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)

I've been doing it for a decade or two, which is maybe since when you were a kid.

Trying to remember who was with me and Mr. FW when we had this discussion so as to triangulate and corroborate.

Seems to me there was sometimes additional discussion about Vic Tayback's appearance on Star Trek TOS.

i've been doing it for three decades so

You win then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPxxG31JOCg

I've said this one elsewhere on ILX, but every time I make a curry it's 'Cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin... after all'

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

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (5 years ago)

Guess who's playing in SF tonight, and guess what song is now stuck in my head after the DJ read the entertainment listings for tonight

http://www.arlingtonglassrepair.com/files/uploads/2012/08/broken_glass-11.jpg

BROKEN GLASS, everywhere!
people pissin' on the stairs
you know they just don't care

Ooh, I remembered one the other day. Every time I get the train through here:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_TBD/images/photos/800/o3208-0020065.jpg

I sing the station name to the tune of 'True Colours'.

http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_18808.jpg

slicin' up eyeballs, whoahoahoahoa
DEGREASER

not quite the same but anytime somebody says "these are the only X I know of" I have to restrain myself from singing the tag to lehrer's "the elements" -- "these are the only ones of which the news has come to haaaarvard / and there may be any others but they haven't been discaaaavered."

I have kind of the reverse problem - phrases of certain lengths always get stuck in my head to certain tunes. e.g., anything with 7-8 syllables starts reverberating to the tune of "Camptown Races." So the other day I was in the store and, after passing through the dairy aisle, started singing, "Lowfat cultured buttermilk, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

Similarly, six-syllable phrases get the classic conga line rhythm, a la The Simpsons' "You don't win friends with salad, You don't win friends with salad!"

ah shit..... i do that six syllable conga thing sometimes too.......

Carphone Warehouse = 'Cartoon Boyfriend'

Been working on some marketing materials for women in menopause called "Red Hot Mamas" which keeps making think of:

"Red hot mama
Velvet charmer
Time's come to pay your dues

[chorus:]
Now you're messin' with a
A SON OF A BITCH"

Also, working with a clinic in a little town called Cottage Grove which leads to fucking China Grove.

in college a friend and I changed the words to Wings' "Let'em In":

Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Leon Trotsky
all sing along

Fidel Castro
Idi Amin
Vladimir
LEEEENNNIIIIIINNNNN
(ooh yeah)

The Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo's name is a pretty close rhyme to "Song Sung Blue"

Hong Sang-soo
Likes to use his zoom lens...

Not a phrase but an action - I sing "Cold As Ice" by Foreigner (specifically "You're digging for gold/Yet throwing away/A fortune in feelings/But someday you'll pay") whenever I clean the cat box so now that song reminds me of cat poop.

lol. I always sing "I really don't like it/Clean the catbox/Clean the catbox", a 98 Rock Twisted Tune from back in the 80s.

"kurdish peshmurga" to the tune of that rural juror song Jenna songs at the end of 30 rock: I will never forget you, kurdish peshmurga, I'll always be glad I met you, kurdish peshmurga

Whenever I see the "lock the taskbar" option in windows I sing it to the tune of Rock the Casbah.

i saw the thread title 'tight black leggings and big foofy boots' and immediately it was to the chorus melody of 'style'

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

lol

lol!

hahahaha

Just bought a bag of salad 'baby, baby rocket/king of the wild green herbs'

excellent..

phil, just caught myself doing this: too much time on ilx, doo dah doo dah

every time i see these at work

http://i.imgur.com/hZeGvhG.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1aJW0_Bo6I

The revised S&D: Billy Joel thread reminded me of "Pressure," where the lines

But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face

becomes

Where the only thing you feel
A load of cunts in your face

Quatuor pour la fin du temps, doo dah, doo dah

pajamas
to think pajamas were a thing of the past
pajamas
and i hope pajamas gonna last

billy went away with the peace keeping force
cause he liked a bloody good fight of course
went away in an old nakhchivan to the banks of the river jordan

Watching MotD last night and Brede Hangeland came on for Crystal Palace. Which started me off singing his surname to Shang-a-Lang by the Bay City Rollers.

I was in Thailand last spring and there were tropical fruits for sale everywhere which always got "whoa-oh black Betty, rambutan" stuck in my head.

Also went to a ramen place named Nudo last week which has become the chorus of Lido Shuffle

Sometimes when I'm cooking, I'll start singing "I'm using cumin" to the tune of the Human League's "I'm Only Human."

i'm using cumin / a spicy rub i made

ha, I might do that with Billy Joel's "You're Only Human."

I'm assuming I'm not the only one who in their head sings the title of the 'bear say hi to me' thread to the tune of SOS Band - Just Be Good To Me.

this one is truly unfortunate but ...

I've been reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and after a passage where she writes about how Eichmann never really made it into the Nazi inner circle ...

I have "Adolf the Nazi Scapegoat" in my head to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

music website Wondering Sound always gets the Specials/Skatalites song "You're Wondering Now"

You're Wondering Sound
What to do
Now that you know
This is the end

I do a similar thing except it's either one of a number of stock dancehall shoutouts: - 'CHAMPION SOUND', 'THE WICKEDEST SOUND'

i've been speaking to a client called C4th1 St1rl1n9 lately and wondering why I get the Altered Images song 'Happy Birthday' stuck in my head.

Not quite the same thing, but while we're at it:

For years, quite puzzlingly, I found whenever I'd see the word 'bacon' written down, I'd hear it sung in the voice of Neil Tennant.

It just occurred to me that this is because my mind is conflating the word 'bacon' with 'taken', specifically in the way it gets sung on 'How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously'.

Now I'm thinking about copyrighting a vegetarian meat product.

Whenever I saw the poster for the Strangers on a Train play that was on a while back I always sung it in my head to the tune of either 'Strangers in the Night' or 'Riders on the Storm', depending on the mood I was in.

Whenever I think of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, I sing "In Sagrada Familia" to the tune of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."

Not for 17 minutes straight, though.

Oh, that's good! I have a whole list of architecture-related ones of these - "Ronchamp" to the tune of "Oh My Golly!", "We're at American Bar" to the tune of "We're An American Band," etc.

I work across the street from a small airport, and on breezy days the old Windsong perfume jingle plays in my head: "I can't seem to forget you / Your windsock stays on my mi-i-i-ind....."