Prop Bet: Poe's The Raven

[TheWorstPlayer]

I'll give you action on memorizing it with the words in reverse order but the lines in correct order or other silliness like that. It's much much much much harder when you can't get easy meaning from it.

[lippy]

On your mark, ready set lets go
Dancefloor pro, you know, i know
I go psycho when my new joint hits
Just can't sit, gotta get jiggy wit it
That's it, a hunny hunny come ride
DKNY all up in my eyes
you gotta prada bag with a lotta
stuff in it give it to your friend lets spin


Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week.

[Howard Treesong]

[ QUOTE ]
Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore

While I nodded nearly napping,
Suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Tis some visitor I muttered, tapping at my chamber door. Only this, and nothing more.

Ah distinctly I remember,
It was in the bleak December
And each separate dying ember, wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow
Vainly I had sought to borrow, from my books
Surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore.

For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels named Lenore,
Nameless here for evermore.


[/ QUOTE ]

Pretty close: FYPs in bold. Now try reading it out loud from memory, perfectly, without a glitch on the first try. Part of the difficulty (and I admit it's not nearly as hard as I first thought) is articulating it perfectly on the fly.