When you say a phrase and it immediately reminds you of a song and you start singing it

[Snooks1971]

Sorry for the clunky title, but I have two.
Most recent; tonight, DH and me were talking about nothing, just chitchat about our teenage kids and random sayings they say, and he said “it means nothing to me” then he went “ohhh Vienna”
Made us laugh. Although you probably had to be there.

The other one is last March when we had a team meeting at work just before first lockdown, we are a tiny company, only 4 of us. My boss ended a lengthy uplifting talk saying “where do we go from here”
My lovely colleague immediately said “is it down to the lake I fear”

You probably had to be there for that one too!

@EndoplasmicReticulum

This happened to me last night watching the news.

Politician "this should be the Final Lockdown".

Doodle ooo dooo doodle ooo ooo ooo

In my head, the words 'Gordon Brown" are always followed by 'texture like sun'. It's a relief he's not in the news much any more.

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow
Is he heading west?
Someone said today, I’m in the middle
My thoughts, of a chain reaction...

He sure is, @MariahLucas

Theresa May has a similar effect - in her case, Theresa May - Should Have Stayed At Home Yesterday (dum, dum, dum..).

There's a shop I go to, staffed by grumpy old ladies. A hand-written sign on the door 'Push it'

AAHHH PUSH IT REAL GOOD

How bizarre (do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do,do do do, do do do, do do do do do...ooh baby (ooh baby) you're makin me crazy (you're making me crazy) every time I look around (look around) every time I look around (every time I look around)...etc

I do this!

With songs and lines from books/plays as well. Sadly though I'm getting old and my colleagues, (most young enough to be my kids and from a multitude of multi cultural backgrounds) are not familiar with 90s indie kid/grunge genre mixed with 18th century literature

...got a theory = it could be bunnies (Buffy)
Did finally show DS the episode so he would understand why we always started singing that..he had copied us without knowing why for some time..

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow
"In my head, the words 'Gordon Brown" are always followed by 'texture like sun'. It's a relief he's not in the news much any more."

😂😂😂😂

A regular in our house is Sham 69's

"Hurry up Harry come on!"

I always wanted the job choosing music for Homes Under the Hammer!!

@freezingcoldsnow

Every time my son says 'stop' (usually because I'm annoying him), I sing 'hammer time! Do do do do do, dooooo do, can't touch this' and if he's really lucky I do the dance.....

I like to mix it up!

Stop.. Hammer time!
Stop.. In the name of love
Stop.. oh yeah wait a minute mr postman

In my house, someone just said... the roof.. I obviously replied... is on fire.

Love this thread!
Mine are:

• Judas Priest 'breaking the law' when doing anything a bit wrong
• Bon Jovi 'food on the floor and you're to blame / you give dogs a bad name' (to DDog who is a messy eater)

@purrswhileheeats

There's a shop I go to, staffed by grumpy old ladies. A hand-written sign on the door 'Push it'

AAHHH PUSH IT REAL GOOD

🤣🤣🤣

My "stop" is "stand back where you are, before you go to far..."

Whoever said Fools Garden - YY!

From a distance is always followed by the Bette Midler classic but we have to make up the lyrics as we don't know them.

At work, when someone says "question" I've been known to make them ask it again in the style of Destiny's Child.

When my OH says "I'm easy" in answer to a question, I have to ask, obviously, "like a Sunday morning?"

I now have one sodding singular sensation in my brain!

Every time Boris says "we're all in this together" - once we know that we are, we're all stars and we see that...

We have National Express buses where I live. You can imagine how that one goes when we are talking about buses and the need to get one...

The office I work in is like this. We have the radio on in the background which probably influences us.
Wednesdays gets ‘Ohhhh, we’re halfway there...’ then my colleagues reply.
If something goes wrong cue everyone humming the Benny Hill theme tune.

Your office sounds fun Longdistance!

(Another one - if anyone says "are you sure?" Me and DS look at each other and then "you wanna live like common people..."

Showing my age here, but I'd want to launch into "Goodbye, farewell, I'm not sure what to do" (The Allisons, Eurovision 1961). It would make my decade if there was a likeminded person in the close vicinity, with the exact same train of thought, to jump in and do the harmonies

I had a job years ago which involved taking support calls from lots of people across the business, and there was one frequent caller with the name Susila. Even though she was always lovely and a very pleasant person to deal with, I still had to forcibly purpose my lips and clench my fists every time I answered and she said "Hi, it's Susila", to avoid belting out across the office "You're breaking my heart!"

chico
susila

MissLucyEyelesbarrow

Theresa May has a similar effect - in her case, Theresa May - Should Have Stayed At Home Yesterday

Yes! Quite relieved it's not just me.

I obviously watch "Pointless" too much but always find myself thinking "and I could've been there!" after Alexander Armstrong says "One step further" when they're going in to the second round.

@RightOnTheEdge

I do this all the time! My dc just think I'm mad. "Muuuum! Why do you have a song for everything?" 😆

omg this is me! DD now starts singing random old songs.and I ask Oh.... how do you know that song..mum you sing it all the time!

@Embroideredstars

My "stop" is "stand back where you are, before you go to far..."

and us...DD and I always do that one!

Someone's knocking at the door - post code lottery

You remind me....of the babe, what babe, babe with the power, what power? Power of voodoo, who do, you do, do what? Remind me of the babe. Thanks Dave Bowie 😍

Pass the.... shake n vac to put the freshness back, do the shake n vac to put the freshness back!