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

Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:42 (sixteen years ago)

"Lock the taskbar" wins this thread for me

een, Thursday, 3 September 2009 15:03 (sixteen years ago)

Was totally thinking about that one today!

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

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

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:08 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

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?"

Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 15 January 2010 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

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

laverne and shipley (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 January 2010 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Cunga, Friday, 15 January 2010 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Cunga, Friday, 15 January 2010 22:35 (sixteen years ago)

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!

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 January 2010 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

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

wherewasyou, Saturday, 16 January 2010 06:30 (sixteen years ago)

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

PaulTMA, Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

An

PaulTMA, Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

All through Avatar references to Eywa triggered Hey Ya.

dad a, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha

i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

drives me crazy.

Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:47 (sixteen years ago)

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

'virgin' should be 'wizard' (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 17 January 2010 11:33 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Hideous Lump, Monday, 18 January 2010 01:39 (sixteen years ago)

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

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

antexit, Monday, 18 January 2010 01:47 (sixteen years ago)

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?

dyao, Monday, 18 January 2010 03:10 (sixteen years ago)

....what the fuck?

Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 January 2010 03:30 (sixteen years ago)

to the left, to the left

STILL

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2010 09:45 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Fetchboy, Monday, 18 January 2010 10:13 (sixteen years ago)

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"

Bobbi Peru, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

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. . .

_Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:54 (sixteen years ago)

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.

_Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:56 (sixteen years ago)

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

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:59 (sixteen years ago)

Lipps, Inc.

Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Friday, 22 January 2010 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Cunga, Friday, 22 January 2010 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

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

dumb mick name follows (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:08 (sixteen years ago)

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

open your shart to me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

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!

Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 January 2010 22:47 (sixteen years ago)

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

musically, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 06:22 (sixteen years ago)

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

26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 06:28 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

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"

Fetchboy, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

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).

Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:39 (sixteen years ago)

we are the sons of no one
keggers of yore

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 22 April 2010 01:12 (sixteen years ago)

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

dad a, Thursday, 22 April 2010 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for ruining a bunch of songs for me guys!

Fellini.Kuti, Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:07 (sixteen years ago)

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...

The Amy Misto Family Knife (Plasmon), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

dad a, Thursday, 22 April 2010 05:28 (sixteen years ago)

this is normally streets...

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

tomofthenest, Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:59 (sixteen years ago)

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.

tomofthenest, Thursday, 22 April 2010 08:01 (sixteen years ago)

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

tomofthenest, Thursday, 22 April 2010 08:01 (sixteen years ago)

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.

You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Thursday, 22 April 2010 08:13 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

'cause I live and breathe
this PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE!

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

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

Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

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

kinder, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)

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."

apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 03:45 (fourteen years ago)

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.

why delonge face? (unregistered), Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:06 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Mark, Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)


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