# This is my brain. This is my brain on Marlo Thomas. Any Questions? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2001, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363 "2001-10-04T12:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/41 "2001-10-04T17:02:18Z")
“amarinthp”? I theem to be thpeaking like Daffy Duck. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/42 "2001-10-04T17:27:58Z")
When you get a song stuck in your head, what you do is you walk up and down all the hallways at work quietly singing it to yourself - just loud enough so your co-workers can hear. Then you go back to your office, and wait to see how long it takes before someone shows up in your office singing the same song under _their_ breath. Great fun for everyone! (The song that always gets stuck in my head is “New York New York”. Just had to share that :D.) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/43 "2001-10-04T17:49:37Z")
Don’t break my heart my achy-breaky heart… ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/44 "2001-10-04T17:51:16Z")
I have **Just** the thing for ya **Fenris**. my friend came through, I’ll heat up the copier and on it’s way tonight (hopefully) will be a new addition to your “bad musicals” collection. [sub]hehehehehehehehehe[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/45 "2001-10-04T18:04:13Z")
Was that sincere thanks, **jr8**? I can never tell anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/46 "2001-10-04T21:21:02Z")
Well, Fenris, it’s a small world, after all. ::: D & R ::: ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/47 "2001-10-04T22:32:10Z")
I hate all of you. My brain was going to explode anyway, since it’s been the day from hell at work. Now it’s going to explode for a different reason - dueling songs on KCOY. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. And an especial thank you to whoever brought up “Istanbul”… …because now I have “Anna Ng” stuck in my head along with everything else. And **Poly** , you know I lurves you, but did you _have_ to? Oh well…guess I’ll just have to roam around singing “Her Majesty” until everything else goes away. _her majesty’s a pretty nice girl but she doesn’t have a lot to say buh-doom-doom her majesty’s a pretty nice girl but she changes from day to day…_ ---
**Author:** ![toshirodragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@toshirodragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toshirodragon)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/48 "2001-10-04T22:43:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > “Ladies first! Ladies first!”, she said. > > So they did. She was very tasty too." > > \*\* That was Shel Silverstein reading his poem about Pamela Purse… I have it on tape 😃 As for Shari Lewis… I don’t think we need to worry… she is dead I do believe. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/49 "2001-10-05T01:28:14Z")
**Fenris** , thank you for starting the _Free to Be…_ Appreciation Thread I’ve been wanting to start. I grew up listening to this, and it’s enough of a Proustian experience that I bought the CD. Now I need a TV… I’m now on a mission to find the video! Robin ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/50 "2001-10-05T11:57:36Z")
> [@](#): > > _I wanna tell her that I love her a lot > But first I gotta get a belly full of wine > Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl > Some day I’m gonna Hollywood her Vine, oh yeah > Some day I’m gonna Hollywood her Vine…_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/51 "2001-10-05T12:09:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*Was that sincere thanks, **jr8**? I can never tell anymore. \*\* Semi-serious. You successfully managed to get the song stuck in my head (until **Sigmund the Sea Monster** came along, dammit), but at least it was a song I like. A few months I had Robbie Williams’ _Let Love Be Your Energy_ stuck in my head for nigh on two weeks – and I don’t even know all the words. Boy, that’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/52 "2001-10-05T12:19:24Z")
Fenris, The Littlest Doper[sup]TM[/sup] got the FTBYAM CD as a birth present. Iffin you want to borrey it… Mrs. Spritle has it on vinyl[sup]\*[/sup]. I told her about the movie we “had” to watch every year in school with Mel Brooks telling Marlo that she was “Bald! Bald! Bald! Bald as a ping-pong ball!” and how all the girls would sing the songs from the movie for the rest of the week. :sudder: She had never heard of the movie. Now she wants to see it. Please help me. [sup]\*[/sup]Vinyl, kids, means that she had the album. Wait, she had it on disk. In wax? On platter? Hello? See, many years ago, before CDs there were tapes. Before that, there were 8-tracks. Before that there were “records” which were pressed into vinyl. errrr… nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/53 "2001-10-05T12:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*Semi-serious. You successfully managed to get the song stuck in my head (until **Sigmund the Sea Monster** came along, dammit), \*\* Heh. Heh. Heh. Just be glad that you don’t remember the theme to “The Kids From C.A.P.E.R.” which, next to “Free to Be” is the song that generated the worst mental echos I’ve hever had. I’m apparently one of the three people in the world who saw this show. _We’re the Kids We’re the Kids We’re the Kids from C.A.P.E.R. We’ll race to your place On the case Every time. We’re the Kids We’re the Kids We’re the Kids from C.A.P.E.R. Four in a war evermore against crime._ Actually I shouldn’t laugh. Apparently whatever neurons activated to dredge some of this stuff up have pulled another one out of the depths of my brain (but since this is Tom Lehrer: \*Who can turn a cap Into a cape? Who can turn a tap Into a tape? It’s el-E-men-tar-y It’s silent E Who can turn a cub into a cube? Who can turn a tub into a tube? It’s really free to be for you and meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!\* aaaaaRgggghgh! and of course there’s the sophomoric version: \* Who can turn a hat into pure hate? who can turn a rap into a rape? \* Which made me the hit of the 6th grade lunch table set. Until that kid who ate worms came along. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/54 "2001-10-05T13:03:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > Just be glad that you don’t remember the theme to “The Kids From C.A.P.E.R.” which, next to “Free to Be” is the song that generated the worst mental echos I’ve hever had. I’m apparently one of the three people in the world who saw this show. No, I don’t know that one, and never heard of the show. But I do remember: _We’re gonna Zoom Zoom Zoom-a Zoom We’re gonna Zoom-a Zoom-a Zoom-a Zoom Zoom…_ I also still remember (and anyone growing up in the 70’s in the Philadelphia broadcasting area may also do): _Send your pictures to dear old Captain Noah Send today! Send right away!_ Being raised by television is a bit like being raised by wolves, except that you’re less likely to rip people’s throats out with your teeth. > [@](#): > > Actually I shouldn’t laugh. Apparently whatever neurons activated to dredge some of this stuff up have pulled another one out of the depths of my brain (but since this is Tom Lehrer: > > _Who can turn a cap > Into a cape? > Who can turn a tap > Into a tape? > It’s el-E-men-tar-y > It’s silent E_ I have sheet music for that somewhere. Also for _L-Y_: _You enter a very dark room And sitting there in the gloom Is Dracula; now how do you say goodbye? Immediately! Immediately! Immediate… L-Y!_ ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/55 "2001-10-05T15:44:15Z")
When I have a song stuck in MY head, I use the all-powerful works-every-time approach to removing it. The technique is as follows. (A). Close your eyes. (B). Imagine the band/singer/whatever performing the song in your head on stage. (3). Now imagine yourself, in the front row, with large caliber automatic weapons. (&). Imagine yourself now slaughtering said performer, thus ending the song for good. Now sit back and enjoy the silence!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363/56 "2001-10-05T15:52:11Z")
Where the hell did THAT smiley come from? What did I do with that M-60… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-brain-this-is-my-brain-on-marlo-thomas-any-questions/85363.md?page=2)