# Today's Earworm
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 8, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592 "2005-03-08T23:38:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/1 "2005-03-08T23:38:05Z")
Her name was Lola!
She was a show girl!
Blah blah blah blah blah :::does a little twirl::::
At the CO-PA!
Co-Pa-Ca-BAAAAANA!
Music and Passion are always the FASH-ion …
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### Author:  [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/2 "2005-03-08T23:52:05Z")
Thank you _so_ much for dredging up a long-buried memory of the Muppets acting out this song. That big hairy monster muppet was the bad guy, if I remember correctly. Creepy doesn’t even begin to describe it. :shudder:
A pox upon thee!
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/3 "2005-03-08T23:58:47Z")
How dare you!
::Starts singing, but louder. ::
And off-key.
I met her in a club down in old Soho,
where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola.
**C-o-l-a** cola.
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance.
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said,
**Lola**
**L-o-l-a Lola.**
Well I’m not the world’s most physical guy
but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine.
Oh my\*\* Lola, L-o-l-a Lola.\*\*
Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand
why she walked like a woman and talked like a man.
Oh my **Lola, L-o-l-a Lola.**
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/4 "2005-03-09T00:07:06Z")
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction
A real big spender.
Good lookin’, so refined
How’d you like to know what’s goin’ on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point.
I don’t pop my cork for ev’ry guy I see.
Hey big spender!
Speeeeend a little time with me.
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### Author:  [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/5 "2005-03-09T00:52:14Z")
Whatever LO-la wants! (WAAAAAH-WAH-WAH!)
LO-la gets! (WAAAAAH-WAH-WAH!)
And little man, little Lola wants YOU! (wah-wah-wahWAAAAAAHwah!)
Make up your mind to have (waaaaah-wah-wah!)
No regrets: (waaaah-wah-wah!)
Recline yourself, resign yourself, you’re through!
(WAAAAAH-WAH-WAH! wah-wah-wah-WAAAAAH-WAH-WAH!)
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### Author:  [@Tenzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenzin)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/6 "2005-03-09T00:58:46Z")
March 8: Today I learned what Earworm means on the Straightdope. Thank you sooooooooooo much, Shirley.
It had to be THAT song.
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### Author:  [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/7 "2005-03-09T01:33:14Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#):
>
> I met her in a club down in old Soho,
> where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola.
COCA-Cola! COCA-Cola, dammit!! The radio station I listened to as a kid (WWSW) played the Coke ™ version, so I know it exists!
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### Author:  [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/8 "2005-03-09T02:14:39Z")
“Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!”
Now see if you can get that keyboard riff to stop. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Unclviny
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### Author:  [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/9 "2005-03-09T04:08:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> COCA-Cola! COCA-Cola, dammit!! The radio station I listened to as a kid (WWSW) played the Coke ™ version, so I know it exists!
I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony…
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### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/10 "2005-03-09T10:08:25Z")
Duff beer for me, and
Duff beer for you.
I’ll have a Duff, and
You have one too.
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/11 "2005-03-09T13:15:07Z")
Welcome to Duloc, such a perfect town. Here we have some rules, let us lay them down. Don’t make waves, stay in line and we’ll get along fine. Duloc is a perfect place. Please keep off of the grass, Shine your shoes, wipe your … face. Duloc is, Duloc is, Duloc is a per-fect plaaaaaaace.
On the issue of The One True Real Lola, Coca-Cola was from the Lp version, and I believe was the original. Cherry-cola was added to give flavor to the cake.
Whoops, no, that is from my unusual recipies. No, it was to avoid lawsuits.
While looking around, I found the following:
> [@Mike](#):
>
> “I met her in a club down in old Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola.” The first time I actually visited a club in Soho (London), the meaning of this line became suddenly clear. Most of the clubs don’t have liquor licenses, so they serve mixtures of soft drinks and fruit juices that look like alcoholic beverages. When I took the first sip of my “beer” and tasted apple juice and mineral water, I cried, “Lola!”
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/12 "2005-03-09T13:42:45Z")
Her name was Leia, she was a princess,
with a danish on each ear, and Darth Vader drawing near
so R2-D2 found Ben Kenobi, (Obi-Wan!)
He’d have to put the Death Star plans into the Rebellions hands,
So Luke and Obi-Wan had to get to Alderaan
So they stopped into Mos Eisly to have a drink with Han
At the Star Wars, Star Wars cantina
The weirdest creatures you’ve ever seena
Here at the Star Wars, Star Wars cantina,
music and blasters and old Jedi masters
at the Star Wars…
😃
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### Author:  [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/13 "2005-03-09T13:53:57Z")
I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda
S-O-D-A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log
I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said “Yoda”
Y O D A, Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda 😃
Hahahahahahaha
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/14 "2005-03-09T14:01:15Z")
His name was Rico
He wore a diamond
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there
And when she finished
He called her over
But Rico went a bit too far
Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew, and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gunshot
But just who shot who?
I’ve been temporarily carpooling for my best girlfriend while her van’s in the shop, so I dug out an old Barry CD for the ride. Nothing better than a bunch of five and six year old’s torturing their parents with “have a banaaaaanaaaaana” once I drop them off. 😃
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/15 "2005-03-09T14:23:22Z")
> [@davmilasav](#):
>
> COCA-Cola! COCA-Cola, dammit!! The radio station I listened to as a kid (WWSW) played the Coke ™ version, so I know it exists!
Kinks collector here. The version on “Lola vs. Powerman And The Money-Go-Round” says “Coca-Cola.” For the single version, it had to be resung as “cherry cola” in order to be played on the BBC. There was an advertising ban on the Beeb, and to mention the product in the song could have been construed as advertising. So Ray recut that line.
With the plethora of Kinks CD compilations that now exist, neither version is rare or hard-to-find nowadays. But before CDs, there was only the album version and the single version, and you had to own both.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/16 "2005-03-09T15:00:32Z")
I have no idea why this song has been in my head.
I haven’t heard it played since I don’t know when.
I think Barry Manilow is sending out earworms via satellite or mind control rays.
He’s trying to take over the country or something.
Yeahhhh, that’s the ticket
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/17 "2005-03-09T15:12:59Z")
I, for one, welcome our new ballad-crooning overl…
(what?)
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/18 "2005-03-09T15:28:59Z")
The beginning sequence from the first, and only episode of " The Scooby And Scrappy Show"
(Train roars by. Scrappy drops out.)
Scrappy: Uncle Scooby?
Scooby: Rhipes!
Scrappy: I’m Scrappy Doo!
Scooby: Rhrappy Roo? Hehehehehehehehe!
(A Ghost appears)
Scooby: Rhow!
Scrappy: Let me at 'em! Let me at’em!
Scrappy Dappy Doo! Scooby.
Scrappy: Scrappy-Dappy-Doo!
Scrappy-Dappy-Doo! Scooby.
(Another Ghost Appears)
The ghost is clearly the Munch-faced Killer from the movie, “Scream”
Scrappy: Ta-ta-ta-ta-tata! Puppy Power!
(Scrappy runs into the ghost)
Scooby: Rhrappy Doo?
(Scooby Faints)
Scrappy: Uncle Scooby?
The ghost then dispatches of Scrappy Doo.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-earworm/293592/19 "2005-03-09T17:14:01Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#):
>
> His name was Rico
> He wore a diamond
[The Nerds](http://www.the-nerds.com), a local cover band, are brilliant at subtly changing a songs lyrics in such a way that you might not even catch the change if you’re not paying close attention. My all-time favorite example of this is the way they occasionally change “he wore a diamond” to “he was a douchebag”.