How an earworm will take over the world

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Don't bother clicking unless you're really, really fast with your "back" button. It's the old Putrid, errr, Partridge Family song. Someone's lack of originality has finally hit rock bottom.

Rx:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acruyj3Eh9M" target="_blank" target="_blank :tuba:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6A9QKYKu-A" target="_blank" target="_blank :tuba:
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I thought that "Come on Get Happy" was a massage parlor theme...
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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The ad has already been causing some grief in the PC world - http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-new ... -ad-racist
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goodgigs wrote:OK Frank, We've all played those two tunes at some time or another.
Gee thanks for the second (and third) earworms !
I think they'll go away more easily for me at least compared to that other one.
I hadn't heard "Come on Get Happy" in over twenty years and that's the point. I knew it in three notes.
Those are tuba earworms, which makes all the difference 8)
Principal tuba, Bel Air Community Band
Old (early 1900s?) Alexander BBb proto-163
1976 Sonora (B&S 101) 4-rotor BBb
1964 Conn 20J/21J BBb (one body, both bells)
~1904 York 3P BBb Helicon
Old Alex Comp.F, in shop
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