random stuff you have memorized

[eviljeff]

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.

[Dominic]

i can recite all 50 states in alphabetical order

[deadbody]

my drivers license number

[housenuts]

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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

[DirectSplit]

At considerable risk I commence---

I know "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, and can sing it at the speed as written-- this is extremely difficult.

e.g.
" I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies..." very fast, and in tune.

Also, he names, functions, and embryological derivations of all the cranial nerves, with attention to the innervations of derivatives of the branchial arches.

very useful stuff.

[suzzer99]

The streets in my neighborhood when I was in 2nd-3rd grade:

Alhambra
Buena Vista
Catalina
Delmar
El Monte
Fontana
Granada

I was laying in bed one night when it dawned on me they were alphabetical. Also if you combine the D and E you get Del Monte, the canned foods co. And my grandpa who lived with us drove a Granada. Pretty cool stuff to an 8 year old.

[miajag]

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

[DrewDevil]

Ezekiel 25:17

[miajag]

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Ezekiel 25:17

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

[DrewDevil]

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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.