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!

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

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

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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and swing.

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


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

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

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


Robert Frost.

Not my favorite

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"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.

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It takes a gutless mouse to play only when the cat's away.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac

Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."

An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"

Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus

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.

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

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.

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

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

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

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

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

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It takes a gutless mouse to play only when the cat's away.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac

Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."

An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"

Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus

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.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

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!

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The mind never forgets what the hands have learned

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".

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Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.