What song or lyric
or melody or beat
or jingle
do you find impossible to get rid of once you hear it?
2 examples pop in to my head....and won't ever leave.....
The first is a commercial running locally for the Optimum Triple Play. It's wacky shit but the singing number part gets implanted in my head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptlJYFWDfig
The second, which in my head all day yesterday, "Girls just wanna to have fun-un, Oh girls just wanna have..."
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Girls just wanna have fun isn't that bad...
I wanna kill Whitney Houston because of her song "I will always love you" (and any other song she recorded, but this specifically...)
Baier....I'm afraid to think too hard because then a song WILL be stuck in my head while I fly tomorrow....
But, I have to go with two classics from childhood....
"This is the Song that Never Ends" (it goes on and on my friend...).....
and "Who are the people in your neighborhood?"
Not only Barney's, S.P. The motherfucking Backyardigans (the castaways one is the worse), that train Thomas, Hi 5... All those Discovery Kids shows' songs get stuck in my head when my daughter is watching, but she loves it, what can we do?
The theme song to "Elmo's World" - Although my son has outgrown Elmo, I still grow a little underarm hair when I hear that fuzzy little creep scream about his 'goldfish and crayon too'.
"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" - It's incredibly stupid and it continues to linger in my brain. It reminds me of an odor coming from a spotless kitchen, but you have no idea where it's coming from.
Leo - you hit the nail on the head with "I Will Always Love You". That song makes me want to punch Whitney in the throat, AND Dolly Parton for good measure!
Jim - "Don't Worry Be Happy" is another good one. If it helps, my wonderful father once heckled him at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl back in '88 (somewhere around that time). The crowd was very pleased and appreciative.
S.O. - Gee thanks. After years of therapy, I thought I had 'people in your neighborhood' finally out of my head. Now, my self mutilation habits have returned.
CLC - I start to shiver when I listen her softened voice singing the startins 'iiiiif I..." - Damn, how it makes me angry. The worst. My mom loves the Bodyguard movie, and some jackass gave her the VHS plus the OST CD for her birthday. I can't count how many times she had watched that shit or played that piece of junk soundtrack. I'm glad I'm out there now.
SP: Yay... In my case it's easier. My daughter is 1 y.o. and we can turn her attention somewhere else and change the channel, but we let her watch a little sometimes. Not too much, because we don't want to raise up a TV addicted girl.
"end of the world (...)" sometimes stick in my mind too, but I don't think it's bad. I like REM better.
But I'll be sadist. I'll gather some YouTube's links for Brazilian shit songs and throw it here later. Let's see if you can get rid of that shit.
One example, y'all might have watched "Speed 2". There's a Brazilian guy singing in the ship. Try to pass clean through that shit.
Leo - I Have 3 daughters. 9, 7, and 4. Currently i am on my 3rd trip through elmo/barney/teletubbies land, and it is not exactly helping my post-traumatic stress disorder.
Hopefully after the youngest one outgrows this crap i can cut back on my meds.
CLC, you should've know better. Messing with a guy's mom is like brushing a shark's teeth. Oh yeah, it is!
And now you have a whit shark with his open mouth waiting for your brush.
Can't you see that you are messing with the UNNA's War Lord, the same guy who have sent you your SWAT team, and with a single call can turn them all of a sudden from body guards to body slicers?
Oh CLC, I respect you as the UNNA's VP and for the good person you have been being so far. But you have just crossed a thin line that bounds the limits of the acceptance on jokes.
I'm waiting for your next pronunciation, willingly. I hope that the warheads that I have pointed to a certain neighbourhood never need to take off. It could be the starting of a warfare never seen before.
Tick-tock. Your time is running...
PS: Despite of all the heat, I agree with you, Andy Kaufman's version of Super Mouse theme rules. But I'm still mad at you.
Dammit Leo!! Do you think my job is easy? Do you think I just woke up one day and said "Hmmmm. I wonder which line I'll cross today, I think I'll punch Leo's mom in the throat!" No. The news of your mother was devistating, and I thought long and hard about the decision. And just so we're clear, I'm not above the rules either. I punched my own mom in the throat for the very same thing your mom did. Why? Because I'm putting my country first! It's a tough decision yes, but fair. You have to put your personal feelings aside for a moment and realize that its for the greater good. Think about it. Had you even considered the possibility that your daughter could be exposed? Do you really want that? You're going to feel like a real piece of shit when you pick her up from a weekend with granny, and on the way home she starts singing into her rattle "iii-IF...I...should...stay". You can't let the vicious cycle perpetuate Leo. It's been almost 20 years since we were traumatized with that song. Don't you think it's been long enough?
Now, because you are the War Lord, I guess it would be appropriate to do a few favors. She's not off the hook - but I'll reconsider the punishment. Just this one time only though. Since I'm fair, and I'm a giver and stuff, I'd like YOU to tell me what a fitting punishment would be for "I Will Always Love You" supports (a.k.a. IWALYS). I've already punched my mom for being a closet IWALYS, so my conscience is clear. You're the one who will have to live with this decision.
I'll await your prompt response. We can't waist too much time on this. Jesse Jackson is at it again, and I'll need you to send a team out to go and collect him. BTW, How the hell did he get out of the cage this time?!?!
Oh really?
For an instant I have thought that you had forgotten all that shit about foreign affairs.
Don't you think that I have took care myself of that IWALYS situation at home? Remember "An Orange Clockwork". That shock treatment against violent manners?
Every fucking time that she played that song she was punished. She wears an electrified collar that reacts to IWALYS. Strong enough to weaken her legs and put her down for a while, but not enough to really hurt her.
As I left home, I programmed the collar sensor to give her a chance of one listening per week, and she never knows when it will be, until the alarm buzzes. When I'm visiting, I set it for full protection, in order to maintain my sanity and keep my daughter's brain free from that poison tunes.
My brother, and co-conspirator reports me every week if she is walking right on the line or if she is trying to cheat. Last word came to me informing that last week, when the alarm buzzed "free to listen" she had picked up the CD, walked to the stereo and started shivering, no guts to put it on and listen to.
My job is almost done there. In two weeks or so, she'll be so frightened of IWALYS that only facing a picture of that witch will bring her the painful sensation.
For the IWALYS supporters, maybe a ride in the old sparky would be fine. If they still supporting it after a 2 months shock treatment, one last (but stronger) shock will do just fine.
There's one more thing you need to arrange in order to keep things straight again. Years ago, I have demanded the Canadians to apologize to the world for bringing up Brian Adams and Celine Dion, what was successful and now I have them high in my heart.
Now I need a public USA's apology for the bringing up of you-know-who and her IWALYS.
If you send me Kevin Costner's head too, I'll consider it as a great peacemaker gift and a sign of our good relationship. He's guilty for saving her life in the "The Bodyguard" film.
We're in a tie right now. I understand your reasons but even putting my feelings aside, it's my mom in the court and she's MY responsibility. I would never jump into your mom's house and punish her. I would pass you the word first, asking YOU to take care of it, for Jeebus sake. Forgot our motto?
"Either with us or against us. We are tough, but we are fair!"
Leo
For the reverend's matter, he's at large because my guys needed to have a fun time. They've released him, declared the JJ hunting season open and they're taking care of it. Just playing a little cat and mouse. Soon it will be set.
Leo, when I read the banter between you and CLC, there is no way I would know without the backstory that you are not an American...wait, except your writing far surpasses that of some of our bestselling authors....
How about writing an English language book of short stories then coming here on a book tour? I won't even take any commission for giving you the idea...and Dave has already arranged transportation for the tour...
We'll call him Coyote Pretty...
You know, years ago I have written some short stories. In Portuguese, of course, but I'm thinking about start a blog with short stories.
Maybe later, because I'm quite busy now and for the next month or so.
I just need to clear my mind a little and maybe a little help from you fellows to correct some possible mistake.
Who knows... If I get to be famous, I'll have the Loyal 77 Tour. Stoping to get to know with each one of you.
Hey....I just read that Nicholas Sparks (author of The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, etc) decided to be a millionaire by age 30, and was offered a million for his first book at 29---so dream on Leo, and we will support you like mad!!!!
And if Scara sends me the Akoha cards, I'll treat you to coffee when you breeze through town....
But we can't have our cup of coffee in front of a computer, don't forget it...
I'll try to put out in words some ideas I've got. If it works, I'll send you the link...
For now, I need to put my head back in tracks before trying something new. I've been so busy and stressed that even when I'm sleeping I still think of the problems I've got to solve... too bad for me.
I'd also like to thank Scaramouch and Miss C for their literal video contributions. Because of these, I've been walking around the house whistling 'Take On Me' and 'Head Over Heels' for the past few weeks.
My wife thinks I'm having some sort of 80's flashback.
Baier, unfortunately you and I might be the only ones who know that obscure song since friends of mine didn't recognize it as an actual song when Listerine turned it into a commercial back in the 90s....
but thanks for the flashback to back in the days when I used to tape every song in creation off of the radio....and curse the DJs who came back in with a voice over 4 seconds in....
Girls just wanna have fun isn't that bad...
I wanna kill Whitney Houston because of her song "I will always love you" (and any other song she recorded, but this specifically...)
I'd have to go with 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'. Tiresome, even twenty years on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BihK6bQ4YOw
It's not a song, but I dare you to watch and easily forget it. A guy asks his 'domestic assistant' (politically correct, huh?) to say www.youtube.com
Baier....I'm afraid to think too hard because then a song WILL be stuck in my head while I fly tomorrow....
But, I have to go with two classics from childhood....
"This is the Song that Never Ends" (it goes on and on my friend...).....
and "Who are the people in your neighborhood?"
Kylie Minogue's "Can't get you out of my head"
And as i have a 4 year old daughter,
That $&%#@! Barney Song......
Not only Barney's, S.P. The motherfucking Backyardigans (the castaways one is the worse), that train Thomas, Hi 5... All those Discovery Kids shows' songs get stuck in my head when my daughter is watching, but she loves it, what can we do?
The theme song to "Elmo's World" - Although my son has outgrown Elmo, I still grow a little underarm hair when I hear that fuzzy little creep scream about his 'goldfish and crayon too'.
"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" - It's incredibly stupid and it continues to linger in my brain. It reminds me of an odor coming from a spotless kitchen, but you have no idea where it's coming from.
Leo - you hit the nail on the head with "I Will Always Love You". That song makes me want to punch Whitney in the throat, AND Dolly Parton for good measure!
Jim - "Don't Worry Be Happy" is another good one. If it helps, my wonderful father once heckled him at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl back in '88 (somewhere around that time). The crowd was very pleased and appreciative.
S.O. - Gee thanks. After years of therapy, I thought I had 'people in your neighborhood' finally out of my head. Now, my self mutilation habits have returned.
Leo - We cant do a whole lot. I'd rather get Dora the Explorer stuck in my head than listen to my 4 year old scream at 9am
Also Just the chorus to "End of the world as we know it" by REM
"Wake me up, before you go go"
My kids are beyond Elmo too, but now I've got that damn song in my head. Again.
Thanks a lot CLC.
CLC - I start to shiver when I listen her softened voice singing the startins 'iiiiif I..." - Damn, how it makes me angry. The worst. My mom loves the Bodyguard movie, and some jackass gave her the VHS plus the OST CD for her birthday. I can't count how many times she had watched that shit or played that piece of junk soundtrack. I'm glad I'm out there now.
SP: Yay... In my case it's easier. My daughter is 1 y.o. and we can turn her attention somewhere else and change the channel, but we let her watch a little sometimes. Not too much, because we don't want to raise up a TV addicted girl.
"end of the world (...)" sometimes stick in my mind too, but I don't think it's bad. I like REM better.
But I'll be sadist. I'll gather some YouTube's links for Brazilian shit songs and throw it here later. Let's see if you can get rid of that shit.
One example, y'all might have watched "Speed 2". There's a Brazilian guy singing in the ship. Try to pass clean through that shit.
Leo - I Have 3 daughters. 9, 7, and 4. Currently i am on my 3rd trip through elmo/barney/teletubbies land, and it is not exactly helping my post-traumatic stress disorder.
Hopefully after the youngest one outgrows this crap i can cut back on my meds.
Leo - I'm punching your mom in the throat too then. It's the right thing to do and you know it.
I like bread and butter, I like toast and jam, That's what my baby feeds me,
I'm her loving man....
The song gets stuck in my head on repeat with this terrible falsetto!
also
Mr. trouble never hangs around, when he hears this Mighty sound, Here I come to save the day! That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!
Loved the cartoon, hated the song!
Johnniewalker - you were listening to the wrong version of the Mighty Mouse theme. You've got to check out Andy Kaufman's version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfsrg28jE7k
OH. MY. SWEET. JEEBUS!
CLC, you should've know better. Messing with a guy's mom is like brushing a shark's teeth. Oh yeah, it is!
And now you have a whit shark with his open mouth waiting for your brush.
Can't you see that you are messing with the UNNA's War Lord, the same guy who have sent you your SWAT team, and with a single call can turn them all of a sudden from body guards to body slicers?
Oh CLC, I respect you as the UNNA's VP and for the good person you have been being so far. But you have just crossed a thin line that bounds the limits of the acceptance on jokes.
I'm waiting for your next pronunciation, willingly. I hope that the warheads that I have pointed to a certain neighbourhood never need to take off. It could be the starting of a warfare never seen before.
Tick-tock. Your time is running...
PS: Despite of all the heat, I agree with you, Andy Kaufman's version of Super Mouse theme rules. But I'm still mad at you.
"You should've KNOWN better" / "WHITE shark"
Damn typo!
Dammit Leo!! Do you think my job is easy? Do you think I just woke up one day and said "Hmmmm. I wonder which line I'll cross today, I think I'll punch Leo's mom in the throat!" No. The news of your mother was devistating, and I thought long and hard about the decision. And just so we're clear, I'm not above the rules either. I punched my own mom in the throat for the very same thing your mom did. Why? Because I'm putting my country first! It's a tough decision yes, but fair. You have to put your personal feelings aside for a moment and realize that its for the greater good. Think about it. Had you even considered the possibility that your daughter could be exposed? Do you really want that? You're going to feel like a real piece of shit when you pick her up from a weekend with granny, and on the way home she starts singing into her rattle "iii-IF...I...should...stay". You can't let the vicious cycle perpetuate Leo. It's been almost 20 years since we were traumatized with that song. Don't you think it's been long enough?
Now, because you are the War Lord, I guess it would be appropriate to do a few favors. She's not off the hook - but I'll reconsider the punishment. Just this one time only though. Since I'm fair, and I'm a giver and stuff, I'd like YOU to tell me what a fitting punishment would be for "I Will Always Love You" supports (a.k.a. IWALYS). I've already punched my mom for being a closet IWALYS, so my conscience is clear. You're the one who will have to live with this decision.
I'll await your prompt response. We can't waist too much time on this. Jesse Jackson is at it again, and I'll need you to send a team out to go and collect him. BTW, How the hell did he get out of the cage this time?!?!
CLC
Oh really?
For an instant I have thought that you had forgotten all that shit about foreign affairs.
Don't you think that I have took care myself of that IWALYS situation at home? Remember "An Orange Clockwork". That shock treatment against violent manners?
Every fucking time that she played that song she was punished. She wears an electrified collar that reacts to IWALYS. Strong enough to weaken her legs and put her down for a while, but not enough to really hurt her.
As I left home, I programmed the collar sensor to give her a chance of one listening per week, and she never knows when it will be, until the alarm buzzes. When I'm visiting, I set it for full protection, in order to maintain my sanity and keep my daughter's brain free from that poison tunes.
My brother, and co-conspirator reports me every week if she is walking right on the line or if she is trying to cheat. Last word came to me informing that last week, when the alarm buzzed "free to listen" she had picked up the CD, walked to the stereo and started shivering, no guts to put it on and listen to.
My job is almost done there. In two weeks or so, she'll be so frightened of IWALYS that only facing a picture of that witch will bring her the painful sensation.
For the IWALYS supporters, maybe a ride in the old sparky would be fine. If they still supporting it after a 2 months shock treatment, one last (but stronger) shock will do just fine.
There's one more thing you need to arrange in order to keep things straight again. Years ago, I have demanded the Canadians to apologize to the world for bringing up Brian Adams and Celine Dion, what was successful and now I have them high in my heart.
Now I need a public USA's apology for the bringing up of you-know-who and her IWALYS.
If you send me Kevin Costner's head too, I'll consider it as a great peacemaker gift and a sign of our good relationship. He's guilty for saving her life in the "The Bodyguard" film.
We're in a tie right now. I understand your reasons but even putting my feelings aside, it's my mom in the court and she's MY responsibility. I would never jump into your mom's house and punish her. I would pass you the word first, asking YOU to take care of it, for Jeebus sake. Forgot our motto?
"Either with us or against us. We are tough, but we are fair!"
Leo
For the reverend's matter, he's at large because my guys needed to have a fun time. They've released him, declared the JJ hunting season open and they're taking care of it. Just playing a little cat and mouse. Soon it will be set.
The worst?
"Macarena"
Not arrright.
Leo, when I read the banter between you and CLC, there is no way I would know without the backstory that you are not an American...wait, except your writing far surpasses that of some of our bestselling authors....
How about writing an English language book of short stories then coming here on a book tour? I won't even take any commission for giving you the idea...and Dave has already arranged transportation for the tour...
We'll call him Coyote Pretty...
Hahahah... Coyote Pretty...
You know, years ago I have written some short stories. In Portuguese, of course, but I'm thinking about start a blog with short stories.
Maybe later, because I'm quite busy now and for the next month or so.
I just need to clear my mind a little and maybe a little help from you fellows to correct some possible mistake.
Who knows... If I get to be famous, I'll have the Loyal 77 Tour. Stoping to get to know with each one of you.
Well, dreaming costs nothing... ;)
Hey....I just read that Nicholas Sparks (author of The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, etc) decided to be a millionaire by age 30, and was offered a million for his first book at 29---so dream on Leo, and we will support you like mad!!!!
And if Scara sends me the Akoha cards, I'll treat you to coffee when you breeze through town....
But we can't have our cup of coffee in front of a computer, don't forget it...
I'll try to put out in words some ideas I've got. If it works, I'll send you the link...
For now, I need to put my head back in tracks before trying something new. I've been so busy and stressed that even when I'm sleeping I still think of the problems I've got to solve... too bad for me.
I'd also like to thank Scaramouch and Miss C for their literal video contributions. Because of these, I've been walking around the house whistling 'Take On Me' and 'Head Over Heels' for the past few weeks.
My wife thinks I'm having some sort of 80's flashback.
Damn Tim, I had just cleared those two from my head...
Thank you... I'm going to whistle a little... be back later.
"Tarzan Boy"
by baltimora.
Baier, unfortunately you and I might be the only ones who know that obscure song since friends of mine didn't recognize it as an actual song when Listerine turned it into a commercial back in the 90s....
but thanks for the flashback to back in the days when I used to tape every song in creation off of the radio....and curse the DJs who came back in with a voice over 4 seconds in....
"Forever Young"
Rod the Bod Stewart