is there a jingle or catch phrase that pretty much sums you up?

i was hit on the head this morning with the realization that mine is... (drumroll)... 'we are flintstone kids, 10 million strong and growing...'

what's yours?

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

Answers

My friend Erin who posts here occassionally will kill me for stealing this, but yesterday she wrote me an e-mail with the Toys R Us jingle in it, and I've had it stuck in my head since:

I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid, They've got so many toys to play with a kid could flip his lid! I don't want to grow up, 'Cuz maybe if I did, I wouldn't be a Toys R Us kid.

or

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener, That is what I'd truly love to be 'Cuz if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener, Everyone would be in love with me!

Those are the first ones to come to mind. I'm sure something more will pop up later!

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

the pepsi jingle...

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

If you know what you're doing, it's not an adventure.

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

I've got a couple: "Ouch!" and "Doh!" and they're often used together.

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

Yeah... mine's a throw-back from small town radio going through it's "Golden Oldies phase".

Dizzy.... I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning... like a whirlpool it never ends...

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

Aww...shoot. I thought this forum was going to be a challenge to WRITE our own personal jingles or tag-lines...

I think we should. I'm going to work on one.

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

How about "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"? Works for me, but don't ever call me "Lizzy" to my face (except maybe in the context of that song) or I might have to bitch-slap you.

Another one I find myself singing to myself is an old song by Todd Rundgren's old band, Utopia; the chorus has a line that goes "procrastination is my middle name." That pretty much sums it up.

I like the idea of writing our own jingles, but I'm afraid I'm not very creative with things like that sometimes. I'll have to ponder on it.

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

"I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day...."

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

Make seven
Up yours!


-- Anonymous, April 05, 2000

Either the "Professors' Theme" from the Aquabats (kindof a surf/mad scientist thing), or "The Rascal King" from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

What can I say, I like ska.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

Lately I've had the following stuck in my head a LOT:

"Mama told me there'd be days like this, oh there'd be days like this, my Mama said"

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

This one's been going through my head all week...

"Mein bratwurst has a first name, it's F-R-I-T-Z. Mein bratwurst has a second name, it's S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N."

So it's not a real jingle. It's catchy! And it's from Simpsons!

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

There's a Beatles song that starts out "she's not a girl who misses much... doo doo doo doo doo doo..." that would be it for now. that and a lot of They Might Be Giants songs. Like "If I Wasn't Shy." :D

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

I can't think of lyrics that describe me, but the guitar rift in "Three Strange Days" is my theme. It's what I imagine is playing when I wake up in the morning. I guess I should just get the CD.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

Court, that Beatles song is "Happiness is a Warm Gun."

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

"Happiness is a Warm Gun" has been my theme this week, only, the chorus.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

Oooh ohhh ohhhh... I have another one today... If I only had a brain (de-deta-de-de-da)

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

"I'm Every Woman" is my personal theme song...I'm sure I could of a better one, but its fun to sing. My friends requested it at a party for me one time.

Sometimes people sing the chorus to the song "Allison" by Elvis Costello to me (you know, the part that goes: "Alllllllllll-eee-son...") but it does not present Allison in a good way, and I hate it. If someone is going to sing a "name" for me, I'd prefer "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon, cause I love him:)

Not sure about personal catch phrase. I need to think about this one...

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

I'm afraid to say it but it's the fish cracker snacks one. it goes something like this:

I love fishies cause they're sooo delicious!! gone go fishin' I can eat them everyday and my mom says that's okay!!

me and my friends used to sing it at lunch junior year. it's just a jingle that can get stuck in your head!

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

speaking of used to sing it at lunch in high school....does anyone remember this one, circa 1989?

Those lemons they roll, those lemons they bounce,

I've even seen a lemon drop (lemon! lemon!)

Feels so fresh and pret-ty,

New Lemon-fresh Clorox bleach! (ba-dum)

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

Oh, another one, for all the Texans in the house. This one's from 1987-88 -- my girlfriend and I used to video ourselves singing this song in various different musical genres:

There's nothin' like the taste of Blue Bell Homemade Ice Cream,

It's nothin' like any other taste you've ever known,

(I'm missing a line here, can anybody help?)

We eat all we can and we sell the rest,

It's homemade! Homemade! Down home!

Blue Bell, the best ice cream in the country!" (pet your cow)

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

"Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress". The Hollies.

"Layla" Eric Clapton.

"She's got a ticket to ride" and "Day Tripper". The Beatles.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

Yeah, I know the original question was "jingle or catch phrase." These are mine!

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

Not jingles, exactly, but these are me songs nonetheless:
"Learning to Fly" - Pink Floyd
"Over the Hills and Far Away" - Led Zeppelin
"I Got A Girl" - Tripping Daisy.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2000

There's an electronic band called Iris that you've probably never heard of, and they have a song called "Annie Would I Lie To You" that never fails to move me on the dance floor. I had made myself quite sweaty to it a number of times before I realized the second verse sums up my life quite well at this point:

somebody filled with my hands with enough illusion
they have let me out to play
when you see me lie back in temptation's arms and have it all my way
i still have my name, i still have my face
i have not run away from home
does it seem so wrong that i now embrace every single thing i've never known?

I'm at a point where everything's changing and I've decided to take the Zen approach -- to flow like water and not fight it. My birthday is tomorrow, I'll be 23. Happy birthday Pamie, fellow Aries, by the way.

As a single catch phrase, I keep coming back to a line of pure genius written by my friend and muse, Gillian:

"I am not too old to do this."

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

"The beating of my heart is a drum and it's lost and it's looking for a rhythmn like you"

(from Making Love Out of Nothing at All, by Air Supply)

Forlaetan Vain Travails http://velvetone.dreamhost.com/vaintravails.html

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

i also refer myself to this rather depressing thought from ani difranco: 'we don't say everything that we could, so that, we could say later: oh! you misunderstood...'

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

"That's when I reach for my revolver...."

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

"Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy?"

Or better yet: "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"

In my better moments, though, it'd be "Don't Rain on My Parade."

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

It's time to play the music It's time to light the lights It's time to get things started on the Muppet Show tonight...

OR

Rubber Ducky, you're the one (Quack Quack) You make bathtime lots of fun (Quack Quack) Rubber Ducky I'm awfully fond of you.. Doo doo de doo..

ETC. OR

Wouldja like ta buy an O?

ETC. OR maybe that should be..

Wouldja like ta buy a Mo?

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

Mine would have to be the commercial for an old Rhode Island amusement park (now shut down)

Come with your family Come with your friends It's a rocky point tradition because it's summertime again!

ROCKY POINT - It's so exciting ROCKY POINT - and you can come alive ROCKY POINT - You're all invited To have some summer fun.

Rocky Point.

My favorite band of all time - Neutral Nation, punk rockers from my home town of Attleboro - used to play that at the end of every set.

My catchphrase is probably from the Big Lebowski... "sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar, well, he eats you."

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

On a bad day, I feel like NIN's "Wish" encapsulates my mental state nearly perfectly...

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

Mine would have to be from Victor Borge "the shortest distance between two people is a smile. When you smile you don't frown and to my knowledge no wars were fought smilingly... and won"

As for commercials the Day Oh commercials from the Bon Marche... Day oh... DAY AY AY OH... Saturday only at the Bon Marche...

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

there must be a billion girls with my name but for some reason i seem to be the only one i know of with a constant soundtrack aimed at me by others.

for some reason when an older man finds out my name he feels compelled to start singing "once in love with amy, always in love with amy." this happened to me a lot when i worked at a movie theatre and had a name tag. it also happened to me once when i worked in a corporate office.

in high school a few people would sing "aiiimeee whatchu gonna do. i think i could stay with youuuu..." you know that song... ugh. all these admirers and not one would ask me to prom.

sad mood: at seventeen by janis ian glad mood: bright as yellow by the innocence mission

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

Hi Amy,

In high school I worked at Kmart and, like you, every old dude felt compelled to sing, "Once in Love With Amy" to me. Back then I would get embarassed, but now I think it was nice. A couple of months ago I heard a recording of Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz) singing it. It made me smile. And yes, everyone would sing "Amie" by Pure Prarie League to me in high school. I guess I wasn't the only Amy who was serenaded.

My sister Sara got "Sarah Smile" by Hall and Oates and "Sarah" by Starship.

My sister Beth was named for the Kiss song of the same name.

We are products of Pop Music. Gah.

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

I've got it.

"Pretty Fly For A White Guy", by the Offspring.

Oh yes.

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

Amys,

When I was younger, my parents' friends would always sing "Once in Love With Amy" to me and I would just stand there like a dork...what are you supposed to do while they do this?..."Yes, yes, that's nice...thanks....mmm hmmmm."

My friends used to dazzle me with this brilliance: "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Amy's cryin'!"--even though the real name in there is Jamie.

I've always been moved by "Least Complicated" by Indigo Girls, and speaking of them, "Power of Two" could not more perfectly sum up my relationship with my hubby.

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2000

(What?!!! Are you telling me you're straight, and like the Indigo Girls?! I didn't think such a thing existed!)

Mine would have to be, "One Hand in My Pocket." Yeah, yeah, I know...but it works on so many levels!

-- Anonymous, April 08, 2000

Queen's "Killer Queen" has always been my theme song. I knew my soon- to-be first husband was worthy of me when he confessed that the summer before we started dating he thought of me every time it came on the radio ... and I *hadn't told him it was my theme song*. That's a true connnection, baby.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2000

Tara Maclean's "That's Me" off her first album Silence. (http://taramaclean.com) she rocks. =)

I'm not being a jackass either, that song explains me! hehe

/Tara

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2000

song by Cracker. the line goes:

"...i see the light at the end of the tunnel, now. someone please tell me it's not a train..."

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

Let's see - songs would have to be Devil with a Blue Dress On usually, Black No. 1 in my "Oh so Gothic" days, Sexy and 17 until I graduated high school, and Brass in Pocket which is the song that everyone says reminds them of me though I have no idea why. Catch phrases would be "Some adventure for riches, others for fame. Me - I just like to kill things." "You'd better hope you're going to heaven because when I take over Hell it isn't going to be pretty." and "If I could raise one eyebrow I would be doing so right now."

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

You Cant Always Get What You Want- the Rolling Stones

This song seems to follow me like a well meaning plague.

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

The phrases I like the most come from my mom and all involve the phrase "a big bowl of shit"- "Life's a big bowl of shit and sometimes there's nothing you can do but eat up", "You can put a big bowl of shit in front of most people, tell 'em it's chocolate pudding, and they'll eat it right up," etc...

The phrase that sums me up is most often said by little old southern ladies of a sweet but not that bright boy, "God bless his heart"

Jingles- "Superman", REM (they use it in an ad for IBM, but it was mine long before that), "Man on the Moon" (again, used for the movie, still mine before), "I Love Beans"-Brak

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

There was a funny man, he had a funny face, and everybody said behind his back: snort. giggle. heh.

The Smothers Brothers

"It's carbon-dating time, it's carbon-dating time"

sung to the tune of "ta-ra-ra-boom-dee-yay"

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

I've recently decided that I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel sums my life (lately) up nicely. All meanings of the song included.

Sorry, that's not funny -- but it's true!

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

C is for cookie, That's good enough for me! C is for cookie, That's good enough for me! C is for cookie, That's good enough for me! Oh! Cookiecookiecookie starts with C!

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

This week, it's THE STROKE (the Billy Squire song that was out in the late '80's). I don't know why, it's just that the damn thing has been in my head ALL WEEK and I can't get it out!!!

...stroke me, stroke me...

The Greyhounder

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

all morning... from the grifters...

"the things people say when they're spaced-out on (pause) cocaine..."

like i would know.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

I have one.

"...I wont heal until im stronger, strong enough to not be afraid, of what anybody thinks, of what anybody says, about the way about the way i am...everbody and everything ive known never taught me how to stand up on my own, had to learn it from the one who let me go, now i walk alone, yeah i walk alone, yeah..."

-"I Walk Alone"- Oleander

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2000

I'm seeing one of my coworkers, who is actually in a higher position than I am. Due to the fact that we work together, me and my best buddy - also a coworker - gave him a nickname (Alexander) so that if we talk about him, we won't blow the cover. Lately I seem to be running around singing "You can call me Al" on a regular basis...go figure. Also, I really love that animal song. You know... "You and me baby ain't nothin but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel". It's not really MY song, I just like it.

I sound like I'm about 12, don't I?

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2000

I guess I must be prepubescent also, because I love that song too. And I love the video of them in their little monkey suits! My catch phrases are two that I've heard all my life. "Don't sweat the small stuff. Everything is the small stuff", and "In another 100 years, it won't matter" Other than that, I do like the lyrics "Oh I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than to have to have a frontal lobotomy, I might be drunk but at least I'm not insaaaane!"

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2000

Maybe because we're doing a no-television experiment this month (except for ER and Drew Carey), but I've had the diff'rent strokes theme in my head for about a week now.

You all know it. Sing along.

....Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum...what might be right for you may not be right for some...a man (mumble), he's a man of means, then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans but it takes diff'rent strokes it takes diff'rent strokes it takes diff'rent strokes....

....Everybody's got a diff'rent kind of story...everybody's got a (mumblemumble)..but no matter what you got, not a lot, so what, they'll have theirs, you'll have yours and I'll have mine...and together we'll be fine, it takes diff'rent strokes, it takes diff'rent strokes it takes diff'rent strokes to rule the world....Hmmmm!...

Kind of an upbeat, positive little ditty, huh? Can't feel bad with THAT song in your head, can you? I know I can't. I also can't get it OUT of my head.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2000