Shoes…gesundheit! Shoes for industry, shoes for the dead!
I’ve got a couple from MST3K:
“Switch” => “Jimmy Smits”
“What do you think?” => “It stinks!”
and Edwin Starr:
“Absolutely nothing” => “Say it again.”
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!”
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!
Every time I visit Cafe Society lately and see that, I hum “…said George Pal to his bride…”
To be immediately followed by Sideshow Bob’s “No truth handler, you! I deride your truth-handling ability.”
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!
Word triggers? Not me!
Now, why can’t I stop thinking about rats on the West Side, bedbugs Uptown?
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.”
“What have you been up to?” --> “Oh, about 5(’)7(”)." --> “I didn’t know they piled it that high.”
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.”
I just found one: Placido -> Domingo
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:
Bite the Big Apple…Don’t mind the Maggots! EEsssh!
So?
Sew buttons on your underwear!
Niagra Falls - Niagra Falls? Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch…
Almost there - Stay on target
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.
<Fred Guinn> Did you say yout? <Fred Guinn>
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}
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.
Liquor? I barely know 'er!
Marco!