If...
 

by Rudyard Kipling


Anyone else have to learn it for school?

I was required to learn it and recite it in front of my 4th grade class, and I still remember it to this day.

If not If, what? Do you remember anything else you were required to memorize for school?



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Settle down ya perverts! It's just my high school locker combination! :D

I believe this was geometry... or trig... one of those math classes... and my teacher used to chant it as if it were a native american tribal call.

soh-cah-toa

sine = opposite/hypotnuse

cosine = adjacent/hypotnuse

tangent = opposite/adjacent

Ah yes...Algebra! I absolutely loved Algebra & Trig.


Tutoring Mrs. WI in it, however, was not fun! ha ha

Whose woods these are, I do not know...


Robert Frost.

Not my favorite

"Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost. That was for the state speech competition I want to say my sophomore year of H.S.

About the only other thing that comes to mind is: "The sum of the square of the two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse." The only reason that sticks in my mind is because one of my friends couldn't figure out the Pythagorean theorem to save his life and our geometry teacher made us recite the damn thing over and over. Took us a damn week before she just gave up and let me tutor him for the semester.

twas brillig and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe
all mimsy were the borrogoves
and the momeraths outgrabe....

beware the jabberwock, my son!
....
i forget the rest

jabberwocky, lewis carroll



somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas only ... i don't know exactly what they are. :D

Para los ninos trabajamos...
(I forget the rest...)

It was the mantra of my Spanish teacher and she made us say it at the beginning of every class.

My name and how to tie my shoes. Those were early biggies. :)

How to get home. Got that one right really quickly.

I honestly expected to click on that link and get the pic from the "Madame Lilith" thread. :D

LMAO^^^^^ I thought it would be him peeking up a skirt!!

I worked out the connection.

PFs girl chorus did that apparently on one breath, that is, without pants. So what happened to the pants? Ask the bloke with Pi(e) on his mind.

The moto for the Future Farmers of America
Learning to do,doing to learn,
learning to earn,earning to live,
living to serve.

never did learn how to live by farming!

I never memorized "If", but was a big Kipling fan when I was young...I always wanted to memorize some part of "Jabberwocky", but always got confused by Mad Magazine's satire of the same; "'Twas Brillo, & the GE stoves, did Proctor-Gamble in the Glade..."

But I did memorize the first part of this one:

The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things...
Of shoes & ships & sealing wax,
Of cabbages & kings,
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings...

And I wasn't surprised too much to learn later that John Lennon was inspired by the poem to write the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus".