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Pastimes : Come Play With Me - 'Name That Tune'
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To: appro who wrote (10589)10/20/2003 8:55:42 PM
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>>I once hummed a tune repeatedly for years asking people if they knew it. Finally someone identified it as a French Maypole song I learned in kindergarten. Almost immediately it vanished from my repertoire of ways to annoy people and I would be hard pressed to remember it today.<<

By coincidence, MSNBC has article on tunes stuck in our heads" or earworms as they have been dubbed.
msnbc.com
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He said one theory is that stuck songs are “the brain’s attempt to resolve missing information,” and that retrieving the forgotten lyrics of a song will provide closure that “unsticks” an earworm."
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