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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Professor James Kellaris of the University of Cincinnati has coined the word "earworms" to describe those catchy melodies that "burrow" into your brain and drive you crazy. Earworms usually last an hour or two, but can last a whole day.
Professor Kellaris thinks the all-time number one earworm is The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Okay gang, all together now...a-one and a-two and - a-wim-o-weh, a-wim-o-weh... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I was sucked into this subect some time back. It went nowhere but it was fun!
Search if you want to hear the antidote. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | I didn't want to reply, but can't get this thread out of my head...... :eek: |
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Location: Tennessee | I'll be fine as long as someone doesn't put an earworm of "Billy Don't Be A Hero" ... oh dear, I'm hearing that flute already ... oh, no, now it's words ... somebody save me ... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Try "Land down under" from Men at work!
It's better listening and more socially acceptable! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | We have John Prine in town this week....try dealin' with "Dear Abby". |
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Location: Tennessee | At least "Dear Abby" has some redeeming social value. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | And now Just for Stonebobo.....
Billy, Don't be a hero
Don't be a fool with your Life.
Billy Don't Be A Hero
Come Back and Make Me your Wife
And as He Started to Go
She Said Billy Keep your head Low
Billy Don't be a Hero
Come back to me..
Sorry, Could'nt resist!
Whats really scary is that i remember this tune so well. |
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Location: Toronto | Thanks guys... now I got:
"Little Willy" and "The Night Chicago Died" warping through my head at the same time... Oh please - make it stop..... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I heard My Mama Cry..
I heard her pray the night Chicag Died.
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was
Glory be..... |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Steve, you're a sadist. ;) |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Hey, It's A Dirty job, But somebody's got to do it! :D |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Interesting how STeve CHapman knows all those words... And now, thanks to him, I can't get them out of my mind... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Hey Hizz, That's what Friends are for! :D
Uh-Oh! There's another one!!
Stevie Wonder-Dione Warwick and Elton John!
Keep smilin' keep shinin'
Knowing you can always count on me for sure
That's what friends are for
For good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for |
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Location: Tennessee | AS I said, redeeming social value ...
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I resemble that remark! :rolleyes: |
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Location: south east Michigan | I heard that the cure to this affliction is to go through the entire song, start to finish. I'm not sure that the cure is better than having the disease! |
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Location: State College, PA | (invoke self-serious-metaphoric-hyper-stretch mode)
"And as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage!
No Angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan's spell!"
(all together now,)
"So bye bye, Miss American Pie...."
(please make it stop!!!!)
Michael Pelikan
State College, PA |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Drove my Chevy to the Levy
But the Levy Was Dry..
Them good ole boys were drinkin' Whisky & Rye
Singin' This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | So these keep going through your head. What's worse is when you get caught up on the same lick and it seems to find its way into everything you play. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I used to occassionally suffer from a bummer of an ear worm, when, waaaay back in the high school days, I'd catch a few minutes of morning TV while I scoffed some cereal.
It's really freakin 'cool' when you're a senior and you can't get "I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toys R us kid..." out of your head all freakin day! Even better, when you don't even realize you're uncontrollably singing it-til someone else points it out...and she's really hot.
Really freakin' cool.
Damn commercials.
Johnny |
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Location: Vernon, CT | Well guess it's alot better than butthole worms!! :) Play On!
John L.
Custom Legend 1779-USA
Legend LX
Balladeer LX
Std. Balladeer
Tornado 1970
Takamine 12 String
Martin D16GT
Fender P-Bass 1975
Fender Strat 50th Anniversary
Fender Nashville Tele Tex-Mex |
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Location: Midland, MI | You think words are bad. Try humming just a couple of bars to 'Theme from I Dream of Jeannie.' Do do, do do do do do. Doooo do. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Crusty,
That is the antidote tune to end all earworms (Urban Legend).
But you have to go all the way through it and avoid watching Gilligan's Isle! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Well Ok... You asked for it!
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
the skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day,
for a three hour tour, a three hour tour………
The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
the Minnow would be lost; the Minnow would be lost.
The ship took ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
with Gilligan, the Skipper too,
the Millionaire, and his Wife,
the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann,
here on Gilligan's Isle.
And after our 30 minutes of fun with the Castaways was done, we would hear…….
So this is the tale of our castaways,
they're here for a long, long time.
They'll have to make the best of things,
it's an uphill climb.
The first mate and his skipper too,
will do their very best,
to make the others comfortable,
in the tropic island nest.
No phones, no lights, no motor cars,
not a single luxury.
Like Robinson Crusoe,
it's primitive as can be.
So join us here each week my friend,
you're sure to get a smile.
From seven stranded Castaways,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.
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Location: Midland, MI | Woody-
I know about the antidote, but it seems whenever I do the first couple bars of 'Jeannie' at work, within seconds everyone within ear shot is humming it. And even though they get to the end "...bad dum bum BUM!" they just have to start it all over again. It goes on until I do the first two lines to Gilligan's Island (which is ironic given your and Steve's posts ) and then they all start on that. Social engineering is such a fun thing... |
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Location: Toronto | what a sick, twisted group of individuals...sick I say... sick :D |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Thank you.....thank you very much. Now whur's that 'nanner sandwich....."Wise Men say,"..... |
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Location: Central Oregon | If you find yourself in danger,
Or you're threatened by a stranger,
If you you think that you might take a likken,
Buk buk buk buk
There is something you can can do,
There's someone who will rescue you,
Just caaalll- on Super Chicken!
BuGAAaack!
If you're afraid you'll have to overlook it,
Because you knew the job was dang'rous when you took it,
Bugaak!
Oh no. There it goes again.... Bugaakk!
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | In olden days they would hang a crowd like this from the town's lampposts as an example for those who exceed public decency.
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head Tom Dooley
Tomorrow your bound to die
OOOPS, I may have a lynch mob at MY door. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness of my soul
Shadows on the hill
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
(the rest is left as an exercise for the, uh, listener) |
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Location: Kent, England | ...and there's this whcih goes with a similar tune to the verse of campdown races:
I got a song that will get on your nerves
Get on your nerves
Get on your nerves
I got a song that will get on your nerves
Get, get, get on your nerves
Sorry, couldn't help it! :eek: :D
Cheers
Terry |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide.
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.
New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square
You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.
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Location: Tennessee | OK, Steve. We know you NEED to do this ... give us the lyrics from that classic Sruggs/Flatt masterpiece ... "The Ballad of Jed Clampett". |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Ok, since you asked so nicely..
Opening goes like this:
Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.
Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
Well the first thing you know ol Jed's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Jed move away from there"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.
Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.
At the end of the Show:
Well now its time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You're all invited back a gain to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality
Hillybilly that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off.
Y'all come back now, y'hear?. |
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Location: NJ | There's a holdup in the Bronx
Brooklyn's broken out in fights
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
that's backed-up to Jackson Heights
There's a Scout Troop "short" a child
Kruschev's due at Idlewild . . . .
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Cliff - Car 54, Where Are You. Gunther Toody (?) and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne). |
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Location: NJ | ding! ding! ding! . . . . a winner!
btw: "Toody" was played by Joe E. Ross.
(oooo!-oooo!)
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | It scares me sometimes, all the useless info I keep in my head. My mother calls me a fount of useless knowledge. |
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Location: NJ | I suffer from the same malady . . . . |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Joe E. Ross and Joe Pesci - twins separated at birth? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Chronologically, original, and evil clone. Danny Devito, in "Twins", "You mean, I'm the crap?!" Talk about a source of "stray voltage"......... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You?
We got some work to do now.
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, Where Are You?
We need some help from you now.
Come on Scooby-Doo, I see you... pretending you got a sliver
But you're not fooling me, cause I can see, the way you shake and shiver.
You know we got a mystery to solve,
So Scooby Doo be ready for your act. [Scooby Doo]
Don't hold back!
And Scooby Doo if you come through
you're going to have yourself a scooby snack!
That's a fact!
Scooby-Dooby-Doo, here Are You.
You're ready and you're willing.
If we can count on you Scooby Doo,
I know you'll catch that villian. |
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Location: NJ | Mr. Chapman has obviously subscribed to the cable company that offers the 12 "TV-Land" Channels package . . . |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...na,
It's just that pesky Chapman Gene surfacing.... Cuzin Steve is obviously off his meds... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | meds!! did some one say meds...nevermind I found Todays Dose...There...I'm Much Better Now! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | If I walked into a bar and played every song on this thread they would find my body in the dumpster pummelled to death by bottles, purses, and snapped to death by bar towels.
In Heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
He sighed a sigh of relief as he returned to civilization, he was set upon by 5 civilized dogs, driven to frenzy by his atrocious attempts to sing Rolling Stones songs A Capellla. |
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