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Write a story inspired by SHINee’s “Ring Ding Dong”, where someone can’t get a song out of their head no matter how hard they try.

Posted in Funny on Jun 2, 2023

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The Baby Shark Killer

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Baby shark Doo doo doo doo doo doo Momma shark Doo doo doo doo doo doo Daddy shark Doo doo doo doo Let’s go play.” “Phil…” “I can’t get Doo doo doo doo doo doo This dumb song Doo doo doo doo doo doo Out of my Doo doo doo doo Stupid head.” “Aargh!!! Phil, please stop, please! You’re doin’ my head in.” “I can’t stop Doo doo doo doo doo doo From the top Doo doo doo doo doo doo Till I drop Doo doo doo doo I can’t stop.” “Keep this up sweetheart and I swear I will do something that you’ll regret.” “Please don’t leave Doo doo doo doo doo...

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How the Whale Freed his Throat

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Who knows of what a whale sings when he opens his throat and releases that deep, sonorous sound. If you hear it, then feel it, shivering over your skin as you stand on a windswept shore, you will be struck by its resonance: a force which passes all human understanding. But this is not a story of whales in the general: behemoths of the ocean; symbols for salt-shriven sailors everywhere. No, this tale is about a very particular whale and one mariner who had been, for a while, this giant’s lunch. The swallowing and regurgitating of the mar...

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Shave Big Monkey in the Yard

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“One, two, fisherman’s stew, boiled on timber and stirred with a broom.” Dad’s in the shower, singing.  “Three, four, pour it on the floor, feed all the beasties, cook up some more.” He’s sung this one so many times, I know almost the whole thing by heart.  “Five, six, mortar and bricks, weaker than iron but stronger than sticks.” Isn’t it odd how we say a song is stuck in our head, but then say we learned it by heart? I saw a comic once where two characters were debating about that: a song stuck inside, playing on a loop...

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Face The Music And Dance

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BZZZT! BZZZT! She picked the phone up in one fluid and automatic motion. She barely checked the screen, never recognised the numbers anyway. “Hello?” she asked the inanimate object. “Lila.” A single world came back at her from a world away.  From another life.  A word she had never heard here.  That voice.  Him.  Then the music played and she danced a dance that she knew only too well. A dance that only she knew. The dance of death. The music played and not only was it an earworm, the worm burro...

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Earwig and the Angry Itch: A Mike Dodge Mystery

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Disclaimer: No relationship to the off-Broadway extravaganza.“I got a song, I ain’t got no melody…!” I belted, pivoting for my next lap. The sputtering roar of the neglected Cub Cadet drowned both Nature and the relatively sparse human activity in our outdated patch of suburban Millington on a Tuesday afternoon.Mowing was one of those few times I could give myself wholly unto song, and I clung to the view that Billy Preston was too cool to permit heatstroke. Thanks to Al Gore, it was 91 degrees this fine May Tuesday with rain and high winds ...

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Punitive Stakeout

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Content Warning: Language, Violence, Sexual Themes Punitive Stakeout A History from the Strength of Old By Mark VanTassel Erde Date: 999 (Earth 1979) The notes of ‘You Could be a Champion’ blared through the walls. Again. There were three of them trapped in this box. Rickard and Drexler were surveillance specialists. Chun was a senior field agent. At least he had been until last week, when Director Tbela demoted him to surveillance duty and placed Rickard over him. The apartment was six hundred square feet divided into a pair of ...

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Earworm

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Earworm I’m  not a pop fan.  Make it stop, man.  Can’t you stop it?  In a shop, it  was the first time  that I heard it  (heard it for the first time),  Yeah, and it’s catchy.  Who’s the tune by?  It’s a loop now— still repeating  when I’m eating,  when I’m sleeping. Words are kinda sketchy;  little bits of nonsense put together with this: Cling-clang boom-boom Shaka-shaka snap-snap!  It’s a mind trap.  Shaka-shaka snap-snap!  Shaka-shaka snap-snap!&nbs...

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Even the Angels Don't Love Me

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“Oh the angels, even the angels don’t love me…”           Lisa sang quietly to herself as she picked at her earrings. For some reason, she had woken up this morning with a stinging sensation in her ears. She fiddled with her small stud earrings, slowly becoming paranoid that somehow she was having an allergic reaction to the jewelry she had worn for a decade already. Perhaps even a deadly reaction…           “I’ll slip through their ...

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Sending a Message

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"What? I can't hear you!" Mika's voice sounded muted, underwater, lost in the seascape of screaming fans. She gestured a circular motion with her hand and pointed to the stage. After this. Already smiling, our grins both widened. I gave her a thumbs up. Ring ding dong. It’s ringing in my head.. Fitting. And even as SHINEE, the kpop artist currently onstage, sang their famous song, I still couldn’t get It out of my head. I jumped and swayed with the crowd, as if I could dance away the incessant haunting song that’s been stuck in my head...

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Ear Worms

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You have likely experienced “Ear Worms” or “Stuck Song Syndrome” which often occurs after listening to a catchy piece of music. The tune then gets stuck in your head, and it is difficult to shake it off. Psychologists refer to this phenomenon as “Involuntary Musical Imagery”. Whatever you want to call it, for most people this is usually a minor annoyance.  For Tim, however, it was something more. For starters, he had no idea where he had first heard the melody. He did not know the words to the song or if it even had any.&...

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Have you ever had a friend tell you a song is stuck in their head? How bad can it be? You think to yourself. Until one day, it happens to you too. At first, it’s not a problem. When it pops up in your head, you brush it off getting on with what you’re doing. But for days, it continues echoing in your ears, disturbs you while you’re doing any simple task. It pops up when you’re at a job interview, or when you’re trying to fall asleep. For the love of God, you cannot stop hearing it play on loop in your head. It drives you crazy. The people ar...

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Richmond, 500 Miles

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I would say it started happening right around the time that Fiona left me. She could have left me for any number of reasons throughout the years. The flicking of the light switches three times before we go to bed. The washing of my hands until they were raw. Maybe it was getting out of bed three or four times throughout the night to make sure the stove was off. Now that I think of it, she was really pissed when we were late to her sister’s wedding. I turned around halfway through the three-hour drive because I thought I left the front door u...

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Warning: QC-IDLE-06 Highly Volatile

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Transcript of Channel 8 Broadcast concerning The Song Start Time: 5:02 PM, 08/10/2023 At 5:02 PM on the 10th of August, every TV across the United Republic of Bolgnia broadcasted this message for 10 minutes and 52 seconds. On each TV screen appeared a blank white stage and crowded heads beneath the stage. Filming location is Time Rectangle in New Yorkie City for its immaculate lighting. Atop the blank stage is a podium of stark oak wood. Behind the podium stands a man in a pin straight black tux, matching black earpiece, piercing black e...

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Evaluation Day

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The group thought Yuqi would stop humming at some point, but they made it through their scheduled breakfast, morning training, and Russian lessons with a consistent, catchy melody emitting from the smallest of the bunch. Even during designated quiet time, she would find a way to drum the beat with her fingers or make it through the choreography using only her shoulders. Their right feet struck the ground at the same time as they all marched to this week’s evaluation.  Seven gave Yuqi the side eye as she lightly clicked her tongue to a...

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A K-POP EARWORM

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A K-POP EARWORM 2022 was Julia's freshman year in college. She considered herself very lucky to have Vicki as her roommate. Vicki was friendly and fun and wanted to work hard during study time while Ring Dingnot totally overlooking partying. There was a frat party in the quad Friday night, and all the girls on campus were invited. If Julia balked at going, Vicki was prepared to drag her there by her long, white-blonde hair. Julia did offer up a few excuses, but gave in to Vicki’s exhorations. They both chose to wear cowboy boots, T-sh...

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