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)

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.

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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.

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