Well as Im sure you all know theres snow today!
So be assured theres idiots on the road already, not that there ever isnt. I had some great experiences already...
Everybody going in to work or taking the excuse to stay at home? Anybody have any good stories?
I can't think of any stories relating to snow. I'm still at work. :(
*still thinking*
Yikes! Yep, snow out there. Crap!! I HATE SNOW. We're crippled once more. Que sera sera. (//vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/muede/o010.gif)
Whistler must be having an amazing year!? Wish I was there instead of sitting in front of this bloody computer right now.
Crazy winter, Vancouver has had way more snow than Calgary!(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Shocked/4.gif)
Snow! GRRRR!! It was nasty out there early this morning, and not much better now. And the idiots are still coming in off the Barnet Hwy. like they're driving the Indy. I just can't figure them. They are driving an expensive hunk of machinery around, and they seem to be intent on wrecking it as well as anything else around them. I had the usual problems with the driveway, but I made it to work.
I know you all will probably throw a rock through my window for loving snow (mind you, snow in the Lower Mainland sucks, drivers are idiots, and it is usually a heavy wet snow)...but....
[FONT color=#336699 size=4]Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
It doesn't show signs of Pauseping,
And I've bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
When we finally kiss goodnight,
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight,
All the way home I'll be warm.
The fire is slowly dying,
And, my dear, we're still good-bying,
But as long as you love me so,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! [/FONT][FONT face="Times New Roman"][FONT size=4][FONT color=#336699] [/FONT]
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That song popped into my head when I first looked out the window this morning, CK. I still wish it would go away quickly, preferably before I go back to work at lunch time.
I take it you mean the song?
No, Gopher, I don't mean the song, although it would be nice to get it out of my head. I mean that nasty white stuff that's trying to ruin my day.
Oh I love it. But songs that 'get in your head', aren't they strange? You can go for weeks trying to get rid of them, but they keep coming back for a replay at all sorts of unexpected moments.
They seem to stick longest at night when you want to sleep, but the radio in your head won't turn off.
Yes, that's right - I've had one which has been 'lingering' for umpteen years - it had a surprise repeat earlier this morning.
Which one?
*reinforcing said song firmly in your head*
Well, not so much a song as the entire overture to The Meistersingers of Nuernbeg.
Catchy little tune, isn't it? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/12.gif)
Mesmeric is the word you were looking for.
Not for me, it isn't. Sometimes "La Mer" will stick for a while, but usually it will be some commercial that drives me crazy.
Kitten, 'La Mer' (sung by Charles Trenet) is my all-time super-romantic easy listening favourite.
I've had fragments of songs ricocheting around in my head for... longer than I care to admit. I occasionally wake up with the flamenco stylings of Sarita Heredia driving me crazy. And there's a jazz piece by Joe Zawinul of Weather Report, a beautiful 15-minute piece that I dug out of the vault a few years ago, and played for a few days. That stayed with me day and night for a month. Scary! I only play it every couple of years now, and only once.
That's the curse of having a good memory - you've also got a good memory for absolutely useless, annoying stuff as well.
If you could lock somebody in a room with the same song playing over and over again (why you would want to do that I don't know), what would make them crack the soonest? Pretty much anything would do the trick eventually. But "The Name Game" would finish me off pretty quick. Or "Karma Chameleon" by Bore George.
Or the Mary Tyler Moore theme song, you know, the one that goes
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
Supposedly the cure is a constant influx of new music. Hope that helps ;-)
Even when I listen to something else, if a particular song has been haunting me it will seem to play along in my head with whatever I'm listening to. Frightening!
Same goes for me, Kitten - but I think I find it more annoying and frustrating than actually frightening. I wonder how you cure yourself of this?
Supposedly the cure is a constant influx of new music. Of course you've gotta be careful not to get too attached to any of the new stuff, or you've just added to the problem.
"repetunitis", "stuck tune syndrome", "sound virus" or, if sufficiently acute, "melodymania"
from Wiki:
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