Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Arias, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to bear the jeweled of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow.
It is I, his chronicler who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure…
I memorized the first eleven chapters of 1 Corinthians in the Bible word for word. Impressive until you learn that i gave up while some of the other Bible quizzers memorized all of 1st and 2nd Corinthians.
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will obey the lawful orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
The entire script of Dirty Dancing. I watched that movie every single day for years as a child (that was way too young to be watching it. The 80’s man)
I can remember; “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good character and my enemies for their good intellect, a man can never be too sure of his enemies.” ~ Lard Henry Wotton, The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), or possibly another version; “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good character, and my enemies for their good intellect.”
The alphabet … backwards. Quickly
When I was 3 or 4 there was a record my parents played all the time and there was a kid saying the alphabet backwards. I learned it. At age 4 lol. Taught my kids too
Fear is the mind killer. It is the little death that brings total annihilation.
I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me.
And when it has passed, I will turn my inner eye, and where it has gone, only I will remain.
That was from memory after memorizing it when I read the book 30+ years ago. Here it is from the book:
“I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
The movie Platoon with Charlie Sheen, directed by Oliver Stone. I am not a fan of either, nor war movies. When I got my first apartment I did not have cable, reception or anything but a TV and VCR. This movie showed up. I do not who brought it over.
I can recite every word by every character from start to finish.
I can do most of the first “God is Dead” from The Gay Science (“God is dead. God remains dead. We have killed him…” etc). I love both Nietzche’s work and how poetic the phrasing is.
Ill sing it to you through talk-to-text: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana that’s us! Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming.
Fifteen birds in five fir trees their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze. What funny little birds they have no wings oh what shall we do with the funny little things.
– Hey, you, you’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
– Damn you Stormcloaks. Skyrim was fine until you came along. Empire was nice and lazy. If I hadn’t been captured, I’d have stolen that horse and been halfway to Hammerfell.
– We’re all brothers and sisters in binds now, thief.
– And what’s wrong with him, huh?
– Watch your tongue. You’re speaking to Ulfric Stormcloak, the True High King.
– Shut up back there!
– But if they’ve captured you… oh, gods, where are they taking us?
– I don’t know where we’re going, but Sovngarde awaits.
– Shor, Mara, Dibella, Kynareth, Akatosh! Divines, please help me.
– Look at him. General Tullius, the military governor. And it looks like the Thalmor are with him. Damn elves. I bet they had something to do with this…
– This is Helgen. I used to be sweet on a girl from here… I wonder if Vilod is still making that mead with juniper berries mixed in…
– Who are they, dad? Where are they going?
– Inside, little cub.
– Why? I wanna watch the soldiers.
– Inside the house. Now.
– Fine…
– Why are we stopping?
– Why do you think? End of the line.
– Oh gods, this can’t be happening! This isn’t happening!
– Face your death with some courage, thief.
– Let’s go. Shouldn’t keep the gods waiting for us.
– Step forward when we call your name. One at a time.
– Ulfric Stormcloak. Jarl of Windhelm.
– It has been an honor, Jarl Ulfric.
– Ralof of Riverwood.
– Lokir of Rorikstead.
– No, you’ve got to tell them. We weren’t with them! This is a mistake! You’re not going to kill me!
She’s the man. With the exception of maybe ten words in the whole movie, I can quote it word for word. I was obviously obsessed with it and watched it all the time but when I wasn’t watching it I was running through it start to finish in my head
The grid, a digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through a computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.
But then, one day…
You got in?
That’s right man, I got in. And the world was more beautiful than I ever dreamed. And also, more dangerous than I had ever imagined. Hop in bed now kiddo.
All the lyrics to at least 200 songs, probably way more honestly.
When I was a kid, I watched Ace Ventura on repeat every night for years, I don’t remember it all now, but there’s a lot of lines I remember word for word without having watched it in 20+ years until I watched it a couple months ago. When I was about 9 or 10, I could recite the entire movie.
Always remembered Pi to 5 decemal places (3.14159)
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
The intro to Person of Interest.
My grandma’s home telephone number I haven’t used in at least 15 years.
There is probably more stuff I can’t think of right now, I’ve been awake 36 hours.
Is there a word for someone who can recite obscure things? Autistic lol? Different monologues from Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, and I think over 90% of the entire Disney Hercules movie lol. I also memorised a handful of short poems me and my ex partner shared, as well as small facts about places we have visited. To name a few!
I looooove standing up and monologuing quotes passionately, maybe in another universe I went into theatre lol
-The 50 states (in a rhyming song)
-The presidents in order
-A Christopher Columbus poem I learned in 1986
-The Preamble
-The beginning of the Gettysburg Address
-books of the New Testament in order
So many random things taking up space. I need external storage.
“Why am I perfectly nitpicking this piece when the poet purposely put poor punctuation in his poem?! PTERODACTYL!!” – From one of TheOdd1sOut’s videos, I’ve had it memorized since I was like, 14 😂
There’s a long poem written by Ravana(an antagonist and a demon in ramayana(a Hindu text)) in praise of lord Shiva it has 18 or something paragraphs of which I learnt 14. It’s entirely in Sanskrit language and I don’t understand a word of it …
“They came to town, they came to town, the Jellybean Brigade.
They marched around in bright array, a rainbow on parade.
They swaggered in the broiling sun instead of in the shade.
They’re nothing but a puddle now, the Jellybean Brigade”
We had several combination padlocks at our house when I was a kid for exterior doors, sheds, crawl spaces, etc. I can still remember the codes for each of them
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of Lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!
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In the third grade we had to memorize the Gettysburg address and I don’t ever think I will forget it.
“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 battle-field 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.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
In the criminal justice system, s*xually based offenses are considered especially heinous.In New Yor City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the
Inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will
shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness
for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious
Anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers
And you will know
My name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee
Honestly? Most of the teen comedies that came out in the late ’90s. It’s not like I tried to do this, but I’m on the spectrum, and before streaming was a thing, we just re-watched the same tapes over and over, and it just sunk in. I once kept my friends entertained on an extremely boring train ride by performing most of Clueless for them (we reached our stop before I got to the end). Did the same thing with at least half of Scream on a boring bus ride too.
“In many ways the work of a critic is easy…” (Anton Ego’s monologue from Ratatouille.) Also Chaz Smith’s “Water’s Not Wet” explanation and Scott Steiner’s Math Rant. All three are classics
2-12-8-5-3-10-9-6-11-7-4-1. Order of the marking sheet my Year 3 Maths teacher used for the quiz at the start of every lesson. The answers always came out in this order, they just started a different point. No-one ever knew how I could always get the quiz done in 7 seconds flat. I was never great at Maths. I’m still not!
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V’s introductory speech form V for Vendetta.
Teenage me was very proud to have memorised it
I ate like a candy or something 5 minutes ago
the Gloria Patri… in English, though.
and i heard as it were, the noise of thunder one of the four beasts says come and see, and i saw and behold a white horse.
The alphabet.
The Fritz Schnackenpfefferhausen Bratwurst song
Abcs
The letters of the english alphabet, in order
After all these years!
The blood in blood out movie!!
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, I memorized and recited it in eighth grade for extra credit
The Lord’s Prayer in Latin
How to spell Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Do re mi, forward and backward.
800-588-2-300 Empireeeee…today!
The names of the 24 lunar travelers.
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Arias, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to bear the jeweled of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow.
It is I, his chronicler who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure…
Pontius Pilate/Biggus Dickus scene
The Lord’s Prayer ~ Hail Mary
All the country flags
House phone numbers which we had in childhood
I memorized the first eleven chapters of 1 Corinthians in the Bible word for word. Impressive until you learn that i gave up while some of the other Bible quizzers memorized all of 1st and 2nd Corinthians.
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
All the words to Ice Ice Baby.
The entire text of Jabberwocky (“‘Twas brillig and the slithy toves/did gire and gimble in the wabe…”). Not sure about the spellings though.
41,43,39;
21,12,26;
14,6,28
The preamble to the United States constitution
The first paragaph of the french cbildren’s book The Sweater by Roch Carrier
The 1980’s UK advert for milk, “Accrington Stanley?”
I can sing the alphabet backwards and also the first 100 digits of pi!
My social security number, phone numbers, my first debit card number and my library card number.
In Flanders Fields
My childhood phone number
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will obey the lawful orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
Fifty nifty United States….a song with all states in Alphabetical order
I remember all the words to tequila by the champs
Jabberwocky from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Jabberwocky from Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. I had to memorize a poem for 9th grade Endlish class, and that’s the one I picked.
Random theme songs, movie quotes, song lyrics if the beat is on.
“BUNS KETCHUP PICKLE CHEESE PUT THAT PATTY IN BETWEEN IT’S BURGER WHAT WHAT IT’S BURGER WHAT WHAT” 🔥🔥🔥
100 digits of pi
The entire script of Dirty Dancing. I watched that movie every single day for years as a child (that was way too young to be watching it. The 80’s man)
The first 20 digits of Pi I memorized them one day because I was bored
50 states in alphabetical order
I can remember; “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good character and my enemies for their good intellect, a man can never be too sure of his enemies.” ~ Lard Henry Wotton, The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), or possibly another version; “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good character, and my enemies for their good intellect.”
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Loads of stuff. The longest that I can spiel off without even thinking about it is Luke 2:1-~16.
I realized recently that I still know The Numbers from Lost for absolutely no good reason.
Deoxyribonucleicacid
Quint’s speech about the USS Indianapolis from Jaws.
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carol
Linkin Park lyrics
A,B,A,C,A,B,B
The alphabet … backwards. Quickly
When I was 3 or 4 there was a record my parents played all the time and there was a kid saying the alphabet backwards. I learned it. At age 4 lol. Taught my kids too
Twas the Night Before Christmas, entire movie of Aladdin, many song lyrics, and some childhood landline phone numbers.
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost.
It’s not that impressive, but it’s a pleasant poem.
Fear is the mind killer. It is the little death that brings total annihilation.
I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me.
And when it has passed, I will turn my inner eye, and where it has gone, only I will remain.
That was from memory after memorizing it when I read the book 30+ years ago. Here it is from the book:
“I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Jenny’s phone number.
The opening line to “Oh captain, my captain”
Way too many early Simpsons quotes.
The alphabet
Uplink Code
The rap that Donnie Wahlberg does during the New Kids on the Block song “Games”
I have not heard that song in 35 years yet I know that rap sequence. I have no idea why I know it still
For some reason, I remember my elementary school song. I’m almost 40.
I wonder how many things I haven’t been able to fit into my brain because it’s holding on to that song for a school that doesn’t even exist anymore.
The alphabet backwards, for getting stopped by cops in college towns visibly impaired
The “Scout Law” from when I was in Boys Scouts (I think it’s called Scouts America these days)
Verse 3.
Doug E Fresh.
All The Way To Heaven.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song
The first part of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan.
Had a pop-up book that I read to my kids a zillion times.
Chuck’s chicanery rant from Better Call Saul
HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUNROOF!!
I’ve come to make an announcement…
“The Big Red Barn” by Margaret Wise Brown
I read that to my kids so many times.
“In the land of chimpanzees I was a monkey… “
The movie “the grinch”
All of the World Series winners and losers in order, and 3 players from each team
The movie Platoon with Charlie Sheen, directed by Oliver Stone. I am not a fan of either, nor war movies. When I got my first apartment I did not have cable, reception or anything but a TV and VCR. This movie showed up. I do not who brought it over.
I can recite every word by every character from start to finish.
The Humpty Dance
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
The entirety of “Jabberwocky.”
A repeat after me drinking game I learned in college. “One red hen, a couple of ducks,…”
I’m 38, and the weirdest thing I can recite from memory is the entire works of Edgar Allan Poe from a high school English class forever ago.
The colours of the rainbow: ROY G BIV
I can do most of the first “God is Dead” from The Gay Science (“God is dead. God remains dead. We have killed him…” etc). I love both Nietzche’s work and how poetic the phrasing is.
Almost the entire script from both Mary Poppins (1964) and Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head (1967)
Ill sing it to you through talk-to-text: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana that’s us! Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming.
The Our Father in a Spanish
Fifteen birds in five fir trees their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze. What funny little birds they have no wings oh what shall we do with the funny little things.
All 55 counties in WV in alphabetical order. We had to learn them in 8th grade for WV history and I’ve never forgotten them. That was in 1984.
My birthday…..And since that was so long ago…That’s about it.
I’m fully aware of what I’m doing. Can’t you see?
Man committed a sin. Deesturbing the life cycle of nature. The original sin that man is responsible to.
To protect the laurf cycle. I have made a creature to rule over man kind.
This, is the finul battle! Show yourself, our new ruler, the emperor!
The Preamble to the Constitution
– Hey, you, you’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
– Damn you Stormcloaks. Skyrim was fine until you came along. Empire was nice and lazy. If I hadn’t been captured, I’d have stolen that horse and been halfway to Hammerfell.
– We’re all brothers and sisters in binds now, thief.
– And what’s wrong with him, huh?
– Watch your tongue. You’re speaking to Ulfric Stormcloak, the True High King.
– Shut up back there!
– But if they’ve captured you… oh, gods, where are they taking us?
– I don’t know where we’re going, but Sovngarde awaits.
– Shor, Mara, Dibella, Kynareth, Akatosh! Divines, please help me.
– Look at him. General Tullius, the military governor. And it looks like the Thalmor are with him. Damn elves. I bet they had something to do with this…
– This is Helgen. I used to be sweet on a girl from here… I wonder if Vilod is still making that mead with juniper berries mixed in…
– Who are they, dad? Where are they going?
– Inside, little cub.
– Why? I wanna watch the soldiers.
– Inside the house. Now.
– Fine…
– Why are we stopping?
– Why do you think? End of the line.
– Oh gods, this can’t be happening! This isn’t happening!
– Face your death with some courage, thief.
– Let’s go. Shouldn’t keep the gods waiting for us.
– Step forward when we call your name. One at a time.
– Ulfric Stormcloak. Jarl of Windhelm.
– It has been an honor, Jarl Ulfric.
– Ralof of Riverwood.
– Lokir of Rorikstead.
– No, you’ve got to tell them. We weren’t with them! This is a mistake! You’re not going to kill me!
– Archers!
– Anyone else feel like running?
– Next, the Nord in the rags!
– What was that?
– Nothing. Carry on.
– I said, next prisoner!
– You there. Step forward.
– Who are you?
The helping verbs!
Am is are was were be being been have had do does did couple would should may might must can will shall
I’m 53 learned that in jr high and can’t seem to forget it.
She’s the man. With the exception of maybe ten words in the whole movie, I can quote it word for word. I was obviously obsessed with it and watched it all the time but when I wasn’t watching it I was running through it start to finish in my head
The entire 14-minute Rapper’s Delight rap.
A handful of poems:
– Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
– “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
– “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon
The times-tables.
Write to me, Stick Stickley, PO Box 963. New York City, New York State, 10108
The vast majority of Hoodwinked, how to spell Czechoslovakia, and how to say “Disestablishmentarianism”
All 50 states in alphabetical order learned in 4th grade. I’m 59.
The grid, a digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through a computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.
But then, one day…
You got in?
That’s right man, I got in. And the world was more beautiful than I ever dreamed. And also, more dangerous than I had ever imagined. Hop in bed now kiddo.
All the lyrics to at least 200 songs, probably way more honestly.
When I was a kid, I watched Ace Ventura on repeat every night for years, I don’t remember it all now, but there’s a lot of lines I remember word for word without having watched it in 20+ years until I watched it a couple months ago. When I was about 9 or 10, I could recite the entire movie.
Always remembered Pi to 5 decemal places (3.14159)
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
The intro to Person of Interest.
My grandma’s home telephone number I haven’t used in at least 15 years.
There is probably more stuff I can’t think of right now, I’ve been awake 36 hours.
Is there a word for someone who can recite obscure things? Autistic lol? Different monologues from Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, and I think over 90% of the entire Disney Hercules movie lol. I also memorised a handful of short poems me and my ex partner shared, as well as small facts about places we have visited. To name a few!
I looooove standing up and monologuing quotes passionately, maybe in another universe I went into theatre lol
Way too many things…
-The 50 states (in a rhyming song)
-The presidents in order
-A Christopher Columbus poem I learned in 1986
-The Preamble
-The beginning of the Gettysburg Address
-books of the New Testament in order
So many random things taking up space. I need external storage.
Theme song to Fresh Prince of Bel Aire
Ace Ventura’s Ray Finkle speech
“He hath disgraced me, and hindered me, half a million…” from the Merchant of Venice
I had to memorize this monologue in 2016. Now it’s just stuck here 🧍♀️
Gillian’s Island and Beverly Hillbillies theme songs
Hamlets soliloquy, to be or not to be
My older sisters teacher made her class memorize this. So i memorized it over the summer so i wouldn’t struggle in her class.
The teacher didn’t even teach us Shakespeare!! FFS
whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against… ugh i did this to myself. Lol
Some poem by Shell Silverstein that I learned about 30 years ago. I had to recite it at an old folks home when I was in elementary school.
I can’t remember the name of the poem but it is about a snowball and I have had the poem memorized since I was a kid.
I also know all the words to the song I Will Survive and can recite them with no music.
The list of boyfriends my sister wrote on the underside of my other sister’s bunk bed. There’s like fifty of them 🤦🏻♂️
All the prepositions in the English language in alphabetical order.
The Pledge of Allegiance
The Berenstain’s B Book.
(because I asked my Mom to read it to me 5,838+ times)
The alphabet backwards. Zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
0118-999-88199-9119725…….3
Toys R Us song
“Why am I perfectly nitpicking this piece when the poet purposely put poor punctuation in his poem?! PTERODACTYL!!” – From one of TheOdd1sOut’s videos, I’ve had it memorized since I was like, 14 😂
The first 20 digits of Pi.
El Jinete, recited it in Spanish class circa 2000/2001.
The state fish of Hawaii is the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a.
The Australian national anthem. I only lived there for a year.
Had a Hamilton phase when it was first on Disney+ during the pandemic. I feel like 1k other people already commented this though probably
Shema prayer
Fett’s Vette by MC Chris
There’s a long poem written by Ravana(an antagonist and a demon in ramayana(a Hindu text)) in praise of lord Shiva it has 18 or something paragraphs of which I learnt 14. It’s entirely in Sanskrit language and I don’t understand a word of it …
In Flanders fields poem.
Thanks to an episode of Hey! Arnold I watched way too many times, I can spell onomatopoeia extremely fast out loud.
“They came to town, they came to town, the Jellybean Brigade.
They marched around in bright array, a rainbow on parade.
They swaggered in the broiling sun instead of in the shade.
They’re nothing but a puddle now, the Jellybean Brigade”
Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy.
all of the us states and i’m english
We had several combination padlocks at our house when I was a kid for exterior doors, sheds, crawl spaces, etc. I can still remember the codes for each of them
I can recite the entirety of the Finding Nemo movie. It’s annoyed and fascinated many of my friends 😅
I have an annuity and I need cash noooow! Call jg Wentworth, 877 cash now!
The prologue to the Canterbury Tales in Middle English and the “I must not fear” Dune litany.
The Pledge of Allegiance 😂
I’m Canadian
I had to memorize the poem on the front of the Statue of Liberty in tenth grade…but for Spanish class. “Dame tus cansados, tus pobres…!”
The 23rd Psalm
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of Lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!
The Latin mass, learned it phonetically before I learned Latin
I used to be able to recite pi^pi to 50 digits. I very well may have been the only one on earth. I’ve since forgotten
McDonald’s jingle.
“Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame bun” 🎵
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
The serenity prayer and I don’t know why
The first 90 or so digits of pi
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998
The first line of Paul Revere’s Ride:
“Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” That’s all I got.
That, and just about every episode of Gilmore Girls, verbatim. Give me the first scene of an episode and I can take it from there! lol
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep
Seemingly most of the dialog in the Star Wars and Star Trek movies.
Every car number plate ( 🇬🇧UK ) of every car my dad owned , our home phone number and all addresses including post codes, right up to the age of 16
Yet I can’t remember much of those things that I have had from age 16 to now (50)
The fiber optic color code all 12 colors in order.
Blue Orange Green Brown Slate White Red Black Yellow Purple Rose Aqua
Cucumba…. Cucumba.. vitamins minerals very high number silica, hair and nails get longer other vitamins make your bones them stronger, anti wrinkle make you look younger mm, 95% water, kidney cleanser great hydrator detox fiber good regulater give your body good tings don’t be a traitor, get the cucumba cut it in a slice put it in a jug of water over night, you know what you get for a fraction of the price? Energy drink full of electrolytes. Raw in a salad is one of the use or as a base for your veg-i-ta-ble juice, another surprise put a slice on your eyes, take away the dryness revitalize, oh yes one ting i have left, cucumba can also help w bad breath wash away the bacteria that cause the odor cucumba water instead of soda. A macka b a medical monday. Cucumba!
The poem “Invictus”
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
Every song I ever liked
Yet most days I can’t remember where I parked my truck when I go to the grocery store
I’ve had this Shel Silverstein poem living rent free in my head for 20+ years now:
I made myself a snowball
As perfect as can be
I thought I’d keep it as a pet
And let it sleep with me
I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for its head
Then last night it ran away
But first it wet the bed
In the third grade we had to memorize the Gettysburg address and I don’t ever think I will forget it.
“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 battle-field 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.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863.
The Super Supper March by Dr Seuss.
Handlebars by Flobots 😆
to be or not to be
fire and ice
nothing gold can stay
The traditional Lord’s Prayer.
Opening dialogue from trainspotting. Choose life….
Ladies and Jellyspoons
I come before you
To stand behind you
And tell you something
I know nothing about
Next Thursday
The day after Friday
There will be a ladies’ meeting
For men only
Wear your best clothing
If you haven’t any
And if you can come
Please stay at home
Admission is free
You can pay at the door
We’ll give you a seat
So you can sit on the floor
US states in alphabetical order.
In the criminal justice system, s*xually based offenses are considered especially heinous.In New Yor City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Every line in tommy boy…. I know it’s quite a feat but I am taken, sorry.
Sopots speech from Red Faction 2
Lots of Scripture. Also the raven, miscellaneous poems and classic works.
“Two Dead Boys”
Ladies and Gentlemen, skinny and stout,
I’ll tell you a tale I know nothing about;
The Admission is free, so pay at the door,
Now pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to a fight;
Back to back, they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A blind man came to watch fair play,
A mute man came to shout “Hooray!”
A deaf policeman heard the noise and
Came and killed those two dead boys.
He lived on the corner in the middle of the block,
In a two-story house on a vacant lot;
A man with no legs came walking by,
and kicked the lawman in his thigh.
He crashed through a wall without making a sound,
into a dry creek bed and suddenly drowned;
The long black hearse come to cart him away,
But he ran for his life and is still gone today.
I watched from the corner of the big round table,
The only eyewitness to facts of my fable;
But if you doubt my lies are true,
Just ask the blind man, he saw it too.
-Tyler Rager
The 50 nifty states song.
A monologue from a regional theater play I performed in in 1990.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the
Inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will
shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness
for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious
Anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers
And you will know
My name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee
Honestly? Most of the teen comedies that came out in the late ’90s. It’s not like I tried to do this, but I’m on the spectrum, and before streaming was a thing, we just re-watched the same tapes over and over, and it just sunk in. I once kept my friends entertained on an extremely boring train ride by performing most of Clueless for them (we reached our stop before I got to the end). Did the same thing with at least half of Scream on a boring bus ride too.
“In many ways the work of a critic is easy…” (Anton Ego’s monologue from Ratatouille.) Also Chaz Smith’s “Water’s Not Wet” explanation and Scott Steiner’s Math Rant. All three are classics
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. I was a strange and lonely child
The little mermaid song
2-12-8-5-3-10-9-6-11-7-4-1. Order of the marking sheet my Year 3 Maths teacher used for the quiz at the start of every lesson. The answers always came out in this order, they just started a different point. No-one ever knew how I could always get the quiz done in 7 seconds flat. I was never great at Maths. I’m still not!
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. That sh*t had lived in my head rent-free for years! My son is 19!!…