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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 02 Aug 00 - 07:54 PM Micca thanks to you and your diving friend. Consider it stolen! Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Aug 00 - 03:45 PM I'm squirrelling away at Vic Williams now, all because of the posting here - I put it on the walkman to transcribe it and it never got taken off.... Gets my feet tapping on the tube, and frightens my fellow commuters.... Ah, my work here is done! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Morticia Date: 02 Aug 00 - 03:32 PM Ok, the crisis is over......I'm now onto 'Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?' possibly thanks to being cut up by one on the M3 today...the boys didn't care for it, especially by the 17th rendition but as I told them...it could be so very, very, much worse :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: SINSULL Date: 02 Aug 00 - 08:57 AM The Smothers Brothers did a follow up on Bobby Goldsboro. He was the "Honey Husband" conducting tours of the "Honey House" complete with souvenier "Honey Cars" all smashed up. Everybody dutifully snivelled thru the house, stopped at the tree to see how big it's grown remembering that it hasn't been too long since it wasn't big, bought their car and left in tears. The "Honey Husband" was still "being good" - so good you wanted to gag. Pretty funny. "And Honey I miss you And I'm being good And I long to be with you If only I could" Permanently imbedded in my brain. How you doing, Morticia? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: GUEST,micca away from home Date: 02 Aug 00 - 04:25 AM Sorry Morty, I didnt know you were going to catch it, ***BSEG*** Seamus my diving friend, Siomon, sings that as " when an eel bites your thigh and brings tears to your eye Thats a Moray" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Aug 00 - 02:31 AM You better believe it Morty ol' mate!!! To explain, there was a musical toothbrush that played a hideous tune, words posted previously, in a tinny, nasal whine when you pressed the button. Supposed to encourage children to brush teeth, it was later withdrawn because the changeable heads fell off too easily. She bought this as a torture for the family and went away sniggering. On a communal camping trip to Hastings, Phoebe (aka spawn of satan) took the said toothbrush with her, and after a disturbed night (thanks to a noisy element laughing and shouting at 2.00am despite please to shut the f**k up), Phoebe decided she liked the sound of this toothbrush. It sang almost continuously for 35 minutes, by which time, honour was satisfied and the noisier ones were well cheesed off. Nothing helps a hangover like a singing toothbrush..... Once learned, the tune goes round like squirrels in the mating season.....! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 02 Aug 00 - 12:08 AM When your mouth starts to drool like-a pasta fazool, That's amore! Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:58 PM Aw gawddamn paddymac.........I hated that ride at Disney World!!! Three people committed suicide and four jumped out of the boat and swam for shore. I was one. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: paddymac Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:55 PM Well, Morticia, If nothing else has worked AND you're really desperate, you might try singing "It's A Small World Afterall" But, please, don't be angry if the cure turns out to be worse than the disease. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:32 PM See the tree, it fell on you Now you're gone, my balls are blue I can't get laid. I've now started shagging sheep And sometimes chickens in their sleep but they wany paid. And Honey I miss you....................... Just for you moon! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:56 PM When the moon hits your eye like-a big-a pizza pie, That's amore! Enjoy! Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Mbo Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:43 PM Jen, that's why I wear an iron collar on my neck! When the older folks try to kill us for singing songs THEY'RE tired of, when us young folks have just discovered them. It's a real shame when our exploration is stifled. It's very heartening to us, I'm sure, to have people tell us..."oh don't learn or listen to that because I'M tired of hearing it!" Such great encouragment for the world's youth. --M |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:29 PM Mark Twain wrote a wonderful little story called something like "Punch in the Presence of the Passenjair." The narrator is telling the reader that he's hung up on a piece of doggerel about being a tram conductor, something like this: Punch, brothers, punch with care Punch in the presence of the passenjair! A buff trip ticket for a two cent fare A blue trip ticket for a three cent fare! Punch, brothers, punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjair! After an extensive story of how the narrator has been driven insane, his wife's left him, he's lost his job and his health, repeating the doggerel regularly in the course of the tale, it comes to the end, that he determined to tell somebody (the reader). "And now, dear reader, YOU have it!!!" Maybe you need to infect someone else! Dave Oesterreich
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: bbelle Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:17 PM Matthew ... if you ever sing "Honey" or anything else by Bobby Goldsboro, whilst I'm in hearing distance, I will be forced to climb through the speakers and strangle you ... moonchild |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Mbo Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:05 PM Thanks Gary! I really like that "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro! Gotta check it out. One of my Dad's favorite songs is "Me & The Elephant" by Bobby Goldsboro. --Matt |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Burke Date: 01 Aug 00 - 08:43 PM Stolen from another list I'm on: I have found that the endless tape can be erased by listening to some more complex music without a simple and strong melody line - something virtually "unsingable" like much we group under the heading "classical." Or if not classics, some other non-singable music like what one hears on "Hearts of Space," maybe? and > > To get a song out of your mind, try listening to something that really jars your brain and/or annoys you -- > Change ringing did it for me last Sunday.
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Morticia Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:50 PM Moon baby, if you've stuck me with God's green apple two step I will never forgive you........Nancy, that advice works, that's how Micca stuck me with this damned tune in the first place and Gervase, I thank you from the heart of my bottom for having such faith in me but will confess here and now that it is misplaced since, to my eternal shame ( eternal because Liz will never let me forget it) I am the person who bought the toothbrush for Phoebe in the first place Now, I'm driving two 14 year old boys over to my folks place tomorrow......3 hours in the car.......I wonder which will song it will be :)and more interesting, how nuts will they be by the time we get there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: bbelle Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:29 PM Gary ... you've gone and listed my three favorite songs ... but you left out "G-d Didn't Make Little Green Apples." ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Whatever happened to Bobby Goldsboro. Did he finally die from a yeast infection, you think? moonchild |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Gervase Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:20 PM Forget the lyrics; I just like the thought of Morticia and the Toothbursh, mano a mano. My money's on the toothbrush, of course ('cos she's far too nice to do the dirty on the bristles...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Gary T Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:02 PM Mbo, assuming you're not joking along, you may not be familiar with the songs these lyrics are from: "Song sung blue, everybody knows one...song sung blue everybody..." from Neil Diamond's "Song Sung Blue". "And Honey I miss you and I'm being good. And I long to be with you..." from Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey". "Feeeellingsss..." If you don't know this one (we can only hope), I'm sure as hell not going to contribute to your delinquency. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Liz the Squeak Date: 01 Aug 00 - 06:43 PM Ah but Morty my dear, the toothbrush was all your own fault - you should learn to take it if you give it.....! *EBG* (even bigger grin) LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Morticia Date: 01 Aug 00 - 06:25 PM I'm waiting to see which one of these atrocities stick and thinking....I know you all mean to be helpful(sic) but what a bunch of bastards you are *BG*!!! Next time I have a problem, I'll write to a newspaper! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Liz the Squeak Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:31 PM I get stuck with just a couple of chords or a chorus - that 's the worst thing.... endlessly humming or tum te tumming the same four or eight f**king bars...! it's doing it now, with a really and I mean REALLY crappy song from church on Sunday. Verse was OK, a bit monosyllabic and only on 3 notes, but the chorus............. Three words, repeated three times each, each of two syllables. Spread over 32 bars............eeeeuuuuurgh.. Trouble is, the harmony and accompaniament were quite good. And what about 'Grandma, we love you?' Thank you Jonathan King for 'Everyone's gone to the moon', the tune of which has been used for another banal Christian song..... And something that will really get up Morticia's nose - a certain little electronic toothbrush song that went....
Sing sing, sing along, Ah the day that toothbrush died, there were shouts of huzzah and sighs of relief the length and breadth of Britain..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: SINSULL Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:14 PM Calm down Bert. Those are the lyrics we forget and have to look up. We're talking about the crappy ones that stick: "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun" written by none other than Barry Manilow OOOOHHHH Mandy, you came and you stayed without tayayaking and I sent you away..." written originally to his dog Brandy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Bert Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:55 PM Shame on the bloody lot of you!!! Go -HERE- and find yourself something else to sing. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: gillymor Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:31 PM This might serve as a musical purgative. To the tune of These Foolish Things:
The shattered remnant of a used French letter, Get well soon, Frankie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: DougR Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:27 PM A concert artist told me one time that one sure way is to get "Onward Christian Soldiers" fixed in your mind. She cautioned me, though,that you might get stuck with "Onward Christian Soldiers" for a couple of weeks. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: bbelle Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:05 PM I get commercial jingles tossing around in my head ... bisquit ads, stanley steemer, campbell soups. moonchild |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Mbo Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:04 PM Actually, Sins, those lyrics sound pretty good to me. I'd like to hear it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: SINSULL Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:02 PM Sorry Spaw, "Misty" entered the realm of the not to be touched sacred song list once Mbo recorded it. You haven't heard his version, I think. So...Song sung blue, everybody knows one...song sung blue everybody... "Feeeellingsss... And Honey I miss you and I'm being good. And I long to be with you..." I think the best solution is to put your hands over your ears and scream "I can't hear you!" Worked for my son. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: GUEST,Nancy King Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:01 PM I've sometimes found it helpful to sing the offending tune to someone else, thereby "giving" it to them. The downside, of course, is that the friend may be turned into an enemy by this tactic... Good luck! Nancy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:54 PM No Meebs.....Misty is just another of those songs that get trapped in your head, like some show tunes or Carpenter's stuff. Its not a loser if you've heard Erroll garner's real stuff, but it sure does lock in. Some are sappy, some are great, but like Morty, I wanna' KILL after a few days of the same thing going round. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Mbo Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:35 PM "Misty" a loser? What's the matter with you! OBVIOUSLY you have not heard me sing it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:31 PM Make up obnoxious lyrics to some other losers........say, "Misty".............
Look at me.
On my own. .....well, you get the idea...........Broadway show tunes work well too. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Gervase Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:15 PM ...or The Birdie Song, or Joe Dolce, or Clive Jones as Grandpa, or the Smurfs, or Jonathan King, or Queen, or the Spice Girls, or Steps, or... Shit, hasn't British music been just FANTASTIC these past four decades? I'm so proud of my cultural heritage! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Allan C. Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:06 PM "Song Sung Blue" oughta do the trick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: SINSULL Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:57 PM Gervase, You mean there is a right key for "Feelings"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Gervase Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:34 PM Sinsull, don't you dare, you *@£$%^&!!! My deranged Portuguese mother-in-law used to arrive out of the blue several times a year and head straight for the nearest piano (didn't matter whose it was - just had to be a piano; could be in the nearest pub, the local music shop or a neighbour's house, she'd find it) and would always launch straight into "Feelings..."; self-taught and not quite in the right key. I can't hear it these days without wanting to reach for something with a bit of serious recoil...(and I don't mean a melodeon with bungees around the bellows, Liz) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: SINSULL Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:25 PM The only solution I know of is to replace it with an equally annoying tune..."Feelings whoa oh oh Feeeeelings..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Gervase Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:24 PM ...although, if Micca sang it, was it really musical? Surely all you need is the aural equivalent of Ex-Lax (which brings us right back to Sheena Easton, I know...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Squirreling From: Gervase Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:18 PM Honey, when you get one of these ear-worms, just think of Sheena Easton - "My baby takes the morning train, he works from nine to fine and then..." That'll exorcise ANYTHING musical, I guarantee! |
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Subject: Squirreling From: Morticia Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:15 PM O.k, now because I am a clever little cat person, I did a search and I know there are lots of fellow sufferers out there ( i.e of tunes that go round and round in your head and refuse to leave)....what I want to know is....does anyone know of something that will make them go away? I have been stuck with 'Just the way you look tonight' for two weeks or more....Micca sang it on hearme..he then sent me the words...I sing it,I play it,I hum it,it won't leave but my husband is threatening to......so do I send for a priest or what?Heeellllllppp meeeee!!! |