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)

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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.

Winky Carrothers (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link

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

what if a much of a which of a wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link

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

sarahell, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link

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.

bamboohouses, Thursday, 2 November 2017 09:03 (six years ago) link

haha, I'm now gonna be doing this too

kinder, Thursday, 2 November 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link

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

Vas the deferens? (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 November 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link

http://youtu.be/JBy_M4hVHag

kinder, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link

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.

joygoat, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link

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

kinder, Saturday, 4 November 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link

Upland bog
But to get there is an uphill slog

bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 4 November 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link

Casual Pants --> American Band

sarahell, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link

Moist (vreeeeeeet)
Towelette (vrooooot)

Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 16 November 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link

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

thomasintrouble, Thursday, 16 November 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link

Also my cat is called Moey so we sing

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

thomasintrouble, Thursday, 16 November 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link

lol

how's life, Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link

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.

Siegbran, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link

awwwwww call MIAOW! <3

sarahell, Thursday, 16 November 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Related:

I've spent a good chunk of today going

"I'M PORTER RIIIIICKS! REEEEEE!"

mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link

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

mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link

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.

ian, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link

for the past month or so:

"roy moore, juan peron, toscanini, dacron"

Stupor Fly, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link

To 'Vogue'?

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link

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."

Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link

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"

♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 December 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link

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

Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link

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

Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link

Call me by blondie

kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 23 December 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link

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

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

Josefa, Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link

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

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

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!"

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

mick signals, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link

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

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link

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.

raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 23 April 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link

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

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 23 April 2018 12:46 (five years ago) link

lol

how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link

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

raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 23 April 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

lately been hearing Jack Kirby to the sound of David Lowery singing Jack Ruby.

how's life, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"total goat rodeo" » "rollin' down Rodeo"

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Maria Butina and the jingle for Maria Christina wine. Happens every time.

https://youtu.be/eUWlyLKXEeU

dinnerboat, Sunday, 22 July 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link

I was visiting our local water park a few weeks ago when I spotted an older guy with a Psychopathic Records Hatchet Man tattoo. Wouldn't you know it, Bob Marley was playing over their sound system at the time. Since then, I've had

He was a Juggalo grandpa
At Six Flags America

stuck in my head.

how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link

^This is not quite the right thread for that post, but it was the best I could find.

how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link

Every time I see a package of “Baby Arugula” in the grocery store I get Raffi’s “Baby Beluga” stuck in my head. Am I doing this right?

stillHera, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:03 (five years ago) link

A friend brought a six pack of these to a BBQ the other day and I've been screeching the name to myself in a Brian Johnson voice since
https://untappd.akamaized.net/photos/2018_07_07/bde3196677c33356204e07e97d1b7e52_640x640.jpg

joygoat, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link

He was a Juggalo grandpa
At Six Flags America


This is v funny, and I don’t want you to think it is going unappreciated

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link

^^^

This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 04:47 (five years ago) link

yes, very good

Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

"Strangers On A Train" and "Blame It On The Rain"

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link


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