Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch

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Someone said this in conversation to me a few days ago and all day today I keep saying it in my head. The phrase amuses me and I like the musical sound of it but I keep repeating it in my head and I'm getting a bit upset about it. I've had this before with things-usually the same line of a song over and over-but I feel panicky/agitated with this one and I can't work out why. I've had a stressful past 10 years day and am feeling a little upset generally but can anyone relate at all?

This also makes me smile. I work in a Catholic school, so we do a lot of sign-of-the-crossing. I often find myself thinking this in my head.

It's a jokey way of remembering how to make the sign of the cross ( Christian)! Would it help you to make the sign, kind of work it out of your system, like if you have an ear worm, allow yourself to sing the somg though to the end? I'm neurotypical, I think, so I know I'm not coming at it from your perspective, but I do obsess about words and phrases.

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Why does it bother you? Is it that you feel it’s taking up too much of your headspace? If you find the phrase amusing and musical then repeating it to yourself is not harming anyone.

This funny version probably won't help with the ear worm, but it might make it less worrying. Robbie Coltrane teaching Eric Idle as part of convent training in Nuns On The Run

I love that phrase because it's how my grandad taught me to do it but I totally know what you mean. It's horrible when something is nattering away in your head and you can't shut it up.

Sometimes with music I have to listen to it on repeat lots and lots of times to make it go away, but with other stuff it's harder to replicate it like that.

Isn't this related to echolalia?

Thank you for the video, it made me laugh. It's in my head less today thank goodness.

Phrases pop into my head and repeat on loop, as do songs. Usually shit novelty songs from the 80s. Drives me insane sometimes as it just won't stop. I have asd.

This has been in my mind for years, after I saw it in one of the Austin Powers movies!

Here it is! m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTp1coqajQ

And to think I thought that's where the phrase came from... every day is a school day 🤦‍♀️

I have a trick for dislodging these things by disrupting the pattern. I’d say it out loud, but start changing the words slightly - find other rhymes or similar words -( specatacles- speckle tab bills bill tackle ables a bill … etc) It’s easier if you have someone to do this with?

Sometimes planting a new ear worm can help dislodge the last one. Maybe something from a musical?

How weird, this phrase popped into my head out of nowhere yesterday but I haven't heard it for years!