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)

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

classic

covid nineteen
no we can't dance together
no we can't touch at all
please leave me alone when you leave your house

hah voodoo, I had the same thought

Covid-19
No we can't dance together
No we can't talk at all
Please take me along when you slide on down
― Quinoa pedal (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:14 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

great minds, terrible diseases

Sweet, sweet, little Corona

Just bought Alice Coltrane's 'Ptah, the El Daoud', but I keep singing the title to the tune of 'Mouldy Old Dough' by Lieutenant Pigeon.

I kissed my girl
By the factory wall
Ptah, the El Daoud,
Mouldy Old Dough

Shake Shack
Go ahead and give it to me
Shake Shack
Honey, take me through the night

ok but

The Shake Shack is a little old place where
We can get together

This probably doesn't count but I always replace the word 'man' in a song with 'nan' today hilarious effect.

To wit: I'm waiting for my nan.
Nan! I feel like a woman.
Nan on the moon.
Naneater.
Nan in the mirror.

*to hilarious effect. With hilarious effect? Fucking hell.

Chinaski I love this and it will become my new hobby.

I'm a NAN, yes I am, and I can't help but love you so
Nannish Boy (spelled N... A, child... N)
I'm a nan and so's Lola
Sharp-Dressed Nan

any five-syllable phrase with stress on the fourth acquires the melody of the background singers in calexico's 'güero canelo'

Albert R Broccoli ---> Mesopotamia by the B-52s

Hah, Ye Mad Puffin - sharp dressed Nan just made in real life lol!

I do the 'nan' (or gran) thing too.

'Space-Gran, I always wanted you to go into / Space-Gran!'

brothers
sisters
we don't need this mega vote thing

I've been biking around town a lot and finding weird neighborhoods I'd never been in before. Whenever I end up trapped in some subdivision I hear Run's voice from sucker mcs in my head saying 'take that move back it's a cul-de-sac'

aged 7 or 8 i remember my dad singing "all coppers are bastards" to the tune of the line "pop does the weasel" when he didn't know i could hear him -- and then (to my mum's tremendous glee) having to explain to me what it means, why someone would say it, and finally why "bastard" is a bad word that it isn't polite to use

― mark s, Monday, 8 June 2020 16:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 8 June 2020 16:34 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

well i can't unhear that now

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:23 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

proof of the timelessness of the Beatles' melodies:

Something in the way she poops
It's like she's got a second butthole

and

Lovely Rita Taco Maid
Nothing can come between us
When it gets dark
You feed me rice and beans

I remember reading somewhere on ILM many years ago, "Lovely Rita Meter Maid two big tittie in an escalade" and to this day I sing that when I hear the song.

Cat litter!
Scoop it out to get even

Quesadila, quesadilla men have called you

“Quesadilla, quesadilla men have NAMED you....”

Lol

Came to post
Lexeme, the strawberry girl
Lexeme, banana split lady

because of today's Spelling Bee

I will too often find myself wandering around the apartment singing "I don't know where my phone is...." to the tune of that Nelly Furtado songs, which is double bad 'cos now I can't find my phone and I'm singing a Nelly Furtado song........

I do the same thing!

oh see mine is "I want to know where phone is, I want you to show me" dunno if that's worse

I think you better call my phone
Come on, help me find my shit

"Where is my phone" for me is sung to the tune of "Where is my Mind?"

oooh!! good one!

No no guys, it's to the tune of 'Where is the Love?'

Where is phone?
Oh baby don't hurt me
don't hurt me
no more

both ledge's and emil.y's came into my head before they posted it, lol....

y'all gon make me lose my phone
up in here
up in here

I've been thinking about starting a thread similar to this which is just 'songs you sing to your cat', as every time I feed my boy shrimp & plaice wet food I sing him "I'm gonna feed you shrimp and plaice, gonna stuff it in your face" or similar (usually Prodigy version rather than Max Romeo tbh). Also lots of songs modified to be about his fluff.

Phone/keys, it is you I'm looking for...

For the cat, it's 'I'm going to feed you Norman, I'm going to feed you, yes I am!' He looks at me like I'm a dick, of course,