<p>Oh… hot dogs, Armour hot dogs, the dogs kids love to bite!</p>
<p>Billy Hill and the Hillbillies (an excellent Blue Grass band that does a comedy routine at Disneyland), does a bit where the lead singer sings the first line of something:</p>
<p>“there she was just a walking down the street…”
the whole audience sings "do wah diddy didy, dum, diddy dum.</p>
<p>they do 7 to 10 different songs, and it is a hoot to realize that these songs are ingrained in your head… in EVERYBODY’S head.</p>
<p>you are dead meat, HarrietMWelch and Karencolleges! But now that !@#$$%^T little rabbit foo foo and Lambchops song (from Shari Lewis) has been replaced.</p>
<p>Doo wah diddy, diddy dum diddy do !</p>
<p>She looked good (looked good!)
She looked fine (looked fine!)<br>
She looked good, she looked fine
and I nearly lost my mind :)</p>
<p>Speaking of which, it won’t be long until all the radio stations start playing Christmas songs. Which brings up the one and only song that even in my evil household is NOT ALLOWED to be used in earworm wars, because it really puts me around the bend:</p>
<p>Dominick the Donkey.</p>
<p>I never even heard this one as a kid; I grew up in the south and apparently it’s a northeastern thing. And the problem is, even if I managed, somehow, never to hear it again, it’s there. In my head. For the rest of my life.<br>
For those of you fortunate enough to have been spared, just know this: it has sound effects.</p>
<p>Just for you, Harriet <a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5rOO2v2dU[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5rOO2v2dU</a></p>
<p>:D </p>
<p>Can’t thank you enough. Just IMd the link to my daughter at school and she responded OH LORD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.</p>
<p>And then she followed with </p>
<p>JINGITY JING</p>
<p>Doing what I do (just look at my screen name 
), I have a rotating set of songs playing in my head which consist of either adult choir pieces or (and this is often the torture of my life!) children’s choir songs…</p>
<p>:eek:</p>
<p>One good use for this annoying phenomenon:</p>
<p>My oldest son is a HS Brit Lit teacher. Early this year, when teaching Beowulf and such, he wrote lyrics and set them to the tune of “If I Had a Million Dollars”…only the song was called “If I Were an Anglo-Saxon”. He had that song going all around the school and his students knew all of the info they needed for the unit! He was very happy to report that “even the ‘cool kids’ were singing it!”.</p>
<p>“Rain drops keep falling on my head” anyone?</p>
<p>Never heard your hot dog song, but “I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener…”</p>
<p>For a whole baseball season last year, I had this stupid Barbados commercial song running through my head that played during every game–some pop singer (rhiannon or something) and it went “if you something something something, come and take a walk with me, with me…etc”.</p>
<p>Anyhoo, it just about drove me nuts. I’d forget it finally, watch another game, and there it’d be again.</p>
<p>The only cure, I find, is Ramones–“I Wanna be Sedated”</p>
<p>Bam Bam buh-bam, buh bam bam buh-bam, I wanna be sedated!". It knocks anything else out.</p>
<p>M-mom–The Oscar Meyer Weiner song and commercial drove me nuts as a kid. It was all about peer pressure, and every time the one kid with an indepenent brain gave in and joined in “wanting to be an Oscar Meyer Weiner” it felt to me, even as a kid, like a blow to individualism. I HATED that commercial!</p>
<p>the worst is when you can only get a little fragment in your head:
BBBBennie, Bennie, Bennie
Bennie and the Jets
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat</p>
<p>Ouch!!!</p>
<p>Oh, that has been the story of my life! It happens to me a LOT!</p>
<p>My boss has “We Will Rock You” as his ring tone and it drives me nuts!</p>
<p>Even a song you love can drive you crazy when you hear it repeating incessantly.</p>
<p>They should outlaw song snippets as ring tones, as a courtesy to those who have to hear that song over and over throughout the day. Noise pollution!</p>
<p>Leal, I feel your pain! At least it is better than 50 Cent…</p>
<p>Very true!</p>
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<p>Gee, thanks a lot. Now I have “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” stuck in my head. Arrrgh!!</p>
<p>The only antidote is to go play some Metallica…NOW!</p>
<p>(I think I will leave this thread now and not come back, and leave it for all the other poor unsuspecting schmucks…)</p>
<p>That stupid Hamm’s Beer jingle was running through my mind in yoga class!!</p>
<p>A horse is a horse…</p>
<p>Another ad from youth:
Does your shoe have a boy inside?
What a funny place for a boy to hide.
Does your shoe have a dog there, too.
A boy and a dog and a foot in the shoe.
Well the boy is Buster Brown and the dog is Tige his friend
and they really are a picture but its fun to play pretend
So look look look in your telephone book for the store that sells the shoes
with the picture of the boy and the dog inside so you can put your foot in too.</p>