Did you ever get a strange word permanently stuck in your head?

TorzJohnson

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Back in '92 I was at the hospital where my son was born, and this recently immigrated Chinese woman came up asking me if I knew where Matadonlo was. I asked her to repeat it several times, but I couldn't figure out what Matadonlo was supposed to mean. After she gave up and walked away, a light bulb went off in my head. McDonalds.

Now I can't see a McDonalds commercial without substituting the word Matadonlo in my inner dialogue.
 
I get phrases stuck in my head like songs. It's almost like OCD... it just won't go away! Words too.

But then, I also hear music when there is none... :confused:

~ashes
 
I wake up sometimes with a word of phrase stuck in my head. One morning I woke up and the only thing I could hear in my mind was "el coche negro," the black car. No clue why.

A friend once told me he woke up with "don't cross the beams" running through his mind... a line from Ghostbusters.
 
I know the movie has been out for some time but I just got around to watching "The Aviator" the other day. Those scenes where Howard Hughes was starting to lose it and could not stop himself from repeating the same phrase aloud over and over gave me the willies. He would put his hand over his mouth to try to stop. I wonder if that is a true symptom of some disorder?
I can just picture Torz walking down the street mumbling, "Where is Matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo"
 
Thomason said:
I can just picture Torz walking down the street mumbling, "Where is Matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo, where is matadonlo"
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This is pretty much the way it is, except I don't walk down the street; I lumber. :)
 
The word that always gets stuck n my mind is a**hole - because thats what my wife always calls me! :D
 
Albondegas (not sure of the spelling)... spanish for meatballs. I cannot get this word out of my brain.
 
I don't know if it is stuck in my head, but I like saying it....UTERUS.

It friggin makes me laugh.... :D
 
A long time ago--maybe like a decade or so--I saw some dumb movie about a giant squid and have been saying "Architeuthis" ever since (had to go look up the spelling). It's the scientific name for the giant squid (pronounced something like arc-a-tooth-us ). I also have "onomatopoeia," "triskaidekaphobia" (fear of the number 13), and "antidisestablishmentarianism" (someone told me it was the longest word in the dictionary once) stuck in my head. I think I just like the way it sounds and the funny looks I get when I blurt them out in a conversation for no reason at all.
 
Usufruct

There was this English professor I had in college. He seemed to know every word in the English dictionary. He challenged me to stump him, to try to find a really obscure word. I found "usufruct" and gave it to him one day after class.

He nailed it, though.

I think of that word often.
 
I used to put up "post-its" around work with unusual things like "Don't Eat The Puffins" or "Dance If You Can't Stalk" but they made me stop.

Allen.
 
Johnny_Z said:
OCD. Very real.
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I think we all have a little OCD in us. It's just worse in some people more than others. All it is is the brain trying to distract itself from situations it finds unpleasant, like stress, anxiety, confusion, boredom, etc. It can do this in two ways, by physical outward behavior or by inward mental behavior; ie: behavioral habit or mental habit.

We all know people who can't go without a cigarette in their hands, smoking all the time, or someone who can't stand to have a spot of dust in their home or a speck of lint on their clothes, so they continually clean. These are examples of behavioral OCD. Then, there are others who are constant worriers, or who run dialogue or words or songs through their minds continually. These kind of people you don't notice as much, how many of us can read minds?

Anyway, all these behaviors are the brain trying to distract itself by saying, in essence, "The stress I'm experiencing doesn't exist." More often than not, it's very mild in most people. With a few it can become so pervasive as to become a disability. I think we all experience this phenomenon to some degree or other.

Now, I hope you'll excuse me, I need to continue worrying over my eating and drinking habits, and distract myself from my worries with compulsive inner dialogue and repetitive word behavior. :eek:
 
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