No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head

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

[PoorMuttly]

This is why I boiled my TV...

...in bleach.

[VermiciousKnid]

Oh, man...now you've gone and done it..."Scotland the Brave" is one that ALWAYS gets stuck in my head.

Want to REALLY go nuts? Try whistling the Old Spice jingle while thinking about "Scotland the Brave." It can't be done, I tell you, it CAN'T BE DONE!!! AHHHHH!

I'm sorry...I had a little breakdown there for a second.

Here are a few more that routinely get stuck in my head (and I like a lot of these!):

"Those Were the Days My Friends,"
"My Darling Clementine," (which happens to ALSO be the tune to "Found a Peanut"),
"Homeward Bound,"
"Ode to Billy Joe,"
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" AND "The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down"
Theme song from "Hogan's Heroes"

I'm sure there are more, but oddly enough, I can't think of them now.

Regards,

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm gonna STAAAND my ground. No I woon't baack doown."

How can that be on the list. That's my theme song.

[Diverdogz]

Good idea.

There are a whole lot of annoying earworms due to local advertising on TV stations. Dumb hicks selling furniture, used cars, whatever. Their stupid sayings and jingles seem to linger longer - maybe due to the frequency you hear them.
I'm sure your community has them, too.

[Dan from Michigan]

Damn it!

[VermiciousKnid]

Oh no! I just thought of another one and now it's stuck in my head again!

"Oh, child, things are gunna get easier,
Oh, child, things'll be brighter..."

[Uncle Meat]

Oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind!

To this day,I still find it hard to believe that was the same chick that played one of the hookers in Easyriders tripping in the New Orleans graveyard with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper

[PoorMuttly]

I refuse to HAVE a community.

I am a pilgrim...a sojourner. I am happier providing my OWN culture. This way I can be friendly to all...since they are all strangers...and I swallow no hooks. I noticed when you follow the herd...like popular music and trends...one is easily lead...and when they notice their errors later...it is you left holding the bag, looking stupid. They just make their next piece of catchy junk, and it starts over again.

Remember "She Works Hard for the Money?"....I just don't want more garbage in my head. There are messages simmered in with the instrumentals. It is salesmanship...and what is being sold, sweetened, rhymed...is not always the most wholesome nourshment one could desire...and when you find out later what has REALLY stuck in your head...it is too late.

[VermiciousKnid]

Speaking of Willies...

Anybody remember

"Say, hey, Willy, won't you hit one out here,
I'll give you a cheer if you do?"

[ChemistCat]

Sounds like a good rationalization for an introverted loner. Mind if I steal it? :-)

[Diverdogz]

Last time I created my own culture, the doc made me take antibiotics for strep throat :)

It is salesmanship...and what is being sold, sweetened, rhymed...

Marketing to kids is thinly veiled in this regard. Damn those half-hour long commercials they call cartoons.

[PoorMuttly]

sounds like it, but it isn't. I am very pleasant and social, and even do some well-received public speaking. I am discribed as full of unconditional love, and encouragement. This is how I do it...without really taking sides. I never err too much this way, or take a polarized posture I will later regret.

It is Adulthood...which I never really understood as anything but isolation and hostility. It is not. It is wisdom.

You are welcomed to use anything that you can...but be careful. An old saying says..."Always tell the truth...then run like hell !"

[Pro-Bush]

Kool & The Gang Celebration Lyrics


Yahoo! This is your celebration
Yahoo! This is your celebration

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years
So bring your good times, and your laughter too
We gonna celebrate your party with you

Come on now

Celebration
Let's all celebrate and have a good time
Celebration
We gonna celebrate and have a good time

It's time to come together
It's up to you, what's your pleasure

Everyone around the world
Come on!

Yahoo! It's a celebration
Yahoo!

Celebrate good times, come on!
It's a celebration
Celebrate good times, come on!
Let's celebrate

We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right

Baby...

We're gonna have a good time tonight (Ce-le-bra-tion)
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight (Ce-le-bra-tion)
Let's celebrate, it's all right

Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on!
It's a celebration!
Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

Come on and celebrate, good times, tonight (Celebrate good times, come on!)
'Cause everything's gonna be all right
Let's celebrate (Celebrate good times, come on)
(Let's celebrate)…

[ChemistCat]

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
But we are disenfrancised
So we must protest any election we lose
Not those we win

[wi jd]

"Take a chance on me" - Abba Erasure

[OnAMission]

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

CHORUS:
We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin' on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We looked down the river and we see'd the British come.
And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

CHORUS

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eye
We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well.
Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... well ~~~

CHORUS

**Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.**

We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down.
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

CHORUS

Repeat **

Hup 2, 3, 4. Sound off 3, 4.... Hup 2, 3, 4.
Sound off 3, 4.... Hup 2, 3, 4

[PoorMuttly]

Personally, I'd like to teach the world to sing....and drink Pepsi, of course.

[wi jd]

Damn it....I'm your captain..I'm your captain, and I'm feeling, Mighty Sick.

I'm getting closer to your wooooorrrlllllllldddd!

[PoorMuttly]

HEY....you're not going to slam "Please Mister Custer" next, are you..?!!!

I was singing that all last week.

Be careful...or I'll sing "Ragmop" to you about a thousand times.

[wi jd]

I'm getting closer to your wooooorrrlllllllldddd!

FYI, I know that lyric is wrong, but that is what I used to think it was and that always stuck in my head. That is even worse than the correct lyric.