What is the most useless thing you still have memorized?

Ronni

Ronni

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It’s embarrassing. 😖 But there are two things.

One is the Liptons tea bag jingle from the 60’s

Join the jigglers, Lipton’s jigglers,
Get with the teabag set
Lipton’s the one to get,
for the best taste yet
Come and refresh,
get the clean, fresh taste of today.
Any time’s a 10 second cuppa time
Join the jigglers now!

Do any of you Brits or Aussies remember this??

The other one is the Superman theme.

Faster than a speeding bullet,
More powerful than a locomotive,
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound
Look, up in the sky!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's Superman!
Yes. It's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way!

😂😂😂
 

Ronni said:
It’s embarrassing. 😖 But there are two things.

One is the Liptons tea bag jingle from the 60’s

Join the jigglers, Lipton’s jigglers,
Get with the teabag set
Lipton’s the one to get,
for the best taste yet
Come and refresh,
get the clean, fresh taste of today.
Any time’s a 10 second cuppa time
Join the jigglers now!

Do any of you Brits or Aussies remember this??

The other one is the Superman theme.

Faster than a speeding bullet,
More powerful than a locomotive,
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound
Look, up in the sky!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's Superman!
Yes. It's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way!

😂😂😂
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these are the things you learn in your formative years so they stick in the brain for the longest time
 
caroln said:
@OldFeller, remember this one? “My bologna has a first name; it’s O-S-C-A-R. My bologna has a second name; it’s M-A-Y-E-R. Oh, I love to eat it every day. And if you ask me why I’ll say, ’cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A.”
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Thanks. I needed to have that one stuck in my head tonight.

Luckily it will be undone by my listening to David Bowie Albums that I've never heard before.
 
Oh boy, I'm going to lose most of you here...

In college we had a DEC PDP-8e mini-computer in the computer center. In order to start it up from being powered off you had to manually toggle program instructions with a series of switches on the console panel - like this:

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It's the set of 12 alternating color switches in the middle. Each instruction was four digits and each set of three switches represented one of the four digits (all in octal for those that know what that is).

That series of 16 instructions was referred to as the RIM loader. It gave the CPU enough smarts to be able to load more instructions from paper tape. It was considered computer center merit badge material to be able to toggle it in from memory. (And it was great for impressing the girls - at least the ones attracted to computer nerds.)

I must have toggled that thing in more than a thousand times during my four years there. For some reason that I cannot fathom - I still remember that sequence and how to toggle the switches. 6032, 6031, 5357, 6036...

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Dr. Jekyll said:
Oh boy, I'm going to lose most of you here...

In college we had a DEC PDP-8e mini-computer in the computer center. In order to start it up from being powered off you had to manually toggle program instructions with a series of switches on the console panel - like this:

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It's the set of 12 alternating color switches in the middle. Each instruction was four digits and each set of three switches represented one of the four digits (all in octal for those that know what that is).

That series of 16 instructions was referred to as the RIM loader. It gave the CPU enough smarts to be able to load more instructions from paper tape. It was considered computer center merit badge material to be able to toggle it in from memory. (And it was great for impressing the girls - at least the ones attracted to computer nerds.)

I must have toggled that thing in more than a thousand times during my four years there. For some reason that I cannot fathom - I still remember that sequence and how to toggle the switches. 6032, 6031, 5357, 6036...

We now return you to your regular browsing...
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This all was a couple notches above my pay-grade, but I can appreciate nonetheless.
 
In high school, we had to memorize a short passage from Julius Cesar. I don't know why, but it was required. I suppose it made us more well rounded. At the risk of boring everyone to tears. I post it from memory so it may be off a bit:

"Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, while we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings."

There! Don't all of us feel a little bit smarter now?
 


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