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)

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....."

Ha. I sing the same song for a wine called "Windspiel."

Just started doing:
A Winter's Tale
In a deep and dark December

We have two different sets of baby footie pajamas with a moose on them, which have become known as Moose Suit #1 and Moose Suit #2. Whenever one of them gets installed on the baby I have to sing this to the tune of Roots Train Number One.

Moose Suit 'jamas (jamas!)
Throw back a bottle of milk

Boomkat will now always be known as Boom-boom-boom-KAT! in my head

Pretty obvious but, whenever I see an ad for Shari's Berries I sing it to the tune of Shari Vari by A Number of Names.

I'm snapping to guides (doodle-oo, doodle-oo)
I'm snapping to gui-i-ides

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVte8cdwpXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70QfHtKdh_0

whenever i see you smile

i have a client named Margo, who has outsourced the preparation of various financial reports for the org's board of directors to me

for the past two days

I'm only making reports for Margo to "making plans for Nigel"

We took our cat in to the vet to be neutered today, and all day long I've been singing "cat neuter" in my head to the tune of Apollonia 6's "Sex Shooter."

Cat neuter
'snippin off of my Chewbacca
Come on, lose the balls