I often say that I'm never really truly bored. My mind works in mysterious ways that even I don't understand!
For example, on the way home this evening from work the following popped into my mind. Why?
I have no ideal. Why I memorized it? I have no ideal. I know I did this after high school so it was not a school project. I have to admit that I could not remember past the 6th line on the following.
One hen.
Two ducks.
Three squawking geese.
Four limerick oysters.
Five corpulent porpoises.
Six pair of Don Alverzo's tweezers.
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array.
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt.
Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth.
Ten lyrical, spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time.
That started me reciting a whole bunch of stuff that I have stored in my brain.
I know an old lady who swallowed a spider, the song, Mr Johnny Robeck , One dark night in the middle of the day and a song that I learned as a child that helped me remember all 12 Disciples.
This took my nicely up to my house. But I can't remember names of the library patrons that I see every day!
Do you have things like that stuck in your brain? Do you sometimes pull them out and see if you can still recite them?
1 year ago
Oh, that reminds me of a drinking game from waaaay back we called One Fat Hen. The object was to recite the "captain's" riddle, and it went like this:
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Coupla ducks.
Three brown bears.
Four flying hares.
Five fat females sittin on a stump.
Six Sicilian sailors sailing the seven seas.
Seven sisters name Schneider silently sipping cider by the fire.....
I never made it to eight.
If you recited the riddle wrong, you had to have a drink. It was a quick end to a long evening.
Scary thing is this all happened in 1989, and I remember it like yesterday.
I have watched the movie, "Love, Actually" so many times I know many of the scenes by heart. The same with, "The Princess Bride."
ReplyDeleteAs for school stuff, the mnemonics I learned in chemistry still stick in my brain, as do some Geometry theorems (how I hated those!). When I really can't sleep, I go through those. I could really do without both of those at this point in my life.
CVPH- That looks and sounds like a tounge twister big time!
ReplyDeleteK- If I ever get married I want the preacher to say " mawwige" and use some of stuff from princess bride. Also I'm reading 13 Moons by Charles Frazier. Thanks for telling me about his other book.
I would not eat them on a train, I would not eat them in the rain. I can not eat them with a fox, I can not eat them in a box. I can not eat green eggs and ham, I can not eat them Sam I am.
ReplyDeleteA lot of song lyrics stick in my head. I do have some things I memorized in school too. One of my favorite poems: The owl and the pussycat went to see in a beautiful pea green boat.....
ReplyDeleteAlthough I can't remember all of it any more.
My mind is not the best with recalling words. I remember images much better. I will remember what a book looks like before I remember the title. Or what people look like or what they wear before I remember their name.
You are reminding me of some of the poems, etc that you told Taylor & Lisa on our road trips.
ReplyDeleteI'm one who usually comes up with a song that I've heard in the past with only one word or a phrase to get me started. For example, I used to work as a waitress and was walking into the kitchen past the TV when I heard someone say, "put your hands up". I began singing the song "Put Your Hands Up In The Air" by Danzel, and it stuck for the rest of my shift. That's my curse. My students all know me by now, too. Sometimes they'll do on purpose to put a song in my head because they'll know that it will stay in my head until the next one comes along. One day I had the song, "The Wheels on the Bus" in my head all afternoon.
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