What's your Earwig?! | TechRepublic Forums

gadgetgirl · 2005-11-04T03:53:26.000Z

According to Maecuff, an Earwig is a tune that gets through your ear into your brain, and drives you to distraction! As an earwig-squasher, how about posting your earwig on the discussion to see if one of your peers can get rid of it for you? It needn?t just be earwigs ? it could be that tune that you heard a few notes of on the way into work, and is constantly playing in your head. Or you?re trying to find a particular track but you don?t know the artist. Or you know the artist but not the track. I know there are sites out there that do this, but I think this will be much more fun! Besides that, it?s Friday, we?re all on wind-down for the weekend anyway. :p (that?s apart from the fact that the majority of people where I work are still constrained by the fact that we?ve all lost our user drive on the network??.ohwhatapitynevermind?? and I?m bored??.) ;\ My particular earwig this morning ? and one that I don?t want squished ? is a Status Quo track which was blasting on the radio on the way in called ?The Party Ain?t Over Yet?????and my boss keeps asking me to stop head-banging over the keyboard?? :D GG

by Member 25348569 Nov 4, 2005

This morning on the BBC News, they interviewed Roger McGough about his poetry. Unfortunately, they also showed a clip of him in Scaffold, singing Lily the Pink.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! F**king Medicinal Compounds. The last time that I heard that it took [b]years[/b] to get it out of my brain.

Here you go, GG. This'll shift the Quo.

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case.

Mr. Frears
had sticky-out ears
and it made him awful shy
and so they gave him medicinal compound
and now he's learning how to fly.

Brother Tony
Was notably bony
He would never eat his meals
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now they move him round on wheels.

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case.

Old Ebeneezer
Thought he was Julius Caesar
And so they put him in a Home
where they gave him medicinal compound
and now he's Emperor of Rome.

Johnny Hammer
Had a terrible stammer
He could hardly say a word
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now he's seen (but never heard)!

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case.

Auntie Millie
Ran willy-nilly
When her legs, they did recede
And so they rubbed on medicinal compound
And now they call her Millipede.

Jennifer Eccles
had terrible freckles
and the boys all called her names
but she changed with medicinal compound
and now he joins in all their games.

We'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case.

Lily the Pink, she
Turned to drink, she
Filled up with paraffin inside
and despite her medicinal compound
Sadly Picca-Lily died.

Up to Heaven
Her soul ascended
All the church bells they did ring
She took with her medicinal compound
Hark the herald angels sing.

Oooooooooooooooo Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'll drink a drink a drink
To Lily the Pink the Pink the Pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficacious in every case.

Neil ]:)

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

NOTHING can shift Quo, and especially not this pathetic tune. That must have been at the top of the charts for weeks - even my grandmother knew the words to that one!

I'll stick with my Quo, thanks, even though Charlotte Church's "I love it when you call my name" is on next door, and is infiltrating the vibes....! :D

GG

by jamesrl Nov 4, 2005

Since I don't know the tune...

But after reading the words, now the Hollies song "Jennifer Eccles" is in my brain....

James

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

:D

GG

by montgomery gator Nov 4, 2005

Similar meter and rhythm of the Monty Python work. Monty Python is driving me crazy!!! First the Traffic Light song, then I woke up this morning to "The Liberty Bell March", originally a patriotic American song now better known as the Monty Python Flying Circus theme.

by Member 25348569 Nov 4, 2005

Two verses that didn't make the record...

Oh Mrs. Murphy
(Mrs. Murphy)
Was perturbed because she couldn't seem to pee
Till she took some of Lily's compound
And now they run a pipeline to the sea!

And Peter Whelan
(Peter Whelan)
He was sad because he only had one nut
Till he took some of Lily's compound
And now they grow in clusters 'round his butt

:D

Still got the bloody tune!

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

....... kindly leave the stage.....:D

GG

(some bright spark just started singing "gimme gimme gimme a man after midnite" [well, anytime, really] along the corridor...it's unhooked my Quo....yahboosucks....)

by nicknielsen Nov 12, 2005

I made the mistake of watching one of those VH1 where are they nows on one-hit wonders

"Oh, Mickey, he's so fine..."

Need I say more?

by bizzo Nov 14, 2005

Neil, can I just say that I hate you.

I read your post about an hour ago, took me a while to remember the tune, and now it's not going anywhere. It's there, squirming in my head, threatening to eat up what little sanity I have.

Thank you.

by Member 25348569 Nov 14, 2005

But if it's any consolation, reading your post has just restarted it for me!

On three!

Oooooooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'll drink a drink a drink...

Bugger!!!!!!!

by charliespencer Nov 4, 2005

I've heard the term "Musical Cooties" as an alternative to "earwig". The idea is not just to get rid of the tune, but to actively inflict it on someone else.

When I get a real clunker stuck in my head, I can usually run it off with a few choruses of Maria's "I Feel Pretty" from "West Side Story". Yeah, it's sappy, but it does a good job of evicting whatever else is stuck in my head. It also has the added benefit of driving others to claw their ears off when I sing it out loud.

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

what the livin'eck is a cootie?!

(will you PLEASE hurry up with that cultural translation program you're writing!!)

:D

GG

by Member 25348569 Nov 4, 2005

British Naval slang for a head louse. It's mentioned in Hornblower. I didn't even have to look it up.

Though I'm assuming that it means the same over there!

Neil :D

Supplied free by Neil's Translation Services for the betterment of Humanity (and because it's Friday and sunny)

by neil higgins Nov 4, 2005

and apparently it's little bugs in your head.Yuk.That bloody tune,or whatever which wont go away.As a Brit,I also like lots of music from across the pond.I find Green Day's "wake me up when september ends"goes off through my lugholes for no apparent reason.But maybe I'm just mad...:)

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

not me....! :p

GG

by charliespencer Nov 4, 2005

The louse definition is not used commonly over here. It's more often used to describe an imaginary critter tranferred between opposite sexes, usually referred to in juvenile conversations. "Janey, don't let him touch you; he'll get his cooties all over you!" They're regarded as an imaginary venereal disease for pre-teens. Also used as a synonym for for terms such as "Tonsil Hockey", "Swapping Spit", "Tongue Wrestling", "Copping a Feel", "Grab Ass", etc.

by Member 25348569 Nov 4, 2005

I'll add it all to the cross-cultural database

:D

I don't think we've got an equivalent...

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

I bloody well hope not!

~walks away muttering~

~uncivilised bunch~

:D

GG

by ozi eagle Nov 6, 2005

There is a louse that lives exclusively in the pubic hair, and thus can be transferred between the sexes.

by charliespencer Nov 7, 2005

Stateside we call them "crabs", as in "Don't drop matches in the toilet, the crabs have learned how to pole-vault."

by maecuff Nov 4, 2005

I had "Watching the Detectives" by Elvis Costello playing when I woke up this morning. On the way in to work, I had the Queers going. Only one line though.."Hey you mother f*ckers, I only drink Bud". Could be worse.

I walk after work and ALWAYS listen to the same music. A mixture of The Pixies and The Ramones. Then I keep up with the music, which is fast and faster. Of course, that means I go to sleep at night hearing those songs over and over.

Right now, I have The Jam playing..Down in the Tube Station at Midnight. Not in my head though, it's actually playing..:)

by jdclyde Nov 4, 2005

and as such, and pretty much immune to most. I listen to music almost 24/7 and if wasn't for video games, DVDS, and porn i wouldn't even own a TV.

But, having small children has provided me with quite an arsonal to affront others with!

One of my favorites that is almost sure to stick is the Disney "It's a small world". I will whistle this quietly so people will have to make the effort to hear what I am whistleing (making them even more easily influenced!) and they will be hooked and beotching at me for the rest of the day. My work here is done..... :p

Of course, Mae has become infatuated with me giving her random thoughts to keep her company throught the day. She is very fond of the Barney theme song i found. (heehee)

Hmm, I take that back. As people who have followed my discussion, I admit to having "theme songs" that fit the day I am having and have posted the lyrics for the more prominate ones. Not quite the same as the annoying "earwig", but I will intentionally hop on a song because it fits.

The other day (when my big D papers came in) I was back on the James Brown, I FEEL GOOD! Not too long before that I was stuck on the Misfits "Die die die, my darling!" and would have this jamm'en to the heavens as I race down the highway!

Going to take a road trip right now, and it feels like a "Stabbing Westward" kind of day!

Cheers!

by sleepin'dawg Nov 4, 2005

The first words were,"Suicide is painless...." ad nauseum. That tends to wander through tha back alleys of the mind after listening to some twit trying to make up a phoney excuse.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

a carrier of what???!! :p

just think {Laurel and Hardy} you'll have all that road trip {In The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia} to try and get {on the trail of the lonesome pine} any little ditty or earwig {in the pale moonshine} out of your head {her eyes met mine} that may have managed {where she carved her name and I carved mine} to get into your brain so subtly {oh... Joooooooon} you didn't even {like the mountains, I'm blue} notice it happening.....

:x

GG

by itgirli Nov 4, 2005

It's a song by Seven Nations and I don't remember which one. I have the instrumental part in my head.

by montgomery gator Nov 4, 2005

The Monty Python song "I Like Traffic Lights", since I posted the lyrics in the "I Hate Democrats" discussion. I guess mine is self inflicted. :-(

by Member 25348569 Nov 4, 2005

I was going to post this in one of the (many) religious discussions. When this one gets stuck, it gets stuck! I'm whistling it as I'm typing!

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

And all of the others but especially...

Always look on the bright side of life
(de do, de do, de do de do de do de do)

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

by sleepin'dawg Nov 4, 2005

I can always remember most of the words but I get the various tunes all scrambled up.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

by maecuff Nov 4, 2005

That stupid bright side of life ALWAYS gets me...

Time for more damage control.

by attackcomputerwhiz Nov 4, 2005

Now "The Radio Song" has started playing in my head!

by m_a_r_k Nov 4, 2005

when I mentioned a song in the "Absolute Right or Absolute Wrong" discussion. I've been listening to the radio 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the last 3 days trying to hear that song again so I could figure out the name of the damn thing.

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=183741&messageID=1874911

by ldyosng Nov 14, 2005

I may be crazy.
But it just may be a lunitic
you're looking for.
Turn out the light.
Don't try to save me . . .
You may be wrong,
for all I know,
you may be right.
Billy Joel.

by jmgarvin Nov 4, 2005

DAD:
There are Jews in the world.
There are Buddhists.
There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
There are those that follow Mohammed, but
I've never been one of them.

I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is:
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
A Catholic the moment Dad came,

Because

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

GIRL:
Let the heathen spill theirs
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can't be found.

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is wanted.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

MUM:
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Spill theirs just anywhere,
But God loves those who treat their
Semen with more care.

MEN:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
WOMEN:
If a sperm is wasted,...
CHILDREN:
...God get quite irate.

PRIEST:
Every sperm is sacred.
BRIDE and GROOM:
Every sperm is good.
NANNIES:
Every sperm is needed...
CARDINALS:
...In your neighbourhood!

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is useful.
Every sperm is fine.
FUNERAL CORTEGE:
God needs everybody's.
MOURNER #1:
Mine!
MOURNER #2:
And mine!
CORPSE:
And mine!

NUN:
Let the Pagan spill theirs
O'er mountain, hill, and plain.
HOLY STATUES:
God shall strike them down for
Each sperm that's spilt in vain.

EVERYONE:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite iraaaaaate!

by peter spande Nov 4, 2005

And I won't reprint all the lyrics!

by birgirsch Nov 13, 2005

uhhhh I have a warm fealing running down me cocles,,,, when I hear that one.

It explains a lot about the movie that almost the entierty of the production budget was spent on that number.

But the earwig I most hate is of course Barbie Girl.

btw. What hapened to the website that had Ken and Barbie picture as the position of the month??

by surflover Nov 4, 2005

(Arlo Guthrie)... unfortunately, I know all the words so it'll be hours before I can get rid of it ...but I guess that's ok, I've always liked it :-)

See what you've started mark? :^O

by ozi eagle Nov 6, 2005

The full song of Alice's Restaurant runs for about 25 minutes.

by surflover Nov 7, 2005

My roommate and I went to Miami for spring break from U. of M. (ann arbor, MI) and it was stuck in his 8 track... we listened to it till we couldn't stand it any more, then silence, then put it back on, etc... it was a 20+ hour drive...

by v_man Nov 4, 2005

Yep, it's stuck and won't go away. Going to be one of those days........

by gadgetgirl Nov 4, 2005

will probably come over the radio on my way home!

(Knowing my luck!)

My weekend is just about to start, so thanks all, for keeping me occupied this afternoon!

(I appreciate it - it was either this or reading a training manual my colleague has written....!)

Have a wonderful weekend!

:D

GG

by charliespencer Nov 4, 2005

to the Spam song ;-)

by jdgretz Nov 14, 2005

Here's the skit...

Monty Python Spam Song

Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag.

Man: You sit here, dear.

Wife: All right.

Man: Morning!

Waitress: Morning!

Man: Well, what've you got?

Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...

Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...

Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!

Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

Wife: Have you got anything without spam?

Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.

Wife: I don't want ANY spam!

Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?

Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!

Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)

Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?

Waitress: Urgghh!

Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!

Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up!

Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.

Wife: I don't like spam!

Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!

by gralfus Nov 4, 2005

This oldie has been flying around in my head for about 2 months now. It all came when I tried to pick out the tune on my flute, followed by 3-5 hours of sleep every night since then. AIIIIIIEEEEE!

I play other tunes to drive it out, but it seems to find its way back eventually. Haven't heard it today so far.

by ozi eagle Nov 6, 2005

Down under, in Oz, we have an insect called an earwig. It is about 3/4 inch long, by 1/8 wide, dark brown in colour, with big nippers at its tail end. The males nippers are a lopside C in shape, whilst the female's are more like an = sign with the ends curled in. They live under logs, rocks anything lying on the ground.

by montgomery gator Nov 7, 2005

In the USA we have the same insect (or one very similar to what you describe) called an earwig. Makes me wonder if someone introduced earwigs to Australia, maybe to feed the Cane Toads that were introduced previously? :-)

I have heard that Oz is plagued with many introduced species, including rabbits, mice, and cane toads. In Florida, where I was born, we also have cane toads that were introduced there, and, ironically, an Australian species of tree that grows like a weed in the Everglades, known as the Melaleuca.

by charliespencer Nov 7, 2005

I thought the most invasive species introduced to Florida were the Northeastern Retiree and the Pale-Bellied Snowbird.

by shellbot Nov 7, 2005

' he lives in a pineapple under the sea...'

please help me , i'm going insane

by jdclyde Nov 7, 2005

oh yeah, that one just grates on you!

by maecuff Nov 7, 2005

It's.. Now drop on the deck and flop like a fish. Damn.

by jamesrl Nov 7, 2005

Now I have Anne Murrary's "Snowbird" in my ear - early 70s Canadiana...how treacly.

James

by montgomery gator Nov 7, 2005

She's a Canadian, and if she wintered in Florida, she would be one of those Canadian Snowbirds, the worst kind!! :-)

by charliespencer Nov 7, 2005

Elvis once said that Anne Murray was one of his favorite singers. Now I've got "Suspicious Minds" lodged in the old cortex....

by jck Nov 7, 2005

Figured You Out...always runs through my brain

by maecuff Nov 7, 2005

I've had this horrible headache since Saturday. I went to the doctor today and he said I have a sinus infection. He gave me a decongestant, antibiotic, anti-vertigo medicine, nasal steroids and vicodin for the headache. I'm not too troubled by earwigs right now. Right now, my biggest problem is drooling.

by jck Nov 8, 2005

ask the doc if you have BPPV (Benign Paroxysimal Positional Vertigo).

If so, ask about Eppley exercises...no meds necessary and they cured mine in about 6 weeks...they help to correct the position of the autoliths in the inner ear and stop the vertigo.

by maecuff Nov 8, 2005

My Dr here is a putz. I've tried to talk to him about a number of things and all I get is a condescending head nod. I didn't even go to him yesterday, I went to an Urgent Care, where they hustle you in and out like cattle. This is something else I don't like about small town living.

by jck Nov 8, 2005

I'll tell you how to do them...to see if it helps...

I know how you feel...lots of docs here are just here for the money because of all the old people around that they can herd in and out like cattle.

Very few actually care...and usually if they do, they don't take HMO patients cause the insurance companies try to tell HMO docs how long to spend with a patient.

Hope you get better.

by maecuff Nov 8, 2005

The vertigo is almost as bad as the headache, and it's been going on for over 2 weeks now. I had this once before, years ago, and it lasted for months.

Contact me through peer mail so that we don't bore anyone else with my trivial problems. :)

by livendien la Nov 12, 2005

I am an old fart... but this Funkadelic/George Clinton jam gets lifts me up.
One Nation Under a Groove

So wide can't get around it
So low you can't get under it
So high you can't get over it
Da-yee do do do do do do
This is a chance
This is a chance
To Dance your way
Out of your constrictions

Here's a chance to dance our way
out of our constrictions
Gonna be freakin'!
Up and down...
Hang up alley way
With the groove our Only guide
We shall all be moved!

Ready or not here we come
Gettin' down on the one which we believe in...

One nation under a groove,
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
(Can I get it on my good foot)
Gettin' down just for the funk of it
(Good God)
'bout time I got down one time

One nation and we're on the move
Nothin' can stop us now
(Aye aye aye aye aye)
Feet don't fail me now
Give you more... of what you're funkin' for
Feet don't fail me now.
Do you promise to funk?
The whole funk, nothin' but the funk..
You can't stop us now
Givin' you more of what you're
Funkin' for

by pioneering Nov 13, 2005

The dictionary states:

ear?wig (?r?wig?) noun

Any of various elongate insects of the order Dermaptera,
having a pair of pincerlike appendages protruding from the
rear of the abdomen.

verb, transitive
ear?wigged, ear?wig?ging, ear?wigs
To attempt to influence by persistent confidential argument or talk.

[Middle English erwig, from Old English earwicga : eare,
ear. See ear1 + wicga, insect.]

Word History: In an Anglo-Norman text written around the
beginning of the 15th century we are told that elephants
guard their ears diligently against flies and earwigs.
Elephants have good cause to protect themselves against
these insects if, as folklore has it, earwigs go through the
ear into the head. The earwig, however, prefers to dine on
things such as flowers, fruit, and small insects rather than
brain tissue. Folklore is responsible, though, for the
insect's name, which was formed in Old English from eare,
the Old English source of our word ear, and wicga,?insect,?
a word presumably related to our word wiggle.

I think the work you want is "earworm".

by maecuff Nov 13, 2005

The word I'm going to stick with, is earwig.

by geezah Nov 13, 2005

Probably 3 of You know this lyric, it's from Chuck Berry's (NOT Barris, that's a whole other mess)Song Nadine. First started in the shower one morning. Now this is a fairly obscure Chuck Berry song from the mid 50's. Got dressed, got in the car, turned on the radio - "Nadine... Honey is that You ??? Ya goin' back doin' the things You used to do!" - Down right %$#@ erie! Creeps in all the time now, 'tis OK tho, 'cause it's a good song. I find the only way to get rid of these things is to play them, which only works if You HAVE the song...

g

by ldyosng Nov 14, 2005

Not Nadine.
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doin' the things you used to do.
Not obscure. It was a major hit, spending 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1955 and is still considered a Chuck Berry classic.
His tune My Ding-a-Ling was his most popular, but Maybellene was his 3rd most popular.

by geezah Nov 14, 2005

You may be/probably are right about the secound lyric, I'm sure it must have been in Maybellene. It's not like Chuck didn't boilerplate alot of his work, so that line may well have been in Nadine also. I remember when Mabaline came out, thanks to my babysitter, who introduced me to a lot of excellent 50's tunes, during the 50's. My Ding-a-ling came out some time after he had basically faded from the top 40 and a whole new generation discovered his older stuff.

by yanipen Nov 13, 2005

Mine is different, but it definitely music to my ears. Pardon me for this. This is Rated PG. My earwig is the sound of sex moans... thoses ohh's and ahh's and yesss! These sounds always disctract me completely.

by ldyosng Nov 14, 2005

My Ding A Ling

When I was a little bitty boy
my grandmother bought me a cute little toy
Silver bells hangin' on a string
she told me it was my ding a ling

My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling
My ding a ling, my ding a ling
I want to play with my ding a ling

And then mother took me to Grammer School
But I stopped all in the vestibule
Every time that bell would ring
catched me playin' with my ding a ling

Once I was climbing the garden wall
I slipped and had a terrible fall
I fell so hard I heard bells ring
but held on to my ding a ling

Once I was swimming cross Turtle creek
many snappers all around my feet
Shure was hard swimming cross that thing
with both hands holdin' my ding a ling

This here song it ain't so sad
the cutest little song you ever had
those of you who will not sing
You must be playin' with your own ding a ling
My ding a ling Your ding a ling, your ding a ling
We saw you playin' with your ding a ling
My ding a ling everybody sing
I want to play with my ding a ling

by jdgretz Nov 14, 2005

Fish Heads
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