# Anyone Else Have "Word Triggers"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386 "2005-07-13T19:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/21 "2005-07-14T06:16:58Z")
Shoes…gesundheit! Shoes for industry, shoes for the dead! ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/22 "2005-07-14T06:41:11Z")
I’ve got a couple from MST3K: “Switch” =\> “Jimmy Smits” “What do you think?” =\> “It stinks!” and Edwin Starr: “Absolutely nothing” =\> “Say it again.” ---
**Author:** ![EllaBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EllaBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllaBean)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/23 "2005-07-14T07:37:55Z")
my mind triggers songs all the time. it drives people crazy because I usually start actually singing. It also happens with whatever play I happen to be involved in at the time. Someone will say a word and I’ll start reciting lines. The only one that I almost always speak aloud, though, is: “so…” “a needle pulling thread!” ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/24 "2005-07-14T09:33:49Z")
truth --\> Truth? You can’t handle the truth? any word at all --\> Oh yeah, well your [mom/face] is a [that word] As in: My best friend is from Italy. Oh yeah? Well, your FACE is from Italy! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/25 "2005-07-14T13:30:12Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Ooo…same here. For instance, every time I read [this thread title](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=325076), my brain immediately followed it up with _ **BOOM!!** _ Every time I visit Cafe Society lately and see that, I hum “…said George Pal to his bride…” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/26 "2005-07-14T13:32:10Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > truth → Truth? You can’t handle the truth? To be immediately followed by Sideshow Bob’s “No truth handler, you! I deride your truth-handling ability.” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/27 "2005-07-14T13:47:07Z")
Oh god. I have way too many of these. The one that tormented me for the longest time because I couldn’t figure out what in the hell it meant was when Marty Cordova played for the Indians. They’d announce his name and in my very best attempt to sound like Ricardo Montalban, I’d intone “Rrrich Corrrinthian leatherrr.” Another from baseball: I was watching satellite TV and it was some news feed in English from Japan. They were talking about Hideki Matsui, and every time they said his name, there was a tiny head bob. I kept trying to imitate their pronunciation, and I found that I also adopted the head bob. Now, any time any mention of Hideki Matsui happens, I bob my head. What’s funny is that I explained it to my husband, who jokingly did it a couple of times, and now he does it without thinking, too. It’s contagious! ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/28 "2005-07-14T13:50:30Z")
Word triggers? Not me! Now, why can’t I stop thinking about rats on the West Side, bedbugs Uptown? ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/29 "2005-07-14T13:50:42Z")
Many, very many. The “Who you gonna call?” response is almost completely involuntary at this point. "Meanwhile… " also triggers “back at the ranch” for me, but not as strongly. Another I borrowed from MST3K - “Don’t change the subject.” Response : “It alters the meaning of the sentence.” ---
**Author:** ![MizQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/30 "2005-07-14T14:08:19Z")
“What have you been up to?” --\> “Oh, about 5(’)7(”)." --\> “I didn’t know they piled it that high.” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/31 "2005-07-14T16:26:56Z")
Oh, another one: not quite exactly a word trigger, I guess, but my mom–now in her 40s–can barely resist launching into her old drill team routine when hearing the song “Takin’ Care of Business.” ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/32 "2005-07-14T17:28:49Z")
I just found one: Placido -\> Domingo ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/33 "2005-07-14T17:39:11Z")
As a Pink Floyd fan, any time someone yells “hello” into a room or long hallway to see if anyone’s there, I think “is there anybody in there?” I then get _Comfortably Numb_ stuck in my head for the next five minutes. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/34 "2005-07-14T17:39:22Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > Word triggers? Not me! > > Now, why can’t I stop thinking about rats on the West Side, bedbugs Uptown? Bite the Big Apple…Don’t mind the Maggots! EEsssh! So? Sew buttons on your underwear! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/35 "2005-07-14T18:24:59Z")
Niagra Falls - _Niagra Falls? Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch…_ Almost there - _Stay on target_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/36 "2005-07-14T18:27:48Z")
Thank you all very much, I now have 22 bazillion \*Rocky Horror \* lines bouncing around in my head. It almost stopped from last Friday when I saw \*The day the Earth stood still \* on cable in the middle of the night last week. Another few days of Rockyisms lamenting my wasted yout. \ Did you say yout? \ ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/37 "2005-07-14T19:03:16Z")
For these, I blame my Dad (and Bill Murray movies): You can’t leave =\> all the plants’ll die! {Stripes} {list of bad things} =\> cats and dogs living together…mass hysteria! {Ghostbusters} ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/38 "2005-07-14T19:04:42Z")
My company just got a contract with the University of Northern Texas. I have to stiffle a giggle everytime someone says mentions this job. Somebody finally asked me why. “I wonder if they have a campus radio station.” No, I didn’t come up with that. There was a local comedian who did a whole bit on KUNT. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/39 "2005-07-14T21:18:33Z")
Liquor? I barely know 'er! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-word-triggers/312386/40 "2005-07-14T22:56:18Z")
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