Anything remotely related to algebra or geometry.
What a cute little bird um frog are. He ain’t got no tail almost hardly. And when him walks him doesn’t walk him hops. And when him, sits him sits on his he ain’t got almost hardly. Ain’t it awful?
Anybody know where that originated?
I’m sure this has been said already as I’m too lazy to read all the post but I’ve memorized the alphabet backwards.
Whan that Aprille, with his shoures sote
The droghte of March hath perc’d to the rote
…" - that bit? I remember the first four lines too!
Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky , which I have to admit did get me laid once. Don’t ask.
The entirety of about twenty Strong Bad e-mails, complete with fairly accurate voices. If you don’t get it, go here and you’ll understand.
The URL above, since its in my bookmarks anyway.
You may take some heart in the fact that you memorized it incorrectly- the 2nd person plural of esse is estis , not estus 
bone to bone, no? (still “like”, though)
LET A=6
FOR…
NEXT
“Ya vas lubile…” (start to Russian poem)
GGATCC (Bam HI restriction enzyme recongition site)
I before E except after C (with Snoopy on Mouth Harp…this along with most grammar rules which bat about .500)
qui quae quod
cuius cuius cuius
semper ubi sub ubi
xyzzy
ad nauseum
Not entirely useless, but I doubt there are very many people familiar with it.
“Does Sam Play Football” Data, Segment, Packet, Frame, Bit (It came in handy when I was taking a course in Cisco Netowkring)
pause, option, 6, 1+3, B, A, 9, A, 9, A, *, option, 6, #, *, *, option, 2, option.
If done correctly, you should hear the Predator laugh.
From the game Aliens vs. Predator. On the Atari Jaguar. Even more useless than Doom codes, as there isn’t even anyone here to remember it with me.
The square root of -1 = i
Caecilius est pater. Metella est mater. Quintus est filius. Cereberus est canis.
Eight weeks of Latin, seventh grade.
3.141592654
Useless because I’m a French major.
From high school German:
der die das die
des der des der
dem der dem den
den die das die
These are the definite articles for nouns of different cases (nomanative, genetive, accusative, dative) and different genders. I also still know the “aus ausser bei mit nach…” lists mentioned earlier. Since then, I’ve taken four other languages and only used two of them.
I once won a free cup of coffee by being able to translate what the baristas had written on the daily special board (in French, Spanish, and German). All of those years of schooling, for a buck fifty’s worth of coffee…! :rolleyes:
Oy. That’s “nominative” and “genitive” (I’m home with the flu, cut me some slack…)
Rapper’s Delight
Sugarhill Gang
i said a hip hop
the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop the rock it
to the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
I purposely memorized Rappers Delight, but I can’t remember why. I can still recite the entire thing from memory.
Argghh! Thanks for putting that back in my head. Yeah, both. It would have helped if the teacher had at least explained what the “Lupercal” was and what “coffers” were and why it was important that they were filled.
Another totally useless piece of information: Maynard G. Krebs middle name.
Utor, fruor, fungor, potior, and vescor.
The 5 verbs in Latin that “take” the ablative (i.e., their object is in the ablative case).
[sub]I apologize if this has been done in this thread before. I didn’t feel like searching through four pages.[/sub]
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Useless because they use a totally different warning now.
chuckles
Well, after reading this thread I must say I feel a bit dismayed that I was taught:
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November
All the rest have 31, except for February; which stands alone…
not nearly as catchy as the one mentioned earlier.
And, to chime in with a Kingdom, Phyllum, … story; I just now am trying to decide if I should be offended that some eighteen years ago the mnemonic we were taught was “King Phillip Can Order Five Good Slaves”
Nope, he had it right. I’ve never used it but I know that. The Konami code it’s called and it is a vital piece of video game history. They make shirts that have the Konami code written on them. Whoever “They” are. Freakin’ weirdos.
I still remember my locker combination from my freshman year of high school. I am now 42.
17-27-5
I opened this thread specifically to post that the most useless thing I ever memorized was the alphabet backwards (but not by force, by boredom in a college lecture hall). The only time I’ve ever used it is to prove to people who don’t believe that I can really do it.