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Personal explorations of a lifelong passion, offering a way in for the musically 20th-century curious.

Monday Morning’s Earworm №142

Funnybones Thene by Ernie Wood

5 min readOct 26, 2026

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What is an earworm?

It’s a snatch or a snippet, a captured fragment, a line or two, or maybe a bit more, that stays in your head, that keeps bubbling up, accompanying your day.

It’s part of the language of your landscape that stays in your mind, whether it’s one single line, a couplet or maybe a whole verse, from a poem or song, or a part of a speech from a play, or a quote from a book, or something you heard somebody say, that won’t let you go.

Sometimes it won’t involve what we call language in the everyday. It could be purely a musical phrase that plays on your mind, on a loop that follows you through day and night.

That’s what an earworm is. And so is this…

Funnybones Theme by Ernie Wood

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Today’s earworm isn’t the first one rooted in the nostalgia of childhood. But given that the series wasn’t made until 1992, I can’t claim it as…

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Jim Laing
Jim Laing

Written by Jim Laing

Knowledge opinions fiction. Edinburgh based writer, poet & obsessive music fan. Curious to see if I can find, and keep an audience.

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Personal explorations of a lifelong passion, offering a way in for the musically 20th-century curious.