I'm talking to you

[pbray]

Finally getting around to post-holidays organization and putting away all the stuff I accumulated. Some very cool gifts were received, among them a new con shirt:


Sadly I also picked up an earworm from my niece's favorite nursery rhymes CD which was played over and over again anytime we were in the car with her. There is no earthly reason for "Head and shoulders, knees and toes" to still be stuck in my head, but it is. I've tried chasing it out with heavy metal and Irish drinking songs, to no avail. Time for drastic measures and the trusty Robert Palmer CD--if I have to have an earworm, I'd rather it be Simply Irresistible.

Comments

[mariannelee.livejournal.com]

Ewww! Earworms! I sympathize. The worst kinds of earworms are those popular songs that have really nice, catchy tunes, but completely unintelligible lyrics. So you have an earworm that is mumbling. But I suppose that's better than the Wiggles.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Narrowly avoided the Wiggles on this visit *breathes sigh of relief*

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

So THAT's what getting a horrid song stuck in you head is called. One of mine is 'Rain Drops keep Falling on My Head' (must avoid thinking about it or it'll stick in there for days). Any song with simple and repetitive lyrics should be banned. :-)

I really like the 'Runs With Scissors' Sweatshirt. (Just for the record, I never would).

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I was once disciplined in elementary school for running with a ruler, which is pretty darn close.

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

Ow, a ruler would hurt in a fall. Remember the wooden rulers with the metal edge inserted into the side of the ruler. The wicked metal edge that would pull away from the wood and stab or cut you? (The same metal edge that doubled as a saw judging by all the notches along the edge of the desks).

As an adult, doesn't a little kid running with a sucker in his or her mouth make you shudder? (As a kid, you never gave it a second thought and lived through it). :-)

[eimarra]

I have got to find one of those for my husband (math prof)!

And I am fortunate that my four-year-old chose to sing a collection of Christmas songs this year, not just Jingle Bells (and even with that, he does "Dashing through the snow . . . "). But when he was into the Wiggles a couple years back, I had trouble getting "Quack, quack, quack, quack, cock-a-doodle-doo" out of my head.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

My oldest niece is at the stage where she can sing "Rudolph, Rudolph, shiny nose" repeatedly. With prompting she'll get a few more words, and she loved my "Like a lightbulb" addition, which she later garbled into "Rudolph had shiny nose.. LIGHTBULB!"

She was most distressed when she realized that I only knew the first verse of Frosty the Snowman. I'll have to do better for next year.

[eimarra]

Try for a variety. The charms of a child belting out a medley of Go Tell It On the Mountain; Ring, Christmas Bells; and Feliz Navidad cannot be overstated.