:o Maybe I was a bit premature posting that in a memorization thread.
My 6th grade lock combination: 19-01-35 w00t!
The Doom/Doom 2 codes as printed above:
IDDQD(God mode, made your eyes glow)
IDSPISPOPD(No clip mode, replaced by IDCLIP in Doom 2)
IDKFA(All weapons, keys, and ammo. Could do IDFA if you didn’t want the keys too.)
IDBEHOLD(Gave random items. A for allmap, B for berserk, L for light amplify, I invisibility, etc…)
In more video game geekiness, if you describe the room/area you’re in in Half-Life I can usually tell where you are, where the enemies are in relation to you, if there are any items, or if there’s a scripted event.
I somehow also managed to memorize a poem from the original Diablo manual.
/Goes to dig out his Doom 2 CD :dubious:
useless thing memorised for the phone - 9878999888999987899988987
i wasn’t even taught that! i was shown how to do it by looking at my knuckles and that’s that.
I worked at a Target in Tx around Xmas 1999. When the Pokemon games were all popular and whatnot.
The cost of a Game Boy color (including tax) then and there?
$76.78
Menya zevout VootKoo (Something about Vodka, in Russian. And I don’t drink.)
“I have large magic testicles.” in German.
Antidiluviantroglydite (sp?).
Then I know all kinds of relatively pointless snake facts. I need to know them, but the general public doesn’t.
Such as: Colubrids have only one functioning lung. (ratsnakes, cornsnakes, milksnakes, etc).
You can’t devonomize a snake by taking out their fangs, because they grow back.
Snakes have 3 jaws. (two on top, one on bottom).
There’s one type of snake that is all-female.
The way Boomslang venom works.
Gentics, hehe.
I can name most of the Ball Python Morphs off the top of my head, and how much they cost.
What company first bred Blood Pythons succusfully in captivity.
Some of the other things I know I’m kind of foggy on, and wouldn’t post them as fact.
Ooh, I have a lot of these.
I can sing all the lyrics to “The Elements” by Tom Lehrer, as well as “Nations of the World”, from Animaniacs.
I can name just about every X-Files episode in about ten seconds.
I can also name every victim of Jack the Ripper, and every wife of Henry VIII.
Here’s one that might go over the heads of a few people: There was a Star Wars parody short film many years ago, called “Hardware Wars” (irons for ships, how could it not be funny?). The big climactic final battle was preceded with the pilots’ briefing that contained phrases such as “antigyroscopic pre-interface thrust chamber” and “automatic flip-flop override device”. I can recite that whole thing for no reason I can discern.
The entirety of Tam Lin, version Child 39a.
I can name any Buffy episode from seasons 1-6 from watching 15 seconds of any scene.
Strange bits and pieces of Russian (learned in third grade), German (3 years in high school), and Yiddish (one year in college).
The collective noun for turtles is “bushel”.
I know Jenny’s old number but can’t remember my new one.
Everyone over 30 sing along,
867-5309
And if you want to nitpick… the Malay language is Bhasa not Malay.
E
FP
TOC
LPED
PECFD
The jersey number of every player who played regularily for the Senators from 1996 to now. I can name most of those players, too, but some you’ll have to remind me of their names, and then I can give the number.
Every line spoken by the character Doug Masters in the movie Iron Eagle.
I can recite, word for word, and with considerable enthusiasm, Dr. Suess’ “The Lorax”
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion, on a sesame seed bun.
At one time i knew it backwards too. And I don’t now, and never did eat them.
The chemicals Methylchloroisothiazolinone and Methylisothiazolinone (I memorized their spelling). Go ahead and look at your shampoo bottle - I bet they’re there. Along with Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate and/or Ammonium Laureth Sulfate.
Not in that order, though, right? I mean, who puts lettuce between a burger and its cheese?
That would be crazy.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soute
The droghte of March hath perc’d to the rote
and bathed every veyne in swich licour
of which vertu engendr’d is the flour
That was from memory. The spelling is probably off… don’t keep up with Middle English like I ought to, especially not during training camps.
I’ve been able to recite Jabberwocky from memory since I was about 7 or so. I doubt I’m alone in this.
When a fox is in the bottle
where the tweedle beetles battle
with their paddles on a puddle
on a noodle eating poodle…
wait, wrong Dr Suess. But that’s my useless memorization!
In the novel The Dark Rivers Of The Heart by Dean Koontz, some of the chapters are started with a bit of poetry taken from an imaginary book. This is one bit I memorised;
All of us are travellers lost,
our tickets arranged at a cost,
unknown, and beyond our means,
this odd itinerary of scenes.
Enigmatic, strange, surreal,
it leaves us unsure how to feel.
No post-mortem journey is rife,
with more mystery than life.
Now what use can I possibly have with that?
The Declaration of Principles of Spiritualism, inadvertently memorized by me while I was helping my then-boyfriend study for his exams to become a certified medium. In my own defense, these days I can’t recite any more than the first three.
Zombie. Closed.