We, the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and out posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Although, I have to sing it to remember it.
All of “Jabberwocky.” And this:
"Faster than a speeding bullet! <kapweeeeng>
More powerful than a locomotive! <chugachugachugachuga…>
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! <whooooshhhhh>
Look! Up in the sky!
It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
It’s SUPERMAN!
Yes, it’s Superman: strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands.
And who, disguised as Clark Kent, [sub][sup]mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper,[/sup][/sub]
fights a never-ending battle
for Truth,
Justice,
and The American Way! <tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa>"
Many, many Disney songs, all 50 US states in near alphabtical order , the opening scene to the lion king and much of romeo and juliet.
Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo’s hand did slay
Romeo that spoke him fair, bid him bethink
how nice the quarrel was, and urged withal
your high displeasure, all this uttered
with gentle reath, calm look, knees humbly bowed
could not take truce with the unruly spleen
of tybalt, deaf to peace but that he tilts
piercing steel at bold Mercutio’s breast
Who all as hot turns deadly point to point
and with martial scorn with one hand beats cold death aside and with the other sends it back to tybalt whose decterity retorts it
Romeo he cries aloud “hold friends, friends part”
and swifter than his tongue his agile arm
beats down their fatal points and betwixt them rushes
underneath whose arm an envious thrust from tybalt
hit the life of stout mercutio
and then tybalt fled but by and by came back to romeo
who had but newly entertained revenge
and to it they go like lightning
for ere I could draw to part them was stout tyblat slain
and as he fell did romeo turn and fly
this is the truth or let benvolio die
I know more of the balcony scene but that’s been said, pardon the horrid grammar and line breaks but I just preformed it, I didn’t need to know how to write it.
Kitty
Just for the hell of it…
Scar: Life’s not fair, is it? For you see, I, well I shall never be king. And you, shall never see the light of another day, ah, adieu.
Zazu: Didn’t your mother ever tell you not play with your food?
Scar: Oh look Zazu you made me lose my lunch.
Zazu: you’ll lose more than that when the king get’s through with you, he’s as mad as a hippo with a hernia.
Kitty
Here’s one that I’ll never forget, thanks to year after year of yardstick wielding nun abuse:
deep breath
ourfatherwhoartinheaven,hallowedbethyname,thykingdomcome,
thywillbedoneonearthasitisinheaven.giveusthisdayourdaily
breadandforgiveusourtrespassesasweforgivethosewhotresspass
againstus,andleadusnotintotemptation,butdeliverusfromevil.
Amen.
Whew
Everytime I say that I feel closer to God. Honestly.
The first bit of Evangeline. “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks…”
Parts of the Song of Solomon, the Lord’s prayer, the 23rd psalm, most of the book of Ruth.
The pledge, the preamble, the anthem.
The “Oh, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you” speech from R&J.
The “If we shadows have offended” speech from Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as quite a few other bits of the play.
“Tara, I have to tell you…”
“No, I understand. You have to be with the person you love.”
“I am.”
"You mean?
“I mean. Okay?”
“Oh, yes.”
“I feel horrible about everything I’ve put you through. And I’m going to make it up to you. Starting right now.”
“Right now?”
<nod>
<blows out candle>
-Willow and Tara, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “New Moon Rising.”
Also other various bits of BTVS.
I can sing along with “Jupiter” from Holst’s “The Planets”.
And why is it that I type out the Buffy scene, but not the Shakespeare? Oh, well, screw intellectualism.
And, in closing,
May the light of God shine on us today,
may the light of God shine on us today,
may it show us where to travel, lead us back if we should stray
may the light of God shine on us today
May the love of God live in us today
may the love of God live in us today
may the warmth we feel within us show in all we do and say
may the love of God live in us today
May the peace of God be with us today
may the peace of God be with us today
may it guide us and protect us, lead us back if we should stray
may the light of God shine on us
may the love of God live in us
may the peace of God be with us today
and every day.
We sing that most every Sunday in church as we leave.
Oh, good, I’m not the only one. I don’t know why this has stuck with me, but it did. I think I learned this in 8th grade English. I’m 30 now, but I can still remember it.
Well, it’s been 20 years since I heard this, but I think it goes
two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a-sesame-seed-bun
and
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I do have Jabberwocky memorized, as well as Gilbert’s Yarn of the Nancy Bell (with its wonderful refrain:
Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
And the mate of the Nancy brig,
And a bos’n tight, and a midshipmite,
And the crew of the captain’s gig.)
I know the entire BHG song “You’re Pretty When I’m Drunk.” It always impresses people who think I’m Miss Goodie-Good.
Anyone who has ever been in high school speech can recite about eight minutes of a play, speech, poem, story…
I still know every word of the story I did, and the last speech meet was in April.
I also know that Loveline beginning. Weird.
“He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature and because of it the greatest in the universe. And he learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can’t be any gift of perfection from outside themselves. And when men seek such perfection they find only death, fire, loss, disillusionment. In the end of everything that’s gone forward, men have always sought an end to toil and misery. It can’t be given; it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from man himself.”
Cordially,
Myron M. Meyer
The Man Who
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I can also recite “The Philosopher’s Drinking Song” from memory, although singing it is another matter. My tongue always trips over “on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill”.
I have of late
But wherefore I know not lost all my mirth.
Indeed it goes so hard with me that
the goodly frame the Earth seem to me a sterile promatory
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you!
This brave or’hanging fermament, the magistical roof
fretted with golden light, why
it appears no other thing to me
than a foul and pestelent congragation of vapours.
What a piece of work is man.
How noble in reason.
How infinite in faculties
In form and movement how express and admiriable.
In actions how not unlike and angel.
In apprehention how like a god.
The beauty of the world.
The paragon of animals.
But what is this quintesence of dust to me?
No, man delights me not.
No nor women neither, though by your smile you seem to say so.
On my honour I will do my best to do my duty to G-d and my country to obey the Scout oath to help other people at all times to keep myself physicaly strong mentaly awake and moraly straight.
A Boy Scout is
Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courtious
Kind
Obedent
Cheerful
Thrifty
Brave
Clean
and
Reverent
For me Boy Scouts was 27yrs ago
Well, it’s already typed, so I won’t write the Prologue to Act I of “Romeo and Juliet”.
"BEATRICE: I wonder that you still be talking, Signor Benedick. Nobody marks you.
BENEDICK: Why my dear Lady Disdain! Are you let living?
BEATRICE: Is possible disdain should die when she hath such meat food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy, itself, must convert to disdain when you come in her presance.
BENEDICK: Then is courtesy a turncoat. And I would I had not a hard heart, but truely, I love none.
BEATRICE: A dear happiness to all women; else they would be troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood I am of your humor for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
BENEDICK: A dear happiness to men; else they would 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
BEATRICE: Scratching could not make it worse an 'twere such a face as yours were.
BENEDICK: You are a rare parrot teacher.
BEATRICE: A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
BENEDICK: I would my horse had the speed of your tongue and it’s countanance. But have your way, I am done.
BEATRICE: You always end with a jade’s trick. I know you of old."
Much Ado About Nothing - mostly. It’s been a couple months since I’ve read it so some of the pronouns are mixed.
“Won’t you be my neighbor?” Mr. Rogers - I can’t believe nobody mentioned him.
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Dry, that’s a quote from a small, skinny white boy who very obviously wishes he wasn’t white, in the movie “Can’t Hardly Wait”. He got the figure from a Playboy, so don’t feel too bad.
Then why didn’t you post that? I wish I could remember all the lyrics to The Philosopher’s Song.
All I can remember is Shakespear
Two excellent scenes from a great movie:
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RON: " . . . you, see, you’re just not threatening enough."
DOROTHY: “Not threatening enough? How’s this – you take your hands off me, or I’ll knee your balls right through the roof of your mouth!! (smiles) Is that enough of a threat?”
RON: (chagrined) “It’s a start . . .”
DOROTHY: “Yes, I think I know what iou all want. You want some gross caricature of a woman, to prove some idiotic point about how power makes a woman masculine, or masculine women are ugly . . . well, shame on you for doing that, on any woman who lets you do that! And that includes you dear – Miss Marshall! Shame on you, you . . macho shithead!”
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DOROTHY: “Ron, my name is Dorothy. It’s not Tootsie, or Toots, or honey, or sweetie, or doll.”
RON: (rolling eyes) “Oh Christ.”
DOROTHY: “No, just Dorothy. Now Alan is always Alan, Tom is always Tom, and John is always John. I have a name too – it’s Dorothy, capital D-o-r-o-t-h-y. DOROTHY.” (slams script down and stalks out)
The main reason I didn’t post it is because I didn’t want to have to remember how to spell “Nietzche” 
If you want the entire song (spelled correctly, even!), it’s here.
Besides, geeks who know the words to “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” are pretty common. I have in the past met people who can recite, word for word, the entire monologue by Mr. Smoke-Too-Much in the travel agency sketch…that’s impressive, not to mention scary.