That’s all I could come up with as well.
(Raises hand)
“Jabberwocky,” “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” “The White Knight’s Song,” the entire first fit of The Hunting of the Snark, and big chunks of Phantasmagoria.
Also a bunch of Edward Lear. “The Jumblies,” “The Pobble Who Has No Toes,” and a few others.
James Whitcomb Riley’s “Little Orphant Annie.”
I raised two kids. Knowing poems comes in handy. Almost as good as lullabies.
And why isn’t Lake St. Clair, between Lakes Huron and Erie, considered one of the Great Lakes?
Because it ain’t all that great.
Ahh nuts.
Missed Malawi … but got Lake Albert!
I rounded out my top 5 with Baikal and the Black Sea, but this is one of those UScentric things isn’t it? Fair squeeze, I know those five shallow puddles too. :eek:
I just remember HOMES
Well, I managed to memorize at least the opening few lines of Snark. This is useful because of the famous line “What I tell you three times is true”, a Carroll Classic line right up there with “It takes all the running you can do, just to stay in one place.” The line was a key point in the dystopian futuristic novel Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, 1968.
Put me down as another who can name all five thanks to the mnemonic HOMES.
When you become a true Carrollmaniac (and I don’t advise it), nearly EVERY line is a classic, shimmering with deep mystical meaning. You get a lot of funny looks when you quote them. 95% of Americans haven’t even read the Alice books, for god’s sake.
“Union is strength, but ONIONS are a weakness.” – Phantasmagoria
Croatian here. I think there are five of them. Voted two. Erie and…Ontario? Of course, I facepalmed in shame the moment I saw all the names.
Aren’t they all connected, technically being one big body of water?
Couldn’t name any cities except Chicago. (After googling: Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto! Damn.:smack:)
I’m not sure I’ve ever actually ever read the list of the Tribes, so I fail on that count.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, um… Lazy, Grumpy, Doofus?
Not really relevant to my life, I must admit. I could probably do all post-WW2 presidents. Let’s see.
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama?
Yep. And The Walrus and the Carpenter. And quite a lot of Ogden Nash. And Tom Lehrer’s “Elements”, but I still haven’t mastered Weird Al’s “Hardware Store”.
Okay… geographical failure on this front. I didn’t know Lake Winnipeg was up there, and I’d never heard of Great Slave. :smack:
Isn’t that a bit like saying all oceans are one big body of water? 
Distinctions are both artificial and useful. I think the definition of what constitutes a single lake is whether the water level is the same across the entire surface, which it clearly isn’t true for all the Great Lakes, as this wonderful image from Wikipedia shows.
Yes, except for Huron / Michigan, there is a river / drop in elevation between the lakes. The drop off is big enough to require locks (except Huron <- St Clair -> Erie) for navigation. Niagara Falls being the most famous drop off.
Brian
Do Texans count? I got all of them except Lake Huron.
And I’ve always had severe Lake Envy. Even for the “little” ones like the Finger Lakes in beautiful New York State.
Every lake in Texas is a dammed up river. Except for Caddo Lake on the Louisiana Border–which is the bald cypress & gator sort of lake. Nothing like the deep cool waters of the glacier carved Northern lakes…
I basically live right on Lake St. Clair. It’s a duck pond compared to the others. I occasionally ride up Jefferson then around the thumb. St. Clair is greenish, with a brown tint in the shallower areas. When I get past Port Huron, Lake Huron is a wonderful blue.
Oh, and the temperature drops 10 degrees.
Heh. Other than Lake Tahoe and Crater Lake, Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake probably are the most voluminous non-Great lakes in the US. But even New York’s tiny slice of Lake Erie (not to mention Ontario) probably dwarfs them in volume even though Lake Erie is shallower.
I could name all of them without really having to think. No idea why I should but I loved looking through the massive Reader’s Digest World Atlas that my family had when I was a kid. And I am a big fan of Lord Huron.
I once knew most of the S370 opcodes in hex. :smack:
George and John and Tommy J.
Two Jims, John Q, and Old Hickory A.
Marty, Willy, Johnny, and James.
Zachary and Millard (how 'bout those names?)
Frank and Jim led to Abraham’s Days;
Then Andrew, Ulysses, and R.B. Hayes.
James and Chester, Grover and Ben.
Now don’t forget we had Grover again.
Willy Mac, Teddy, and a man named Taft
then Woody, Warren, and Calvin the Daft.
Herbie, Frankie, Harry and Ike;
John, Lyndon, Dick (called Tricky if you like);
Gerry, Jimmy, Ronnie and George;
Then came(!) Bill, then another George.
After that it was time for Barack;
Then - oh no, watch out! - Gack gack!
Not really. They are connected, mostly, by rivers, and so are considered different lakes (exception coming below.) Superior is at an elevation of approximately 600 feet, and flows by the St. Marys River (no apostrophe) into Lake Huron. Huron and Michigan are at about 575 feet, and flow via the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, and the Detroit River into Lake Erie, which is only 5-10 feet below them. Erie then flows via the Niagara into Ontario, which is at 243 feet - that rather significant drop can be spectacularly observed at, of course, Niagara Falls. Ontario flows via the St. Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean.
The only two that can be considered the same body of water at Huron and Michigan, which are at the same elevation and connected by a strait, not a river. That said, if you just look at a map it’s clear why they are generally considered different lakes.
Sam, my horse, eats oats.
I know at least one has