No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head

Strange News - AP | Mon Oct 20, 9:48 AM ET | By RACHEL KIPP, Associated Press Writer

[BSunday]

and then lock up his computer so we couldn't turn it off.

there's a cure for that....

[Graybeard58]

"No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head? Think about a different song. Problem solved"


...Smacking one's toe with a moderately sized hammer works too.

[Hatteras]

I said, "Doctor, Is there nuthin' I can take?"
I said, "DOCTOR, to relieve this belly ache?"

[SubSailor]

Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Now teacher dontcha fill me, up with your rules, cuz everybody knows that smokin' aint allowed in school

[freedumb2003]

Do You, YOU!
Feeel Lack I do (unnnggg unnnggg)?

[newgeezer]

Normally, if there's an earworm to be triggered, it only takes a line or two.

;-)

[Cowboy Bob]

"Earworm" is the term coined by University of Cincinnati marketing professor James Kellaris

I thought it was an "Earwig"

[null and void]

I used to work with a guy...once in awhile just to bug us, he would put on "Baby Elephant Walk", set it to loop, and then lock up his computer so we couldn't turn it off.

LOL! When my office mate got to be too much I'd play Mory Kanté's Yé Ké Yé Ké...

[RosieCotton]

There are always a few that can be counted on to show up on these weird threads.

So...what are you sayin' about me here? ;-)

ma na ma na...doo doo-doo doot doo...

[ChemistCat]

EVery BEAR that EVer there WUZ
Will Be (whatever) (something) becuz
Today's the day the Teddybears have their
PIC-nic.

[Alouette]

This is the song that drives you insane,
It just won't get out of your brain...

[sweetliberty]

"Think about a different song. Problem solved."

Always worked for me.

[freedumb2003]

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight," the Chili's restaurant "baby back ribs" jingle and "Who Let the Dogs Out."

Sometimes I hear all three simultaneously!

In the jungle, who let the baby back ribs out!

[CyberCowboy777]

My brother gets 'All Along The Watchtower' stuck all the time.

[Migraine]

Earworms. New words happen.

I defeat earworms by having a favorite GOODSONG in my mind most of the time. Right now it's Elvis' Gospel rendition, "Milky White Way", where he does all of his inimitable (though often imitated) intonations and vocal gymnastics. Makes me feel real good.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WJEC/qid=1066675970/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/102-6872418-0535332#product-details

You can click on any of 3 different music players; but the Amazon one will automatically sample several other songs for you. It's a great listen.

Failing that, I take earworm songs and replace the words with nonsense that makes the earworm's own nonsense sound downright sane:

I Think We're Alone Now

Children behave,
That's what they say when we're together.
What's that you say?
It's really good and gettin' better...
Runnin' just as fast as we can
Tryin' to get in one another's pants,
Trying to get away into the night
That's when I put my arms around you and we
Tumble to the ground and then you say:
"I think you're a homo.
There doesn't seem to be anyone around.
I think you're a homo.
So let's take a good thing and run it into the ground."

That's how I get rid of earworms. Ridicule. Laughing my fanny off. Maybe that's why I appreciate Doug From Upland so much. He does that, too; only better (or worse).

[bootless]

Augh! Close, but it was "killing frost", which Dave Barry made much sport of in his brilliant series of columns about The Worst Songs Ever.

[Ol' Sox]

Doo di-doo di-doo In-spec-tor Gadget
Doo di-doo di-doo doo doooooooo
Doo di-doo di-doo In-spec-tor Gadget
Doo di-doo di-doo doo doooooooo
repeat

[RightOnline]

"Baby, I'm-a want you........."

"Youuuuuuuuuuuuu.............light up my liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife................."

[sweetliberty]

"So...what are you sayin' about me here?"

Well, I don't really know you....but I will make a mental note at this point. RosieCotton tends to show up on weird threads. Wait a minute....how is that I know who shows up on these weird threads?

[brianl703]

And profitable for the plumber who had to fix the resulting clog :)