# Ever have a \*non-musical\* earworm? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209 "2008-12-30T14:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/21 "2012-06-29T07:26:20Z")
Very often. I love the public announcements made before events at the Disney theme parks. In Japan, they are done in Japanese (female voice) and English (male voice) and have music in the background. I record/film these announcements as well as the event. Then I go home and listen to the announcement and watch the event on video. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/22 "2012-06-29T22:28:25Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I have a (partially) non-musical earworm. Last weekend my partner and I watched _Burn After Reading_. There was a scene in which Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand are going to call John Malkovich to blackmail him and Brad Pitt dances across the kitchen going: “I got his NUMbah! I got his NUMbah!” > > I have been doing a version of that on a daily basis ever since. For instance I had to feed the minions. _dancing_ “I got the CAT food! I got the CAT food!” Next day I had to take her dog for a walk and put salt-proof dog boots on his paws. _dancing_ “I got the BOOties! I got the BOOties!” > > Edit: I’m annoying myself. That one happens to me a lot - that exact particular scene. I’m glad this thread got resurrected. It’s nice to briefly feel that, if I _am_ a bit nuts, at least I’m in good company. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/23 "2012-06-29T22:39:13Z")
I deal with a very bureaucratic customer and over the course of the day I find myself saying: ‘I’ll be back, with the 27 b stroke 6’ quite often. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/24 "2012-06-29T22:53:20Z")
Here I was thinking about starting a thread on this, and it turns out I was beaten by three years. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/25 "2012-06-30T03:12:24Z")
The other day I had a freaking _Short Circuit_ soundboard going in my head, from “NO DISASSEMBLE!” to “Number 5 is alive!” to “I am sporting a tremendous woody right now!” It was…weird. I usually get songs stuck, not movie lines. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/26 "2012-06-30T03:29:25Z")
Cant sleep, clown’ll eat me. Cant sleep, clown’ll eat me. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/27 "2012-06-30T04:41:04Z")
I’ve had ‘I WANT YOU TO HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN!’ running through my head for days, since one of the games I’m playing has a Fight Club reference as one of the random lines spouted by the monsters. (‘His name is Robert Paulson.’ No, it doesn’t actually make any sense in the game context.) ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/28 "2012-07-02T18:51:43Z")
> [@JpnDude](#): > > I love the public announcements made before events at the Disney theme parks. In Japan, they are done in Japanese (female voice) and English (male voice) and have music in the background. “The white zone is for the loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/29 "2012-07-02T19:27:45Z")
I had Robert Browning’s ‘Pippa’s Song’ running through my head for a few weeks several years ago. It was driving me crazy, mostly because I couldn’t figure out where it came from. Then I realized I was reading the biography of Teddy Roosevelt I’d gotten for Christmas - ‘Mornings on Horseback’, and the rhythm of the title must have triggered, ‘Morning’s at seven, the hillside’s dew-pearled…’ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/30 "2012-07-02T19:30:36Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > “The white zone is for the loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.” 😉 Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone sh!t again. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/31 "2012-07-02T19:50:37Z")
‘Tenser,’ said the Tensor. ‘Tenser,’ said the Tensor. ‘Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.’ ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/32 "2012-07-02T20:00:44Z")
I’ve had metro notices as earworms. From London: “Mind the Gap”. From Moscow: (transliterated, probably poorly): “Ahstarozhna. Dvery zakravayatsya”. In Russian: осторожны.Двери закрываются. Meaning: Be Careful. The doors are closing. J. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/33 "2012-07-03T20:12:24Z")
> [@jharvey963](#): > > I’ve had metro notices as earworms. > > From London: “Mind the Gap”. > > From Moscow: (transliterated, probably poorly): “Ahstarozhna. Dvery zakravayatsya”. In Russian: осторожны.Двери закрываются. Meaning: Be Careful. The doors are closing. > > J. Heh. The announcement on the train in Valencia, Spain: Proxima parada . . . Alameda. I loved how that female voice pronounced Alameda - the real Spanish way, not the way we slur the word here in California. And of course every time (several times a day) I see the word on a road sign or something I have to repeat it the Spanish way. Several times. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209/34 "2012-07-03T20:37:41Z")
In a game last weekend, there was an item which caused the person who first picked it up to collapse and dream of being a Scottish warrior battling a horrible monster…but written for laughs. I read out the whole spiel three times, once for each team, in my best faux-Scottish accent. Bits of it have been replaying in my head ever since, especially “Twice the size uv a mortal man, an’ goin’ regimental!” These are interspersed with lines from [Meet the Demoman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=han3AfjH210&list=FL5BTcArAnit9p5W7etFsPsA&index=5&feature=plpp_video). > [@Czarcasm](#): > > ‘Tenser,’ said the Tensor. > ‘Tenser,’ said the Tensor. > ‘Tension, apprehension, > And dissension have begun.’ 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-a-non-musical-earworm/479209.md?page=1)