[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Earworms

[Iggy McSnurd]

> From Loony:
> 4) I've got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts (I actually know the whole
> song, not just the snippet from the Lion King)

Iggy here:

This song sticks in my head for days after I hear it on the movie.


> From Loony:
> 7) The Philosopher's Beer Drinking Song by Monty Python

Iggy here:

I get this song stuck in my head occasionally, but I don't count it as an
earworm simply because I enjoy singing it so meuch.  The other MP song I
feel the same way about is "the Penis Song."  (Yeah... Not many people will
admit that they like to sing that song... but if you've ever heard it, you
can see why.  It's just a fun song.  *grin*)

Believe it or not, these two songs are often my "antidote" to musical
earworms...


Funny thing is, I've been thinking about this thread and realized that my
worst earworms have *nothing* to do with songs.  They have to do with names
or phrases.

Every so often, a name or a phrase will pop into my head, and I won't
remember where the name is from, or where I heard the phrase.  I become
completely obsessed with trying to figure out where it came from, and this
can last for *days* on end.  (I think my record was almost a week of trying
to figure out where I had heard the name Inspector Kemp.  It was from Young
Frankenstein.)  Usually I either have to ask someone where they heard it...
often getting me some odd looks... or us a technique I have developed that I
call "file search."  (This is where I simply treat my subconscious like a
computer and mentally set up a "file search parameters" command set that
tells my brain to, essentially, conduct the file search in a background
window and pull the window to the foreground when the file is found.  I
still have to check the search status occasionally, but it helps keeping me
from obsessing about it as much on a conscious level...)

Iggy McSnurd