Comments on: If you break out “Jingle Bell Rock,” we’re going to start tithing 30% immediately

By: condiment

condiment — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:22:36 +0000

The most diabolical worm of all time, of course, is “(What if God Were) One of Us,” which has been known to take over cortexes for months at a time. Seriously, it grabs you by the neck and holds on as a mongoose to the cobra.

This time of year, though, the one that gets me is Eartha Kitt’s version of “Santa Baby.”

By: Dan Wickett

Dan Wickett — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 13:19:50 +0000

OH, you could probably get a posse to come along with you for that one!

Enjoy,

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:02:23 +0000

Seriously. “Blinded by the Light.” I’m going to come to Canada and kick your ass.

By: George

George — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:22:53 +0000

I’ll see your yellow brick road and your superwoman and raise you one Tarzan Boy by Baltimora.

You can’t win, you know. I can give em away. Here: Life in Northern Town, Dream Academy. Oooh! Blinded by the Light, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band! Ouch! True, Spandau Ballet! Yowza! Hold Me Now, Thompson Twins! Egad!

Mwuahahaha!

Whew. I’m spent. And not in a good way.

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:18:54 +0000

I’m impervious — I’ve got “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superwoman” to protect me today.

By: Dan Wickett

Dan Wickett — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:15:50 +0000

Give George a break, at least he didn’t break out Toto, Supertramp or Asia!

Enjoy,

By: Jimmy Beck

Jimmy Beck — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:45:14 +0000

Just back from “Teach Redneck and African-American Kids About Hanukkah Day” at the daughter’s kindergarten. “Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel” now etched onto brain.

By: CAAF

CAAF — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:09:17 +0000

And with that George blithely exits, leaving innocent Old Hag readers with the chorus of “Come Sail Away” in their head the rest of the day … damn you, George!!!

By: George

George — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:58:19 +0000

People often kill me for the Journey. (That’s poetry, baby.)

You should see what they do to me for the Styx…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:22:24 +0000

Nothing but nothing beats Bob & Doug McKenzie’s rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas.

“On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me….a beer!”

Classic.

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:12:11 +0000

I was going to KILL you for the Journey but the Modern English redeemed you.

I actually think Squeeze’s “Now is that Love?” might work, or “Rock the Casbah”, in a pinch. “Beast of Burden.”

By: George

George — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:02:48 +0000

Allow me to solve this little problem with five words that have been very important in my life…. ahem.

“Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey

“Just a small town girl,
livin in a lonely world.
She took the midnight train
goin anywhere…”

Whenever you get an earworm you can’t stand, think of this song and you will be free.

(That or the humming part in the break from “I’ll Stop the World (and Melt With You)” by Modern English.)

Amen.

By: lizpenn

lizpenn — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:29:44 +0000

at least you didn’t get the single worst earworm christmas carol, “frosty the snowman.” i distinctly remember my boyfriend singing this to himself at his desk for the thousandth time in a row, improvising alternate lyrics: “frosty the snowman/i am definitely going to kill myself …”