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SunnyJ Shores's avatar

Your mind has fascinating schema, meant in the Jungian sense - let yourself shine

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Patrick E McLean's avatar

Thank you. I take that as a compliment. But I also allow for the possibility that the wiring is loose in my head and sometimes closes circuits at random.

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SunnyJ Shores's avatar

And that's what makes you entertaining 😉 now get busy and publish something 😜

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Stephen UItti's avatar

I'm involved with a 30 minute monthly astronomy show, and we've got a new theme. I've just discovered what i don't like about it. It's an ear worm. That's because it's a super simple melody, and not too much else. Your tune sounds maybe vaguely Spanish, but while one might imagine a singer with lyrics, it wouldn't have a melody doubled by the instrument(s). When i have an ear worm stuck in my head, it's generally because i don't know all of the words. Where does that leave you if your ear worm doesn't have any words? What i do is replace it with an ear worm i know. I do that by bringing it up, and going through at least a verse - if not the entire piece. Once i'm done with that, both ear worms are gone. Gone gone. My go-to ear worm for this is "Three Hour Tour" - the Giligan's Island theme. Sorry if you have to look it up and memorize a verse or the entire piece. Three Hour Tour does that to people with just the title. With great power comes great responsibility. Oh wait, that's another ear worm.

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Patrick E McLean's avatar

Are you kidding me? "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of fateful trip, that started from this tropic port...etc"

When things get boring one of my go-to jokes is to sing, out of nowhere, "a three hour tour."

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Leland Sphar's avatar

My personal one is the Muppet show theme...never fails to get stuck in my head.

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