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We solicited readers' nominations for the most annoying earworms yesterday via Facebook. We winnowed the list and now are presenting the poll below to ask readers to vote for the worst, most tiresome earworm plaguing us, thanks to supermarket music, radio and TV jingles, waiting room speakers and so on. Vote now to see the outcome.
Learn about "The Science of Earworms, or Why You Can’t Get that Damn Song Out of Your Head" in Gary Stix's latest Observations post.