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)

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.

That said, a friend of mine once worked in an office where someone who used the restroom in a spectacularly malodorous fashion, at about 12:00 every day. This person was stealthy and was never observed in the act. In fact, there was speculation that the person may not even have worked there, but rather was a worker on an adjacent construction site. He or she became known as "the noon shitter."

It became, as they say, A Thing.

Inevitably "noon shitter" became followed by "wider than a mile..."

xp - ha "Seam ripper" for me, translates to "Sex Shooter" by Appolonia 6 -- "Seam Ripper, ripping seams in my direction!"

and on the Sade topic -- a friend has a dog named Blade. Another friend and I thought it was funny to pronounce the dog's name "Bla-day" (to rhyme with Sade the singer) which spawned dog-themed lyrics to Sade's greatest hits: Smooth Pupperator, Sweetest Dog Food, etc.

That said, a friend of mine once worked in an office where someone who used the restroom in a spectacularly malodorous fashion, at about 12:00 every day. This person was stealthy and was never observed in the act. In fact, there was speculation that the person may not even have worked there, but rather was a worker on an adjacent construction site. He or she became known as "the noon shitter."

It became, as they say, A Thing.

Inevitably "noon shitter" became followed by "wider than a mile..."

― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, April 9, 2020 6:22 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Whoa-oh here he comes
Watch out boy, he'll foul your job
Whoa-oh here he comes
He's a noon shitter

nice

I'm leaning how to code and "yarn start" makes me think of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHi54FfM29E

I always hear Prince's Housequake when I see the Outbreak! thread on ILX. Shut up already, damn!

Woah oh black pepper, blam alam!

old black pepper, keep on rollin
mississippi moon woncha keep on shinin on me

If you're lost and you look and you will find me
Six feet apart

downloading updates ---> I know what boys like by The Waitresses

Woah oh black pepper, blam alam!

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski)

old black pepper, keep on rollin
mississippi moon woncha keep on shinin on me

― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin)

Ha, for me black pepper is always to the tune of the SPT version of 'Black Metal' by Venom.

Lay down your bowl
To the gods of shrimp creole

You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the Puddle of Mudd

hahaha

COVID-nine-teen
Now we’re sharing the same dream

don't know much about history
don't know much biology
don't know much immunology
don't know bout epidemiology

but I know more than doctors do
COVID-19 is just the flu
I am such a smart guy, yay for me