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Why do songs get stuck in your head?
The Straight Dope ^ | October 16, 2009 | Cecil Adams

Posted on 10/24/2009 4:34:36 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

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To: Slings and Arrows
Pretenders, “My City Was Gone”?

What's funny is that I listen to First Wave on XM Radio when I'm home. When they play that song (and they do), I always think of it as the "Rush Limbaugh Song" now.

61 posted on 10/24/2009 7:00:27 AM PDT by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: KarlInOhio

How to save youtube videos (and upload them elsewhere)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717877/posts


62 posted on 10/24/2009 7:04:53 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Allegra
I am not clicking on any links! ;-)

Curses, foiled again!

63 posted on 10/24/2009 7:05:44 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Just Molly and me, and baby makes three,
We’re happy in my Blue Heaven.


64 posted on 10/24/2009 7:06:18 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: KarlInOhio

Interestingly enough, AFAIK ultraleftist Chrissie Hynde hasn’t turned down the $$$ that Rush’s use of that song has put in her pocket.


65 posted on 10/24/2009 7:08:08 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Allegra

See post #65.


66 posted on 10/24/2009 7:09:00 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: RegulatorCountry

“If you ever see a rerun of that old Patty Duke Show coming on, run, don’t walk, to hit the mute button.”

Try to get there before they sing, “A hot dog makes her lose control...”


67 posted on 10/24/2009 7:09:17 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Slings and Arrows

No she has it re-routed to an animal rights group so she doesn’t take the cash directly. It was an agreement between the two of them.


68 posted on 10/24/2009 7:09:52 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache

Then at least she’s smarter than the Wilson sisters.


69 posted on 10/24/2009 7:11:14 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away

Its more than a feeling, when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
till I see marianne walk away
I see my marianne walkin away

70 posted on 10/24/2009 7:11:59 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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To: mrs. a
Try to get there before they sing, “A hot dog makes her lose control...”

That's part of the lyrics??? (I've never seen the show.)

71 posted on 10/24/2009 7:12:46 AM PDT by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Allegra

Yeah,

“Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose contol...”

Didn’t think much of it when I was a kid but raised an eyebrow when I heard it as an adult.


72 posted on 10/24/2009 7:14:31 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Slings and Arrows

To turn off an earworm, I select another song and hum or sing it, at least mentally, in opposition to the earworm. A minute of this usually extinguishes the little booger.


73 posted on 10/24/2009 7:37:51 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (As our six year old Balloon Boy says, "I think I gotta puke.")
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To: mrs. a
Try to get there before they sing, “A hot dog makes her lose control...”

Gaaack! I never made it that far, and have been tormented by what little I did hear. That's hilarious.

THE PATTY DUKE SHOW THEME
(Sid Ramin / Bob Wells)

Meet Cathy, who's lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
But Patty's only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights — What a crazy pair!

But they're cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.

Where Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control — What a wild duet!
Still, they're cousins,
Identical cousins and you'll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike —
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind.

"You can lose your mind?" They knew, the bahstids. It's absolutely pernicious.

74 posted on 10/24/2009 8:03:14 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Slings and Arrows

I was recently stuck in Joni Mitchell hell for 3 weeks. Couldn’t get “Free man in Paris” out of my head.

The most recent song stuck in my head - “Crew Slut” by Frank Zappa. At least that song was funny.


75 posted on 10/24/2009 8:05:24 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: BunnySlippers

My wife’s getting really pissed at me for walking around whistling the theme from “All in the Family”.......I must’ve picked it up from some TV commercial or sumpin, because I sure haven’t watched any reruns.


76 posted on 10/24/2009 8:12:50 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Mmm mmm mmm - Barack Hussein Obama (repeat endlessly))
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hey now, (hey now)

Hey now, (hey now)

Eiko, Eiko an day

jacamo fino andanday

jacamo finanay

(No idea how to spell it, but it’s one of my earworms.)


77 posted on 10/24/2009 8:16:49 AM PDT by married21
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To: married21

Thankfully, I don’t know that one.


78 posted on 10/24/2009 8:19:37 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Featured in the movie “Rainman”, but a hit in the 60s.


79 posted on 10/24/2009 8:24:37 AM PDT by married21
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To: Slings and Arrows

Featured in the movie “Rainman”, but a hit in the 60s.


80 posted on 10/24/2009 8:27:10 AM PDT by married21
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