Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for September 20, 2012

Great, now I have to live in the Yellow Submarine all day too. Thanks Samuli.

i thought he lived in a mustard yellow submarine.

He just might. That yellow sky ain’t natural.

Oddly (or even ironically), I don’t recall that story. On the other hand, I do remember “Pie and Punch and You-Know-Whats,” one of Robert McCloskey’s Homer Price stories, that used the jingle from Mark Twain’s 1876 story “A Literary Nightmare” as an antidote.

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The first earworm story seems to be Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Imp of the Perverse” (1845)

Blue Meanies still abound, after all these many years…

It walks down stairs without a care and makes a slinkkety soundPlop plop fizz fizzThis is the song that never ends.Shortest path to the brain is a great jingle..100 bottles of beer on the wall

I thought an “earworm” was what Khan used on members of the Enterprise crew.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Sing along with Evil Sherlock: “Waterloo — I was defeated, you won the war…”

I read somewhere that when a song gets stuck in your head like that, the best thing to do is listen to the song on your ipod or mp3 player or whatever electronic music thing you have. Once you listen through the whole song it goes away.. it seems to work for me…

“What’s that song?” LOL!

“And our friends are all aboard, many more of them live next door. And the baaaanndd begins to play…”