Friday, January 23, 2009

Ohrwurm

Have "Space Oddity" stuck in my head and can't shake it. Haven't been able to shake it all day.

You know, I've learned something today: Never let the first song you hear in the morning be "Space Oddity."
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5 comments:

  1. Jazz1/25/09, 4:39 PM

    DAMN YOU TICKNART!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL! I read that and now i'm stuck with it.

    Apparently those songs you can't get rid of are called earworms. I kid you not!

    see here

    I first saw the term today at Citzen's blog

    I hope I got the HTML shit right, if not you'll have to grumble that I'm a techno-idiot and do the ole cut and paste

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  2. Jazz1/25/09, 4:40 PM

    I did it!!! YAY me!!

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  3. ticknart1/26/09, 8:27 AM

    I knew they were called "earworms." The first time I saw the term was a while ago (in fact I used it way back in 2004), the article I read was interviewing German scientists as they learned more about songs getting stuck in people's heads and in German the term for that is "ohrwurm," which is what I named this post.

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  4. Jazz1/26/09, 11:05 AM

    Damn, you know Everything! One day I'll come up with a tidbit you don't know. I will. Yep.

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  5. ticknart1/26/09, 11:48 AM

    You probably already have, but I didn't admit to not knowing. It's an insecurity that the internets lets me keep hidden very easily.

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