Things you memorized as a kid and still remember today.

[AppleDumpling]

Do you know exactly how to eat an Oreo?
Well to do it, you unscrew it, very fast.
'Cause a kid'll eat the middle of an Oreo first and save the chocolate cookie outsides for last.

 

[AlohaNow]

“Whose woods these are I think I know; his house is in the village though……”

 

[AppleDumpling]

This debuted a year after I was born.

My Bologna has a first name,
It's O-S-C-A-R.
My bologna has a second name,
It's M-A-Y-E-R.
Oh I love to eat it everyday,
And if you ask me why say,
Cause' Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A!!!!

Yep, and before that one, there was this:

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I'd truly like to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.

 

[PrncessA]

The planets in order by saying "My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas", I still say it to myself.

The New Testament books in order, in song of course, although I can only make it halfway through the Old Testament now.

My grandmother's telephone number, it is the only one I can remember from my childhood.

How to spell my middle name, it is Elizabeth and was hard for me to learn so I broke it up in a sing-songy way. I still sing it to myself when I spell my middle name. LOL

 

[BrianL]

It's weird what you remember that aren't things that get studied in school.

I know the number to some local law firm. They still use the same number too. I used to see the commercials all the time while watching The Price is Right. Speaking of, I know how to get tickets to The Price is Right (before the Internet anyway).

Tickets
The Price Is Right
CBS Television City (I left this out at first - I was saying it in my head later and realized)
7800 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles California
Nine Double-Oh Three Six

Thanks, Rod Roddy!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Yep, and before that one, there was this:

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I'd truly like to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.

You just reminded me:

Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap
Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap
I'd go slippy slippy slidey
Over everybody's hieney
Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap

 

[Liberty Belle]

And if we're going there,

"Pretty sneaky, sis!"
"Ancient Chinese secret."
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."
"Barbara, you up? BARBARA, YOU UP? I'm up now. I'm glad one of us can sleep."
"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
"Hey kid, catch!"
"I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan..."

And for those from the Chicago area, "Boogie check, boogie check, ooh, ah."

 

[L&Lfan]

As long as we're mentioning food jingles:

Hot dogs, Armour hot dogs
What kind of kids eat Armour hot dogs?
Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks
Tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox
Love hot dogs, Armour hot dogs
The dog kids love to bite

(Would this commercial be allowed today? Fat kids....sissy kids....)

I was gonna say so unPC. Related topic: I was watching a segment on PC the other night and they were talking about many of the films (Animal House, The Producers to name 2 I recall) that would never be made today as well as songs, TV shows etc.

Full disclosure: I HATED that ad because I knew by then I was gay and I was afraid even the mention of "sissy kid" in front of my parents, friends, etc while watching the ad might make them "suspect" I was queer, even though I'd never been called "sissy". Thanks for bringing up a 40 years plus repressed memory, Red!

 

[Disney_traveler]

NOBODY learned Mexico, D. F. Mexico????
I can't believe I found it on YouTube. Our Spanish 2 teacher had it on a record (in 2002).

I know a LOT of people in Texas learn it because for a while kids would go to camps/conventions and start in a group of people to see if it carried.

 

[PigletsPal2]

Two all beef patties
Special sauce
Lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions
On a sesame seed bun

I got a free Big Mac for knowing this ditty back in the dqy.

The order of the planets - "My Very Energetic Mother Just Slept Upon New Pillows"

Did they teach you the song, too? "Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars, these are the planets thhat dwell near the stars. Jupitr, Saturn, Uranus too, Neptune and Pluto, I know them, do yoi?"

The Pledge of Allegiance in French - "J'engage ma fidelite au drapeau des Etats Unis..." (I know the whole thing, but I don't have very good French spelling skills I've probably incorrectly spelled the few words I did write out!)

The Preamble to the Constitution (Thank you School House Rock).

I could read all the Gregg shorthand brief forms in less than 20 seconds (those of you who ever slaved over shorthand in school, a little love, please!)

My DH's Army service number. He's been out of the Army since 1971.

Queen Colleen

 

[tvguy]

Thought of another:

My zip code from when I was young - 49085. I remember in third grade making up "forty, ninety, ohty, eighty, fivety" to remember it. lol

LOL. I was in second grade when they started using zip codes, and I never understand why "25" was being replaced by 95825. If two digits worked, why do we need 5 now?

 

[Kellykins1218]

LOL! When I saw the headline, the thing that first popped to my mind is "two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion, on a sesame seed bun"

Clearly I'm not as classy as some of you

LOL I almost included "Big Mac, Filet of fish, quarter pounder, french fries, icy Coke, thick shakes, sundaes, and apple pies...You deserve a break today so get up get out get on your way with McDonald's"

 

[Uncranky Donald]

I memorized many of the same academic things, though I have always been envious of those people (many of you) who knew the song for all the states in alphabetical order, it's so cool and I never learned it!!

I'll add most of the hand clap games: Patty Cake, Rockin' Robin',Miss Mary Mac, Cee Cee O Playmate (I realize many people call this differently), and many ones with bad swear words I went to a lot of summer camps!

But the one thing I can't ever shake is a poem. For a 5th grade assignment we had to memorize a poem to recite to the class and I chose
Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain! All these years later it's still cemented in my brain. Every now and then when a group discussion is getting too heated I'll start reciting it, starting off slow/quiet and gradually getting louder an faster...it both confuses people and leaves them wondering why the heck I know the whole freaking thing, and it quickly changes the subject

 

[Kellykins1218]

Oh, I forgot! When I was in 4th grade, my older brother had to memorize the Gettysburg Address and practiced it in the car on our way to Georgia for Spring Break. He never did learn the whole thing but I had it memorized by the time we got to Tennessee.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I was gonna say so unPC. Related topic: I was watching a segment on PC the other night and they were talking about many of the films (Animal House, The Producers to name 2 I recall) that would never be made today as well as songs, TV shows etc.

Full disclosure: I HATED that ad because I knew by then I was gay and I was afraid even the mention of "sissy kid" in front of my parents, friends, etc while watching the ad might make them "suspect" I was queer, even though I'd never been called "sissy". Thanks for bringing up a 40 years plus repressed memory, Red!

Awww, poor guy.

 

[ShayBells]

Thought of two more things...

Miss Suzy and her steamboat

And...

One, Two Freddy's coming for you
Three Four better lock the door
Five Six hang up a cruicifux
Seven Eight better stay up late
Nine Ten Fall asleep again

Always got stuck in my head.

 

[rastahomie]

I know the number to some local lawfirm.

Back in The Day (like, 1978-1979 or thereabouts) we got Chicago's WGN on our TV (at the time, it was just a local TV station with regional reach, not a nationwide network like it is now). I watched a few shows on that channel, so of course I got exposed to Chicago commercials. One was for... something, and their phone number jingle went like this: "National two nine, thousand." In other words, (312) NA2-9000 (the late 70's were the waning days of when the first two digits of your phone number were expressed with letters).

Today, (312) 622-9000 appears to be someone's private cell phone number in the Chicago burbs, so, you know, please don't call it.

On the subject of phone numbers, there's one from my childhood that's still used today, even with (mostly) the same jingle: Empire Carpet. "Five eight eight, two three hundred. Empire!"

 

[CdnCarrie]

Poem in Flander's Fields

 

[rastahomie]

"Ancient Chinese secret."

OMG, that commercial is so racist by today's standards! Try propagating those stereotypes in a commercial in 2017, I dare you!

FUNNY STORY: Years and years ago, I was helping out at children's camp and it was time for the 8- and 9-year-olds to go down for campfire. So I told the boys to hose down with bug spray, and if they didn't bring any, to find a friend who had some. So this Asian kid, Matthew, soon has a line in front of him, and he's hosing down his buddies with this industrial-sized bottle of insect repellant.

ME: Wow, Matthew, good job sharing your bug spray with your friends! I appreciate that.
MATTHEW: You're welcome Homie!
ME: I'll bet you're going to be an exterminator when you grow up.
MATTHEW: *sigh* No, I'll probably just open up a laundry.

OMG, his (adoptive, white) parents must have ribbed him about that or something.

 

[L&Lfan]

I actually see that ad as more stereotypical than actually "racist". Even in 2017, every dry cleaning establishment that I know of in town is owned/operated by Asians. I always liked the way the wife busted her husband in that ad. "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?" as she's holding the Whisk bottle (or whatever the product was!)