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)

basically, it's not just my inexplicable phrases/songs -- I end up with other people's as well

for some reason I started hearing that to the tune of "big rock candy mountain"

oh but I had a new one last night! -- "Windows Defender" to the tune of "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash

it was like some deep subconscious Manchurian Candidate thing, as I had not heard or even thought about that song for at least 20+ years

good one

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:33 (10 hours ago)

Yes, me too every time

― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:50 AM (one year ago)

This one always gets me too.

I do wonder if the entirety of Combat Rock can be inspired through regular use of Windows (pre-Windows 10 - R.I.P. lock the taskbar)

Ha! Speaking of the Clash...

Spanish Bombs - Oh my car is on

Recently been infected by a Steely Dan one - "Breaaaaaaaad - it will come back to you." and "Caaaaaake, it will come back to you.", works with loads of words, it really is a sickness.

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 12:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At some point, I started hearing Iggy's shouted chorus in 'Down in the Street' as 'DEWALT! DEWALT!' and now my brain always tries to turn the song into a commercial for power tools.

Or I guess I should say, for the purposes of this thread, that I always find myself singing 'Down in the Street' when I use my drill.

When I use my drill I invariably sing "I... found... my... DRILL, on Blueberry Hill."

Possibly influenced or reinforced by this cartoon:

https://framasphere.org/camo/9d84d67542bd86d9be33cb145fbb502e527a101b/68747470733a2f2f732d6d656469612d63616368652d616b302e70696e696d672e636f6d2f353634782f64622f30622f65632f64623062656336363238353962313539633538646161346238666638636532332e6a7067

It keeps coming back to this:

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 (eight years ago)

My drill is a Makita, so I sing, Makita, Miyagi, ooh i'm gonna drill ya ... to the tune of Kokomo

At work a few years back we were ordering a lot of Wagamama’s when working late. To this day, their Amai Udon makes me go “amai udon - amai - amai udon” to the bridge melody of Livin’ Joy’s Dreamer.

haha, I'm now gonna be doing this too

You can probably guess what song materialized as I wrote 'November rent' on the Memo line of the check.

http://youtu.be/JBy_M4hVHag

Getting a rental car at the Denver airport today, there were four traffic islands between lanes where you had to wait for shuttle buses, labeled island 1-4.

I’ve had “island number three, that is what we are” in my head since.

agh I just read a tweet about Denver airport then read this thread

Upland bog
But to get there is an uphill slog

Casual Pants --> American Band

Moist (vreeeeeeet)
Towelette (vrooooot)

"Fried Egg I'm In Love" to the Cure song

Also my cat is called Moey so we sing

"I can call you Moey,
and Moey when you call me,
you can call MIAOW"

lol

Bloomberg has this little 2-factor authentication gadget for their terminal, the B-B-B-B-B Unit!. Four five years on, still in my head.

awwwwww call MIAOW! <3

Related:

I've spent a good chunk of today going

"I'M PORTER RIIIIICKS! REEEEEE!"

I'm in the target market for that comment, and lol

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

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To the tune of Carly Simon's "Anticipation" --> EX FO LI AAAAATION - IS MAKIN' ME FLAKE.

for the past month or so:

"roy moore, juan peron, toscanini, dacron"

To 'Vogue'?

This doesn't really work for this thread, but just walked into The Strand Bookstore and started mentally singing Roxy Music's "Do The Strand."

There's some (unused) boxes of LED wire at work, and I can't pass them without it triggering "LED, LED wire, stay close to meeee"

Now singing “Sweet Baby James” to the tune of “Sweet Lady Jane.”

And, of course, this: Songs That Reference Carry On Films Somehow

Call me by blondie

LeFrak Center (ice skating rink) in Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Aaaaaah... Frak out!
LeFrak... c'est chac!

one day when I was reading the rimming thread I thought of the song by Spanky and Our Gang and now forever, "I'd Like to Get to Know You" goes...

well Id like to lick your butthole
if I could

I like Wolves In The Throne Room but I always end up singing their name in my head to the song Bernard sings in Black Books "cows in the morning 1-2-3 upland at them with a STICK!"

inexplicably, for a few weeks off and on i've had the saw-the-video-once Limp Bizkit comeback failure "Gold Cobra" stuck in my head, except the chorus is

Golan and Globus they're golden,
They're golden, so golden, y'all
Golan-Globus

http://imgur.com/RQT4Us2l.png

These are your orders, seems like it's do it or die
So please read them closely
When you've learnt them be sure that you eat them up

Was in the pub the other night singing along to The Killers' classic "I'm Norman Whiteside"

By Order of the Fire Chief
I know, I know
It's serious

In a local grocery this weekend I spotted some large yellow courgettes, with a the name written on a tag in front of them. I must have looked at the tag for a split second.. Cue my brain singing 'large yellow courgettes' to the tune of Raspberry Beret at me for 3 days straight.

Not to the tune of “Little Red Corvette”(?)

lol

Thanks, I now have a B side for my unshakeable brainworm.