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

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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

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (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'

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

domo arigato, D0m P4ssantino

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

it's the little old lady, D0m P4ssantino

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

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 (seven years ago) link

another one bites the dust?

it's time to catch the bus

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

two weeks pass...

(At about 1:20 mins) The chorus of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzhUp8mWgs

to the tune of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMmxyGeEb4

Take that, Creed

sbahnhof, Friday, 12 August 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link

was washing fever-sweaty bedclothes yesterday while singing "the secret life of ammonia"

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 12 August 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link

The Winston Wolf/Harvey Keitel Direct Line advert where the guy has a bathroom leak that he's tried and failed to fix.

Keitel: "So, you've got an uncontrollable leak?"
Me: "I've got an uncontrollable leak
He's got an uncontrollable leak
I've got an uncontrollable
It's got style, it's got class
So strong, I can't let it pass
I gotta tell you all about it
I gotta scream and shout it"
Mrs aldo: "Shut the fuck up"
Me: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"
Mrs aldo: "I'm leaving"

Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Thursday, 25 August 2016 10:07 (seven years ago) link

This morning:
"Anti-matter? (Shattered)"

I Don't Sound Like Nobodaddy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 August 2016 13:47 (seven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

"Pepperidge Farm" >>> "Paper In Fire"

Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link

My kid has a book called "i dreamt I was a dinosaur" that has lines like "here is sammy stegosauraus busy foraging for food / he likes kay camarosaurus but she's in a grumpy mood" and it's impossible for me to read it without it sounding like the Nails "88 lines about 44 women"

joygoat, Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link

Also just now, at the laundromat (in what must be a spiritual successor to "I'm Doin' Laundry" upthread):

Add the bleach! Add the bleach!
Get out those fuckin' stains!

Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Trump towers just a sign of the power
Of loving you, oh baby

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link

Most days I have cause to sing...

I'm ah kitty in a box,

I'm ah kitty in a caaaaaaaardbooooard box

MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

How does it feel to be
out of the pineapple
pizza?

how's life, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

So not gonna happen
So!
Not gonna happen
So not gonna happen
Anymore...

how's life, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link

seven months pass...

Infuriatingly, this prompt, when I'm stepping away from the desk for lunch

http://cwtuning.com/imgs/ImageTips/eng/Win_7/DisableLockWorkstation.png

gets mashed up with "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats: "We're gonna lock this computer/lock it inside out/etc."

how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link

Whenever I see the words Pop Secret, I always prefix them with a 'gimme gimme' in my head.

I Dream of Juice (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

Jasper Johns,
What's that flower you have on

Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link

My mom was visiting and made one of her old standby vegetarian recipes. Once again I found myself singing "couscous tacos" to the tune of "Zoot Suit Riot."

geoffreyess, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbA01F6_gns

Graham Lambkin - The Personality

i usually think of the Davy Crockett song ("king of the wild frontier") when i hear the cello here.

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link

lol @ "gimme gimme pop secret"

pretty firmly linked to Arrested Development in my mind but that's great

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link

I now have the phrase "take a knee" going through my head to the tune of "take on me" and I need it to stop.

MarkoP, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link

Kind of the reverse of this scenario, but a thing that's been happening a lot lately is 1) I hear a two-syllable word or phrase, 2) I then sing '(two-syllable word/phrase), baby (two-syllable word/phrase)' to the tune of 'Love Shack'. Like I say, this is happening a lot. Maybe I should see a neurologist.

Gewgaws for Meemaw (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link


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