Science finally figures out how to get rid of ear worms!!

[Initech]

Get that tune out of your head - scientists find how to get rid of earworms
Scientists claim to have found a way to help anyone plagued by earworms – those annoying tunes that lodge themselves inside our heads and repeat on an endless loop.

They are the songs you cannot get out of your head. Now scientists may have found a way to help anyone plagued by those annoying tunes that lodge themselves inside our heads and repeat on an endless loop.

Researchers claim the best way to stopping the phenomenon, sometimes known as earworms – where snippets of a catchy song inexplicably play like a broken record in your brain – is to solve some tricky anagrams.

This can force the intrusive music out of your working memory, they say, allowing it to be replaced with other more amenable thoughts.

But they also warn not to try anything too difficult as those irritating melodies may wiggle their way back into your consciousness.

For those unwilling to carry around a book of anagrams, a good novel may also do the trick.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9950143/Get-that-tune-out-of-your-head-scientists-find-how-to-get-rid-of-earworms.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. I've Got That Tune

[Duer 157099]

2. Don't read my post

I warned you.

That article ends by giving a list of the songs the researchers used to induce the ear worm effect. Fortuhately, I don't know what most of those are LOL. The Beatles, eh, I can always live with a Beatles song for an earworm.

BTW, a 5-letter anagram is the cure. Girth.

Some of the easiest songs to get stuck in your head (as used by the researchers)

Alejandro – Lady Gaga
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Call me Baby – Carly Rae Jepsen.
Single Ladies – Beyoncé
She Loves You – The Beatles
I Wanna Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
She Loves You – The Beatles
SOS – Rihanna
You Belong with Me – Taylor Swift

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. She Loves You - The Beatles is on the list twice

Whoever made the list must have had an earworm.

[Tien1985]

3. I just listen to the

Song in its entirety and that usually does it!

[Brother Buzz]

4. Now, where can I score a Lucky Lager stubby?

one with an anagram inside the bottle cap

[longship]

5. Madam, I'm Adam.

Madam, I'm Adam.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Madam, I'm Adam.

Madam, I'm Adam!!!!!

ARRRRRRRGH!

Madam, I'm Adam.

[Electric Monk]

14. Mama maim dad

Yours is a palindrome, while my subject line is an anagram of your palindrome.

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

[longship]

16. Sorry, I've never been able to handle Mondays.

Of course, you're correct. But you've gotta admit that nobody could come up with an anagramatic brain worm. But a palindromic one is easy.

"By dam." Or, as others might say "My bad."

[Katashi_itto]

6. Barry Manilow - Copacabana (At The Copa) .

[Phentex]

13. That's a bad one for me!

I don't hate the song or anything but that one can haunt me for a couple of days. To be fair, I hear it on the radio quite a bit.

[LadyHawkAZ]

7. A dose of White Zombie always did the trick for me. n/t

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

9. About time, too!

I've had Peter Murphy's "Roll Call" stuck in my head for two weeks. Worse, it's not even the proper version. It's all gussied up with the mondegreens. Hoofa. I keep catching myself singing it and... I am one who should never, ever sing. As bad a case of ear worm as I can ever recall having, this. Worse than the "Prisencolinensinainciusol" incident, even. Anagrams to the rescue!

George Herbert Walker Bush == Giant Berserk Rebel Warthog. There's one. But I knew that one already. Cheated. I'll have to compose my own. Gonna need a pencil for this....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. A foolproof method can be found in the following instructional video:

[Cirque du So-What]

11. I've been plagued with susceptibility to ear worms for as long as I can remember

Sometimes I go to sleep and wake up the next day with the same snippet playing in my head. When I was a kid, I would 'play' a few choruses of 'You Are My Sunshine,' which would usually clear the original ear worm, then I'd be stuck with YAMS. Next time one gets too oppressive, I'll try the anagrams cure.

[Phentex]

12. Me too. Sometimes I pick them up from

old songs I heard on the radio earlier in the week.

Right now I have Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner in my head. It came out of nowhere.

Who needs an iPod when you have an ear worm condition?

[Marr]

15. I have a technique that works every time.

I sing the annoying yet catchy theme song to the Fall Guy. It replaces whatever annoying song I already have lodged in my head. I then have the Fall Guy theme in my head, sure-- but I *did* dislodge the original offender.

[longship]

17. The worst ear worm ever!

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