I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


msbelle - Dec 15, 2014 6:31:51 am PST #12602 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Never did read it or Kubla Khan which was the other thing my classmates memorized.


-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:35:08 am PST #12603 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Mm, I like that one, too. I'm still not sure what area of fertile ground you get if you girdle round twice five miles, though.


flea - Dec 15, 2014 6:35:52 am PST #12604 of 30000
information libertarian

Twas brillig, and the slithey toves
Did gyre and gimbel in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Beware the jub-jub bird, and shun the frumious bandersnatch!

It's like Benedict Cumberbatch was named out of this poem.


flea - Dec 15, 2014 6:40:21 am PST #12605 of 30000
information libertarian

I can still recite "A Helene" by Pierre de Ronsard, which I memorized in 1986.


Jesse - Dec 15, 2014 6:47:20 am PST #12606 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm pretty sure "Now We Are Six" is the only poem I've ever memorized (when I was six, as a party trick), and I've still pretty much got it.


-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:47:27 am PST #12607 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I can get through the first speech of Schneewittchen that my German class performed in 1984. Less useful than "donde esta la biblioteca", probably.


sumi - Dec 15, 2014 6:53:59 am PST #12608 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

When I was an undergrad at the U of I - bluebooks were provided but in grad school we had to purchase them.

ION - 3d printed spindle!. Nice combination of new and old tech.


Zenkitty - Dec 15, 2014 6:57:33 am PST #12609 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I used to have lots of poems memorized. Poe's "Annabelle Lee" was a favorite in my brief Goth-before-Goths-were-cool period.


-t - Dec 15, 2014 7:00:11 am PST #12610 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Mmm, Poe.


Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2014 7:05:45 am PST #12611 of 30000
brillig

"To be or not to be" is stuck in my head, or at least half of it. I should re-memorize the bit from The Scottish Play (I actually had the real name half typed before I changed it) about tombs yawning and corpses walking.

I think it's a quote from a Peter Wimsey story that says poetry is lovely stuff to think with.