# I just want to... SING! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956 "2012-07-31T15:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/1 "2012-07-31T15:19:26Z")
From another thread: > [@Cadaver dogs and really old cases. Total B.S. or real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cadaver-dogs-and-really-old-cases-total-b-s-or-real/629933/6): > > Whenever I see or hear ‘cadaver dogs’, I can’t help singing it to _Mah Nà Mah Nà_. > > Also, band name! > [@Cadaver dogs and really old cases. Total B.S. or real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cadaver-dogs-and-really-old-cases-total-b-s-or-real/629933/7): > > I… never would have thought of that, but now, I always will. > > Cadaverdogs. > ♪♫ Doot Doooo Do Do Do ♪♫ > CadaverDOGS! > ♪♫ Doot Do Do Do ♪♫ > Cadaverdogs… > ♪♫ Doot Doooo Do Do Do, > Do Do Do, Do Do Do, > Do Do-Do-Do-Do > Doot-Doot Dooo Do ♪♫ > [@Cadaver dogs and really old cases. Total B.S. or real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cadaver-dogs-and-really-old-cases-total-b-s-or-real/629933/8): > > DAMN YOU. (Doot doo do do do) It also works with ‘phenomenon’. 😉 So you’re driving along, watching TV, reading a book, or otherwise minding your own business, when you see or hear a word and it winds up being set to music in your head. What are those words, and what are the songs? Here are a few more that get me ever time: Nooksack (a tribe and a river up here): _Love Shack_, by THe B-52s Semiahmoo (A Salish word, and the name of a spit and resort): _Dirty Old Town_, by The Pogues Bakerview Road: _Holiday Road_, from _National Lampoon’s Vacation_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/2 "2012-07-31T17:06:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It also works with ‘phenomenon’. 😉 [Cite.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Mc55P1i9g) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/3 "2012-07-31T17:16:54Z")
Thanks - I was wondering what ear worm I’d have stuck in my head for my long walk today. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/4 "2012-07-31T17:39:07Z")
[Quote=Monty Python; Holy Grail] FATHER: Listen, lad, I built this kingdom up from nothing. All I had when I started was swamp … other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same … just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So I built a another one … that sank into the swamp. I built another one … That fell over and THEN sank into the swamp … So I built another … and that stayed up. … And that’s what your gonna get, lad: the most powerful kingdom in this island. PRINCE: But I don’t want any of that, I’d rather … FATHER: Rather what? PRINCE: I’d rather … just … sing … MUSIC INTRO FATHER: You’re not going to do a song while I’m here! Music stops. [/Quote] Because what would a post be if not for random Monty Python quotes? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/5 "2012-07-31T17:43:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It also works with ‘phenomenon’. 😉 > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [Cite.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Mc55P1i9g) At work, we can’t check a manometer without someone singing during the shift passdown. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/6 "2012-07-31T17:43:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It also works with ‘phenomenon’. 😉 This happened to me just yesterday when I got mail from some company named Phenomenex. Can you imagine having to work there? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/7 "2012-07-31T18:29:32Z")
Paging **mahna mahna** … ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/8 "2012-07-31T19:20:59Z")
Every time I see a flagman for road construction, I start composing verses set to the song “Jazzman”. When the flagman waves his sign, It completely ruins my day. I was just feeling really fine, But now it’s all gone away. Oh, flagman…oh, flagman! ::cue sax solo:: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/9 "2012-07-31T19:31:56Z")
I did it once when someone said “banana nut” and she didn’t even realize the connection till I sang da da doo doo. And then she did it for the rest of the day. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/10 "2012-07-31T19:39:45Z")
Spanish rice. Whenever we discuss it as a menu item or I notice it on the shelf at the store, I immediately start singing, “Oooooh, Spanish rice! Teardrops are falling in my Spanish rice!” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/11 "2012-07-31T20:58:30Z")
Anytime anyone says, “I couldn’t sleep at all last night”, I respond “just a-thinking of you!” (doot doot doo dah doot) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/12 "2012-07-31T22:36:48Z")
Every time I drove or walked past Joe’s Crab Shack in my college town, I’d get “Rock Lobster” stuck in my head… hmmm, hmmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmmmmm, hmhmhmhmmmm… ROCK LOBSTAH! ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/13 "2012-08-01T17:05:05Z")
Whenever I read the phrase ‘lost boys’ I don’t sing, but [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJVmu6yttiw) comes into my head. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/14 "2012-08-01T20:26:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It also works with ‘phenomenon’. 😉 The last time I caught this earworm was last week, when my sister announced her intention to bake: _Banana bread_… ♪♫ Doot Doo Da Doodoo ♪♫ ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/15 "2012-08-01T20:51:00Z")
I know I have several of these and I can’t think of them right now, brain apparantly is going to sleep the entire day. Not that I blame it; I wish I could join! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/16 "2012-08-01T21:12:34Z")
“You can’t always get what you want…” ---
**Author:** ![kmshrader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@kmshrader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmshrader)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/17 "2012-08-01T21:39:46Z")
I had a coworker who would say “Let us go, then,” which immediately set me off with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Not a song, but all the same. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/18 "2012-08-01T22:46:51Z")
> [@kmshrader](#): > > I had a coworker who would say “Let us go, then,” which immediately set me off with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Not a song, but all the same. Oh yeah, you reminded me of another one from that poem - for some reason I often say, “I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled\*.” \*Which, looking it up, is an inaccurate quote, but that’s what I say. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/19 "2012-08-01T23:25:51Z")
Good lord, CW, are you me? I not only use that line whenever I hear ‘I grow old’, I misquote it in the same way! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-want-to-sing/629956/20 "2012-08-01T23:35:56Z")
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