Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Earworms
There's a term for "songs that get stuck in your head". They're called earworms, This happens to me all of the time. When you're around small kids the earworms can be children's music (e.g. Barney, Sesame Street, Bob the Builder, etc). But I find that old pop tunes "get stuck" even more often. And they're usually songs that I didn't like in the first place.
Scary idea: someone will figure out how to trigger this effect and will write the "killer song" to drive us all mad -- like the Monty Python sketch on the Killer Joke. "Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
Scary idea: someone will figure out how to trigger this effect and will write the "killer song" to drive us all mad -- like the Monty Python sketch on the Killer Joke. "Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
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