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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Not for 17 minutes straight, though.

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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

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

one month passes...

whenever i see you smile

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

three months pass...

thanks to DJP

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

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

Local coffee sellers, Stumptown Roasters:

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

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

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 (eight years ago) link

VIC TAYBACK

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

Revenge!

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

:)

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

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 (eight years ago) link

four weeks pass...

"This PC be Warren G"

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

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

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

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 (eight years ago) link

'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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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

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

hahaha exactly

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

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

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 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

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

three months pass...

"Homi Bhabha" ~ "Floridada"

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

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 (seven years ago) link

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

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

hahaha

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

you're crumbelievable

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

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

"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 (seven years ago) link

"Pictures of chickens

chickens, oh! chickens"

No idea why.

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

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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

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


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