random stuff you have memorized

[Anacardo]

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

[Montalvo]

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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.

[Badger]

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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.

[moondogg]

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

[capone0]

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.

[eviljeff]

you were in Honors English, weren't you

[moondogg]

Oh, and the words to "Mr. Plow"

[Badger]

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you were in Honors English, weren't you

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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.

[1fog]

-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

[GambleGamble]

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.