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Gotta love archives. This is a Usenet post from 1996 and still fresh. The melody is even older, a 1960s-era song composed by accused murderer Phil Spector, Da Doo Ron Ron (listen to ring tone).

A Neu-ron-ron-ron

Neurotransmitter finds receptor site.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
Locally depolarizes the dendrite.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
Hey -- receptor site.
Hey -- the dendrite.
One sends out and the next takes in.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.

Excitatory signals summarize.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
Inhibitories hyperpolarize.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
Hey -- they summarize.
Hey -- hyperpolarize.
One sends out and the next takes in.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.

Sodium pumps and Potassium gates.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
At the hillock a charge accumulates.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
Hey -- Potassium gates.
Hey -- accumulates.
One sends out and the next takes in.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.

It hits threshold and begins to fire.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
It travels down the axon like a wire.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.
Hey -- begins to fire.
Hey -- like a wire.
One sends out and the next takes in.
A neu-ron-ron-ron, a neu-ron-ron.

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