# Recite a sequence by heart! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2001, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206 "2001-07-30T07:58:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/101 "2001-08-02T17:20:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Northern Piper \* > \*\* > The world was young, the mountains green > No stain yet on the moon was seen. > No words were laid on stream nor stone > When Dúrin woke, and walked alone… > \*\* I see your Chant of Durin and raise you Galadriel’s Lament and Boromir’s Funeral. Through Rohan over fen and field Where the long grass grows The West wind comes walking and About the walls it goes. What news from the West, O wandering wind Do you bring to me tonight? Have you seen Boromir the Tall By moon or by starlight? I saw him ride over seven streams Over waters wide and gray. I saw him walk in empty lands Until he passed away Into the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more. The North wind may have heard the horn Of the son of Denethor. O Boromir, from the high walls westward I looked afar. But you came not from the empty lands where no men are. From the mouths of the Sea the South wind flies The sandhills and the stones. The wailing of the gulls it bears And at the Gate it moans. What news from the South, O sighing wind Do you bring to me at eve? Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve. Ask not of me where he doth dwell So many bones there lie On the light shores and the dark shores Beneath the stormy sky. So many have passed down Anduin To find the flowing Sea. Ask of the North wind news of him The North wind sends to me. O Boromir, beyond the Gate the seaward road runs South. But you came not with the wailing gulls from the grey sea’s mouth. From the Gate of Kings the North wind rides And past the roaring falls And clear and cold about the Tower Its loud horn calls. What news from the North, O mighty wind Do you bring to me today? What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away. Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought. His cloven shield, his broken sword They to the water brought. His head so proud, his face so fair His limbs they laid to rest. And Rauros, golden Rauros falls Bore him upon its breast. O Boromir, the Tower of Guard shall ever northward gaze Toward Rauros, golden Rauros falls, until the end of days. * * * I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold And leaves of gold there grew. Of wind I sang, a wind there came And in the branches blew. Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon The foam was on the Sea And by the strand of Ilmarin There grew a golden tree. Beneath the stars of Ever-eve In Eldamar it shown In Eldamar, beside the walls Of Elven Tirion. There long its golden leaves have grown Across the branching years While here beyond the Sundering Seas Now fall the Elven tears. O Lorien, the winter comes The bare and leafless day. The leaves are falling in the stream The river flows away. O Lorien, too long I have Dwelt on this hither shore And in a fading crown have twined The golden _elanor._ But if of ships I now should sing What ship would come to me? What ship would bear me ever back Across so wide a Sea? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/102 "2001-08-02T17:25:41Z")
Nice try, Sengkelat, and probably correct for the trad version (there’s a good bit of support for the idea, anyway), but I was trying to find any Corsairs fans lurking about–their particular version follows up with: You ain’t seen the Captain’s daughter…\<3\> There she goes, swingin’ through the riggin’… \<3\> She looks like an orangutan…\<3\> > [@](#): > > Eight, sir. > Seven,sir. > Six, sir. > Five, sir. > Four, sir. > Three, sir. > Two, sir. > One. > “Tenser,” said the tensor. “Tenser,” said the tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissention have begun. > –_The Demolished Man_, Alfred Bester ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/103 "2001-08-02T17:34:00Z")
Not exactly a sequence, but: **Happy Grumpy Sleepy Sneezy Bashful Dopey Doc** And: **Oin Gloin Bifur Bofur Bombor Fili Kili Dwalin Balin Thorin Oakenshield** But I had to cheat to get the last 3: **Ori Dori Nori** ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/104 "2001-08-02T17:54:16Z")
Deprime (index) Prime (index) Powder (index) Wad (index) Shot (index) Crimp Box (repeat 25x) ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/105 "2001-08-02T18:21:14Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Tattva \* > \*\* > Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of york > Now are our brows bound with victorious wreathes… Crud again._\* Oh God, I and my brother did that one so many times when we were little. (No guarantees about the line breaks here). [Richard III] Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths Our bruised arms hung up for monuments Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged War hath sooth’d his wrinkled front And now instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shap’d for sportive tricks Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I that am rudely stamped, and want love’s majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I that am curtail’d of this fair proportion Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature! Deform’d! Unfinish’d! Sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them. Yea, I in this weak piping time of peace Have no delight to pass away the time Save to spy my shadow in the sun And discant upon mine own deformity. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain these fair, well-spoken days I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous Through drunken prophecies, libels and dreams To set my brother Clarence and the King in deadly hate The one against the other. And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false, and treacherous This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up About a prophecy that says that G of Edward’s heirs The murderer shall be. Dive thoughts, down to my soul Here Clarence comes. [/Richard III] ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/106 "2001-08-02T19:55:05Z")
First 25 elements of the periodic table: hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorus sulfur chlorine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium manganese. We fear all liars. \<-- for remembering what the stem vowel for each conjugation changes to in the Latin subjunctive. ---
**Author:** ![BlueMoonofKentucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@BlueMoonofKentucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMoonofKentucky)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/107 "2001-08-02T20:04:25Z")
From Stephen Crane’s _The Black Riders, and other lines_ **XXIV** I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. “It is futile,” I said, "You can never – " “You lie,” he cried, And ran on. **LIV** “It was wrong to do this,” said the angel. “You should live like a flower, Holding malice like a puppy, Waging war like a lambkin.” “Not so,” quoth the man Who had no fear of spirits; “It is only wrong for angels Who can live like the flowers, Holding malice like the puppies, Waging war like the lambkins.” **LXVI** If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a vast blue, Echoless, ignorant – What then? Those are my favorites, the years have clouded my memory (at least to SDMB post standards) of the rest of this work and of _War is kind_ Except for these two: **V** “Have you ever made a just man?” “Oh, I have made three,” answered God, “But two of them are dead, And the third – Listen! Listen! And you will hear the thud of his defeat.” **XXI** A man said to the universe: “Sir I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/108 "2001-08-02T20:31:31Z")
(-B [sup]+[/sup]/- radB[sup]2[/sup] - 4AC) /2A ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/109 "2001-08-02T20:40:47Z")
Spydy: I see I’m not the only one who forgets to check what other people have written 🙂 In any case: Windsor, Vendôme, Montréal-Ouest, Lachine, Dorval, Pine Beach, Valois, Pointe-Claire, Cedar Park, Beaconsfield, Beaurepaire, Baie-d’Urfé, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Ile-Perrot, Pincourt-Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Dorion, Hudson, Rigaud. (Montreal-Dorion/Rigaud commuter train.) Centrale, Canora, Mont-Royal, Montpellier, Du Ruisseau, Bois-Franc, Sunnybrooke, Roxboro-Pierrefonds, Ile-Bigras, Sainte-Dorothée, Grand-Moulin, Deux-Montagnes. (Montreal-Deux-Montagnes commuter train.) Windsor, Vendôme, Parc, Bois-de-Boulogne, Saint-Martin, Sainte-Rose, Rosemère, Sainte-Thérèse, Blainville. (Montreal-Blainville commuter train.) Centrale, Saint-Lambert, Saint-Bruno, McMasterville, Saint-Hilaire. (Montreal-Saint-Hilaire commuter train.) Windsor, Vendôme, Montréal-Ouest, La Salle, Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Saint-Constant, Delson. (Montreal-Delson commuter train - opening in September.) ---
**Author:** ![Kingpin53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d26b3c/32.png) [@Kingpin53](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingpin53)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/110 "2001-08-02T20:51:53Z")
For me, it’s ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA Yes, I know it in my head without looking at it… Also… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Terminus Est \* > \*\* > Big words: > Antidisestablishmentarianism > Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoiosis > > \*\* Actually that second one is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano **coni** osis Sorry, couldn’t help myself 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/111 "2001-08-02T21:00:00Z")
White - Romans, Russians, Celts Green - Babylonians, Zulus, Japanese Dark Blue - French, Germans, Vikings Yellow - Spanish, Egyptians, Aztecs Light Blue - Americans, Chinese, Persians Orange - Greeks, English, Carthaginians Purple - Indians, Mongols, Sioux Civ Names and Colors, Civilzation II ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/112 "2001-08-02T21:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*Spydy: I see I’m not the only one who forgets to check what other people have written 🙂 > > \*\* OOPS! i saw my error the same time you posted your response. :eek: Here’s another: Black Hole radius (also called Schwarzschild Radius): 2GM/c^2, where G is Newton’s Grav Constant, M is mass of BH, c is speed of light ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/113 "2001-08-02T21:07:13Z")
6.673e-11 N m^2/kg^2 (7e-11) – Newton’s Gravitational Constant “G” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/114 "2001-08-03T03:22:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tengu \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Northern Piper \* > > **Macdonald, Mackenzie, Macdonald, Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, Tupper, Laurier, Borden, Meighen, King, Meighen, King, Bennett, King, St. Laurent, Diefenbaker, Pearson, Trudeau, Clark, Trudeau, Turner, Mulroney, Campbell, Chrétien.** > > PMs of Canada, though, should that first Meighen be there? I thought it was Borden, then King, but it’s been a LOOOONG time since I took Canadian History, and I didn’t really pay attention… \*\* Meighen has the unique distinction of having been Prime Minister of Canada twice, without ever having been elected to the position. PM Borden retired in 1920. Meighen was chosen leader of the Conservatives by the caucus and became PM. In the general election of 1921, the Conservatives lost, being reduced to third party status. King formed a minority government, which squeaked through the general election of 1925 but which resigned in 1926 in the King-Byng fling. The Governor-General, Lord Byng of Vimy, called on Meighen to form a government. However, that government was defeated in the Commons after only a few weeks in office, Meighen recommended dissolution, and lost the general election to King, who came in with a majority. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/115 "2001-08-03T03:24:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danimal \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Northern Piper \* > > \*\* > > The world was young, the mountains green > > No stain yet on the moon was seen. > > No words were laid on stream nor stone > > When Dúrin woke, and walked alone… > > \*\* > > I see your Chant of Durin and raise you Galadriel’s Lament and Boromir’s Funeral. > > …\*\* I fold, alas! (But I thought it was called “In Móira, in Khâzad-Dum”?) ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/116 "2001-08-03T03:42:54Z")
wendy’s big classic: crown mayo ketchup pickles onions tomatos letuce mustard cheese meat heel ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/117 "2001-08-03T04:07:12Z")
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**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/118 "2001-08-03T13:20:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Northern Piper \* > I fold, alas! (But I thought it was called “In Khâzad-Dum, in Khâzad-Dum”?) \*\* Honestly, I have no idea if the names I used for the songs were correct. There is no title for any of those three songs in Tolkien’s text, although I think Pippin may have called Gimli’s chant by your title, “In Moria, in Khâzad-Dum.” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/119 "2001-08-03T13:56:36Z")
**SOHCAHTOA** - **S** ine = **O** pposite over **H** ypotenuse **C** osine = **A** cute over **H** ypotenuse **T** angent = **O** pposite over **A** cute ---
**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206/120 "2001-08-03T14:11:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dolores Claiborne \* > \*\ ***SOHCAHTOA** - > > **S** ine = **O** pposite over **H** ypotenuse > **C** osine = **A** cute over **H** ypotenuse > **T** angent = **O** pposite over **A** cute \*\* You know, I could _ **never** _ remember how to spell SOHCAHTOA so I learnt it this way: **S** ip **O** n **H** eineken **T** rip **O** n **A** cid **C** atch **A** **H** igh For some reason this one stands out and is much easier to remember 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recite-a-sequence-by-heart/74206.md?page=7)