Ami, Minako, Usagi, Rei, Makoto, Hotaru, Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna
Sailor Senshi ‘civilian’ names, in the order of their planets (Moon serving for Earth)
Devimon, Metal-Etamon, Myotismon, Digimon Emperor, Arukenimon, Yukio Oikawa, Belial(?)Myotismon
Digimon major villains seasons 1 and 2, in chronological order
Ron Made Igoe Ugly eXeGy
Radio Microwave Infrared Ultraviolet X-ray Gamma ray
1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
1 5 10105 1
Etc.
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225, 256, 279, etc.
Hydrogen Helium Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminum Silicon Phosphorous Sulfur Chlorine Argon Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Zinc Magnesium Slenium Bromine Krypton Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium etc.
I used to have the whole fargin’ thing memorized, but that was 7th grade and it’s been a few years.
A Scout is: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
The good ol’ Boy Scout law. Had to memorize it, and was having problems until one of my Scoutmasters suggested memorizing one half at a time. And damned if that didn’t work like gangbusters.
I have large bits of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” memorized, but I still don’t really know a few scattered stanzas, unfortunately.
Somebody took Jabberwocky already. Darn.
My mother’s siblings: JoanDorothyJosephHenryAnneJoelAviChatzFeivyJoshJoyceMomJay (which, for maximum impressiveness, must be said at top speed in one breath). I can do all 71 of their children also (although slower), in age order by family, but I’m not willing to type it.
I used to be able to do fairly impressive chunks of Biblical stuff (in Hebrew), but it’s been several years since I had to memorize them and they’re fading. Plus transliterating it all would get annoying, although memorizing Ha’Azinu (Deuteronomy 32) is definitely the toughest memorization that I’ve ever done.
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. See how many, many fish there are!
Simple one:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
Side One: 1. Women 2. Rocket 3. Animal 4. Love Bites 5. Pour Some Sugar on Me 6. Armageddon It
Side Two: 1. Gods of War 2. Don’t Shoot Shotgun 3. Run Riot 4. Hysteria 5. Excitable 6. Love & Affection
(Def Leppard’s Hysteria album. A few years ago I could have recited all the songs from all the albums. A few years before that --blech-- I could recite every song from every New Kids on the Block album.)
While we’re doing Lewis Carroll:
“Would you walk a little faster?” said the whiting to the snail.
"There’s a porpoise close behind us and he’s treading on my tail.
"See how eagerly the turtles and the lobsters all advance?
"They are waiting on the shingle – will you come and join the dance?
"Will you, won’t you, will you won’t you, will you join the dance?
"Will you, won’t you will you won’t you, won’t you join the dance?
"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be,
“When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters out to sea.”
But the snail replied, “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance.
Said he thanked him very kindly but he would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.
“What matters it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied.
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
"The farther is from England, the nearer is to France.
"Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
"Will you, won’t you, will you won’t you, will you join the dance?
"Will you, won’t you will you won’t you, won’t you join the dance?
Suzaku Seishi from FY: Tamahome, Hotohori, Nuriko, Chichiri, Tasuki, Mitsukake, Chiriko.
Seiryuu Seishi from ibid.: Nakago, Amiboshi, Suboshi, Soi, Ashitare, Tomo, Miboshi.
Chosen Children from Evangelion: Ayanami Rei, Ikari Shinji, Soryu Asuka Langley, Suzahara Touji, Nagisa Kaworu.
Now then:
French adjectives that go before the noun: Petit grand gros joli beau bon mauvais premier dernier jeune vieux nouveau long. (To the tune of Frere Jacques.)
French verbs that take être in the passé composé: Devenir Revenir Mourir Rentrer Sortir Venir Arriver Naître Descendre Entrer Retourner Tomber Rester Aller Monter Partir.
Esperanto correlatives:
Io Kio Tio Chio Nenio
Iu Kiu Tiu Chiu Neniu
Ia Kia Tia Chia Nenia
Ie Kie Tie Chie Nenie
Iel Kiel Tiel Chiel Neniel
Ial Kial Tial Chial Nenial
Iam Kiam Tiam Chiam Neniam
Ies Kies Ties Chies Nenies
Iom Kiom Tiom Chiom Neniom
And the original, a translation, and a sort of homage to a poem by Clément Marot:
Ma mignonne, O my sweet, Mademoiselle,
Je vous donne May you meet May I tell
Le bonjour. A good day. My sad lot?
Le séjour Where you stay I have got
Est prison. Is a jail. To translate
Guérison Health, my frail, (Which I hate)
Recouvrez, Please regain Some old verse.
Puis ouvrez Then unchain Could be worse,
Votre porte, Your room's door, I suppose;
Et qu'on sorte And thence soar Goodness knows
Vitement Lustily; I'm too dense
Car Clément Clement thee To make sense
Le vous mande. Does command. Of old French.
Va, friande Go, gourmande, Some ill wench
De ta bouche Whose tongue red Lies abed
Qui se couche Lies abed When instead
En danger In retreat, She'd prefer
Pour manger Off to eat (I infer)
Confitures. Jams, as may'st. To eat sweets.
Si tu dures If thou stay'st Just three beats
Trop malade, Sick and fade, In each line;
Couleur fade A pale shade The design
Tu prendras, Thus accrues, Is not great.
Et perdras And wilt lose Twenty-eight
L'embonpoint. Thy round thigh. Lines (not prose);
Dieu te doint God grant thy Well, here goes:
Santé bonne, Health complete, "Soon get well,
Ma mignonne. O my sweet. Mademoiselle."
Bob Dernier
Ryne Sandberg
Gary Matthews
Leon Durham
Keith Moreland
Jody Davis
Ron Cey
Larry Bowa
Rick Sutcliffe
Steve Trout
Dennis Eckersley
Scott Sanderson
Lee Smith
Starting lineup, starting pitchers, and the big man out of the bullpen for the '84 Cubs.
Steve Garvey must die.
I consulted the book and found that I got a few lines wrong. It’s been quite a while since I last recited this.
The other night, from cares exempt
I slept, and what d’you think I dreamt.
I dreamt that somehow I had come
To dwell in topsy-turvy-dom
Where nice is nasty, nasty, nice
Where vice is virtue, virtue, vice
Where white is black and black is white
Where night is dad and day is night
Where babies, quite to there surprise,
Are born astonishingly wise
With every science on their lips
And art at all their fingertips
For as their nurses dandle them
They crow binomial theorem
Explaing views, quite strange to us
On differential calculus
But though babies, as I have said
Are born with wisdon in their head
They must forget it, if they can,
Before they shall be called a man
For that which we call folly here
Is wisdom in that favored sphere
The wisdom we so highly prized
Is blatant folly in their eyes
A boy, if he would push his way
Must learn some nonsense every day
And cut, to carry out this view,
His wisdom teeth, and wisdom too
Hisortians burn their midnight oils
Intent on giant-killers toils
And sages close their sleepy eyes
To other sages’ lullabies
A magistrates, to duty bound
Commit all robbers that are found
But there, the beaks, so people said
Commit all robberies instead
Our judges, pure and wise in tone,
Know crime from theory alone
And glean the motvies of a thief
From books and popular belief
But there, a judge who wants to prime
His mind with true ideas of crime
Derives them from the common sense
Of practical experience
Policemen march all folks away
Who practice virtue everyday
Of course, I mean to say, you know,
What we call virtue here below
For only scoundrels dare to do
What we consider just and true
And only good men do in fact,
What we should think a dirty act
But strangest of these social twirls
The girls are boy, and boys and girls
The men are women too, but then
Per contra, women all are men
To one who to tradition clings
This seems an awkward state of things
But if to think it out you try
It doesn’t really signify
With them, as surely as can be,
A sailor should be sick at see
And not a passenger may sail
Who cannot smoke right through a gale
A soldier, save by rarest luck
Is always shot for showing pluck
That is, if any can be found
With pluck enough to fire a round
“How strange,” I said, to one I saw
“You’ve quite upset our every law
However can you get along
So systematically wrong”
“Dear me,” my mad informant said,
"Have you no eyes within your head
You sneer when you your hat should doff
Why, we begin where you leave off
“your wiset men are very far
Less learned than our babies are”
I mused awhile and then, oh me
I framed this brilliant repartee
"Although your babes are wiser far
Than our most valued sages are,
Your sages, with their toys and cots,
Are duller than our idiots
But this remark, I grieve to state,
Came just a little bit too late
For as I framed it in my head,
I woke and found myself in bed
Still I could wish that 'stead of here
My lot were in that favored sphere
Where greatest fools bear off the bell
I ought to do extremely well
The powers of two:
1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096
Big words:
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoiosis
Biochemistry:
DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid
NAD - nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide
Purines - adenine, guanine
Pyrimidines - tyrosine, cytosine, uracil
Amino acids - alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, valine (missed serine - CURSES!)
[aside] Hmm… hadn’t heard that one. Because the so-called “Locrian” mode is not of much use in Renaissance and even 17th-18th century modal theory I usually make do with the mnemonic: I Don’t Particularly Like Modes Anyway. 
[/aside]
Let’s see…
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae volutatus. Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi propter magnum gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris. Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patrem, misere nobis. Quoniam tu solus sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris, Amen.
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentum… (ugh I always crash and burn in the Credo. Never mind.)
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
Sing one mass and you’ve sung them all.
rivulus
Sorry, close but no cigar: James Bond was played by (in order):
Barry Nelson, Sean Connery, David Niven[sup]1[/sup], George Lazenby, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan.
The “official” James Bonds, in order, were:
Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan[sup]2[/sup], Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan.
The 23 auxiliary (helping) verbs are[sup]3[/sup]:
am, is , are, was, were, be, been, have, has, had, do, did, does, will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, must, ought.
A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream.[sup]4[/sup]
ROY G. BIV=The colors of the rainbow.[sup]5[/sup]
1-There are a lot of agents named “James Bond” in Casino Royale, but only one was the real Bond; the rest were just to confuse SMERSH.
2-Brosnan was hired to be the Official Bond following Moore, but the producers of “Remington Steele” renewed his contract at the last minute, and Dalton, who had twice declined the role, reluctantly accepted it.
3-Many lists will include “being” but not ought. They are incorrect. My students are required to memorize this list every year, and explain the placement and function of every one. Trivia: “might” is the past tense of “may”.
4-Woo hoo! I got the coding right the first time.
5-I don’t have anything to say here, but I had footnotes for all of the others, and I wanted to be consistent.
The wives of Henry the VIII
Catherine of Aragon
Mary
Anne Boleyn
Elizabeth
Jane Seymour
Edward
Anne of Cleves
Kathryn Howard
Katherine Parr
Lather, rinse, repeat
Ooh, I’ve got a couple! I can sing, from memory and on key, both The Nations of the World and The 50 US States and Their Capitals from the cartoon Animaniacs. Those of you familiar with the songs should be reasonably impressed. 
Let’s see if I can type out Nations of the World in its entirety. Please excuse any misspelled country names; I’m not going to look them up.
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru! Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean, Greenland, El Salvador, too! Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venesuela, Honduras, Guiana and still, Guatamala, Bolivia, then Argentina and Ecuador, Chile, Brazil! Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda, Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan! Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname and French Guiana, Barbados and Guam!
Norway and Sweden and Iceland and Finland and Germany, now all once piece. Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Turkey and Greece! Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania, Ireland, Russia, Oman! Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq and Iran! There’s Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, both Yemens, Kuwait and Barhain! The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belguim and Portugal, France, England, Denmark and Spain!
India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan! Kampuchea, Maylasia then Bangladesh, Asia, and China, Korea, Japan! Mongolia, Laos and Tibet, Indonesia, the Phillipine islands, Taiwan. Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand, then Borneo and Viet Nam! Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Djbouti, Botswana! Mozambique, Zamba, Swaziland, Gambia, Guinea, Algeria, Ghana!
Burundi, Lethsoto, and Malawai, Togo, the Spanish Sierra is gone! Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Liberia, Egypt, Benin and Gabon! Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya and Mali, Sierra Leone and Algier! Dahomie, Namibia, Seneca, Libya, Camaroon, Congo, Zaire! Ethiopia, Guinea, Bissau, Madagascar, Rwanda, Mayotte and Cayman! Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia…
Crete, Mauritania, then Transylvania, Monoco, Lichtenstein, Malta and Palestine, Fiji, Australia, Sudan!
dances in front of pestie’s trail scattering rose petals
Hadrian, Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Pertinax, Didius Julians, Septimus Severus, Geta, Caracalla,…
Super Bowl Winners
Packers, Packers, Jets, Cheifs, Colts, Cowboys, Dolphins, Dolphins, Steelers, Steelers, Raiders, Cowboys, Steelers, Steelers, Raiders, 49ers, Redskins, Raiders, 49ers, Bears, Giants, Redskins, 49ers, 49ers, Giants, Redskins, Cowboys, Cowboys, 49ers, Cowboys, Packers, Broncos, Broncos, Rams, Ravens
Do, a deer, a female deer
Re, a drop of golden sun
Mi, a name I call myself
Fa, a long, long way to run
So, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow so
Ti, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to
Doh!
That’s from The Sound of Music, of course.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399357105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067…
100 digits.
And people told me it would never come in useful…
Crocodilus porosus: saltwater crocodile
Crocodilus palustris: mugger
Crocodilus intermedius: Orinoco crocodile
Crocodilus johnstoni: freshwater crocodile
Crocodilus cataphractus: slender-snouted crocodile
Crocodilus siamensis: Siamese crocodile
Crocodilus acutus: American crocodile
Crocodilus rhombifer: Cuban crocodile
Crocodilus niloticus: Nile crocodile
Crocodilus mindorensis: phillipine crocodile
Crocodilus moreletii: Morelet’s crocodile
Crocodilus novoguineae: New Guinea crocodile
Osteolamus tetraspis: African dwarf crocodile
Tomistoma schlegeli: false gharial
Alligator sinensis: Chinese alligator
Alligator mississippiensis: American alligator
Caiman crocodilus: spectacled (common) caiman
Caiman latirostris: broad-snouted caiman
Caiman Yacare: Yacare caiman
Melanosuchus niger: black caiman
Paleosuchus Palpebrosus: Cuvier’s dwarf caiman
Paleosuchus trigonatus: Schneider’s dwarf caiman
Gavialis gangeticus: gharial
(The three groups being the crocodilidae, the alligatoridae, and the gavialidae, comprising the living crocodilians)
Ee ur san sz wu liu chi ba jio shz
(One through ten in Chinese. And no, I don’t know pinyin, so I have no idea how these are actually spelled)
“Welcome aboard the Cave Train. For your own safety, please keep your hands and feet inside the cars at all times. Also no smoking, eating, drinking, or flash photography while inside the cave. Thank you and enjoy your ride.”
(From my tenure as a ride operator)
I attempted to list Weird Al albums and Talking Heads albums, but I got them significantly out of order, so I can’t rightly claim to have them memorized.
Ah! An opportunity to add my own useless knowledge to that of the community.
Those released in the US with the name, in (hopefully) chronologiccal order, with Japanese names in brackets where different:
Final Fantasy (1989, NES)
Final Fantasy Legend [SaGa] (Game Boy)
Final Fantasy Legend II [SaGa 2] (Game Boy)
Final Fantasy Adventure [Seiken Densetsu] (Game Boy)
Final Fantasy II [Final Fantasy IV] (1991, SNES)
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest [Final Fantasy USA] (1992, SNES)
Final Fantasy Legend III [SaGa 3] (Game Boy)
Final Fantasy III [Final Fantasy VI] (1995, SNES)
Final Fantasy VII (1997, PSX and PC)
Final Fantasy Tactics (1998, PSX)
Final Fantasy VIII (1999, PSX and PC)
Final Fantasy Anthology {contains V, VI} [contains IV, V, VI] (1999, PSX)
Final Fantasy IX (2000, PSX)
Final Fantasy Chronicles {contains IV, Chrono Trigger} (2001, PSX)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001, movie)
Final Fantasy X (early 2002, PS2)
On checking my notes, I messed up one date from memory, but I think the rest is accurate.
In the not too distant future,
Next Sunday A.D.
There was a guy named Joel,
not too different from you or me.
He worked at Gizmonic Institute,
just another face in a red jumpsuit.
He did a good job cleaning up the place,
but his bosses didn’t like him
so they shot him into space.
We’ll send him cheesy movies,
the worst we can find. (La La La)
He’ll have to sit and watch them all,
and we’ll monitor his mind.
Now keep in mind Joel can’t control
where the movies begin or end.
Because he used those special parts
to make his robot friends.
Robot Roll Call:
Cambot
Gypsy
Tom Servo
Crooooooooow!
If you’re wondering how
he eats and breathes,
and other science facts.
Just repeat to yourself,
it’s just a show,
I should really just relax.
For Mystery Science Theater 3000!
(I can also do the other versions. Available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, funerals, parties, wakes, and motivational seminars.)
-Brianjedi