Who else can recite it word for word, I haven't been to church albeit for weddings and funerals since I was 15 and have no real faith but still know it. This surprises me.
Me too. Reciting it every day from 5-12yrs old at school, bound to stick.
Yup.
Also,
Amo, amas, amat and so on. And various other things rote learned at school.
I can still recite the whole lyrics word for word of 'the message ' by Grand Master Flash.
And 'Paid in Full' by Eric B and Rakim.
Oh, the Hail Mary too.
I take people to church every week.
Amazing how much of it sticks.
Yes.
But I can also pick up a recorder and play Dr Finlay's Casebook almost perfectly despite it being a piece I learnt for a school concert about 35 years ago, and I've barely played the recorder since.
And my grandad used to play the piano and keyboards in the WM Clubs around Newcastle after the war right up until the 80's. When he started to get Alzheimers and couldn't control his fingers so well he stopped. Eventually the dementia got such that he couldn't speak properly, didn't recognise his family, and needed round the clock care in a nursing home. However - put him in front of a keyboard and he could just play and play. Many different songs, both hands - hitting a few bum notes granted where his motor skills had left him somewhat - but clearly using a different part of the brain that wasn't / isn't the same as 'memory' but instead is some sort of almost involuntary recall.
Still amazes me how little we really know about the control centre of our existence.
Yep, indoctrinated from a young age by reciting it daily in school assembly.
Our Farter, who farts in Devon...
Mind you I was also indoctrinated to the fact that the Tims say it "wrong" and we should fight them because of that... 😕
Me too. And the Cub Scout Law and Promise. And strangely the Um Bongo advert.
Funny think the human memory. I can remember all that but not the name of someone that I was introduced to ten minutes ago.
Yes, just about.
Yes, along with theme song for Fresh Prince.
Most of it , along with the first verses of "Onward Christian soldiers".
(we were brainwashed at primary school too) 🙂
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles here.
Same here...... Romeo and Juliet by Dire straits too.
A love struck romeo sings the streets of serenade, laying everybody low with a love song that he made, finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade, says something like you and me babe how about it?
Probably not verbatim... but its how I remember it.
is it to do with not having a middle order collapse in the second innings?
starts "Oh Jesus, not again..." ?
MrPottatoHead - MemberYes, along with theme song for Fresh Prince.
Yes to the Fresh Prince, no to the Lords Prayer - good catholic upbringing for you 🙄
Hang on, you were a Catholic and you can't remember the Our Father?
What kind of half hearted indoctrination is that?
Obviously not beaten into you enough.....
Got about 2/3rds through then couldn't remember, smashed through the Fresh Prince theme tune though! I'm sure that's forgivable in the eyes of Our Lord
Can remember about 90% of The Smiths lyrics. Pretty much the same thing.
Our Father
Who farts in heaven...
Oh yes, Sunday school as a nipper has imprinted that crap in my brain.
I can also remember the lyrics to songs I don't even like - like McArthur Park and American Pie. I'm sure I've never listened to them on purpose because they make me cringe, but they're there, in full. Songs my parents didnt' even like! We must've had the radio on [i]a lot[/i].
GrahamS - Member
Mind you I was also indoctrinated to the fact that the Tims say it "wrong" and we should fight them because of that...
Tim here, and still have to look around and remind myself where I am when in a church etc- do I do the next bit or not? Did anyone kneel in the last 5 mins? etc.
I can still recite the whole "Angelus". Which does surprise me.
Anyway:
"Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly-spoken magic spell".
I can even stick the proddy bit on the end if I need to.
I can recite the Hail Mary in Spanish, so there!
In German it's Heil Mary
We often think that we can. But I recall being asked by our headmaster in a "Divinty" class to write out the LP. No one was able to write it out perfectly despite not thinking about it when reciting it in chapel.
Yep, along with:
Joseph's brothers, the 7 wonders of the world and the labours of Hercules.
The Ezekiel 25 monologue from Pulp Fiction - both takes, including the differing number of gunshots in each.
Pi to 9 decimal places - that's all my childhood calculator went up to.
The waitress's name & phone number in Rainman.
The lyrics to Ice, Ice Baby and The Stutter Rap (for shame!!).
I thought I could but got about three lines in and realised that I couldn't remember the rest. Got more important things to forget.
Despite being a Fundamentalist Atheist i can too, along with the whole of Ice, Ice Baby apparently too i found out the other day much to the amusement of my daughter!
And 'Paid in Full' by Eric B and Rakim.
Can I get an 'Amen'!
Yep, every word as burned into my young head at Sunday School. Even then I was skeptical.
More importantly, I'm word perfect in "A mouse took a stroll through a deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good....
Yes I can but today I'm more in a Psalm 23 kind of mood for some reason.....
with the whole of Ice, Ice Baby
rollin, in my 5 point oh with my ragtop down so my hair can blow?
Mrs Dubs works in a Catholic school, so I always get weirded out by them missing words off the prayer when I go to one of their indoctrination ceremonies.
I thought i did but it depends on which flavour of fantasy you practice.
*shakes hand* "peace be with you"
Was a bit of a surprise.
things rote learned at school
A colleague calls it "rope learning", and it makes me want to do violence. (But he's ex-forces and could crush me.)
along with theme song for Fresh Prince
My daughter was watching Fresh Prince the other day, because it's on Netflix now. I thought I'd 'impress' her by joining in with the lyrics at the start. Turns out they're different in the very early episodes so I just looked like a dick.
I'm word perfect in "A mouse took a stroll through a deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good....
We got our kids old books out when my sister visited with her new baby. I was surprised how many I knew word for word.
Jim, I am surprised you let you wife be exposed to such indoctrination or be part of such a thing. Where's the conviction?
As a former chorister I know some long Latin pieces off by heart.
But also the Jaberwocky, so that's alright
More importantly, I'm word perfect in "A mouse took a stroll through a deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good....
+ 1 . See also Snail and the Whale, Room on the Broom, Squash and a Squeeze, Stick Man et al.
Yes. Hail Mary too. Receited them enough times to be firmly etched in the memory.
Mackem - Member
I can even stick the proddy bit on the end if I need to.
Power and glory mad, bless 'em.
Inferiority complex, innit?
🙂
For some reason I also know HM and yet I'm right footed!
Beatitudes????
Beatitudes????
She's prettier than Eugenics, but not a fan of the Royals, tbh.
Yes here. Droned through it 2-3 times per week from 10-18...
I can also remember how to sign off a letter in a very flowery French way.
En vous remerciant d'avance, a l'expression de mes sentiments distingues.
Rich_s
anyway, the LP, I remember from bloody infant school where apparently I was known for arguing with teacher that bible stories weren't real. Phonetic at that age:
ah father
wit chart in heaven
halo bead thigh name
yadda yadda yadda
four vine is the kingdom
the power and the glory
for ever and ever
eh men...
Nope, no idea what the Lords Prayer is...
I can even stick the proddy bit on the end if I need to.
Ah but what is it that you want forgiven: sins, debts or trespasses?
We always said "trespasses", which I always thought was odd because we don't have a trespassing law in Scotland and even if we did it seems like a pretty minor infraction to be bothering the Big Fella with.
Maybe it's more aimed at the Cheeky Footpath users?
Personally "forgive us our debts" makes more sense to me, but the bank disagrees.
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
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is my favourite
I read in an interview once that Josh Bender would recite this every time he was about to huck himself off some pelvis smashing cliff:
Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night
You put your right hand in
You take your right hand out
You give your hand a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about
Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night
You put your left hand in
You take your left hand out
You give your left hand a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about
Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night
You put your right foot in
You take your right foot out
You give your right foot a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about
Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night
You put your left foot in
You take your left foot out
You give your left foot a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about
Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night
You put your whole self in
You take your whole self out
You give your whole self a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about
Hail Mary, full of cheese, the lord is with ears, pray for us in this now, our of are deaf... Nope, soz. Catholic schooled but not a left-footer so not fully indoctrinated, I had to pick the words up as they went along 😆
I can just about remember the lord's prayer. The 'daily bread' bit always confused me because my mam used to buy a loaf of Sunblest every couple of days and me and my sister would squabble over the little placcy clip thinger that we'd put on our bikes' brake cables (in rainbow order please, no randomness here.)
Nope. But every house number on my paper round, and which paper they took, yes.
Mates' phone numbers for houses they haven't lived in for decades.
Yup,
Lords Prayer
Fresh Prince
I could recite the lords prayer in Welsh too long after I forgot the language itself, although not any more so clearly it has a link to language somewhere.
pretty sure i still remember it after having to say it every day in primary school and every week at High school
Not tried and not going to either but think i would get it all
I can remember the reg of my mam's old Vauxhall astra - D749 TCU - but none of her other cars. No idea why that one sticks in my mind out of all the others 😕
Plus hymn number 655, in the book of common prayer...And did those feet...
"...and the smell of bacon as I fasten up my laces and the song I know so well no I mustn't forget, no I mustn't forget..."
It just shows how impressionable we are and why religion is so keen to capture children when they're young and and their memory works.
@Kayla
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after that, I forget it all / left home.
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forget the B reg cavalier after that and the hillman imp before those.
sadly I had the misfortune that my local primary school was classified as a CofE primary (but now I think it's just a normal local authority one), but that's the only prayer I can remember.
And did those feet...
thought that technically wasn't a hymn?
Yes to the lords prayer...I can even remember a bit of..we plough the fields and scatter, that's from primary school harvest festivals, struggle to remember my work rota though!
KLE 928K Mk3 Cortina 2.0 gxl...still my favourite car.
My head is full of past car registration numbers (mine and my grandparents), mates' phone numbers (well, their parents, from when I was a kid), ZX Spectrum pokes and various cheat codes, pi to ... 11 decimal places at least, all manner of useless details. Some more useful though - I know my NI number, driving licence number, bank account and sort code, PINs for umpteen different cards. Couldn't tell you what I had for tea last night though.
Lord's prayer from memory:
[i]Our father
Who art in heaven (or is it "which art..."?
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
On Earth, as it it in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
For thine is the kingdom
The power and the glory
For ever and ever
Amen.[/i]
I think. The amusing thing was, it was clearly so important that we had to say it every single bloody schoolday for years, but not important enough for anyone to ever explain what it meant. We were all just reciting gibberish.
It was the same with the hymns, come to think about it. We had no hymn books even, at infant school at least, so we learned them by listening to the older kids and trying to sing along. Half the time it was nonsense, I sang "oh come little sadolie" for years, wondering what the hell a sadolie was and why you might want one.
Not just Spectrum pokes, but also Z80 assembler raw hex machine code (in my case learned whilst trying to find potential Amstrad CPC pokes).
You missed
"But deliver us from evil"
Not bad though!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles here.
It's not just me then? T U R T L E power!
Can also recite a lot of the Julia Donaldson kids books and quite a few other song lyrics. I also kick arse at Trivial pursuit, but can't remember anything important.
You missed"But deliver us from evil"
Damn it. After 'temptation' yes? I was sure there was something missing but couldn't put my finger on it.
Naturally, and pretty much every response in the 1662 Holy Communion Service.
Two versions of the Lord's Prayer are allowed by the CofE, one with more modern language. My mother was strongly against this as she felt one definitive version was important, but she lost the vote in the Synod.
Plus hymn number 655, in the book of common prayer...And did those feet...
The Book of Common Prayer doesn't have any hymns; you probably had a combined Prayer Book and Hymnal.
Its an odd thing that stuck in my mind when no one is a class (admittedly only 8/9 years old at the time) could get something correct on paper despite the daily repetition!
You did better than we did as I recall. 😉
aaah, The English Hymnal - there's a blast from the past
I see your God is concerned about trespassing too Cougar. Blimmin nimby.
And did those feet...
No Bill, no they didn't.
Stub that thing out and get on with some proper work.
Graham - reminds me of my friend who was once got a proper bollocking for loudly yelling, in Friday chapel, "gerroff moi land" after that line.
pi to ... 11
Flash bastard with your 12 digit calculator
Sitting in the restaurant opposite this place I pointed out the number on the end should be rounded up to 3. No one was remotely impressed/interested 😥
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The quadratic formula, US State Capitals, most country capitals (must be getting old - can't re-memorise the ones I've forgotten :/), many poems including:
The Jabberwocky
The Charge of The Light Brigade
Ozymandias
Xanadu
Selections from A Shropshire Lad
Flash bastard with your 12 digit calculator
Nah, I looked it up somewhere. I can't remember why now, probably just so I could show off. Or because it irked me that the '7' on a regular calculator was rounded up and really a 6.
Sitting in the restaurant opposite this place I pointed out the number on the end should be rounded up to 3. No one was remotely impressed/interested
Argh. That's the sort of thing that would make me twitch every time I walked past it.
The quadratic formula
Something like b squared plus/minus the square root of 2a, all divided by 4ac? I think.
Something like b squared plus/minus the square root of 2a, all divided by 4ac? I think.
I seem to have the Eric Morecambe version there.
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Log book and slide rules
SOHCAHTOA
Flemming's left hand rule
Yes indeed. In six languages in fact.
Aren't I cool?
SOHCAHTOA
Heh. I remember being taught complex mnemonics to try and remember that which were harder to remember than the bloody order itself (so in fact, I don't remember any of them). I memorised it by imagining that Sohcahtoa was the name of some legendary volcano somewhere.
Oh, resistor colour codes, that's still in here. Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, white. Not all that difficult, most of it is just the light spectrum (memorised courtesy of that famous astronomer, Roy G. Biv).
Argh. That's the sort of thing that would make me twitch every time I walked past it.
They're lucky not to have been petrol-bombed 👿 👿
SOHCAHTOAHeh. I remember being taught complex mnemonics to try and remember that which were harder to remember than the bloody order itself (so in fact, I don't remember any of them).
Silly Old Harry, Caught A Herring, Trawling Off Afghanistan.
the light spectrum (memorised courtesy of that famous astronomer, Roy G. Biv).
Nope. It was the Adventure Game with the Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain puzzle for me.
Loved that show. It was Doogy Rev.
Gronda-gronda
Paul Simon Castrated Me And Zaid I Columbus
Potassium
Sodium
Calcium
Magnesium
Aluminium
Zinc
Iron
Copper
(age 13)
Loved that show. It was Doogy Rev.
Ron Gad's on [url= https://twitter.com/thefacebookpoet ]Twitter[/url] these days. I wonder if he can still talk backwards, that was quite a talent.