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from 11th grade English, the first 8 lines of the Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. so basically, I know how to say this in (butchered) Old English:

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne

I don't even know what some of it means.


also I know an alphabetical list of the major prepositions from 6th grade:

aboard about above across after against along among around at before behind below beneath beside between beyond by down during except for from in into like near of off on over past since through through to toward under underneath until with within without


I used to know all the countries of the world from that Animaniacs song, but I've forgotten most of it.

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i can recite all 50 states in alphabetical order

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my drivers license number

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I can list the 25 brightest stars in the sky in order of brightness off the top of my head.

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Ezekiel 25:17

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Ezekiel 25:17

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You realize it's actually misquoted in Pulp Fiction, right?

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Phone number.

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i cant remember things on a test....

but i know every word to probably 5000+ songs including some i haven't heard in 5-10 years.


go figure.

also- when i was in high school we had to memorize the first ten lines of a 200 line poem. i memorized the whole thing. by accident.

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my drivers license number

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every number in my wallet

bank card, 2 credit cards, dl, care card, sin, air miles, safeway collector card

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I can list the 25 brightest stars in the sky in order of brightness off the top of my head.

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I think this is very cool

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I can list the 25 brightest stars in the sky in order of brightness off the top of my head.

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woah.

I can still recite most of the Gettysburg Address and most of the Declaration of Independence...i had to memorize those in 4th or 5th grade.

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Over 98% of the world capitals, including the random-ass countries in Oceania. I'd almost say 100%, but one of you nits would come out with some random geographical location where its country-status is debatable.

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Dominic's address.

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also- when i was in high school we had to memorize the first ten lines of a 200 line poem. i memorized the whole thing. by accident.

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Heh, by accident, or by mistake?

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derivation of the formula for phi (golden ratio) from the fibonacci sequence.

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casey at the bat. i have no idea why.

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"Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."

The first 54 elements of the Periodic Table

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The only thing that springs to mind right now is the quadratic forumla.

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"Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."

The first 54 elements of the Periodic Table

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I used to be able to recite all 109 or whatever but I doubt I could now.

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Ezekiel 25:17

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You realize it's actually misquoted in Pulp Fiction, right?

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I do. And I don't have it memorized, really, either the Biblical version or the Pulp Fiction version.

I have been found out. I confess. Take me to message board prison.

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Memorized:

The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Endless song lyrics
Sklansky's starting hold'em hand table (not so useful!)

Half-memorized:

Endless Simpsons episodes
The Big Lebowski
The major campaigns & battles of the Civil War in order
William Blake's Songs of Experience

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"Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."

The first 54 elements of the Periodic Table

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I used to be able to recite all 109 or whatever but I doubt I could now.

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Yeah, I'm down to 54 (at least that's where I got stuck today), that's what... 21 years, I guess, since I learned the whole thing... did to my brain.

I think I'll never be rid of that damned McDonald's jingle.

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from 11th grade English, the first 8 lines of the Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. so basically, I know how to say this in (butchered) Old English:

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne

I don't even know what some of it means.


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My 11th grade English teacher made us do the same. Except it was 12 lines:

And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

And yes I cut and pasted because no way can I ever remember how to spell those words.

My teacher even said that we wouldn't remember what it means, but we would remember the words. She was right.

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Every word to Caddyshack and Fletch, including several variations of edited-for-TV lines.

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A girl I used to date knew Pi to like the 100th digit. I think she wrote about it in her college essays and didn't get into the bigger name schools. But she did get into Harvard and Stanford law.

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you were in Honors English, weren't you

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Oh, and the words to "Mr. Plow"

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I guess that's the extra 4 lines. It wasn't even an honors class just Brit. Lit. But it was only taken by students who planned on taking the AP test.

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-The 50 states by size and induction into the union
-Order of the presidents
-People on currency upto the $100,000 bill
-1984 NY rangers by number

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I know 90% of this

Big Mac,
Mc DLT,
A Quarter-Pounder with some cheese,
Filet-O-Fish,
A Hamburger,
A Cheeseburger,
A Happy Meal.
Mc Nuggets,
Tasty Golden French Fries,
Regular or Larger Size,
And Salads: Chef or Garden,
Or a Chicken Salad Oriental.
Big Big Breakfast,
Egg McMuffin,
Hot Hot Cakes,
and Sausage.
Maybe Biscuits,
Bacon, Egg and Cheese,
A Sausage,
Danish,
Hash Browns too.
And for Desert
Hot Apple Pies,
And Sundays
three varieties,
A Soft Server Cone,
3 kinds of shakes,
And Chocolatey Chip Cookies.
And to drink a Coca-Cola,
Diet Coke, and Orange Drink,
A Sprite and Coffee, Decaf too,
A lowfat milk, also an Orange Juice.

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All world capitals. Proves extremely useful when I need to prove how big of a loser I am.

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Your mom's phone number.

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Every word to Caddyshack and Fletch, including several variations of edited-for-TV lines.

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I so want to call BS, but I have a strange feeling that I would be very incorrect and would have to create a shrine for you....

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Memorize? I can't even remember where I put my weed?

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(all) World Series winners, losers, superbowl winners, losers
(most) NBA finals winners, losers MVP's for above.

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A girl I used to date knew Pi to like the 100th digit. I think she wrote about it in her college essays and didn't get into the bigger name schools. But she did get into Harvard and Stanford law.

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I know it to about 3 digits, on the other hand I do know my CC numbers for no reason

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Various chess openings, games I've played, and games others have played.

All states and their capitals.

Birthdates of most family members, friends, and ex-gf's.

I used to have all the regions and agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs memorized, but not any more.

ScottieK

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I definitely know all the NCAA basketball champions back to at least 1965, and I'm pretty sure I could get them all the way back to the very first one in 1939.

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Your mom's phone number.

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I'm sorry, you're still at least one move away.

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