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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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)

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

five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:17 (nine years ago)

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

thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:33 (nine years ago)

hahaha

five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 04:00 (nine years ago)

you're crumbelievable

flappy bird, Sunday, 17 July 2016 05:46 (nine years ago)

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.

five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 06:38 (nine years ago)

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'

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:49 (nine years ago)

"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

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:50 (nine years ago)

"Pictures of chickens

chickens, oh! chickens"

No idea why.

MaresNest, Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:57 (nine years ago)

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

inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 17 July 2016 12:07 (nine years ago)

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

poolboy skew (voodoo chili), Sunday, 17 July 2016 13:15 (nine years ago)

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

sarahell, Sunday, 17 July 2016 17:56 (nine years ago)

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

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 18 July 2016 00:29 (nine years ago)

thanks to my stupid ass workplace playlist:

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

clouds, Monday, 18 July 2016 00:48 (nine years ago)

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"

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 18 July 2016 01:16 (nine years ago)

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

how's life, Monday, 25 July 2016 13:12 (nine years ago)

domo arigato, D0m P4ssantino

hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 25 July 2016 23:41 (nine years ago)

it's the little old lady, D0m P4ssantino

hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 25 July 2016 23:42 (nine years ago)

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

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

hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 25 July 2016 23:44 (nine years ago)

another one bites the dust?

it's time to catch the bus

mh, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:02 (nine years ago)


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