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Whoami

Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 10:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I had a poem we learned way back in my school days pop into my head tonight. Can't remember anything but the first line.

I was going to ask in the "Dumb Question" thread, but I thought this may end up being kinda fun to discuss and try to recite other popular poems, songs, historical documents, etc and see if we all remember them the same way.

No fair looking up the correct answers! Let's see what our schooling and memory does for us. OK?


My first one is The Owl And the PussyCat. I remember it started off with:

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat.

(I can't for the life of me remember any more than that!)

Whoami

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 12:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, so if you don't like the Owl and The Pussycat, you can submit another piece if you like!

Gee, I thought this would be a fun thread. dunno

Maybe it reminds people too much of being in school?

Zachsmom

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 12:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lol no Whoami..if anyone is like me..I can't remember what I forgot..lol

Maris

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All I remember were my favorite lines.



And hand in hand on the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

Who remembers the Pied Piper?

All I remember is:

In Hamlins town in Brunswick
by the Famous Hanover City
The river Wieser deep and wide covers the town on the southern side

Not1worry

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 12:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had to learn some of Hamlet

"Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. And that the Everlasting had not fixed its cannons against such self-slaughter. Oh God, Oh God, how weary stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world."

I used to really identify with this in the midst of teenage angst.

I had to memorize Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 4th grade, but I'll spare you the recital.

I memorize things almost immediately, including many things I didn't really want to memorize. I won many contests in the army by knowing ridiculous facts like the dimensions of a straddle trench latrine. This is why I have no room in my brain for useful facts like how to jumpstart a car, all those black and red plugs, I never remember which is which.

Northstar

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was raised Catholic and I often get one line of a prayer stuck in my head and can't remember the rest. I finally found an on-line list of those I'd learned looooong ago.

"Oh My God, I'm heartly sorry <pause> (heartly? doesn't sound right...hardly sorry, no no that's not right either) sorry for having offended thee". lol

Maris

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 02:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think that is the act of contrition Northstar. isnt there a line about for these and all my sins and something about something to receive.

Hippyt

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not1worry,that's one of my favorite poems.
I remember all the lines from clapping games we played as kids.I do them with my kids,here's one(kinda naughty one)

Ms Lucy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell,
Ms Lucy went to heaven
the steamboat went to
Hello operator,give me number nine,
if you disconnect me I'll kind you in
Behind the fridgerator
there was a piece of glass,
Ms Lucy slipped and fell on it and broke her little
Ask me no more questions
I'll tell you no more lies
Ms. Lucy went to heaven chasing butterflies.

Maris

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought Ms. Lucy had an aligator purse.

Northstar

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, you too? I have no idea Maris. All I'm certain about is that I stumbled over it then, and I'm still stumbling over it. That poor priest in the confessional, he probably cringed when I showed up. "And I ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, and all the angels and saints, to pray for me to the Lord our God"..."for the gifts I am about to receive, from thy bounty, through Christ our Lord, Amem". Maybe..I'm confused again.<racing off to the on-line prayer page>

Brenda1966

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We sang that one a little different:

If you disconnect me, I'll kick you in the
Behind the refridgerator there lays a piece of glass,
and if you dare to step on it I'll jam it up your
Ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies,
the girls and boys are kissing in the D A R K,
D A R K, dark, dark, dark.

Okay, it doesn't rhyme, but that's how we sang it.

Nicoleme

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
we sang it a little different to..


and if you disconnect me, ill kick you in behind the fridgerator there was a piece of glass,
miss suzie sat upon it and hurt her big fat
ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies, the boys are in the girls room zipping up there flies......

Nicoleme

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my favorite poem that i remember is

ive never seen a purple cow,
i never hope to see one,
but i can tell you anyhow,
i would rather see one than be one

i remember it was in the "childcraft" books i think, and it had a picture of a cow painted purple with a little boy milking it....

Halfunit

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 03:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
...ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping up their
flies are in the city
bees are in the park
Miss Suzie and her boyfriend
are kissing in the
d-a-r-k d-a-r-k
DARK

Halfunit

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 04:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This was a really dumb song that we learned in elementary school. Other than this, the only thing I have memorized is the Preamble to the Constitution.

As I was walking down the street
One dark and dreary day
I came upon a billboard
And much to my dismay
The sign was torn and tattered
From the rain the night before
But clearly I could figure out
The message that it bore

Smoke Coca-Cola cigarettes
Chew Wrigley's spearmint beer
Ken-L-Ration dogfood makes your
wife's complexion clear
Simonize your baby with
a Hershey's candy bar
Texaco's the beauty bar
that's used by every star

So take your next vacation
in a brand new Fridgadaire
Learn to play the piano
in your winter underwear
Doctors say that babies
should smoke when they are 3
And people over 65
should bathe in Lipton Tea

Hippyt

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 05:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL,Half that's weird.
Here's another clapping one,I think there is more to it,but I've never been able to remember it,maybe someone here does.

Under the bamboo,under the bamboo tree
true love for you and me,my darling,true love for you and me
when we get married happy,we'll be
under the bamboo,under the bamboo tree
(faster)
If you will L-O-V-E,love me
all the T-I-M-E,time
then I will L-O-V-E,love you
all the T-I-M-E.time.

start over faster

Whit4you

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From the halls of Montazomah
to the shores of tripoly
we will fight for recess and pe
and to keep our desk a mess....

er something like that?

glory glory hal-a-lo-ya
teacher hit me with a ruler
got her behind the door
with a loaded 44
and my teacher ain't my teacher no more...

er something like that??

we are the selkirk girls we wear our hair in curls,
when we go out to play we go..all the way... we are the selkirk girls...

they are the selkirk guys they have the cutest eyes...they smoke big fat cigars they park with girls in cars...

er something like that??

but my favorite was always - and gawd knows how I will TYPE this but it was something like this ... sang by half the bus on one side... the other half the bus on the other... getting faster and faster each round till it got to fast for one round to sing it...these aren't the actual words just the jist of them ok?

I'll do bus side one in caps....and side 2 in small letters


VISTA

vista

CUMALA VISTA

cumala vista

CUMALA CUMALA CUMALA VISTA

cumala cumala cumala vista

ENI MINI EX A MINI VISTA

eni mini ex a mini vista

ENI MINI EX A MINI CUMALA VISTA

eni mini ex a mini cumala vista

VISTA - CUMALA CUMALA CUMAL VISTA ENI MINI EX A MINI CUMAL VISTA

vista - cumala cumala cumal vista eni mini ex a mini cumal vista

VISTA - CUMALA CUMALA CUMALA VISTA ENI MINI EXA MIN OH WALLA WALLA MINI VISTA

vista - cumala cumala cumala vista eni mini exa min oh walla walla mini vista

(and so on then it began again faster...)

VISTA

vista

(and so on faster and faster each round...)

I still have NO idea what any of this meant LOL but it was fun we got faster and faster each road trip that's all I remember... in the end it was like impossible to repeat side 1's chant... lol.


um these things from age 14.. are getting dimmer .. LOL

My boyfriends name is tommy... he comes from alabami he jumped in a lake and ate a snake and came out with a belly ache....