There's no kind of atmosphere

[simont]

It is a lifetime ambition of mine that one day I may hear someone utter the phrase ‘It's cold outside’ and not immediately have my brain start playing the Red Dwarf theme to itself on repeat.

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[synthclarion.livejournal.com]

Count me in on that one too.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Also a problem:
Colleague: Let's go back to the lab
Me: And see what's on the slab

What was the other one...there was another one.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Spike: *Picks up phone*
Buffy: Who're you gonna call?
Spike: *pause*
Buffy: That phrase is never going to be usable again, is it?

"Who ya gonna call?", "I've got a theory", and "It's cold outside" I think are gone for good... On the other hand, annoyingly, you presumably in the past heard that phrase without hearing that music, so it's like a mid-life crisis or something, our lifetime ambition is something we used to do with impunity... :)

[simont]

Ah yes, "I've got a theory" is definitely another very bad one.

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Also see:

Colleague: Is X in RAM or Flash?
Me: Flash.
Colleague: Aaa-aaaahhh!

[simont]

I have a pleasant memory of going into one of the Cambridge bookshops around 2001 and finding that they'd marked the various sub-sections of their computing shelves with hand-laser-printed signs saying things like "Java", "SQL", "C++". Most of those signs were completely unhumorous, but one read

Flash
(Aah-aah)

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is brilliant of someone! LOL!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You don't work with a bloke called Robin, do you?

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

No! (Well, yes actually, but it wasn't him that said that, IYSWIM.) I suspect this may be a not uncommon meme among geeks :-)

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, mango juice...

[teleute.livejournal.com]

Ah this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_It's_Cold_Outside) is the song I always think of when people say that. Given that I don't know most of it - I get stuck on just a couple of lines - Red Dwarf would be preferable!

[gerald_duck]

I was about to say that!

My particular earworm is the fantastic Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews version, though, so I really don't mind.

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Odd, I thought of Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Tom Jones could be persuaded to cover the Red Dwarf song.

[gerald_duck]

If he's prepared to do Mars Attacks, he's probably prepared to do anything sufficiently silly.

But, now I think about it, Frank Sinatra would have been ideal. Maybe Tony Bennett is next-best, and could possibly even be persuaded given he did a cameo as a singer with Mafia connections in Analyze This.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

At one point during yesterday's meeting, while talking about brand awareness, someone used the phrase "Who are you going to call?" and about three of us said "Ghostbusters!"

[gerald_duck]

As mentioned above, I think of Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews. I also think of Groundhog Day.

It takes mention of a lack of atmosphere, someone being all alone, drinking fresh mango juice or fun in the sun to trigger Red Dwarf.

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

goldfish shoals?

[gerald_duck]

That doesn't crop up in conversation. And I haven't memorised the complete lyrics.

(Yes, believe it or not, the ones I mentioned do crop up surprisingly regularly.)