# What are you listening to?  A real earworm!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-a-real-earworm/664772 "2013-07-29T00:03:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-a-real-earworm/664772/1 "2013-07-29T00:03:35Z")

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Not for the squeamish

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> When flushing the maggots out failed, the medics resorted to surgery and found a “writhing mass of maggots” within her ear, raising concern they could eat into her brain.
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> The surgery removed a family of eight maggots. Analysis found that a New World Army Screw Worm fly had laid eggs inside Harris’s ear.

Story [here](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/noises-her-head-were-flesh-eating-maggots-6C10660695?lite&lite=obinsite)[/spoiler]

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-a-real-earworm/664772/2 "2013-07-29T00:06:32Z")

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That was _so_ not what I was expecting.  
:: shudder ::

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-a-real-earworm/664772/3 "2013-07-29T00:31:04Z")

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I think I prefer the music kind… except when my earworm happens to be “Call Me Maybe.”

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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-a-real-earworm/664772/4 "2013-09-07T07:01:29Z")

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My most recent earworm is a song I actually like. I wish someone would rub my back and sing it to me when I go to bed.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkVAGG9bKE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkVAGG9bKE)