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[Puki]

Argh, I'll always remember just some stuff from my youth I'm embarrassed about, or some sad stuff. That's kind of sad.

[Ozymandias]

Whan that April with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veiye in swich licour
Of which vertu engendered is the flour
Whan Zephyrus eke with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tender croppes and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halfe cours yrunne
And smale fowles maken melodye
That slepen all the night with open eye
(So pricketh hem nature in hir corages)
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgramages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende
The holy blisful martyr for to seke
Then hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke

Fuck you senior AP Literature.

In fact, on a similar note:

I met a traveller from antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[Yakob]

I will always remember hot to spell theory. My grade 7 music teacher would always say "thee-oar-why" out loud as she wrote it on the board.

[mooface]

Whan that April with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
...

ahaha i had to memorize that in high school too!  i remembered it for a couple years afterward but alas, it has now been forgotten.

so basically i am warning you that maybe you should repeat that to yourself every once in awhile if you really want to remember it forever.

[Harun]

Spinal taps hurt.

[Mnementh]

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

Strong diuretics.  You basically have to pee the fluid out.

Complications from a relatively minor surgery.  Sucked.

[MrSteevo]

I'll remember this night forever. That was a great time.

[Caspian]

Going to a beach in the middle of nowhere. big swell breaking near some really obvious rocks. For some reason, I forget about the rocks, and proceed to surf directly into them.

...Not entirely sure if I'll remember the event forever, but I'll have the scars for at least the majority of my life.

Kind of sad really, all of my long lasting memories will probably be beach related, either in the water or the shenanigans that happened on various trips. ..Is the rest of my life really that forgettable?

Oh, also: accidentally leaving the manual cyanide on at my first mine for a few hours. Quite an event.

[Kevin Barnes]

I know y'all remember my cock.

How can one gaze upon such a miracle and not reflect upon it for all times?

[Lila]

I haven't memorized my multiplication tables.

but I'll always remember 8 times 8, due to a dumb rhyme made up by the boy who sat next to me in fifth grade:
"eight times eight went to the store
to buy a nintendo sixtyfour"

At the time I was like "that's so dumb, that won't help anyone remember anything". But five years later, I'm still using it...

Also I'll always remember what that bit of skin inbetween your nose and upper lip is called (filtrum) because I knew it and taught it to a woman much older than me (I was like 9 at the time, she was about 50), and every time I see her she says "filtrum" and points to it.

[Barmymoo]

I remember the numberplate of the car of a girl I had a huge stalkerish crush on in high school. I don't think we spoke more than maybe five times but I know her numberplate off the top of my head.

I'm also particularly good with numbers, which is lucky because I need a huge string of them for work. For example: 6194 swede, 7177 carrots, 1212 baking potatoes, 895 new potatoes, 01531053 2% Sainsburys green carton milk, 2585 parsnips, 2424 red grapes, 7023 white grapes, 4450 clementines, 4147 basic apples, 4140 bramley apples. I could keep going but you get the idea.

[phooey]

"philtrum"

You'll never forget it now for sure

[Skibas_clavicle]

12 Cranian Nerves, in order: Olfactory, Optic, Occulamotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Spinal Accessory, Hypoglossal.

3.14159 - as far as I know in pi because there is an episode of The Simpsons where little girls are skipping jump wrote to it, hahaha.

[Drill King]

That there are 525 600 minutes in a year.

Because of RENT

[pwhodges]

12 Cranial Nerves, in order: Olfactory, Optic, Occulamotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Spinal Accessory, Hypoglossal.

Oh, the memories of dissecting them out in a dogfish...

Oh, the memories of the smell when the supplier hadn't preserved them properly...

But I never could remember the nerves themselves!

[Lila]

"philtrum"

You'll never forget it now for sure

Well, I learned it verbally from my dad. I never said I knew how to spell it... just what it is.

[Ozymandias]

That there are 525 600 minutes in a year.

Because of RENT

OH GOD FUCKING DAMN YOU ANDY.

[öde]

Lefty loosy righty tighty.

I already knew which way to turn screws so it's just fucking annoying.

[Barmymoo]

Eine Kuh macht Muh.
Viele Kuhe machen Muhe.

Mit rot muss man stehen,
bei grune darf man gehen.

(I'm sorry Jonas for some reason the umlauts don't work.)

[KvP]

Oh, I also remember getting my post-kidney stone surgery urethral stint getting pulled out. Sudden drop off pressure in the bladder and all the blood and urine in it just comes out in a torrent.

Fun times.

[pwhodges]

My very, very, very first memory (I was probably three, maybe even two) is simply of lying with my head on a brown rubber sheet.

The story is that I was in the back of the car when my parents left church, leaning against the door, and when they went round the first corner, the door flew open and I landed head-first on the road.  They scooped me up and took me to hospital (Battle Hospital, Reading), during which the memory must fit.  My scalp was sewn together with a dozen-odd stitches.  Whether this trauma explains the rest of my life, I leave to others to judge...

[Guido Sarducci]

My earliest memory was of playing in a sand box. A spider ran across the sand in front of me, crawled into an acorn shell and hid. I never could get the thing out of the acorn, and when I broke the acorn open it was just an acorn. I've always wondered what the hell happened to the spider.

[mberan42]

Fifty nifty United States from thirteen original colonies! Fifty nifty stars on the flag that (somethin' something somethin'). Each individual state deserves a bow! Let's salute them now! Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachussets Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohiiiiiiio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming! North, south, east, west... In this cool, (somethin' something somethin')... (YOUR STATE HERE) is the best! Of the fifty nifty United States...

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru.
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean, Greenland, El Salvador too!
Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuala, Hondouras, Guiana and still
Guatamala, Bolivia, then Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil!
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda, Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan.
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam, and French Guyana, Barbados and Guam!

[TheViscount]

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.

I am actually really jealous.

[TheViscount]

Did your drummer keep fucking up the intro to that one song?

I hate it when that happens.

I will never forget the band practice session just after my parents informed me dad was moving out.

Those were the worst two hours of my life.

I want to sig it, but it will lose it's novelty after a while.

[Dazed]

Man fuck you guys, the guitarist always fucks up the bridge.

[TheViscount]

Story of my life.

I also didn't want to sig it because it is potentially harmful to Jeans.

[Guido Sarducci]

Lying on my stomach in a hide in Thailand watching a cobra crawl down the trail between me and my spotter.

[Swordfish]

Never play drinking Monopoly with cheap Estonian vodka.

[ruyi]

A couple things come to mind.

Facts:

1) The phone number of a family friend I've known since childhood. Of course, it's pretty much useless now since she's at college and has a cell phone.

2) Condoms pre-lubricated with spermicide are bad! They can cause UTIs in ladies, they are not any more effective at preventing pregnancy than regular condoms, and they have a short shelf-life to boot. Apply spermicide separately instead.

3) eight hundred five eight eight, two three hundred, empire! today

4) Dead ants emit oleic acid; this signal is detected by other ants who then carry the dead away. If live ants are coated with oleic acid they will be picked up and carried away by ther ants again and again until they clean the chemical off of them. (And ants clean themselves very often and very meticulously! They are in fact more or less sterile and are only as dirty as whatever they just walked in.)

5) The giraffe has 7 neck vertebrae, like all mammals - they are just longer. Its closest relative is the Okapi.

Events:

1) My first piano recital. It was put on by my piano teacher and her son, who taught violin. I was first asked to go on the stage to play the pitch A so a kid's violin could be tuned. I didn't realize this was what he meant for me to do, so I followed by playing my two pieces. Afterwards I stood up to face the audience and there was zero response. Like, I distinctly remember all the expressionless faces. I was not embarrassed at the time, but it was probably the shame of subsequent recollections that's made it stick in my mind.

2) Running down the sidewalk when I was around 5 or 6 after having ingested a large quantity of grape juice. I could hear the juice glurping from inside me like the sound made by shaking a plastic bottle of liquid and was really startled. I stopped and started several times before realizing what it was.

3) My mom telling me she would leave me and my brother. I was around 3, so my brother was maybe 6. It was prompted by some bickering between us children, I think. I distinctly remember her going to the porch wearing her heavy coat and starting to put on her winter boots. When I asked here where she would go, she said she didn't care, and that she was probably allowed to stay at McDonald's. I promised not to fight with my brother and she ended up staying. It was relatively traumatic at the time but now it's a reminder that my mom is human too and has her moments of weakness. When I look back on it I feel sad for her more than anything.

4) My first interview for a gifted and talented private elementary school. When they asked me what school I went to, my answer was Walt Disney World. (It was actually Walt Disney Magnet School.) I think that's why I didn't get in to that one.

5) My earliest memory would be waking up lying on a bed and watching someone's back. I think it was my dad, wearing a blue and white striped shirt. I think I have quite a few memories from early childhood, actually? I remember the sensation of my mom carrying me in her arms when I was a toddler. It felt really comforting, to feel my whole body's weight supported by her, and to be able to hang my head back to watch the ceiling as she paced around. Another one is falling asleep in my high chair.

[Slick]

I have a very clear memory of skating on my grandparents swimming pool in winter when I would of been three or so. I was very tiny and I was holding onto someone's hand. I'll never forget that image in my head.

[edwinalink]

1078864

will always be stuck in my head...

also...

the glomeruler apparatus controls the absorption and dissoulution of salts into the blood stream through the kidney.

why?!? i dont know!!!!

[tweetles]

November 5, 1881
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parihaka

[ruyi]

Hahah that's hilarious.

I learned about similar incidents when I took a class on Southeast Asia. Basically if you get to write history, you can say whatever you want, ie 'we were the colonizers since XXXX' but the reality can be very different. Sometimes white dudes would show up and proclaim laws without bothering to translate them. I heard of a Dutch ruler who stubbornly insisted on wearing his traditional thick garb in Indonesia and of course he ended up dying from the heat.

The reality of the effects of colonialism are another thing entirely, but yeah.

[Masterbainter]

Never raise your hand against another human being while in an argument unless you are going to follow through with it.

[Blyss]

Mispelled the word sandwich - as SANDWITCH - because the morning of the spelling bee, I'd been watching the flintstones, and the episode was titled "Sand Witch"

Never liked the flintstones again after that.

Turn them off if I see them on my tv.

[GreyGabe]

T'was brillig and the slithey toves,
did gyre and gimble in the wabe,
all mimsey were the borogoves,
and the mome raths outgrabe;
etc.
I just know Jabberwocky by heart, for reasons unbeknownst to me.
I also know every song from Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, but that is because I have seen it, like... 50 times.

[mberan42]

3) eight hundred five eight eight, two three hundred, empire! today

oh man yeah! I remember it before they added the "800" and the "today!", before the 312 area code was split up into 5 area codes.

[Dazed]

2) Condoms pre-lubricated with spermicide are bad! They can cause UTIs in ladies

I actually did not know this. Thank you Ruyi, time to buy new condoms I guess 

[Blyss]

I will always remember what my first pin number was on my first ATM card.

[McTaggart]

3) eight hundred five eight eight, two three hundred, empire! today

Similarly, one three hundred three six one seven one seven it's our telethon, telethooooon

[J-cob9000]

but I'll always remember 8 times 8, due to a song by The Beatles called When I'm Sixty Four.

My sister said to sing it to the tune and I'd remember it. And I do.
6 times 8 as well. Just because it rhymes.

I'll always remember a dream I had when I was still in my crib. There were some monkeys underneath my crib and they were all deciding how they were going to eat me. It scared the crap out of me.

I'll also remember that a guy I knew saw me at McDonald's at the play place. The thing at the way top that is made of cloth strips and rocks back and forth, I don't know what it's called, but I've always been scared to death of the thing. This guy was there and he helped me across. He was one or two years older than me and after this, I never talked to him until the beginning of this year. I told him about it and he was like, "Dude, you remember the weirdest things." But he thought it was pretty cool of him to do.

[snalin]

I'll always remember my fever nightmares. Basically, I was a cola bottle which was falling from great heights. I dunno why, I just screamed really loudly and desperately in fear because I was falling. The worst thing is that I was awake. I was awake and completely sure that I was a cola bottle that was falling from really, really great heights. I had no idea where I was, I shat myself, and when my mother took me into the shower to clean me, I took of my clothes and put them in the bath tub. I seriously had no control over anything, I was just fucking afraid and hurting all over. It's the single worst experience of my life. I think I was 12 or 13.

Oh, and it was Christmas. The only good part was that I got better and somebody had bought me Kingdom Hearts for Christmas. The days when I was just sick but didn't have insane dreams were so much fun, since I was playing this awesome game.

The only thing I've ever heard of that resembles what I went through is bad trips. I guess that's why I won't do drugs, ever, I will never take the chance that I could go through something like that, ever again.

[pulpfiction21]

I will always remember my friend and I thinking it would be a good idea to spray me in the eye with Sabre pepper spray and film the experience. I will never forget it because WE FILMED THE EXPERIENCE.

[Ceiling Cat]

1) One of the grammatical rules of Ancient Greek is that a neuter plural subject noun always takes a singular verb. I will also never forget all the cases of the definite article, what the words for slave, house, horse, river and to stop are, and what gifts the Persian King Cambyses gave to the King of the Ethiopians. (It's from Herodotus)

2) Stop, Look, Listen! (from this annoying road safety thing called the Tufty Club)

3) I got this big, silver roach during this fishing trip with my dad one summer, when I was 7. I remember this one so well because my dad actually cooked it and ate it on our ship  There's a whole bunch of stuff I remember from other fishing trips but too many for this post...

4) "I've got a brand new car/It's a Jaguar/It's got leather seats/It's got a CD PLAY-AH-AYAH-AYAH -"

5) When I was getting my tonsils out I received a bag of Haribo, a signed Get Well Soon card and a Watership Down magazine from my classmates, which was awesome. I also remember seeing these other guys in the same ward playing a NES, and desperately wanting to play it, but then the hospital staff moved me to a different ward and I was mighty pissed  Also, my brother took a picture of me on his Game Boy Camera in my hospital bed, while I was sleeping. WTF

6) During a car journey back from a day out I fell asleep and woke up in a weird purple sleeping bag on the living room sofa with my sister watching Spice World on the TV 

7) I woke up one morning feeling particularly energetic, and as I bounded across the kitchen floor I did a little leap - and when I looked behind me I realized I had just jumped over a mouse that was lying there without seeing it. It had eaten some rat poison and was writhing around, foaming at the mouth. It was rather disturbing...

The music video for Coffee and TV by Blur, and how to play Yellow Submarine on the recorder.

9) The day I got Pokémon Blue for Christmas. 

[clockworkjames]

9) The day I got Pokémon Blue for Christmas. 

The christmas eve my parents argued for 3 hours before explaining why they were getting a divorce to me and my sister.

I got crash bandicoot 2 FUCK YEAH!

[edwinalink]

me and a friend being high as hell for the first time. walking to taco bell for food. and having 2 guys ask us

"you got any weed?"

and we were all

"woah, no way. we just smoked it"

"us to!"

"dude!"

"dude!"

yeah, when you're a minor you do a lot of stupid shit!

[MrBlu]

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?

Same thing happened to me. Dumb broad pronounces "Human" as "Humour/Humor (wherever you're from)".

[el_loco_avs]

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.

Ok this just made my day. I'm smiling so hard my cheeks might pop off.

[tweetles]

That I can always tell my left from right because i can make an L shape with my left hand.
I still have to do that sometime to figure out which direction to turn