# My cow-orker, the earworm carrier **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578 "2005-04-28T17:35:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/41 "2005-04-30T04:45:34Z")
I don’t know what else to suggest but you might identify with the earworm problem in [this cartoon.](http://www.thefriendsociety.com/anim.php?id=bananaphone&w=550&h=400) ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/42 "2005-04-30T04:51:21Z")
I’m sorry, but I’m only familiar with the Cockney Rejects’ version of “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles.” Consequently, I find the idea of **MissTake’s** mom singing it hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/43 "2005-04-30T05:53:34Z")
> [@the Spice Girls](#): > > Colours of the world (spice up your life!) > Every boy and every girl (spice up your life!) > People of the world (spice up your life!) > Aah… > > Slam it to the left (if you’re having a good time) > Shake it to the right (if you know that you feel fine) > Chicas to the front (huh huh) and go round > Slam it to the left (if you’re having a good time) > Shake it to the right (if you know that you feel fine) > Chicas to the front (huh huh) > Hi, see ya, hold tight! God, I’m glad they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/44 "2005-04-30T07:08:21Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > The Mexican Hat Dance? > > :snerk: > > Who sings the Mexican Hat Dance? > > Too funny. Oh, they dance on hot coals in Calcutta In Wisconsin they dance on fresh buttah which they get from some cow or an uddah But the Mexicans dance on their hats! ---
**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:** [April 30, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/45 "2005-04-30T07:23:08Z")
[You’re my honey bunch sugar plum… pumpy-umpy-umpkin You’re my sweetie pie… You’re my cuppy cake gum drop snoogums-boogums, You’re… the apple of my eye!!!](http://ktoon.4-evercards.com/my.html) Play that one a couple times, and your revenge will be complete. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/46 "2005-04-30T13:17:16Z")
> [@Balle\_M](#): > > Screw him. Go straight to the Nuclear Option: > \*I’m a Barbie girl in the Barbie world > Life in plastic, it’s fantastic > You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere > Imagination, life is your creation > > Come on, Barbie, let’s go party\*… Oh, no need to go nuke just yet. I have plenty of conventional weapons stockpiled from three years of high school choir, not the least of which are “Candle on the Water” from _Pete’s Dragon_ and the theme from _Ice Castles_. He has no idea who he’s messing with. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/47 "2005-04-30T14:02:25Z")
\*Maiyahee! Maiyahoo! Maiyaha! MaiyaHA-ha![/i[ ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/48 "2005-04-30T15:39:46Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > [You’re my > honey bunch > sugar plum… > pumpy-umpy-umpkin > You’re my sweetie pie… > You’re my cuppy cake > gum drop > snoogums-boogums, > You’re… the apple of my eye!!!](http://ktoon.4-evercards.com/my.html) > > Play that one a couple times, and your revenge will be complete. Eeurgh. I’m sending you my insulin bill. _Nothing gets to you, Stayin’ fresh stayin cool, With Mentos fresh and (something something)…_ ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/49 "2005-04-30T16:21:11Z")
No prisoners! Give him a few bars of the Hamster Dance. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/50 "2005-04-30T16:29:06Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I don’t know what else to suggest but you might identify with the earworm problem in [this cartoon.](http://www.thefriendsociety.com/anim.php?id=bananaphone&w=550&h=400) Oh. Lord, that’s just WRONG, I tell you. Very funny, but WRONG!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/51 "2005-04-30T16:33:58Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > _I know a song that’ll get on your nerves > Get on your nerves, get on your nerves. > I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, > Get, get, get on your nerves._ > > [repeat] > > (Sung to the tune of “London Bridge Is Falling Down”.) Scans more like “Buffalo Gals” if’n ya ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578/52 "2005-05-01T02:59:59Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Oh, no need to go nuke just yet. I have plenty of conventional weapons stockpiled from three years of high school choir, not the least of which are “Candle on the Water” from _Pete’s Dragon_ and the theme from _Ice Castles_. > > He has no idea who he’s messing with. So _that’s_ why we learned those? My love for you will always buuuuuuurn… :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cow-orker-the-earworm-carrier/301578.md?page=2)