What is the most useless thing you still have memorized?

fuzzybuddy said:
I had 4 years of Latin in high school. I had to memorize the Latin endings of "third declension nouns". I can't tell you how many times, when we were all sitting around and speaking Latin, and someone used the wrong endings.
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I had three years and was rather good at Latin to English translation. Can't remember much of it now.
 

Warrigal said:
I did look it up. Apparently Romulus was a real person and is listed as the first King of Rome. He ruled jointly with the king of the Sabini (remember the story of the Sabine women kidnapped to be wives for Romans?) so technically there were actually 8 kings before the republic.
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My store of knowledge is now improved. Thank you! Not sure how useful it is though. But it is interesting.
 

I remember a lot of early TV show theme songs. The one I can do without skipping is The Addams Family theme song. I am posting the video of the theme song opening cause it is so catchy and they are just so darn cute. :)

 
Repondering said:
My store of knowledge is now improved. Thank you! Not sure how useful it is though. But it is interesting.
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Warrigal said:

I did look it up. Apparently Romulus was a real person and is listed as the first King of Rome. He ruled jointly with the king of the Sabini (remember the story of the Sabine women kidnapped to be wives for Romans?) so technically there were actually 8 kings before the republic.
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Another fact about Romulus: In Star Trek, Romulus was a planet constantly at war with the Federation. Romulans were "cousins" to the Vulcans, divided generations ago. Another useless thing to know!!! :ROFLMAO:
 
caroln said:
Warrigal said:

I did look it up. Apparently Romulus was a real person and is listed as the first King of Rome. He ruled jointly with the king of the Sabini (remember the story of the Sabine women kidnapped to be wives for Romans?) so technically there were actually 8 kings before the republic.
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Another fact about Romulus: In Star Trek, Romulus was a planet constantly at war with the Federation. Romulans were "cousins" to the Vulcans, divided generations ago. Another useless thing to know!!! :ROFLMAO:
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😄 Just as useless as knowing that James T Kirk's middle name is Tiberius.
 
Old Salt said:
You are right! Especially since we have such a small population (roughly 800.000). It should have been quite feasible to give everyone a phone number unique to the subscriber for many years to come! But what do I know?
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Actually, come to think of it, dialling the area code doesn't change a thing, does it?
 
On our first phone we did not dial numbers. You pick up the phone and the operator would ask for number please. My home number was 392!

I still remember the beginning of the Gettysburg Address, given by President Lincoln dedicating the national cemetery at the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He gave this speech in 1863.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this..."

In high school our history teachers required that we memorize this and a few other historical writings, Preamble to the U. S. Constitution, the first paragraph of the U S Constitution, etc.
 
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Firing order of small block Chevy engine from my drag racing days of the '60s and '70s.

When going to museums to look at vintage Chevy hot rods, still look to see if the distributor is wired right. Makes me wonder if I'm wired right? :)
 
During 'Hell Week' in pledging my fraternity, we had to memorize this and recite it while standing at attention if any member of the fraternity saw us on campus. I still remember it easily & get a laugh each time I recite it.

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!”

Fortunately, we didn't have to know the whole poem
 
For some reason, I have remembered this ever since High School.

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”​

― Omar Khayyám
 
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