No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head

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

[LizardQueen]

And another one. After pleading, begging, threatening, and badgering in vain the programmers to clean their dumps out of system temp space, I finally started writing parody jingles and emailing them out weekly to get them to do it. It worked much better.

To be sung to the tune of "Walking in a winter wonderland":

"Users scream, are you listenin'?
On our brows, sweat is glistenin'
A terrible sight
We're crashing tonight
We ran out of system spooling space

Gone away is the mainframe
In it's place is some great pain
The users are mad
And we sure look bad
We ran out of system reader space

On the consoles D is working frantic
Tryin' to make the system come alive
L is going to have to do a cold start
'cuz if she don't the system will still die

Later on, we'll be tired
and we hope we don't get fired
It need not be this rough
Just throw out your stuff
Please clean out your system reader space......"

[E Rocc]

Dinosaur, named Barney
Tried to give me HIV
Then the po-lice came and put his ass in jail
Now the cons play with his tail.

-Eric

[E Rocc]

The worst song ever...

Would be "Shiny Happy People" by REM. No earworm that, maybe a "throatworm" due to the gag reflex it causes.

Whiny crappy people make me retch

-Eric

[E Rocc]

Don't Break My Heart
My Achy-Breaky Heart

Don't play that song
That stupid stupid song
I just can't take it anymore
Cuz if you play that song
That stupid stupid song
You'll see my dinner on the floor

Or from an even more irritating song.

Ah gawt fraynds from dull places
They wear boots cuz they can't tie shoelaces
They just ain't got a clue.

They drive pickup trucks to go out drankin'
They got old hound dawgs to do the thankin'
'Bout what they should do

-Eric

[E Rocc]

I'm a gonna have a blue Christmas....(do do do do do)

Porky Pig did a good version.

-Eric

[biblewonk]

Nope, that's a real song that was on my mind just then. Coal Chamber rocks.

[T Minus Four]

Hey speedster! Long time no quote bad song lyrics :-) I didn't have the heart (or the time) to get involved in this thread, but it gave me misty water-colored memories of you.

[Physicist]

There is almost NEVER a time when I don't have a song running through my head. Even when I wake up at night, I can tell that the song that's running has been running for a while. Right now it's "Sonny's Dream" by the jazz saxaphonist Sonny Criss. Brilliant...the brass section is so lurid, it just shines. I can almost see it.

It sometimes happens that a song that I dislike goes through my head. When that happens, I "change channels" by contempating a song that I know is likely to get stuck there, e.g. "Panic in Detroit" by David Bowie, "Down in the Sewer" by The Stranglers, or "Bluebird is Dead" by the Electric Light Orchestra. If a good song is very persistent, I listen to it a couple of times, and it goes away.

[speedy]

Likewise, T-meister. I think we can only go through one of these in a lifetime, or at least a decade. But they are fun while they last. And now I'm bluer than blue, sadder than sad, you're the only life this empty room has ever had --- sniff, sigh, sob. Catch you later, no lie.

[Ryle]

All the more so after a concert of his in the East Longview Hall coming up this Saturday night :)

Ryle

[Alberta's Child]

Ian did a great rendition of "Fifty Years Ago" at his concert last year!

[csvset]

Robbie King -Keyboardist for the 1960's Canadian interracial R&B group Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, who had the hit "Does Your Mama Know About Me" on Motown's Gordy subsidiary label.

King was a founding member of Skylark though no longer with the group on their hit "Wildflower", and later arranged hits for Olivia Newton-John and "Seasons In the Sun" for Terry Jacks, died of throat cancer on Sept. 17 in Vancouver at the age of 56.