Earworms

A BBC broadcast tonight called Material World (a regular BBC Radio 4 feature on science) had a section on earworms, a subject that’s come up in this blog before. Well, there is a research project going on here in the UK about it and, if you’re quick, you can get in on a drawing for

One Response to “Earworms”

  1. bigmacbear says:

    One of my more recent earworms — triggered not so much aurally as visually — has been that little bit of children’s doggerel called “Comet”, to the tune of the “Colonel Bogey March”. You know:

    Comet, it makes your mouth so clean
    Comet, it makes your teeth so green
    Comet, it makes you vomit
    So buy some Comet and vomit today.