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)

(guess it would be "mum" in the UK though, huh)

I never understood why “dot cum” wasn’t the exclusive domain suffix for porn sites.

because porn is harder to misspell

whenever i see white rice in the supermarket or something i hear lou reed sing "white rice" to the tune of "white light", with the same immediacy as the opening bar, and it always makes me laugh

White rice/white meat

Huh. When I see white rice my head goes to Grandmaster Flash.

White... riiice... Vision dreams of passion / and all the while I think of you

when I see white rice, my head goes to the your terrible ideas thread and the one about "rice that is brown"

guided by voices:

issa rae don't worry / if the road's a little worn
it's a cold and filthy chasm / that we're traveling on

Magwitch
Magwitch, they call him Magwitch

Property Needs Assessment --> Self-Obsessed and Sexee by Sonic Youth

Property Needs Assessment all the way

(all the way)

kind of a stretch but my spouse is the chair an academic department committee that everyone just calls "AC" and whenever she mentions it I get this image stuck in my head, often another of our colleagues face in place of the puncher because they look sort of similar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/EveryoneShouldBeKilled.jpg

Whenever I order sushi my brain starts singing, "weel may the eel roll, the eel roll, the eel roll."

popular Netflix docuseries: Murder Among the Mormons ----> "Welcome to the Jungle"

Walgreens vaccine to the tune of 'Christine Sixteen'

Hey to the tune of Pixies hey, every time...

My daughter’s partner began singing “chicken steak” taking with Caribou’s “Odessa” tonight & it will forever be burned in there

Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Who knows what she’s gonna bake?

Just now read a thread title and musically translated it into

Fender, Jazzmaster
Boom boom boom boom
https://i.ibb.co/whdYGG3/Suburban-Lawns-insert1.jpg

Shatt al-Arab
and you're to blame
you give the Gulf
a bad name

A+

Peaky Blinders, to the tune of “Kinky Reggae”

"better than bullion" to the tune of "kooler than Jesus"

Stevie Williams
Coming from the body heat

"Cut my life into pieces
As per my last email"

"The Muppet Babies" to the tune of Muse's 'Plug In Baby':

The Muppet Babies
Crucify my enemies

Chorus of That Don't Impress Me Much to the tune of the chorus of Higher Love by Steve Winwood

The Muppet Babies
Crucify my enemies

irl lol!

After getting indian food yesterday -

Every thing was fine down here
What you call it here, call it what you will here
Way down down down in this onion kulcha

I want to Timothée
I want to Chalamet
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah pic.twitter.com/RS6G6izCkz

— Noah Garfinkel (@NoahGarfinkel) May 28, 2021

"Timmy Mallett" to the tune of Wiz Kalifa's 'Black And Yellow':

Uh huh, you know what it is
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett

George Michael's 'Too Funky' - the first line "Hey, you're just too funky for me" replaced with "I hope you saved some turkey for me".

I swear there was a commercial in the early 90s that was an extreme ripoff of C+C Music Factory with the “everybody dance now” replaced by the words “condition by clairol”.

Anyway I have that commercial stuck in my head it with “pacifico clara” instead

It's always been "Devon County Council" for me

someone i work with is named 3mm4 c0nn33ly and every time i say her name i have to stop myself from making it sound like a darts announcer going 'ONE hundred and EIGH-TEEE!!'

“I like that Rick Astley song, ‘Ummagumma’”

“…”

“Ummagumma give you up
Ummagumma let you down
Ummagumma run around and hurt you”

i always seem to sub one line in sound of silence

"people talking without speaking"

becomes

"people pooping without wiping"

Zinedine
Why can't you be true?

Came across this line from a W.H. Auden play: "Revolutionary worker/ I get what you mean/ but what you're needing/'s a revolution within," and now my brain can't stop singing it to the tune of Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous."

LOL

hahahah

Newport Folk Fest has taken on the tune of Camper Van Beethoven's No More Bullshit in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uc0WnqQo5w

“Coconut Yogurts” was on the shopping list, and my brain did this v strongly to the tune of “Buffalo Soldier.”

Stolen from Africa
Placed in my shopping cart

Coconut yogurt
Milk-based culture
Fermenting sugars
With Bifidobacteria

Singing: Mmm Danone / Mmm-mm Danone

there's a bar I visit
that's Wu-Tang themed and plays nothing
but 90s hip hop.

i love every visit.
and it's not just the usual songs either.
wide variety.

― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), dinsdag 27 juli 2021 20:10

my new favourite verse of "How Will I Know"

hahaha

On Lok restaurant always puts “California Gurls”into my head.

someone on social media posted about a project called Alternative Art School

now it is permanently to the tune of Alternative Ulster

Girlfriend is a big John Mayer + Seinfeld fan. Every time Love On the Weekend comes on we sing:

Love on the weekend
Love on the weekend
I’m out there, Jerry
And I’m lovin’ every minute of it

We've had watermelon-feta salad a couple of times this summer which in my head is invariably sung by Harry Styles.

Upland bog
We’ve been hiking in an upland bog