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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Not mine, but I stumbled on this account the other day and had a good laugh.

Cecil County Circuit Courthousehttps://t.co/p9n0YrVrul pic.twitter.com/CBfyGRxmr0

— Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong (@wiki_tmnt) February 24, 2021

Mingus (Joni Mitchell album)https://t.co/yDkIHUuF96 pic.twitter.com/Q7IYxgTzqb

— Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong (@wiki_tmnt) February 23, 2021

British Journal of Nutritionhttps://t.co/rB7jBgdrXa pic.twitter.com/XdV6n5qdQa

— Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong (@wiki_tmnt) February 21, 2021

peace, man, Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link

that's amazing

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:32 (three years ago) link

reminds me of the "Devon County Council"/"Everybody Dance Now" thing I still think about a lot

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:32 (three years ago) link

Twitter with a blue check
Twitter with a blue check
Twitter with a blue check on

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link

When I hear the chorus of Lady Gaga's Poker Face, my brain always sings "come on Barbie let's go party" instead of "she's got me like nobody"

J. Sam, Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link

Me too - I think it's fairly common, weirdly

kinder, Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link

Ah, I should have googled that. I feel less alone now!

J. Sam, Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link

TMNT is total trochee fixation

Apologies for lame "obligatory relevant xkcd" but here

display names are for n00bs (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link

well that's a new word for me

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link

^ found the non-English major

display names are for n00bs (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link

Sigourney Weaver, I believe you can get me through the night

display names are for n00bs (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link

Whenever the phrase “pooper scooper” is uttered (which happens from time to time), it is sung to the tune of the obvious ABBA song.

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link

"take a chance on me"?

That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 February 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link

"take a dump on me"?

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 28 February 2021 06:13 (three years ago) link

There's a popular trades aggregating site in the UK called Check-A-Trade and the music they use in their jingle is based on the last notes in the William Tell overture (Check-A-TRADE! Check A Trade Dot Com).
But whenever I see the name, I just get the opening chant from "Take A Chance On Me"

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:11 (three years ago) link

are the trades free?

sarahell, Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link

I see where you're going with that but sadly not

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link

Check-A-Trade Dot Com
Go tell your mom
Baby, trades are fun
Check-A-Trade's the one

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link

(guess it would be "mum" in the UK though, huh)

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link

I never understood why “dot cum” wasn’t the exclusive domain suffix for porn sites.

Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 28 February 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link

because porn is harder to misspell

sarahell, Sunday, 28 February 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link

whenever i see white rice in the supermarket or something i hear lou reed sing "white rice" to the tune of "white light", with the same immediacy as the opening bar, and it always makes me laugh

maelin, Monday, 1 March 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link

White rice/white meat

Huh. When I see white rice my head goes to Grandmaster Flash.

White... riiice... Vision dreams of passion / and all the while I think of you

chillin' like Emperor Maximilian (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

when I see white rice, my head goes to the your terrible ideas thread and the one about "rice that is brown"

sarahell, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link

guided by voices:

issa rae don't worry / if the road's a little worn
it's a cold and filthy chasm / that we're traveling on

orifex, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link

Magwitch
Magwitch, they call him Magwitch

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 March 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link

Property Needs Assessment --> Self-Obsessed and Sexee by Sonic Youth

Property Needs Assessment all the way

(all the way)

sarahell, Friday, 5 March 2021 05:49 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

kind of a stretch but my spouse is the chair an academic department committee that everyone just calls "AC" and whenever she mentions it I get this image stuck in my head, often another of our colleagues face in place of the puncher because they look sort of similar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/EveryoneShouldBeKilled.jpg

joygoat, Friday, 19 March 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link

Whenever I order sushi my brain starts singing, "weel may the eel roll, the eel roll, the eel roll."

Lily Dale, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link

popular Netflix docuseries: Murder Among the Mormons ----> "Welcome to the Jungle"

sarahell, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 05:35 (three years ago) link

Walgreens vaccine to the tune of 'Christine Sixteen'

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:40 (three years ago) link

Hey to the tune of Pixies hey, every time...

JimCarrey, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link

My daughter’s partner began singing “chicken steak” taking with Caribou’s “Odessa” tonight & it will forever be burned in there

Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Who knows what she’s gonna bake?

"The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 16 April 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link

Just now read a thread title and musically translated it into

Fender, Jazzmaster
Boom boom boom boom
https://i.ibb.co/whdYGG3/Suburban-Lawns-insert1.jpg

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link

Shatt al-Arab
and you're to blame
you give the Gulf
a bad name

I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that shaves me (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link

A+

sarahell, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link

Peaky Blinders, to the tune of “Kinky Reggae”

A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 May 2021 01:05 (two years ago) link

"better than bullion" to the tune of "kooler than Jesus"

sarahell, Sunday, 2 May 2021 07:49 (two years ago) link

Stevie Williams
Coming from the body heat

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Sunday, 2 May 2021 08:56 (two years ago) link

"Cut my life into pieces
As per my last email"

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 2 May 2021 09:19 (two years ago) link

"The Muppet Babies" to the tune of Muse's 'Plug In Baby':

The Muppet Babies
Crucify my enemies

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 2 May 2021 10:08 (two years ago) link

Chorus of That Don't Impress Me Much to the tune of the chorus of Higher Love by Steve Winwood

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 2 May 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link

The Muppet Babies
Crucify my enemies

irl lol!

kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link

After getting indian food yesterday -

Every thing was fine down here
What you call it here, call it what you will here
Way down down down in this onion kulcha

joygoat, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I want to Timothée
I want to Chalamet
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah pic.twitter.com/RS6G6izCkz

— Noah Garfinkel (@NoahGarfinkel) May 28, 2021

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Saturday, 29 May 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link

"Timmy Mallett" to the tune of Wiz Kalifa's 'Black And Yellow':

Uh huh, you know what it is
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 6 June 2021 07:23 (two years ago) link

George Michael's 'Too Funky' - the first line "Hey, you're just too funky for me" replaced with "I hope you saved some turkey for me".

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 6 June 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link

I swear there was a commercial in the early 90s that was an extreme ripoff of C+C Music Factory with the “everybody dance now” replaced by the words “condition by clairol”.

Anyway I have that commercial stuck in my head it with “pacifico clara” instead

joygoat, Sunday, 6 June 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link


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