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There's an old piano and they play it hot...
Number Six Started conversation May 27, 2004
...behind the Green Door.
Don't ask me how...
I don't know what they're doing...
...but somehow...
...but they laugh a lot...
...a song by Shakin' Stevens...
...behind the Green Door
...has got into my head...
Won't you tell me...
...and it won't leave.
...what's going on behind the Green Door?
HELP!
There's an old piano and they play it hot...
Trout Montague Posted May 27, 2004
Dunno. What green door? Reckon Morinho/Ranieri are in for some club-swapping deal.
In the meantime, suck on this ... A1096553
There's an old piano and they play it hot...
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 27, 2004
I find that humming 'We Like to Party' by the Vengaboys will dislodge *any* earworm, and for some reason, WLtP does not then itself become an earworm
There's an old piano and they play it hot...
Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 27, 2004
Look up the complete works of HG Wells for the full story on the Green Door.
Worst earworms
rev. paperboy (god is an iron) Posted May 28, 2004
I love the term earworm for that song you can't get out of your head. My brother (the evil sod) used to come to breakfast whistling or humming 'Its a small world after all' in a conscious and usually successful effort to make it stick in my head for the day or more often the week.
Now that I have kids of my own, I often find that songs from Thomas the Tank Engine get trapped between my ears.
Worst earworms
Gnomon - time to move on Posted May 28, 2004
I've just two words to say to that:
Dean Friedman
Worst earworms
AlexAshman Posted May 28, 2004
Although it's a thoroughly irritating song, the chorus from "ABC, 123", (or whatever it's called), by the Jackson Five is so repetitive that your brain will get bored immediately. This leads in most cases to the brain completely forgetting everything it's doing, including the earworm.
In this way the song is an "anti-earworm", cancelling the original earworm out.
N.B. This is a risky tactic, as if the whole thing goes awry then you can have the aforementioned song stuck in your head (!), although this is very rare.
Worst earworms
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 28, 2004
The only way to get rid of an earworm (apart from humming the Vengaboys) is to pass it on to someone else by humming it out loud
Oh, and Gnomon... A845011
Worst earworms
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 28, 2004
Damn you all. All this talk of earworms has landed me with the Postman Pat theme going round my head
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There's an old piano and they play it hot...
- 1: Number Six (May 27, 2004)
- 2: Trout Montague (May 27, 2004)
- 3: Number Six (May 27, 2004)
- 4: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (May 27, 2004)
- 5: Gnomon - time to move on (May 27, 2004)
- 6: rev. paperboy (god is an iron) (May 28, 2004)
- 7: Gnomon - time to move on (May 28, 2004)
- 8: AlexAshman (May 28, 2004)
- 9: Researcher 556780 (May 28, 2004)
- 10: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (May 28, 2004)
- 11: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 28, 2004)
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