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Ten-Word Tuesday.

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Nestled somewhere between Average White Band and Miles Davis, the album pictured above lived in alphabetical perpetuity in Bossy’s parent’s collection. It was released in 1972, a companion piece to the movie Cabaret starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey.

Bossy isn’t sure when she discovered this soundtrack—or the movie since Bossy doesn’t think she was old enough to see this in the theater. Although keep in mind we’re talking about the same Bossy’s mother who took young Bossy to see An Unmarried Woman, her official position being that it was less damaging than any Disney movie. This is An Unmarried Woman’s tagline:

She laughs, she cries, she feels angry, she feels lonely, she feels guilty, she makes breakfast, she makes love, she makes do, she is strong, she is weak, she is brave, she is scared, she is… an unmarried woman.

In whatever case, Bossy fell headfirst into the album Cabaret, which flopped opened to reveal a host of photos taken directly from the movie.

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The movie—and the Broadway show it was based on—tells the story of Sally Bowles, an American singer living in 1930s Berlin during the period when the Nazis get a foothold in Germany, but Bossy missed the Nazi theme because she was too busy wondering how Sally Bowles balanced herself on the T like that, and wondering if those suede boots were available in size 3.

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In the movie, Sally Bowles becomes the colorful neighbor to new arrival Brian, a buttoned-down English academic who moves into an apartment across the hall:

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Sally’s early attempts to seduce Brian are thwarted because Brian is a homosexual, except Bossy missed the gay theme because she was too busy noticing how much Sally Bowles liked to dance with chairs:

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Eventually Sally does seduce Brian, which young Bossy didn’t miss:

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Although Bossy didn’t get it when, later, a playboy baron comes to seduce both Sally and Brian, because: more chairs!

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This past weekend while channel surfing, Bossy stumbled on this movie and was once again reminded of her favorite scene and song:

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It’s Money, Money—and along with Liza Minnelli, it features the talented Joel Grey–even if his makeup and demeanor both intrigued and terrified young Bossy in the same way that the images on this album made Bossy pee her training pants.

Anyway. Bossy woke up singing Money, Money. In fact it is an earworm lodged so deep in her skull that she is wondering if there are surgeries to correct such things, and how long is the waiting list.

Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you help Bossy dislodge her earworm by telling her about
the song that is currently stuck in your head?

And don’t forget to check back later today for what promises to be a catalogue of the most annoying songs on the web.

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  3. Yippee – you dislodged “it’s a small world” (don’t ask why this early in the am) – now I’m running money money money money money (the part where they sing it real fast – my fave). Now I’m going to have to watch it again – I truly don’t remember the playboy baron trying to seduce both of them …. I guess my innocent little brain didn’t comprehend back in 72.

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  18. “There she goes
    There she goes again”
    by the Las

    ( The MMT picture scared the crapola out of me, too. But NOW I’m going to be singing “let’s all get up and dance to the song that was a hit before your mother was born…though she was born (*cough*) a long, long time ago, your mother should know…)

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  19. I like mine with lettuce and tomato, heinz 57 and french…..

    I didn’t have an earworm until your challenge, then unexplanably Jimmy Buffet came to mind……..Guess I either need to get a cheeseburger or find paradise…

    Leaning towards paradise!

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  24. ~Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking ’bout tomorrow, Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long~

    Sorry, more than 10 but necessary by God!

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  26. Obviously, your daughter doesn’t insist on listening to Radio Disney nearly enough, or you’d have even more annoying songs lodged in your brain.
    “This is real, this is me, I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be…”
    “I never thought I’d catch this Love Bug again…”
    And just about anything by Taylor Swift.

    Tell me again why Disney insists that all its little stars both act on the TV station AND sing on the radio station? That said, Radio Disney does play a few good songs here and there. That is, when they’re not repeating Selena Gomez or Demi Lovato over and over and over…

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  28. Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. – John Denver

    Or this is how I sing it..I can’t even think of the the title. I don’t know why this popped into my head especially since it dark, dreary, cold and snowy here today in the find SW Ohio…

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  33. My Heart Will Go On or whatever the hell it is from Titanic. Blech. Ever since the TODAY Show played it this morning, and if that’s not a reason to switch to GMA, I don’t know what is.

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  40. That damn wiggles song about the big red car! I don’t even know the words so I can’t really sing it. I just hum it which is even worse. It is making me mumble profane things under my breath.

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  45. First. my mom was a Cabaret fanatic too… I grew up dancing around the house to that soundtrack. I thought I was the only 5 year old Liza Minelli fan.

    My ear worm song- “I’m the Shiek, of Araby (got no pants on)…..”

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  47. I did a Cabaret post last month (to celebrate my new black suede boots)

    Ten Words? ….

    The Animals ~ “Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood”

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  52. “I like big butts and I can not lie, you other brothers can’t die..”

    I like big butts by Sir mix a lot. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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  54. I’m so sad and lonely…I’ve had that David Lee Roth (yes, way) song stuck in my head for 3 weeks and i’m about to go insane from it.

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  62. Maybe this time…..I’ll be lucky…..maybe this time he’ll……
    *****************
    As soon as I opened this post my favorite song from the MOVIE popped into my head. Maybe This Time wasn’t in the stage production.

    I was IN this show when I was a youngin’

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  76. @MamaMo – So hate you now as all that is running thru my head is:

    “Prove t’me that I’m no fool – walk across my swimming-pool”

    See how I turned that 12 work song bit into only 10 words.. didja see???

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  89. Pink’s new song, “So What,” last line “Nah-Nah-NUH-NUH-Nah-Nah,Nunna-Nuh-NAH-na-NAHHHHHHHH!” Shoot me.

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  91. If you’re happy and you know it…shoot me now!

    (although it’s very cute – to me – when my 20-month old sings it “happy anna knowee cappah haaaahn!”)

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  98. Greeeeeat, thanks a bunch Mindy, we are now a party of TWO with that blasted song in our heads. Aaaaaggghh! 😉

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  100. Sign your name across my heart
    I want you to be my baby
    Sign your name across my heart
    I want you to be my lady

    Terence Trent D’Arby

    (I remembered it as:
    Suddenly across my heart…)

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  101. ‘jeremiah was a bull frog. was a good of mine’

    (may i just say, 1 i have never commented but been reading you for a while. and, 2 my dude is about ready to cut off his ears because i’ve had this song stuck in my head for over a month. i keep reminding him though, that cutting off his ears won’t actually deafen him. and lastly. we were just indepthly talking about this film two days ago, and how i never really caught on to the story either for the same reasons as yourself)

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  105. “Oooooh we’re halfway there, WOAH livin’ on a prayer….”

    As well as “NO SLEEP ‘TIL (duh nuh…nuh nuh nuh nuh duh nuh nuh nuh) BROOKLYN!”

    (alternating throughout the day thanks to Guitar Hero: World Tour)

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  110. Sweetie, you may be on your own with the song lodged in your head thing. I have had Meatloaf’s, “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” stuck in my head for about a week and a half now. Even posted the youtube video.
    If you figure it out, PLEASE let me know! 😉

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  119. Thanks to my 3-year old’s new “obsession” with the Foo Fighters (okay, okay, I helped him with this obsession since I was going to scratch my eyeballs out if I heard another Wiggles song again – so I made him listen to the Foo but I guess they grew on him!), but I overheard him singing this the other day at the top of his lungs when he was supposed to be taking a nap (from the song, Best of You by the Foo):

    “I’ve got another confession to bake, I’ve got no food” (the words are really, “I’ve got another confession to make, I’m your fool”)

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  127. @ Julianne: Thanks to your post I then had “a-yer, a-a-yer” in my head for hours!

    @ Stuffanie: It was then replaced by Mr A-Z. I would “scooch on over” for him anytime! 🙂

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  133. Rolling rolling rolling … keep them dogies rolling keep them dogies rolling rawhide….. Through wind and rain and weather we’ll keep them together. keep them dogies rolling RAWWWWHIIIIIDE…..

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  137. 8675309/Jenny…..but the way my 4 year sings it……
    “Like a distant southern fried free oh nine” mixed in with the SpongeBob theme.

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  140. I’m burned I missed this post. My brother and I play this game, we ‘give’ each other an annoying song, ie, an earworm which we can’t get out of our heads. I volunteer to shoot Domestic Goddess however as I had only just managed to get the Thomas the Tank engine song OUT of my head when I read her comment.

    This is not 10 words, balls.

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  142. Off
    Into the world we go,
    Planning futures,
    Shaping years.

    (“Love Changes Everything”, sung by Michael Ball…
    From the musical “Aspects of Love” by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

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  144. Max and Ruby! Ruby and Max! Ruby! And her little brother Max!

    OK that’s 12 words but so maddeningly inane you get 20% more for free.

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  145. Since it is no longer Tuesday, I feel free to break the 10-word criteria. I had “Jump Jump” by Kriss Kross (and how the heck are a pair of 11-year-olds the Mac Daddy, anyway) going through my head at the same time as “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina”. You wanna talk about strange??

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