# The worst kind of earworm **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-kind-of-earworm/526964 "2010-01-29T23:44:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [January 31, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-kind-of-earworm/526964/21 "2010-01-31T00:15:04Z")
“Superman doesn’t make much money, saving the word from somebody Grundy…” AIEEEEE! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-kind-of-earworm/526964/22 "2010-01-31T00:43:30Z")
99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottle of beer. Take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall… Sing until you’re silly. Repeat as necessary. Surely that’ll help. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-kind-of-earworm/526964/23 "2010-01-31T01:33:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Join Date: Mar 2002 > Location: The Colony, TX. > Posts: 4,931 > 99 bottles of beer on the wall, > 99 bottle of beer. > Take one down, > pass it around, > 98 bottles of beer on the wall… > > Sing until you’re silly. Repeat as necessary. Surely that’ll help. Sing, or enact? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-kind-of-earworm/526964/24 "2010-01-31T02:58:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Sing, or enact? You do much enacting of that one and you won’t have to worry about earworms for _days_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-kind-of-earworm/526964/25 "2010-02-01T17:16:20Z")
Ooohhh - this calls for a dose of The Eurythmics (or Marilyn Manson, whichever you prefer): Sweet dreams are made of these Who am I to disagree Travel the world and the seven seas Everybody’s lookin’ for something… Lather, rinse, and repeat. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat… Gah! I hate that song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-kind-of-earworm/526964.md?page=1)