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)

*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,

"ain't no food dish high enough"

anyone incorporating wet ass pussy into their songs for cat repertoire?

Ha, not yet!

my best friend has a cat with a big butt and she used to shout DUMPTRUCK at her, and then that word made her boyfriend and I to break into the Thong Song, before stopping once we remembered we were singing it about a cat

I'm pretty sure I've sung "let me see that fluff, Albyyyy, that fluff fluff-fluff fluff-fluff" at my cat.

lol

awwwwwww Alby!

Furtado phone search will likely enter my repertory, thank you.

I have no clear idea why but every time I read the new US politics thread title I think:

People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows
All entrances delivered, courtesy of winter

(to the tune of "You Get What You Give")

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Murder rap to keep you dancin'
With a crime record like Charles Manson
Come around we'll kick your ass in

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson

WE DIDN'T START THE FIYAH!

always love how that song reduces weighty historic moments as 2 second soundbytes

if he was describing the last year, it'd be

Contentious election year
Global pandemic is here
Angry streets, police beats
QAnon is hot

'vid nineteen
on the scene
what else do I HOOS to steen?

(should probably be in Songs where it's fun to say HOOS in place of the actual lyrics)

The famous COVID-era phenomenon of Bad Hands (when you’ve touched something from outside of your home and need to wash your hands before doing anything else)

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) August 28, 2020

saw this tweet, and now every time i go too long without sanitizing i hear springsteen scream "BAD HANDS, you gotta live it everyday!"

I have no clear idea why but every time I read the new US politics thread title I think:

People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows
All entrances delivered, courtesy of winter

every time I see the name Ted Danson I think of Elvis Costello's "No Dancing" and what it would be like if the lyrics were all about Ted Danson

Whenever I see an Imperial IPA, the Unrest song plays in my head.

but iiii don't feel like Danson
no sir, no Danson for me

also, xpost: I only know a couple of Unrest songs, am working off West Coast Love Affair and coming up with "i'll meet you IPA..... I'll drink you, IPA"

haha, that would be better actually

had to drive co-worker to a meeting in suburbs that involved taking highway 238 ... i warned him I would get the Misfits stuck in my head ...

We're on 238
We're on 238 ...

he was warned

On a recent camping trip someone used a Jetboil to make coffee and I had Jet Boy, Jet Girl stuck in my head for quite a while.

I absolutely do that with any number that ends with 38

My kid is hardcore into Pokémon lately and I get a bunch of their names set to tunes in my head.

Besides the obvious Siouxsie pronunciation of pikachu, I hear Stevie Nicks or Gene Simmons saying “golduck woman” and Stephen Malamus yelling “not here babe...torchic!”