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)

"Lock the taskbar" wins this thread for me

Was totally thinking about that one today!

I was in mamroneck a couple weeks ago and couldn't stop singing it to the tune of the manah manah song from the muppets

Whenever my kid puts X-Men: Evolution in the DVD player, I sing Tracy Chapman.

"Don't you know, they're talking 'bout X-Men: Evolution?"

i'm so glad i finally returned The Night Porter, because every time i would see the netflix envelope i would sing it to REM's "Nightswimming"

also the movie sucks

In another thread, someone posted a paragraph by Roger Ebert that ended in "How cool is that?" and my mind immediately went to Rivers singing that song from Weezer's Pinkerton album.

er, this thread is about something slightly different, something that I do all the time but can't think of any examples of right now.

There's a convenience store around the corner called "United Foodland" which always triggers Huey Smith & the Clowns' "We Like Birdland."

UUUUU NITE, FOOD LAND!
U-NITE-FOOD-LAND!

a (north american) toilet flush always brings the GI Joe theme to mind.... "Gee-Eye..." on the pull, "Joooooee" on release, "a real american hero...." during the drain. hmmmmm

'Love On A Farmboy's Wages' over 'Love In Elevator'

An

All through Avatar references to Eywa triggered Hey Ya.

hahaha

lol recently with my nephew Omar - Oma-Oma-ma, gaga ooh la-la...

drives me crazy.

'Baked beans and grated cheese' to Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)

http://www.oswego-illinois.org/images/welcome-to-Oswego.jpg

This town, and a woman named Teresa Rentaria, both crop up anytime my family watches The Wizard of Oz.

http://www.coffeeicon.com/core_images/store_images/6423.jpg

Roll 'em up and twist 'em up
A high tuck a-haw

cereal first what the fuck

― i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 18, 2010 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Coca-Cola came and bought it for billions, what the fuck?

....what the fuck?

to the left, to the left

STILL

I occasionally annoy friends when during a lull in a conversation someone says "so....." and I break out into "a needle pulling thread!"
It doesn't help that almost no one I know has seen the Sound of Music.

When I hear "Love's Train" by ConFunkShun:

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
You've just have to keep on hopin'

I sing:

"Sir Too Short comin' straight from Oakland"

I get repeated collection agency calls for one Carlos Molina, despite having actually called and told some people in an office somewhere that I am not Carlos Molina and that I have no idea who he is. Anyway, I have taken to singing (to the tune of "Carlos Dominguez"): Carlos Molina, an unhappy man. . .

I'm really tempted to tell one of these callers that I killed Carlos Molina, burned his corpse, and buried it on the West Mesa here in Albuquerque, because he wouldn't pay back the money he owed me.

So I got up and strolled over to the other side of the cantina
I asked the guy, Why you so fly? he said, Funky Carlos Molina

Lipps, Inc.

I realize that when I see those Coin Star vending machines that turn your loose change into cash vouchers I sing Suede's "Film Star" but with, you know, Coin Star.

juuust the tuomas, we can make it if we trhy-yeee, juuust the tuomas, you and i

i just sing all sorts of different things to the tune of eleanor rigby.

Not singing, but, there is an architect named Winka Dubbeldam, and every time I see her last name on anything my brain immediately goes: Lisa needs braces!

when I see Joe Biden I have to sing "want Joe Biden, need Joe Biden" a la TI's "Whatever You Like"

Lex you say "STILL" like it's not going to be forever associated for the rest of our lives

Lately when I'm getting ready for work and making sure I've got my keys, wallet, etc. I hear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btkDt0zEGAQ
as "check your pockets"

I still do the Lock the Taskbar one whenever I see it on my screen.

Also sing Papa Don't Preach as "papadums please, I need my curry cheap" (I blame the ex for that one).

we are the sons of no one
keggers of yore

Some good ones here: Lyrics You Purposefully Liek to Sing Incorrectly

thanks for ruining a bunch of songs for me guys!

Came up with a couple of these in med school. The one I remember is from Mary Poppins:

Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
Even though the sound of it is simply quite atrocious...

You got the body
Now you want my soul
Don't even think about it
Geir Hongro

this is normally streets...

Walking Down Ella Street (yes, the kirsty maccoll song about 'ull)
Come back to Cranbrook (/Chestnut/Princes/etc) Avenue

or even Rock Down To Cranbrook Avenue. I can't even get that part of the song right. To the tune of Eddy Grant anyway. sheesh.

And I appear to have triangulated my address for the internets. oh well. morning all. yawn.

I once heard Willie Rushton 0n I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clues sing the words of the 'To Be Or Not To Be' speech to the tune of 'A' Your Adorable and nearly had a hernia laughing.

'cause I live and breathe
this PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE!

My children sing "It looks like cheese in another world" to the Libertine's Up the Bracket

the phrase "don't be a dick about it" occasionally enters my head
and it's always to the tune of "don't you forget about me" by Simple minds

the other day i got that "berserker" song from clerks stuck in my head for some reason and after a while it became "GEIRHONGO."

cross ref with "too much time on ilx."

maybe I should've bought a different brand of spaghetti this week. it's hard to follow cooking instructions when you have "yum yum yum yum, Barilla, illa, illa, eh, eh, eh" running through your head on a loop to the tune of the Rihanna song.

When I was about to watch the movie "Fletch" in the theater in 1985, I convinced my little sister that the Kool and the Gang's "Fresh", which was a hit at the time, was actually called "Fletch" and was in fact the theme for the movie we were about to see. So if I see a reference to to Fletch somewhere "He's Fletch...exciting...he's so exciting to me" starts running through my head.

Whenever I see the phrase "simply (something)-able" I pause for a sec and go all Robert Palmer. You have to pause, though, like in the song.