes
She's a cruise missile

eh, meant to underline cruise missile there to showcase the interchangeable parts.

xxp - PG Tips has a totally different association for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTam9BJJq9w&t=17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTam9BJJq9w&t=17

Oh well, it was supposed to be the PB Crisps ad from 1994

youtube with an error, i know, i know, it's serious

Occasionally I have to teach people how to use an espresso machine, and one crucial step is telling them to "purge the group head" which I always think to the melody "hang the DJ hang the DJ hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ hang the DJ hang the DJ" but I never sing it out, I just get a faraway look for a moment while it happens.

re: H&O, I was giving myself the giggles with "You're out of touch, I'm out of time / Blood runs out of my head when you're not around" earlier this week, shoutout to whoever shared that one upthread

🎶"It's not like salmon, but a little like trout and it's name is tilapia".🎶

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/960x540/p01bqhrp.jpg

every day is a SAFFRON ROAD ... frozen entrees on sale today ...

We buy these little satsumas that are branded as 'easy peelers', now renamed 'peaceful easy peelers'

emily, emily can't you see / sometimes your words just hypnotize me

Just picked up an early Dick novel

https://borgdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/world-jones-made-e.jpg

and I can't get the chorus of this out of my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuWE_pm5O4

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Teenage_caveman.JPG

Bam-Bam O'Riley

https://youtu.be/M3qoqkKCK3M?t=1689

It’s not that inexplicable — but when I see the word “Panama” (like on my TV right now, where soccer is playing), my head plays the obvious tune

d'oh... i got introduced to teenage caveman by that MST episode so i've certainly seen that Tom Servo riff, but forgotten it. and hear i thought i was on the cutting edge of dad song joke humor.

I was recently pouring vodka into a water bottle, so as to bring it someplace where it was technically not allowed, and I explained to my wife that it was stealth vodka.

We both immediately shouted STEALTH VODKA! in a Fred Schneider style

lol

A+

My cabin had a problem with an ermine that kept getting in, but we could never find and catch it. One day my boyfriend was over and his car was parked out front, and my cousin spotted a tiny ermine disappearing under his car. So she came in and reported, "John, there's a baby ermine underneath your car."

John: What?
Cousin: There's a baby ermine underneath your car.
John: WHAT?
Cousin (patiently): Underneath your car, there's a baby ermine.

Cousin and I looked at each other, had an epiphany, and simultaneously sang "Underneeeeaaaath your car, there's a baby ermine!" to the tune of Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes."

I don't know why, but my horrible brain has recently started torturing me with:

Here I am!
Rock you like I'm Herman Cain!

On a similar note, I keep singing "Joe Biden" to the tune of KISS's "Black Diamond"

loooool

TaskRabbit to the tune of "Phat Rabbit."

I started using a cpap machine this summer for sleep apnea, and mentally refer to it as the "apnea machine". When I put it on before bed now I hear Paul Westerburg saying, "how do you say good night to an apnea machine?"

Jordan Henderson will all be there
Mane Salah Firmino, what a scene

How do you mend
A broken poptart

It’s totally problematic
Whenever you’re around
Problematic

Pointer sisters voice

There was a Charlie Brooker article some time ago in which he said that every time Robert Mugabe was mentioned, his name started going around Brooker's head to the tune of Eleanore Rigby. The same thing has started happening to me since I read the article.

― chap, Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:33 PM (ten years ago

when I read that Robert Mugabe died the other day, I thought of this

/There was a Charlie Brooker article some time ago in which he said that every time Robert Mugabe was mentioned, his name started going around Brooker's head to the tune of Eleanore Rigby. The same thing has started happening to me since I read the article.

― chap, Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:33 PM (ten years ago/

when I read that Robert Mugabe died the other day, I thought of this

♫ Octa octa,
gimme the news,
I've got a bad case
of loving you ♫

*Octo octa obv

this content's not available right now ---> that joke isn't funny anymore by The Smiths

There's a store here called "Pet Places". My wife and I always sing it to the tune of "Face Dances" when we drive by.

Hunh, now this is happening to me, but to the tune of Love’s “Robert Montgomery”.

How do you think Arthur Lee wrote "Robert Montgomery"?

Triggered by seeing the thread 'The Irish' on ilx:

"Help the Irish,
One time they were just like you
Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue
Help the Irish
Don't just put them in a home
Can't have much fun when they're all on their own
Give a hand, if you can
Try and help them to unwind
Give them hope and give them comfort
'Cause they're running out of time"

:-/

i'd make bolognese for ya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs

Better to 'God Gave Rock and Roll to You'.

To me, Octo Octa doesn't summon Robert Plamer.

It summons Thompson Twins.

https://youtu.be/APyl6Cnbfzw

sometimes I like to sing to owen pallet's midnight directives, "the way will be lit, i'm a fat piece of shit, oh whooooah"

rude!

When I attempt to crack macadamia nuts "woooaah macadamia, fighting to survive"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSbyk0VReyo

What becomes of the brokenhearted?
Had to shit
But only farted

I see a bunch of Yang 2020 stickers around including ones that say "Yang Gang" which immediately got this, which I completely forgot existed for the last 30 years, stuck in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXGgWf2lacM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_with_a_Shotgun

Hobo with a Shotgun, I know, I know, it’s serious

^^ yes!!!

Rudy! Giuliani! to the tune of Hey! Luciani!

* "Jojo Rabbit" to the "mojo rising" part of "L.A. Woman"

* "Tammy and the T-Rex" to "Devil in a Blue Dress"

whenever someone says "it's cold outside" (which they did today ALOT) I immediately think "and the paint's peeling off of my walls"

'have a good one' makes me think of Joanna newsom

Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, to the tune of the Dickies' "Manny Moe and Jack."

"the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive" to the tune of Klaatu's "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III"

black friday to the tune of Black Planet by Sisters of Mercy

Saw an ad for ham from a 1960s newspaper that a friend posted on fb. In addition to the shank portion, the ad noted that one could also purchase the “butt face portion.”

Now whenever I hear “butt face portion” it’ll be to the tune of Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero.”

Got stars in his eyes

(to the tune of "Dirty Boots")

TURKEY SOUP
TURKEY SOUP, BABY

I enjoying singing TRASH NIGHT!! to the tune of Parliament's FLASHLIGHT when I need to wheel the bins out to the curb for the garbage collection.

I nicked this from somewhere else but I still sing - when the occasion arises - 'lock the taskbar' to the tune of Rock the Casbah.

it's upthread in a couple places. a great one imo.

Thinking of you
And the things you do to me
That make me love you
Now I'm living in Exeter

Mr. Bonamassa
Mr. Joe Bonamassa

(Mista Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina )

Thinking of you
And the things you do to me
That make me love you
Now I'm living in Exeter

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, November 30, 2019 6:35 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hah!

xp: nice!

And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You're gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn into the wick
Oooh.....

OK boomer

haaaaaaaaa

In the jungle
The mighty jungle
The Lion sleeps tonight

Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros,