Monday earworm battle
I apologise for what I am about to do to you.
So, this morning, I had one of the worst earworms ever. It was something that shook me to the very core. It was this:
Can you imagine that racing around inside your brain? Yes. Yes, you can, because I have just put it there.
I was faced with a dilemma. Should I run around all day with ELP rattling around my head? Or should I kill off the prog? I knew that this would take something spectacular - in short, it would need the nuclear option of earworms. And, with apologies for what is about to happen, I knew that only something as powerful as this would kill off ELP:
Yes. The synthesised barking is there now. There for the rest of the day.
But... at least we've got rid of ELP. So, that's something, isn't it?
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December 6th, 2010 - 11:57
Mmy sister has a favourite evil trick when she’s in a crowded place. She wanders around quietly, *almost* inaudibly humming the tetris music. it can be alarming how quickly some people seem to pick it up. It’s like a virus!
December 6th, 2010 - 12:22
I do hope it’s racing around your brain at the wrong speed, John Peel style. Now excuse me while I play 3 Napalm Death songs within the next 26 seconds.
December 6th, 2010 - 14:30
Hell, at least people have a chance of recognising your Earworms…
Chin-pinching film students like me with essays on the horizon wind up with crap like this stuck in their head : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbfMLE4De2s
December 6th, 2010 - 14:42
Doctor: “So, you say you have ELP rattling around in your head all day?”
Patient: “Yes, doctor. What’s my prognosis?
Doctor: “Brain Salad Surgery!”
I thank you.
*cue immediate barrrage of cabbages, hot bovril & gravel*
December 6th, 2010 - 14:57
All it took was reading “Dogtanian and the three Muskehounds” and the tune is going. Damn it.
Many years on from my first viewing, I feel that it should have been “muskeThounds” as they are nominally members of a firearms regiment. In fact, “Musketeer” doesn’t have any explicit species indicator, so the only reason for rejecting it is that DOGtanian is too subtle.
Especially as it’s a fairly straight retelling of The Three Musketeers with the fact that the characters are anthropmorphic animals being almost irrelevant. Milady being a cat in a world of dogs is a bit disturbing now I think about it. Damn you for ruining my childhood Vowl!
December 6th, 2010 - 18:37
Europe – ‘The Final Countdown’.
No need to thank me.
December 6th, 2010 - 19:45
I got lucky, the Flash plugin crashed before the worm infestation got too bad.
December 7th, 2010 - 11:34
The chorus from Hey Jude ‘Nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah…’ always gets rid of ear worms for me!
December 9th, 2010 - 20:41
Just looked at this again… that actually IS Nigel Tuffnel from Spinal Tap on the left of the ELP pic isn’t it?
December 10th, 2010 - 05:03
Vowl, you *bastard* – now I’ve not only got the Muskahounds lodged in the brain, but it’s brought back with it the theme tunes to Chip ‘n’ Dale, 80 Days Around The World and the Defenders of the sodding Earth…