Furryanimal
Y gath o Gymru
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What is the strangest/most useless thing you have memorised?
5731-my university ID number from the late seventies!
5731-my university ID number from the late seventies!
It’s Memorised.....
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Pam
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- Location
- Cumbria, England.
My nanny's Co-op Dividend number which I first memorised in the 1950s.
Hmmm......this sounds like it could be a 6 part TV series.....we're all listening, Marci.
Aunt Bea
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- Near Mount Pilot
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Nope. He was a Pakistani guy that sounded like Ray Romano from Everybody Loves Ray. I spent an hr in the cab with the man. He was a hoot. We got lost and he was trying to explain to me that since it was flat rate I wouldn't be charged extra for the getting lost time. LOLHmmm......this sounds like it could be a 6 part TV series.....we're all listening, Marci.
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
My family's telephone number from when I was a child.
Sassycakes
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- Location
- Pennsylvania
When I was 20yrs old and served on Jury Duty. I still remember the name and address of the man on trial.
fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
My US Navy I.D. #, B14 60 48. I had to know it backwards and forwards. I had to stencil it on everything I owned. It was on every part of my uniform down to my skivvies, even my shoes. So why was that the most useless thing I had to memorize?
About a month after I spent all that time stenciling that number on everything, the Navy decided to use your SSN as your ID number.
About a month after I spent all that time stenciling that number on everything, the Navy decided to use your SSN as your ID number.
hollydolly
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- Location
- London England
Also, my mothers Co-op dividend number 34502
My ex husbands' navy personnel number...
The phone number of my house when I was a kid... 9212
..and following on from Aunt Bea.. a poem by Rabbie burns... ( altho', tbf .. being Scottish I learned a lot of Burns at school)
Every friend or family members' birth date.. even from school days
John Anderson my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonie brow was brent;
But now your brow is beld, John,
Your locks are like the snaw,
but blessings on your frosty pow,
John Anderson, my jo!
John Anderson my jo, John,
We clamb the hill the gither,
And monie a cantie day, John,
We've had wi' ane anither;
Now we maun totter down, John,
And hand in hand we'll go,
And sleep the gither at the foot,
John Anderson, my jo!
My ex husbands' navy personnel number...
The phone number of my house when I was a kid... 9212
..and following on from Aunt Bea.. a poem by Rabbie burns... ( altho', tbf .. being Scottish I learned a lot of Burns at school)
Every friend or family members' birth date.. even from school days
John Anderson my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonie brow was brent;
But now your brow is beld, John,
Your locks are like the snaw,
but blessings on your frosty pow,
John Anderson, my jo!
John Anderson my jo, John,
We clamb the hill the gither,
And monie a cantie day, John,
We've had wi' ane anither;
Now we maun totter down, John,
And hand in hand we'll go,
And sleep the gither at the foot,
John Anderson, my jo!
Butterfly
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- Location
- Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
I can still recite the names of the planets, starting with the closest one to the sun, to the farthest one out.
Ruth n Jersey
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- Northern New Jersey
I remember most of the poem, The Man With The Hoe. by Edwin Markham. We had to recite it for our 8th grade graduation. We practiced it for weeks on end. At the time most of us thought it was so boring to learn but now when I think back I'm glad I remember .
Butterfly
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- Location
- Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
Me, too; as well as "Friends, Romans, countrymen . . . ." and "To be or not to be. . . . "
peramangkelder
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- Location
- Fleurieu Peninsula South Australia
@Aunt Bea this is one of my absolute fav poems of all time....thank you
Murrmurr
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- Sacramento, California
I still remember my lines from a play I was in when I was 6 but I can't remember what the play was, or was about.
"All the cloth worn and all the cloth torn, all the ewes born and all the ewes shorn" (someone else said the next line, and so on)
Don't think it gets any stranger or more useless than that.
"All the cloth worn and all the cloth torn, all the ewes born and all the ewes shorn" (someone else said the next line, and so on)
Don't think it gets any stranger or more useless than that.
moviequeen1
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- Location
- Buffalo,NY
When I have trouble getting to sleep,I've memorized in alphabetical order all the U.S.states
Judycat
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- Location
- Pennsylvania
I can recite all 50 states in alphabetical order anytime anywhere since 2nd grade. We had to learn a song called Fifty Nifty United States for a class program. It stuck with me because the list was set to music.
Uptosnuff
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- Location
- Great Plains, USA
8-6-7-5-3-0-9
Form a popular pop song
Form a popular pop song
Judycat
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- Location
- Pennsylvania
A Poison Tree, by William Blake, is forever seared into my memory as well. Stupid guys I used to hang out with thought it was a fun thing to recite while high.
officerripley
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- Porlock, Calif
This is kinda "wow": I saw this thread and remembered an address I lived in as a kid (from about 8 yrs. to about 15 yrs old). So I looked the address up on google images. Now this place in the suburbs was brand new when we moved in; it had been an apricot orchard; almost all the trees were chopped down; no landscaping, just bare dirt everywhere except for the few trees; and the houses were considered to be at the very bottom of the middle class range (if middle class at all); the other kids in school teased me about our "low-class" neighborhood. Now I'm really not looking for sympathy about it because here's the "wow" part: when I looked the house up today on google images: OH MY GAWSH, it sold about 12 years ago for...wait for it...$2.2 million!! I can't even...Guess it's just as well I moved out of that area; no way could I have afforded to keep living there, I'd be on the streets today. Isn't that something?! I just can't even... 
