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)

it's upthread in a couple places. a great one imo.

Thinking of you
And the things you do to me
That make me love you
Now I'm living in Exeter

Mr. Bonamassa
Mr. Joe Bonamassa

(Mista Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina )

Thinking of you
And the things you do to me
That make me love you
Now I'm living in Exeter

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, November 30, 2019 6:35 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hah!

xp: nice!

And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You're gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn into the wick
Oooh.....

OK boomer

haaaaaaaaa

In the jungle
The mighty jungle
The Lion sleeps tonight

Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros,

Wuhan!! Got You All In Check

where did you get that one from?

Any time I hear someone on the radio talk about the corona virus

I recently bought some bird food that is "insect and pepper flakes"

Which is great fun to the tune of "Incense and Peppermints"

xp Wuhan has been a weird constant in my life for a decade now - first I got married there, then my sister-in-law moved there, now I organise students coming from there to the UK. So it's been in my head since 2010. Could be worse.

hahaha "insect and pepper flakes"

The Corrs, "Breathless": go on, go on.... feed me breakfast

Also, my partner uses a "Kleen Kanteen" brand thermos for her coffee, and it has given rise to a number of songs as I wash the dishes, with Sheryl Crow's "Steve McQueen" most badly affected. REM's "Electrolite" (also mentioning McQueen) has also been invoked, along with the "clean machine" line from "Penny Lane."

When i was a kid, I thought Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" was Ozzy's "Crazy Train".

Cos he sings Gravy Train but i thought it was Crazy Train

So now that's the way i hear it

Fuck Roger Waters

local oyster n seafood joint's staff used to wear t-shirts that said Shrimply Irresistible. so basically the robert palmer song no longer even exists for us. we came up with some excellent lines for it, too, but i can't recall 'em right now.

xp - I had a similar issue with Stone Roses "I Wanna Be Adored" -- thinking it was a cover of Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" -- years later I still hear "adored" as "your dog"

https://imgur.com/a/y2h1rqD

bang a gong

errr

https://imgur.com/a/y2h1rqD

every time I walk down the tinned veg aisle:

https://i.imgur.com/DXMGlPi.jpg

lol

Covid-19

Oh I swear

At this moment

You mean everything

This happened to me this week when I asked my son, "Do you want some soup for lunch?" -- and then immediately started singing "soup for lunch" to "Slave for Love."

Out on the street for a livin'
Picture's only begun
Ooohhh
JOE BIDEN

Also corona-related, to the tune of Personal Jesus;

REACH OUT
TOUCH FACE

I hadn't heard or thought about Cut Your Face by June of 44 in years but now I hear "SHOW ME HOW YOU TOUCH YOUR FAAAACE!" in my head many times a day

Covid-19
No we can't dance together
No we can't talk at all
Please take me along when you slide on down

Sheeeeeeeeee had Covid-19, Covid-19
I loved her so
But she was too young to fall in love
And I was too young to know

On a whim, my wife bought something called "Raspberry Rosé."

We both took approximately .0001 seconds to sing "the kind you find in a secondhand store."

Sibelius
You're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence
Daily

and IIIIIII
I shit on the ceiling
I can't believe it
That you still talk to me

There's this girl that's been on my mind
All the time
Co-covidio

we're BAKIN A PIE
to Takin a Ride by the 'mats

All masked up and no place to go
Psych 1, Psych 2
What do you know?
All your life is COVID-19
Sesame Street
What does it mean?

I'll tell you what it means...

PRESHAH!

we're BAKIN A PIE
to Takin a Ride by the 'mats

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, April 6, 2020 5:58 PM (one hour ago)

this isn't really the same thing cuz it isn't a phrase i saw, but i just heard it today on the radio, so: whenever i hear "jet" by paul macca and wings i always sing "jet! ooohhhooohoohoohhoo, RALPH NADEEEEEER, JAMES SPADER!"

been doing that for years. i can't even remember what the real words are.

― scott seward, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:56 (eleven years ago) link

Last week, my wife asked if I wanted crepes, and I immediately sang back at her, "CREPES! Woo-oo-oo-OOO-oo-oo-OOO-oo-oo..."

Also corona-related, to the tune of Personal Jesus;

REACH OUT
TOUCH FACE

My Franco sibling in their childhood thought it was "Richard, t'as faim?" and I never hear it differently now

Masks
Wait, they don't love you like I love you.

PTSD, we're making that green,
People always say, "What the hell does that mean?"

https://i.imgur.com/uiad83p.png

No need to ask, it's an egg separator
Egg separator, egg separator
Egg separator

oh that is really good, that will follow me forever

When you're sliding into first
And you hear BLAPSQUISHPLOPSLURP
Onomatopoeia

when i was a kid my bff and i made a whole weird al parody of "smooth operator" called "smooth toilet paper"
it was awesome

Go wipe your ass with the
SMOOTH TOILET PAPAH

smooooooth
toilet papaaaaaaahh

imagining the phrase "go wipe your ahhhsss" in sade's voice is too much lol

the one part i remember is the "coast to coast" part which ended

I think I'll diiiiiiiiie
So I buy
the
smooth toilet papaaaah

FWIW I have been known to sing the Offspring "you gotta keep 'em sepaRATed" thing while separating eggs. Also helps with recycling.

A seam ripper (a sewing implement) is usually intoned to the tune of "Moon River." Seam ripper, wider than a mile etc.