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Earworm epidemic rages through nation's newsrooms as hurricane bears down on coast
By adamg on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:40am
Google now shows 36,900 results for the phrase Come on, Irene, many of them headlines written by editors who apparently can't get that stupid song about a girl named Eileen out of their heads.
A quickie media hurricane Q&A:
What do Atlantic hurricanes do?
They churn up the coast even as they bear down on it.
What about their winds?
They lash. Also, real hurricanes come packing major winds before they make landfall.
And their waves?
They surge.
Put them all together and what's the result?
A hurricane that pounds the coast.
How do residents of coastal communities prepare?
They brace and hunker down as they await the storm's wrath.
What do hurricanes leave behind?
A swath of destruction, often involving utility poles snapped like matchsticks, sometimes houses moved as if by an occult hand, all forcing residents to sift through the rubble.
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Comments
A better earworm ...
It's great! It starts with an earthquake ...
Bwa-ha-ha
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes,
an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
Well don't just stop there...
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes,
an Apple CEO - Harvey Leonard is afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn,
world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Boardin' up the windows, grunt, no, strength,
While Libya starts to clatter with dictator's downfall, right.
Sox on a roll, representing AL race, a government for hire and a combat site.
Southeast and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters churned, pound, hunkered, lashed.
Look at that copy writing!
Fine, then.
Uh oh, store surge, sea wall, tidal effect, it'll happen.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
dummy with the camera and the crew and the mic - right.
You solemn, alarmist, ratings, ratings, feeling pretty pretty psyched.
It's the time of Irene and we love it.
It's the time of Irene and we love it.
It's the time of Irene and we love it.
It's the time of Irene and we love it and I feel fine.
(Okay so not all of that makes sense, but not all of the original makes sense, either. I just threw in all the "in the news" stuff from this week I could think of :-)
Slightly older earworm
I can't get "Good Night Irene" out of my head. I only know one verse and the chorus. I need to do some YouTubing.
and hopefully the verse you know..
...is NOT the one about drowning oneself.!
37000
I think you bumped it up another 100!
I am going in an entirly different direction
Not the best of rhymes, but then I'm more a math person than a word person.
You picked a bad time to land here Irene
Students arriving and trucks in the street.
Had us some bad one, even more sad ones,
Some students who move here for real.
You picked a bad time to land here Irene.
Lost of emergency items you should have on hand
never going to give you up
never going to let you down
never going to run around
and desert you
silly
At this point shouldn't a British Colonel intrude and declare that this thread must stop as it's becoming too silly?
Oh
Now we see the violence inherent in the system.
I'm being oppressed!
Some watery tart named Irene ...
"It's a dog's life - excuse me -
man's life - preparing for a hurricane."