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Re:Why songs get stuck in our heads by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @01:38PM (#1012539)
Four words: Smoke on the Water.

More often, though, I get a Bach Fugue - they can last for days. If I'm really serious about removing an "earworm" I recite poetry, ad I've specifically memorised a few poems for that purpose. It was one of my earliest "Mind Hacks".

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Re:Why songs get stuck in our heads by joshkaufman on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @01:49PM (#1012561)
Strange but true: James Kellaris, one of my marketing professors from college, is the guy who coined the term "earworm" - it's his primary research topic: http://www.business.uc.edu/earworms
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Re:Why songs get stuck in our heads by philwelch on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @02:09PM (#1012604)
In a sense, but "earworm" is a literal translation of the German "Ohrwurm", which predates it.
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