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ear worms!
azahar Started conversation Jul 18, 2003
I woke up this morning with the theme song from the Andy Griffiths Show in my head and now it's stuck there! A friend of mine calls these 'ear worms'.
So, some questions about ear worms:
- how do you get rid of them?
- do you get recurring ear worms?
- why are they usually songs we hate?
- what causes them? (I mean, I don't think I have heard the Andy Griffiths Show theme music for more than 30 years! Why now?)
azahar 
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Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate Posted Jul 18, 2003
If I hear Bob the Builder on the radio or tv, I will have it stuck in my head for hours, until something else comes along........
It drives me up the wall
dooesn't answer your question though..........
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azahar Posted Jul 18, 2003
hi Helelou! Long time no see! 
Well, at least *hearing* Bob the Builder and *then* getting an ear worm makes sense. Imagine having not heard Bob the Builder for more than 30 years and then suddenly there it is! 
az
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creachy Posted Jul 18, 2003
i just found this under google. hope it helps
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azahar Posted Jul 18, 2003
That's great creachy. I'll try it. And happily I happen to lurve The Girl from Ipanema (no need for me to download it).
Funny you gave the German translation as it was after this friend got back from living in Germany that he started calling these things ear worms.
The thing I've noticed about ear worms is that they seem to have a 24-hour life span no matter what you do. For example, whilst humming The Girl from Ipanema I will obviously not be whistling the Andy Griffiths theme song, but I just know that later on sometime today when I am least expecting it - BLAM - Andy will be there again. But probably not tomorrow. Strange . . .
az
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~:*-Venus-*:~ Posted Jul 18, 2003
Oh jeez
2 legs in gonna LOVE this thread...anything "bug" like n he's bound to make a meal of it!! 
...literally!! 
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Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate Posted Jul 18, 2003
thanx creach, you have finally been helpfull
will give it a go the next time I hear that dreaded unmentionable song.......
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azahar Posted Jul 18, 2003
hi creachy,
I'll be darned - it worked. I listened to Girl from Ipanema and now it is still 'playing' as an earworm. But I fear this will be short lived and Andy will be back before too long. Also, it is the exception. It seems that most ear worms are songs you can't stand. Why should this be?
az
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Jul 18, 2003
ah but the other way is to say to your friend/work collegue/partner
'You know, I've got the tune to nnnnn going round in my head and can;t get rid of it'
This has two possible effects.
1) You will get rid of it by 'passing it on' to someone else
2) If you don;t get rid of it, you can at least prove the 'misery loves company' maxim!
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 18, 2003
You are focussing way to uch on Andy Griffiths...
I do get earworms - they can be very annoying, as normally it's a scrap of middle eight ofr something and I'll have to spend hours working out what it is...
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azahar Posted Jul 18, 2003
Still no answers or theories to my questions regarding ear worms in Posting 1?
az 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Jul 18, 2003
no, but given topic drift you will probably find them in a thread over there --->
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daraline, keeper of unusual rats and deranged hamsters Posted Jul 19, 2003
hey micky you're so fine
you blow my mind
hey micky hey micky
that eradicates all known earworms. apart from hey micky.
xx
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daraline, keeper of unusual rats and deranged hamsters Posted Jul 19, 2003
it's been all change in ratty towers. poor tigger passed on. we are positive ahe was pining for pooh. so that left young piglet, who is now ably aided and abetted by even younger kanga. another tan and white rat with pink eyes and really big feet.
about the hey micky thing, but it does work!
xx
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Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate Posted Jul 19, 2003
<sorry to hear bout the ratties, they can be fickle things, but got to love 'em 
tell me about it, now got hey mickey running about my brain 
complete with pictures of the video
give me back Bob the Builder any day
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daraline, keeper of unusual rats and deranged hamsters Posted Jul 19, 2003
can we fix it
yes we can!
xx
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Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate Posted Jul 19, 2003
that's sot of better, now I have both and they are competing 
just imagine
can we fix it
hey mickey
your so fine
yes we can
think I will have another 
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daraline, keeper of unusual rats and deranged hamsters Posted Jul 19, 2003
have one for me too as it's too early for that over here.
xx
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- 1: azahar (Jul 18, 2003)
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- 4: creachy (Jul 18, 2003)
- 5: azahar (Jul 18, 2003)
- 6: ~:*-Venus-*:~ (Jul 18, 2003)
- 7: Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate (Jul 18, 2003)
- 8: azahar (Jul 18, 2003)
- 9: IctoanAWEWawi (Jul 18, 2003)
- 10: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Jul 18, 2003)
- 11: azahar (Jul 18, 2003)
- 12: IctoanAWEWawi (Jul 18, 2003)
- 13: azahar (Jul 18, 2003)
- 14: daraline, keeper of unusual rats and deranged hamsters (Jul 19, 2003)
- 15: Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate (Jul 19, 2003)
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