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)

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.

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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.

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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.