I've had a line from a TV show stuck in my head today. I have no idea why it's suddenly occurred to me, or why it won't go away. It's from some sketch comedy show; I can't even remember which one. The line is "Don't feel bad, son. That was a very good heckle for a man with such a low sperm count." While it's an amusing quote, I only saw the show once, and I have no idea why it's embedded into my brain like that. I never have this problem with, say, math equations. Which is a shame, because those would at least be good for something. I'm not terribly likely to need to apply the Pythagorean theorem on any given day, but I'm also not likely to need to riposte a heckler, so it's not like I'm using the space for anything more urgent.

If I could figure out how to repurpose the "miscellaneous quotes" section of my brain, it'd be very handy. The only way I can think of, though, is to hijack earworms, an idea which works, but has annoying side effects. It's easy enough to remember the formula if it starts out with ooga chakas, after all.

ooga chaka ooga ooga ooga chaka
Pythagorean theorem!
Right triangles bewared!
C squared is the sum of
A squared and B squared.
ooga chaka ooga chaka ooga ooga...

Which is all well and good, but then you're hooked on a theorem for the rest of the day. And, if the internets have gotten to you, that means you've got David Hasselhoff on a green screen hanging around, too. I'm not certain it's a worthwhile trade.

On the other hand, it is the sort of things that seems like an excellent idea if you personally are not the one who'll be subjected to it. Perhaps there's a market to be tapped: aiming CDs of instructional song parodies at the parents of middle- and high-schoolers. Each subject and each grade level would need its own CD, so there's a lot of potential to expand. The parents would be happy because their kids would be learning and doing better in school, and the kids could convince their parents that they needed new iPods as study tools. Everybody wins! Especially me, the person abusing musicians' success for my own profit.

Now I just need a band of people who don't mind being labeled incredible dorks, which shouldn't be hard to find with my group of friends. Who wants in on this?

Mood of the Moment: amused
Auditory Hallucination: David Hasselhoff -- Hooked on a Feeling