What is something random that you have memorized?

[wishesuponastar]

My library bar code! It has 14 numbers. I was borrowing alot of books one year and I had a broken ankle so I saved myself from having to get up and get keyring.

 

[teller80]

Ha! Before I read your answer that was the first thing that popped into my mind! My daughter and I used to go to the library a lot, and it was just easier to give the librarian our number than to find the card. It has a letter and 13 numbers. I know mine and DD's.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I worked at Walmart close to 20 years ago. I still remember some of the produce codes.

 

[sam_gordon]

I still have part of the prologue to Beowolf memorized... in Old English.

 

[kmb584]

The prepositions in alphabetical order. I had to learn them in 6th grade and can still recite them in under 60 seconds.

 

[kimblebee]

My Airmiles card number. I use it so often and get so many miles that I just memorized it out of use.

 

[htmom]

Sick. A poem that was in Where the Sidewalk Ends.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Tons of things, lol.

Here is the address to Zoom (70's kid show on PBS I watched)...Write Zoom, Z-DOUBLE O-M, BOX 350, Boston, Mass 02134.

 

[perditax]

So, so many things. My brain is like a sponge. This is not always useful. For example, the significant other gets weary of me saying stuff like, "oh, that (d-list actress playing a tertiary role on some random TV show) used to be married to (some other actor no one has ever heard of)" whenever we watch TV.

 

[kmb584]

Sick. A poem that was in Where the Sidewalk Ends.

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.

I loved that poem! Still do, actually.

 

[wishesuponastar]

love your replies everyone!

 

[Jennasis]

Ha! Before I read your answer that was the first thing that popped into my mind! My daughter and I used to go to the library a lot, and it was just easier to give the librarian our number than to find the card. It has a letter and 13 numbers. I know mine and DD's.

Wouldn't help at our library LOL. Cards are required to check out books.



For me, it's the poem "Stopping By Woods"....my little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near...

I've got lots of other random useless knowledge in my head. Only so much room in my brain. Every time I whip out a crazy bit of useless trivia, it means something else has to go.

 

[SirDuff]

Probably meaningless to Americans (and, frankly, not that meaningful to anyone else), but the prefixes for the metric system (in order from largest to smallest).

 

[LBIJim]

I still have part of the prologue to Beowolf memorized... in Old English.

Ugh!!! That was definitely a Cliffs Notes thing....how could anyone actually read that crap without becomming self-lobotomized? OTOH, I know a few lines from The Canterbury Tales.

My Airmiles card number. I use it so often and get so many miles that I just memorized it out of use.

I don't use mine very often, but I've known my United (ex-Continental) number by heart for over 25 years. Same with Marriott hotels. But of course I can't remember where I just put the Penske file.

 

[DisneyNutMary]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the book.
I don't know why, but I know the whole thing.

I also know the number that was on my debit card before it was changed (thanks to the Target breach) from when my son was a senior in high school and I used it for every college application, sat, act, and every other oddball fee that came up that year.

 

[MIGrandma]

The presidents, up to Nixon. Nixon was president when I was in 8th grade and our final test of the year was memorizing, and repeating them in front of the class, the names of the presidents.

Also, my grandparents' phone number when they lived at their cottage on the lake. They were on a party line and everyone's phone rang when anyone was getting a call, you had to know the "ring" for your phone. I remember telling my Grandma, "your phone is ringing" and she said it was not "their ring" it was for someone else on the line. But their number was GA6-7380.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce cheese, pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.

 

[Kayabee]

All the counties of my state

 

[SallySkelington]

I had to play Mercutio 3 years in a row during High School (long story)... so I still know the "Queen Mab" speech. Sadly that is the only thing that I remember from that stupid play.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

The original IP address of the MUD Mystic Adventure.

The book Goodnight Moon. I used to be able to say the same for 4 Pups and a Worm, but I don't think I know it anymore.

The first 12 lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, in the original Middle English.


The address for the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Information:

PO Box 5325
Hopkins!, MN
... 55343

My wife's SSN (not sure if that's random).

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" (aka The Night Before Christmas).

The Jabberwocky poem from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There