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)

sarahell is in my brain, as this is pretty much me 900% of the time. I am an amateur collector of phrases that can be sung to the tune of "Girlfriend in a Coma."

When my children were babies it was "baby in a diaper I know, I know, it's serious."

Recent other examples:

Gerbil with a carrot I know, I know...

Penguin in the men's room...

Robot with a migraine...

Ninja with some hummus...

just now: Cat that looks like Hitler, I know, I know ...

great thread

I do this with times and "Slave to the Rhythm."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones. Eight Twenty Seven.

EIIIIGHT TWENTY SEVENNNNNN

"lock the taskbar" is also timeless, shame on microsoft

No more lock the taskbar, I know, I know, it's serious ...

"Smiling Pizza," neighborhood pizzeria

Smiling Pizza
Smiling Pizza sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling Pizza, Smiling Pizza tell lies, and I got the proof

Every time I see a review for this show that i know nothing about:

Because I'm Nathan for You but I'm not that Nathaaaan.

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:13 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Sadly, toxic algae blooms, doo dah, doo dah"

https://www.facebook.com/NationalWildlife/photos/a.10150122178318987.297864.5644748986/10155890323003987/?type=3&theater

Oh, Camptown Races is another great one.

Often when I get myself some green tea, I'm getting it with Greensleeves playing in my head. It's best whenever it's the Leonard Cohen version.

And if I have anything with old cheese (slice, salad, whatever), it tends to go on Simon & Garfunkel's Old Friends. "Old cheese. Old cheese. Great on a toast made of fine wheats." or similar.

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--Whenever I'm in a convenience store and see Tillamook County Smokers beef jerky, I sing "Tillamook County Smokers" it in my head to the tune of Michael Jackson's "You Wanna Be Starting Something"

someone on fb posted a picture that included a visible package of Tillamook County Smokers .... I had the Michael Jackson song stuck in my head for at least 30 minutes non-stop

basically, it's not just my inexplicable phrases/songs -- I end up with other people's as well

for some reason I started hearing that to the tune of "big rock candy mountain"

oh but I had a new one last night! -- "Windows Defender" to the tune of "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash

it was like some deep subconscious Manchurian Candidate thing, as I had not heard or even thought about that song for at least 20+ years

good one

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:33 (10 hours ago)

Yes, me too every time

― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:50 AM (one year ago)

This one always gets me too.

I do wonder if the entirety of Combat Rock can be inspired through regular use of Windows (pre-Windows 10 - R.I.P. lock the taskbar)

Ha! Speaking of the Clash...

Spanish Bombs - Oh my car is on

Recently been infected by a Steely Dan one - "Breaaaaaaaad - it will come back to you." and "Caaaaaake, it will come back to you.", works with loads of words, it really is a sickness.

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

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 12:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At some point, I started hearing Iggy's shouted chorus in 'Down in the Street' as 'DEWALT! DEWALT!' and now my brain always tries to turn the song into a commercial for power tools.

Or I guess I should say, for the purposes of this thread, that I always find myself singing 'Down in the Street' when I use my drill.

When I use my drill I invariably sing "I... found... my... DRILL, on Blueberry Hill."

Possibly influenced or reinforced by this cartoon:

https://framasphere.org/camo/9d84d67542bd86d9be33cb145fbb502e527a101b/68747470733a2f2f732d6d656469612d63616368652d616b302e70696e696d672e636f6d2f353634782f64622f30622f65632f64623062656336363238353962313539633538646161346238666638636532332e6a7067

It keeps coming back to this:

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (eight years ago)

My drill is a Makita, so I sing, Makita, Miyagi, ooh i'm gonna drill ya ... to the tune of Kokomo

At work a few years back we were ordering a lot of Wagamama’s when working late. To this day, their Amai Udon makes me go “amai udon - amai - amai udon” to the bridge melody of Livin’ Joy’s Dreamer.

haha, I'm now gonna be doing this too

You can probably guess what song materialized as I wrote 'November rent' on the Memo line of the check.

http://youtu.be/JBy_M4hVHag

Getting a rental car at the Denver airport today, there were four traffic islands between lanes where you had to wait for shuttle buses, labeled island 1-4.

I’ve had “island number three, that is what we are” in my head since.

agh I just read a tweet about Denver airport then read this thread

Upland bog
But to get there is an uphill slog

Casual Pants --> American Band

Moist (vreeeeeeet)
Towelette (vrooooot)

"Fried Egg I'm In Love" to the Cure song

Also my cat is called Moey so we sing

"I can call you Moey,
and Moey when you call me,
you can call MIAOW"

lol

Bloomberg has this little 2-factor authentication gadget for their terminal, the B-B-B-B-B Unit!. Four five years on, still in my head.

awwwwww call MIAOW! <3

Related:

I've spent a good chunk of today going

"I'M PORTER RIIIIICKS! REEEEEE!"

I'm in the target market for that comment, and lol

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

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To the tune of Carly Simon's "Anticipation" --> EX FO LI AAAAATION - IS MAKIN' ME FLAKE.

for the past month or so:

"roy moore, juan peron, toscanini, dacron"

To 'Vogue'?

This doesn't really work for this thread, but just walked into The Strand Bookstore and started mentally singing Roxy Music's "Do The Strand."

There's some (unused) boxes of LED wire at work, and I can't pass them without it triggering "LED, LED wire, stay close to meeee"

Now singing “Sweet Baby James” to the tune of “Sweet Lady Jane.”