# Oh no, not again. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395 "2007-03-25T03:45:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/21 "2007-03-25T17:26:00Z")
except it wasn’t funny! Just hideous! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/22 "2007-03-25T17:31:31Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] The other way to get rid of an Ohrwurm is to hum “Karma Kameleon” by Culture Club. [/QUOTE] Nooooooooooo! That’s the worst earworm EVER! No! No! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/23 "2007-03-25T17:53:59Z")
No the worst is “My Baby Takes the Morning Train” ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/24 "2007-03-25T18:35:52Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Interestingly enough, that song was originally written in 1968 by Italian composer [Piero Umiliani](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Umiliani) for a Swedish softcore porn film. Pretty bizarre origin for a song best known for its appearance on the Muppet Show. [/QUOTE] I’m picturing a blonde Viking named Sven, humping to the beat and grunting “Muh-nah muh-nah!” while underneath him Greta ecstatically squeals, “Do doo dododo!” And it’s wrong. So wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/25 "2007-03-25T19:36:52Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] I’m picturing a blonde Viking named Sven, humping to the beat and grunting “Muh-nah muh-nah!” while underneath him Greta ecstatically squeals, “Do doo dododo!” [/QUOTE] For the curious, there are snippets of the film available on [You Tube](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Svezia%2C+Inferno+e+Paradiso&search=Search). The two I clicked on didn’t feature that song, however. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/26 "2007-03-25T19:42:07Z")
I thought this thread was going to be about the following, courtesy of a commentary on **Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** : > [@](#): > > “Oh no, not again,” is what flashed through the mind of a bowl of petunias that had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet, according to Douglas Adams in “A Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” This being a naturally untenable position for a bowl of petunias it immediately began to plummet. Mr. Adams further speculates that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought, “Oh no, not again,” we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we currently do 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/27 "2007-03-26T06:00:05Z")
The cure for earworms is to replace them with an even more offensive one. The absolute alpha and omega, for me, is… The Oompa Loompa song from the original Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory movie. Just try it! But don’t say I didn’t warn you. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/28 "2007-03-26T08:56:46Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] I’m picturing a blonde Viking named Sven, humping to the beat and grunting “Muh-nah muh-nah!” while underneath him Greta ecstatically squeals, “Do doo dododo!” And it’s wrong. So wrong. [/QUOTE] Or The Swedish Chef bork bork borking Miss Piggy. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/29 "2007-03-26T12:36:38Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] No the worst is “My Baby Takes the Morning Train” [/QUOTE] You may not want to subject to yourself to [this tragedy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lQGoVNXImI) that was inflicted upon us in Melbourne. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/30 "2007-03-26T13:03:32Z")
God damn it – now all it takes is a glimpse of the freaking thread title to get it the song started again. I hate Mondays. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/31 "2007-03-26T14:51:20Z")
Will y’all kill me if I tell you we did it for a sketch in our 3rd-college-year fundraiser show? It’s about the only song I can sing with causing rain 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/32 "2007-03-26T15:25:15Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I thought this thread was going to be about the following, courtesy of a commentary on **Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** : 🆒 [/QUOTE] I immediately thought of that moment too. And, of course, in HG#3 we do indeed find out more about why the Petunias thought that… (that they incarnated the soul of Agrajag, who somehow recognized Arthur Dent look out the porthole at what he had wrought,) and this indeed teaches us some things about the nature of that fictional universe. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395/33 "2007-03-26T15:32:27Z")
I won a copy of the Muppet Show Record when I was a kid for drawing a muh-na muh-na. Ah, the memories come flooding back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-no-not-again/397395.md?page=1)