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)

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i'm using cumin / a spicy rub i made

(曇り) (clouds), Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:56 (eleven years ago)

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

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:56 (eleven years ago)

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.

Wet Umbrella Guard (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 7 December 2014 10:15 (eleven years ago)

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"

Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Monday, 8 December 2014 00:19 (eleven years ago)

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

how's life, Friday, 12 December 2014 14:19 (eleven years ago)

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

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 14:23 (eleven years ago)

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.

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 14:28 (eleven years ago)

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'.

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:15 (eleven years ago)

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

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:18 (eleven years ago)

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.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:21 (eleven years ago)

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

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:44 (eleven years ago)

Not for 17 minutes straight, though.

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:48 (eleven years ago)

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.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:07 (eleven years ago)

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....."

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:55 (eleven years ago)

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

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 December 2014 21:05 (eleven years ago)

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

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2014 00:52 (eleven years ago)

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.

joygoat, Sunday, 14 December 2014 02:52 (eleven years ago)

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

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 December 2014 03:03 (eleven years ago)

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

Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 11:42 (eleven years ago)

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.

Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:37 (eleven years ago)

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

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 21 December 2014 15:38 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

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

example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:43 (eleven years ago)

whenever i see you smile

when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:59 (eleven years ago)

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"

Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Thursday, 12 February 2015 07:27 (eleven years ago)

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

Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:28 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

thanks to DJP

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

let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Thursday, 11 June 2015 22:12 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

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

where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Friday, 14 August 2015 02:19 (ten years ago)

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.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 August 2015 04:14 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

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

juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Thursday, 12 November 2015 02:07 (ten years ago)

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..."

SlimAndSlam, Thursday, 12 November 2015 03:23 (ten years ago)

Local coffee sellers, Stumptown Roasters:

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

Josefa, Thursday, 12 November 2015 04:11 (ten years ago)

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

sarahell, Thursday, 12 November 2015 05:48 (ten years ago)

VIC TAYBACK

i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2015 06:07 (ten years ago)

Revenge!

joygoat, Thursday, 12 November 2015 06:09 (ten years ago)

:)

The Cosimo Code of Blueshammer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2015 09:56 (ten years ago)

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'.

Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 10:52 (ten years ago)

four weeks pass...

"This PC be Warren G"

lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:09 (ten years ago)

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

how's life, Monday, 21 December 2015 15:55 (ten years ago)

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

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 21 December 2015 16:03 (ten years ago)

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

About 7 results (0.56 seconds)

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 21 December 2015 21:50 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

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.

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 02:07 (ten years ago)

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

bentelec, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 02:13 (ten years ago)

hahaha exactly

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 14:24 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

how's life, Saturday, 23 January 2016 08:03 (ten years ago)

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

white privilege 2: the legend of clumsy scold (wins), Saturday, 23 January 2016 10:37 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

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.

the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Monday, 15 February 2016 05:09 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

More RHCP lately when I'm feeding my cat:

My talking leaf speaks of
A TENDER BEEF FEAST

how's life, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:10 (ten years ago)

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

Toothpaste on my shoulder looks like bird pop

kornrulez6969, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:23 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 16:50 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

"Homi Bhabha" ~ "Floridada"

Harvey Manfrenjensenden (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:43 (nine years ago)


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