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[mberan42]

So I was watching Cash Cab this afternoon and a dude got the video bonus challenge wrong and lost his $900. The question was basically "in what [U.S.] state is [the amusement park] Cedar Point located?" He guessed Washington, when it is actually in Ohio. I sat back and thought "huh, that guy will remember that for the rest of his life."

Then I thought about the one question I got wrong and will remember forever: I was in the district spelling bee in 6th grade and got through a few rounds. I got up to the microphone for the 4th or 5th time and was told to spell "design". Except the guy pronounced it "DIE-sign" rather than "DEE-sign" (or "DUH-sign"). So I clearly spoke into the mic: "D-I-S-I-G-N" and was told to STFU & GTFO.

Because of that, I will forever remember how to spell design. What are some of the things you'll remember forever because of similar situations?

[Cartilage Head]

 I'll always remember to brush my teeth and floss every day, since one of my teeth broke a few years ago.

[Rolling20s]

Mine is also a spelling-bee memory.

First word: eject.

My spelling: E-J-A-C-T

The rest of 8th grade was not fun.

[Jace]

I will always remember what my first girlfriend looked like. I lost my virginity to that girl, also, she had a mohawk. And that is why I will never forget her.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

awww


i will always remember that the speed of light is 186,282 miles per second, and that Musashi Miyamoto's full name (he had several different names througout his life) was Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin.



i have no real reason for remembering those things other than using them to impress people because i am sad like that.

[Cartilage Head]

Man I am so jealous.

[Josefbugman]

I remember playing chess with a little boy on the ferry back from France. I was 9, I made up stories about the horses.

I also remember driving down a hill and seeing an old woman sweeping a step before looking at the car as it passed and I thought "I won't remember this in about five mins".

[KvP]

I will never forget going out to the town reservoir out in the mountains with my best friend, and both of us saying goodbye without really saying it.

[pwhodges]

When I first came across the phrase 'on purpose', I thought it meant 'by mistake'...

Mum: "Did you break that on purpose?"
Me:  "Yes, I broke it on purpose, mummy"

I learnt the right meaning very fast at that point...

[Noff]

So I was watching Cash Cab this afternoon and a dude got the video bonus challenge wrong and lost his $900. The question was basically "in what [U.S.] state is [the amusement park] Cedar Point located?" He guessed Washington, when it is actually in Ohio. I sat back and thought "huh, that guy will remember that for the rest of his life."

Then I thought about the one question I got wrong and will remember forever: I was in the district spelling bee in 6th grade and got through a few rounds. I got up to the microphone for the 4th or 5th time and was told to spell "design". Except the guy pronounced it "DIE-sign" rather than "DEE-sign" (or "DUH-sign"). So I clearly spoke into the mic: "D-I-S-I-G-N" and was told to STFU & GTFO.

Because of that, I will forever remember how to spell design. What are some of the things you'll remember forever because of similar situations?

DISTRICT SPELLING BEE!

I think mine was in fourth grade, and for me the word was 'dealt.'  They didn't use the words in a sentence so I assumed D-E-L-T as in delta or deltoid.  I apparently knew a lot more about geometry and anatomy than card games.  My teacher told me that it was a "very disappointing finish."

Putting our dog to sleep when I was younger, just the way you could tell from looking at his eyes the instant he was gone, and the way his eyelids stayed open but you could close them with your hand like they show in so many movies.

[Mnementh]

Being in Iceland when they decided to have a revolution.

[Liz]

I still remember the elements and principles of art from junior high. Color, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value. Then balance, emphasis, gradation, harmony, movement, proportion, rhythm, unity, and variety.

Also the bones of your wrists and ankles. Trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate, triquetral, lunate, scaphoid. And calcaneus, talus, navicular, medial cuneiform, intermediate cuneiform, lateral cuneiform, and cuboid.

The spelling of the word "character." I got it wrong on a spelling quiz in the fifth grade and had to write it out one hundred times.

That is all for now!

[Ladybug]

I will probably always remember that the Salvation Army was founded by William and Catherine Booth. Because I had a project on the Salvation Army at school years and years ago, and then a few months later, it was the last or second-to-last question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and the guy didn't know it, but I did.

[mooface]

one time on who wants to be a millionaire a guy was asked what the zip code in the PBS children's show ZOOM was for the $500,000 question.

i immediately sang out "02134!!!" but he got it wrong or walked away or something.

i will probably never forget that partly because of the stupid song but also partly because knowing it might win me money someday.

[BrittanyMarie]

Mine is also from a spelling bee, but my word was "pheasant" and I wasn't doing so well. The word came up and I was like " yay I know this fucking word!" and my friend Jordan like gave me a thumbs up because I was so clearly excited and said "F e s a n t" ..." "... Jordan smacked his head against the table. " "

[Blue Kitty]

I hate this.  Anytime anyone asks me to try and remember any sort of memorable moment my mind wipes and I need to make something up.  Every god damn time.

[Spluff]

Don't mix whiskey and wine.

[Darkbluerabbit]

Are we talking about drinking both in one session, or actually physically mixing them together?  I've done the former and it was fine, but the latter sounds completely undrinkable.

[Guido Sarducci]

hors d'oeuvres

I was in 10th grade french class in Louisiana with a bunch of cajun kids and, reading the word in the boo, asked what horse doovres was. And got roundly laughed at  by the whole class. I am ashamed to say it left me so embarrassed that to this day I hate french.

[Trollstormur]

I've always been an excellent speller. I've aced every single one of my spelling tests except for one: the 2nd grade.

I was asked to spell correctly neighborhood, and I thought "hey, that's easy, I read that one in a book!" well the book in question was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles and the bitch teacher would not accept Neighb-o-u-r-hood.

I'm still mad at that old cunt.

[Guido Sarducci]

Ain't American spelling a bitch?

[michaelicious]

I can't think of any things that I will remember forever, but I can think of a couple things that I make sure people will never forget. Much of the joy in my life is derived from teasing people that I love.

When I was about 8 I was making breakfast for my sister (she was 4) and myself. I couldn't find the kitchen scissors to cut the bag of milk for our cereal, so I just grabbed a pair of my mom's sewing scissors. This was just unacceptable to my sister. She was absolutely disgusted. She said to me all high and mightily, "Do you know how many people have touched those?" and proceeded to rattle off a rather extensive list of my mother's friends who had contaminated the sewing scissors with their supposedly grubby paws. I am not really a mean older brother, but this was infinitely amusing to me. So for the past 14 years I have never ever (not once) passed up an opportunity to make a disgusted face and say "Do you know how many people have touched that?" whenever my sister does something silly like jingling change or asking me if she can use my butter knife while making toast in order to dirty fewer dishes. (This actually seems really stupid when I type it out, but I still find it funny and she used to get really mad but she finds it pretty funny too now)


Also, I was playing Monopoly with my roommates a couple weeks ago and one of my roommates couldn't figure out what 8 x 4 was in her head. I have been a merciless bastard about this.

[ackblom12]

When i was around 13 or 14, I went to the kitchen to get me some cereal. I got myself a bowl and spoon, put them on the counter, got me some Frosted Mini wheats and poured them into the bowl. When i went to pour milk in the bowl is when i noticed the cereal was moving and had a ton of Weevils in it.

I didn't eat cereal for a month afterward and the memory still squicks me out a lot.

[Blue Kitty]

Now I've got one;  having my finger slammed in a door.  It happened not once but twice, both times by my sister.

[Spluff]

Are we talking about drinking both in one session, or actually physically mixing them together?  I've done the former and it was fine, but the latter sounds completely undrinkable.

Physically mixing.

[tania]

anytime i get into a car i always put on the seat belt immediately and every time i get out of a car i lock the door immediately. this might be because my older sister would get really mad at me if i didn't do either within about 2 seconds of either getting in or out of a car. it's probably a pretty good habit to have, but right now i have a friend who occasionally visits guelph and drives me around and his car is kind of old, if you lock the passenger side door it screws up his ability to lock all of them by just pressing one button and he has asked about 10,000 times already that i not lock the door when i get out  of his car and i absolutely cannot ever do it because it is so drilled into my head to lock the door every single time i get out of a car. i think at any given time he is always kind of disappointed in me.

also, the time i made my ex boyfriend cry by yelling at him really hard and saying the meanest things i possibly could. that's kind of in a mental vault now, but once in a while i find myself thinking about it for absolutely no reason and i guess this means that deep down my conscience feels so awful that it will never let me forget about it. i am a much nicer person now, at least.

[McTaggart]

Now I've got one;  having my finger slammed in a door.  It happened not once but twice, both times by my sister.

I don't really remember any sensations. I had my hand slammed in a car door but I can't remember feeling it, I put my finger down the side of an escalator but don't remember feeling that. I've got this really vivid memory of climbing over a wall and putting my hand on a bee that I couldn't see on top of it but all that's missing is the feel of the sting. Actually, I think it's just pain that I don't remember.

[ledhendrix]

I'll always remember when I was younger and I was surfing, I came out of the water and ran straight into and electric fence and blacked out.

[E. Spaceman]

Are we talking about drinking both in one session, or actually physically mixing them together?  I've done the former and it was fine, but the latter sounds completely undrinkable.

A Manhattan is made with sweet vermouth and whiskey.

[Guido Sarducci]

I'll be damned. Learned a second thing tonight.

[Mnementh]

Coming to coughing up sputum and blood and being unable to breath because I'd suffered a pulmonary edema.  Fortunately I passed out shortly after that and didn't have to remember much more.

[Guido Sarducci]

good lord! How did they treat it? Why did you have it? I always think of Quint in Jaws when I hear of PE.

[yelley]

hey guys, remember when nickelodeon afternoon tv was hosted by a popsicle stick with eyes named stick stickly? if you want to write to him, here is his address:
stick stickly
p.o. box 963
new york, NY 10108

and district spelling bees.... incense, not insense.

[Darkbluerabbit]

A Manhattan is made with sweet vermouth and whiskey.

I've always considered vermouth more of a mixing agent than a wine, but I looked into it and apparently people do drink sweet vermouth straight.  Having looked this up, I will probably never forget the different types of vermouth.

[Kylos]

I will never forget the look on my friend's face, follwed by her yelling my name and pointing behind me as a rogue surfboard fell off a surfboard hire truck as it drove past and swiftly proceeded to karate chop me in the neck. Luckily, it was hilarious.

The same friend and I went to a big gig at the millenium dome, and bought bottles of alcohol although we were too young. We stood in a massive crowd and The Taste of Ink played over the PA system. To this day, this song fills me with more joy than a thousand puppies ever could.

[sandysmilinstrange]

Turning thirteen on the top of a mountain.

I had a short list and then my mind went blank, so I guess the rest of those don't apply since I apparently can't remember them immediately. 

[valley_parade]

When a guitar store hangs a '73 Fender Mustang (competition blue, no less) on a wall with a $450 price tag, you walk up to the counter and say "Sir, hold that for me. I will be back to buy it next week."

YOU DO THAT BECAUSE I DIDN'T.

I will also remember my 18th birthday because it was really good times. My friends got tickets to a Red Sox game, and we left a little early, the real surprise being that we were stopping in Fitchburg to pick up a friend I hadn't seen in over a year. She went to the game with us, and we had a wonderful time all around (plus the Sox won 10-0)

[JD]

My brother has broken my parents garage door a mighty 3 times. I remember his reaction the second time.. He walked in quietly(walked into the house from the garage) not saying a word. Me and my sister(parents were out at the time) went to see what happened. After discovering he had broken it again we called Mom and Dad. My brother then started to blame it on my sister.

[Dazed]

Along that line of thought, Shane, I'll remember being at Game 1 of the 2004 World Series forrrrreeeeevverrrrrr. Especially Mark Fuckin' Bellhorn.

Also, I will never forget the drum part to Frankenstein by the Edgar Winter Group.

[valley_parade]

Mark Bellhorn will live on forever in my head.

I loved that guy, for no particular reason.

[Dazed]

I had kind of a love/hate thing with him. Loved him for being clutch in the playoffs, hated him for striking out 600 times a season and having 0 range on defense.

[valley_parade]

This as well, because Jens Lehmann just STOOD THERE and watched the ball go in the net. I vividly remember falling off my couch laughing at him when it happened. And then seeing the replay and laughing so hard that I nearly pissed myself.


(baww, sorry Gemm.)

[LittleKey]

I will always remember my 5th birthday party. Batman came over (who woulda guessed that under the batarangs and other assorted weapons, were balloon animals and magic tricks?). He was a pretty cool dude, he played Another One Bites the Dust (which for that reason was my favorite song for years), created said balloon animals, and basically did cool tricks and games. Apparently it was a very hot day, and even the dark knight could only last so long before going up to my mom and asking, "Can Batman have a soda?". I feel sorry for the guy now, he must have been dying in that suit.

[Gemmwah]

(baww, sorry Gemm.)

No you're not, don't even pretend.

[Reed]

Along that line of thought, Shane, I'll remember being at Game 1 of the 2004 World Series forrrrreeeeevverrrrrr. Especially Mark Fuckin' Bellhorn.

Oh man, you guys suck.


Anyways, I'll always remember being in high school, getting pissed at my parents, storming out of the house and breaking our stained glass front door because I threw it open. My parents made me pay it off over that summer.

[snalin]

When I was ten or thereabouts, I had two best friends who absolutely loathed each other. I illustrated how I felt by asking one of them to hold my arms, the other to hold my legs, and pull their way.

I think I was too young to have even heard the expression "being torn between two people", but that was what I felt.

I can recall so many things from being 6-12. Classrooms, people, feelings, the school yard everything. Fun fact: my as of now most extreme sexual behaviour was when I in first grade made out with and played domination games with a boy in my class. Looking back, all I can say is "what the fuck?".

[carrotosaurus]

hey guys, remember when nickelodeon afternoon tv was hosted by a popsicle stick with eyes named stick stickly? if you want to write to him, here is his address:
stick stickly
p.o. box 963
new york, NY 10108

I sing that song to myself on a regular basis. Interesting that it's so memorable.

[Alex C]

It really bothers me that I can't think of a damn thing for this thread.

[IronOxide]

I will always remember my Starcraft CD key, from the day we installed it on five of my computers at home to have a sort of family LAN party of sorts, though I cannot tell you folks for legal reasons.

[Dazed]

Oh, I will also always remember the combination to my first bike lock.