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)

omg "I'll tumble dry ya" - laundry is never going to be the same!

"The sharif don't like it
Lock the Taskbar
Lock the Taskbar"

Takes me back to my college days, where, stumblinginto yet another cheap-ass mixer, my friends and I would break out into:

"I forgot my wallet...
Oh fuck, it's a cash bar!
Fuck, it's a cash bar!"

Until recently my local corner shop was called Akbar's, and every time I went there I would sing "Akbar's! I wanna take you to Akbar's!" (to the tune of 'Gay Bar', obviously). I do have loads more of these, but usually don't remember them aside from when I do it.

More annoyingly, I've found that whenever someone says "yes" in a certain manner, I have to finish it with "the rhythm the rebel". It is driving me insane.

Argh, "yes, the rhythm the rubbish, without a pause I'm taking out the garbage" went through my head for about a decade whenever I did the trash. What is it about chores that makes them such a breeding ground for these singsongs?

Any street name of the form 2 syllable word + avenue gets 'and I'm caught one more time up on duh-duh avenue' sung to it

On seeing a chinchilla in a city farm: "Chinchilla! Who got the keys to my bima?"

Shih Tzu, that's how we act when we team up.

(there are probably better ways to fill that in)

I'm always on the hunt for names and phrases that can be sung to "Camptown Races." My favorite so far is baseball player Yuniesky Betancourt.

When they lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, my parents used to take advantage of the lower gas prices in the U.S. by driving two miles south across the river to Sault Ste. Marie Michigan and filling up there. And when they passed the appropriate sign... http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/29589361_c80f1d9834.jpg?v=0 ...my dad would usually annoy my mom by singing "Briiidge - to the USA!" Springsteen-style.

"Doug" substituted for the word "love":

Can You Feel The Doug Tonight?
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Doug
Doug Will Tear Us Apart
Now That We've Found Doug
etc.

WHAT

A friend was obsessed with switching out love for lunch: Lunch Will Keep Us Togwether, Lunch Will Tear Us Apart, The Greatest Lunch of All, Stop in the Name of Lunch, When a Man Lunches a Woman....

^^LOL esp. "when a man lunches a woman"

I feel the lunch, baby

then you guys will love this thread

Feel Like Making Lunch

I was hearing "no shakey shakey" to the tune of "push it" after seeing this

http://istor.indyarocks.com/trphotos/NoShakeyShakey1206254587.jpg

the mayor of my town is named fung and while he campaigned I couldn't stop hearing "everybody vote fung tonight" in my head

thank god the election is over

I fear we're veering from the question's intent. Nevertheless, I have to add that whenever I hear the John Denver & the Muppets' version of "Deck the Halls," when Scooter sings "See the blazing yule before us," I sing it as "See the blazing UB40."

as i was shutting my work computer down for the day - 'the server shut down' to the tune of 'the final countdown'

There's a call center company called Ruffalo Cody with an office in Athens that I would ride past, inevitably leading me to sing their name to the tune of "Buffalo Soldier."

There Will be Blood, sung to the tune of "She Will be Loved"

Upon seeing a Ralph Lauren Nautica box unwrapped this morning, I sung in my head, as always:

"Nautica, bloody red eyes go to, Nautica, bloody red eyes go to"

There's a coffee chain here called "Cup o Joe" which I have stuck together with "Poppa Joe" by the Sweet.

hahaha nautica

bendy truly gets the spirit of this thread

Run fast as you can.
You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man.

To the tune of Iron Man. Whenever i see hear anything ginger related.

WIth Michael PARKINSOn, liza goddard, and LIonel blaiR

to the tune of happy house by juan Mclean

"I drowned a girl and I liked it"

Looking at medicines that declare "Pain Reliever / Fever Reducer," I flash on Keith Murray saying "Panty raider / party exciter!" on "Special Delivery."

"I could drink a quesadilla, darling
and I would still be on my feet..."

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

whenever i read the shampoo & face wash bottles in the shower, i start singing "ex-fo-li-aaa-aation, is makin' me scrape."

burrito = "Amoeba" by the Adolescents - Burr - ee -TO! Burr - ee - TO!

and another - 70s artist Blinky Palermo to the tune of "Bitchin' Camaro" by the Dead Milkmen.

Everytime I see a Blu-Ray disc or player, I sing "blu-ray" to the tune of:

if blu-ray technology catches on, I'm screwed!

Congrats Whiney, I am totally going to start doing that in my head now. Man, I haven't heard U-Way in forever.

Actually they were kind of dumb not to license the song!

('they' meaning the blu-ray people, not the Youngbloodz)

the mayor of my town is named fung and while he campaigned I couldn't stop hearing "everybody vote fung tonight" in my head

thank god the election is over

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At one old job we had a regular customer named Wei Ding (we had to pull the customer's charge accounts from the filing cabinet, so people's names were well-known). This guy came in all the time with large, elaborate orders.... and one day right after he left it clicked in my head: "So tired... Tired of Wei Ding..."

Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike

I'm doing laundry....doin' lauundraaaaaayyyayayayayaya

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this will never leave my head ever

Clothes are on the table, the dryer's cookiiiiiiin'

last night I dreamed about this thread. in my dream I posted that I always hear 'Gilgamesh' to the tune of "Silver Bells". that doesn't actually happen to me, but now I think it probably will.

ahhhon mind steelin shirts from the mouth of the dryeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Whenever "Rosemary's Baby" is mentioned I start singing, to the tune of Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby," "It's got to be Rosemary's Baby, oh yeah, it's got to be Rosemary's Baby, cause she's so fine...she's gonna be Rosemary's Baby oh yeahhhh"

Like the very nature of these things, it's pretty obnoxious to other ears prob

The city of Bangalore = "Albacore" by Palomar.

A record store I frequented in my teens had a Papa John Creach poster in the back, which name now and forever sparks a Madonna tune in my head:

Papa John Creach
I'm in trouble deep...

Surprised Papa John's Pizza hasn't picked it up to promote a deep-dish pie. Put it down with "Blu-Ray!"

Our house has several bird nests under the eaves. During the summer months, baby birds will regularly fall out of their nests to meet their demise on the sidewalk below. It sucks a bunch.

Anyway, to the guitar riff from "Baracuda":

Dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead d-d-dead, d-d-dead BA-BY BIRDS!

http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/Beavis_and_Butt-head.gif

WOah...weird...I was just going to revive this to talk about how shelves of daytime and nighttime cold/flu medicine are fused in my mind with "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" by Wings. Which doesn't really require changing the words at all but it sort of relates.

omg

Bryan Adams's "Please Forgive Me" entered my head yesterday and wouldn't leave for hours.

but then inexplicably my brain made it a more mush-mouthed version that sounded like "Please Zbigniew, I know not what I do", so now that's all I can hear.

Denny Laine is in my ears and in my eyes

There's a chair store called Lovesac that I can't help singing (internally of course) like the B-52s' "Love Shack" whenever I see it.

It's called what now

Chairstore called Lovesac could definately be a Primus lyric

i had a look in the red cross shop in my lunch break and got super excited that they had loads of jeans in my size so giddy with excitement i tried a bunch on and bought them.
i only realized later that one pair are women's jeans (flies the other way round=exactly how i circumnavigate, yo)´- now when i wear them i sing "in my women's jeans" to the tune of susanne vega's "in my book of dreams" bustin up da gender stereotypes in alla dey faces
word

I'm Steve McQueen
I'm Martin Sheen
I'm Jimmy Dean
I'm women's jeans

I can't see the name Hayden Panettiere without thinking of the Beastie Boys:

Intergalactic, Panettiere, Panettiere, Intergalactic

I have to ask how often you see the name Hayden Panettiere!

Is that how you lot are pronouncing Pannettiere?

dog latin: for the purposes of this thread, yes. In a representative democracy, we reach a consensus on how to mangle the pronunciation of furrin words, and abide by that decision. My country, right or wrong.

morrisp: according to my attorneys, I don't have to answer that.

Lately when I feed my cats I find myself singing "foooood for caaaaats" to the tune of the Squeeze song "Cool for Cats."

This is in addition to the longstanding mental association with the old Far Side CAT FUD cartoon.

But the two don't really work together. I don't sing "fuuuuud for caaats." It's definitely "foooood for caaaaats."

“James Webb, James Webb”

When I see the Belvita line of breakfast crackers/cookies I have to sing it (internally) as is done for "Candida" in the Tony Orlando song.

Good one!

My place o' employment includes a Microbiology lab which tests for pathogens including candida albicans, so I'm well versed in Tony Orlando & Dawn running through my head.

Probably more for the misheard lyrics but
Kids - MGMT
"Control yourself, take only what you need from it"

I'm never sure what the lyrics are but I hear 'cheese, Gromit' in there every time

Chairstore called Lovesac could definately be a Primus lyric

I might have already said this one but whenever I see bacon in the supermarket it's PSB "How can you expect to be... bacon, seriously?"

“Great Wealth Transfer” —> Billy Bragg’s waiting for the Great Leap Forward… #classtraitor

If you were in middle school around the same time I was, maybe you will also hear this in a voice from a certain Miami bass song (track 3… IYKYK):

https://i.imgur.com/Y57kPQt_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand