These strange creatures apparently live on the "argh" chemical secreted by your brain when a song goes around and around in your head.

There are 2 ways to cure an earworm:

1. Pass it on to others in the hope that they will secrete greater quantities of Argh and therefore the creature will leave you for a better food source.

2. Become infected by a different earworm which will offset the first one.

This morning's earworm is:

Da da da da da DAH, DAAAH dah dah dah, DAAAAH dah dah dah, DAAAAH dah dah.

Of course, you all recognise this immediately as the Pogues "Fiesta" which I am pretty sure I contracted by reading the word FFiesta repeatedly while browsing the forum.

Please enjoy this earworm.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2011 08:50AM by xmorpheus.

Earworms return - just when you think that you have shaken them either a new one arises or the old one comes back with a a vengeance.

At work the only thing that I hear drifting across the office are the high bits of Katy Perry's "Firework" as a whine. Luckily that doesn;t normally stick. But sometimes it's the classics that do the trick. Don't evn think about the little blue people, and I don't mean Pterry's Wee Free Men, i mean the ones with white hats. Or even the wombles - "Underground, overground wombling free. The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we. ..."

Nice try, but I'll see your Wombles and raise you

"we will fix it, we will mend it, we will stick it with glue glue glue. We will stickle it, every lickle bit of it, we will make it like new new new"

I read this about 55 years ago and created my own tune from the "instructions" - it's still in my head.

Her fingers and palm slipped gracefully over the panel. A tune of utter monotony filled the room with agonizing, unforgettable banality. It was the quintessence of every melodic cliché Reich had ever heard. No matter what melody you tried to remember, it invariably led down the path of familiarity to "Tenser, Said The Tensor." Then Duffy began to sing:

Quote:

Eight, sir; seven, sir;
Six, sir; five, sir;
Four, sir; three, sir;
Two, sir; one!
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun.

"Oh my God!" Reich exclaimed.

"I have some real gone tricks in that tune," Duffy said, still playing. "Notice the beat after 'one'? That's a semicadence [sic]. Then you get another beat after 'begun.' That turns the end of the song into a semi-cadence [sic], too, so you can't ever end it. The beat keeps you running in circles, like: Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun. RIFF. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun. RIFF. Tension, appre—"

"You little devil!" Reich started to his feet, pounding his palms on his ears. "I'm accursed. How long is this affliction going to last?"

"Not more than a month."

Ten points for naming Author and Title.

The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester?

(Is Bester acceptable: good, better, best, bester, bestest?)


"........Ties a rope to a tree and hangs the universe........."
Now, there is a siong to hum along with.

I'm stuck with the theme from 'Garfield and Friends'. It may tunnel all the way to the centre of my brain!

drat. I'm back to the Wombles.

Right!

Pink elephants on parade, here they come, hippity hoppity



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For some reason, Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song" gets stuck in my head with distressing regularity.

I can stand the sight of worms and look at microscopic germs, but technicolour pachyderms are really too much for me....

look out, look out....

Talking of pachyderms, a person close to me has forbidden me to sing a song about an infinite number of pachyderms (colour unspecified) walking on an arachnid-produced protein strand, as it always givs him earworms.

I think this song exists in a large number of languages, but I don't know the English version. The Swedish version translated into English goes something like this:

One elephant went for a stroll on a small, small spider's thread.
It found this so interesting
that it went and fetched another elephant.

Two elephants went for a stroll on a small, small spider's thread.
They found this so interesting
that they went and fetched another elephant.

Three elephants... (repeat ad nauseam)

Yes there's an English version which I learned in school. Until your post, I had forgotten it.

Now I can't get it out of my head. Please advise the person who has forbidden you to sing it that you have now spread the infection.

Two elephants went out to play
On a spider's web one day
The first had such enormous fun
That she called for another <pause> elephant

Three elephants went out to play.......

*thud*
*thud*
*thud*
The above is the noise of me banging my head on the wall.

Sorry!

The Lumberjack song is not so bad, at least there's some variety rather than the one about a certain brandname of alleged "meat".

you mean the one that goes.........

Songs about tinned products vaguely resembling meat won't affect me. My persistent earworm's favourite nourishment seems to be "Caravan of Love" with The Housemartins.

Every woman, every man,
join the caravan of love.
Stand up, stand up, stand up...

She's my siiiiiiisterrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrr she's my sister don't you know.....

Now we're living in a world of cheeeeeeeeeeeeese. It's a butter place for us to beeeeeeeeeeeeeee

ARGH!

This is supposed to be a thread for me to dump my earworms on other people and I keep catching new ones instead!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2011 03:52PM by xmorpheus.

we haven't asked yet, XM: what have you been doing for the last 2 (3?) years?

I think she's been out, collecting earworms...

I was here. It was really lonely because all the rest of you disappeared. There was just me and a tumbleweed called Fintan. At least I think that was his name. He didn't say much.

It's nice that you're all back now........ 0:-)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2011 01:35PM by xmorpheus.

Is it possible you were eradicated by the ChronoGuard, and only restored recently? That would explain your perception of being all alone--you were in an alternate timeline in which none of us existed!