School stuff that has stubbornly stuck in your head

[SlayingDragons]

Just that really - what has stuck in your head since you were at school?

• I remember a poem I had to learn in P5 for a Christmas concert. It was 30 years ago now but I can still recite it word for word. (It wasn’t short either!)

• I can recount every county in Ireland in alphabetical order.

• I can direct you to the train station in German just so long as it is straight ahead, take the first street on the right, second on the left and the station is on the right hand side.

(Useful stuff like how to work out the angles in a triangle so I can help my first year with her homework - not so much!)

Memorizing the entire periodic table, still lodged firmly in my head!

The Chartists' one foundation
Was votes for every man
No property qualification
And open voting ban
Electoral districts equal
And payment for MPs
And lastly, as a sequel
A parliament yearly please.
(Sung to the tune of a hymn I can't remember the name of)

Nouns name
Adjectives help them
Pronouns stand instead of them
Verbs are words of action or condition
Adverbs help them
Something something
Something something
And interjections add life!

So not quite all, admittedly!

And:
Iambus comes with steady tread
Swift the trochee takes his place
Follows the dactyl on pattering feer
The amphibrach next, with his stressed middle beat
And last but not least is the rare anapaest

Argh!

Iambus is "pace" and the dactyl has "feet". Damn my ageing memory

Minced "The Church's one foundation", maybe?

Half the length of the parallel sides, times the distance between them. This is how you multiply, the area of a Trapezium.

Oxbow lakes

Once upon a time in a land a thousand songs away, lived a poor widow and her son, Aladdin.

Me. Narrator, school Christmas play 1978.
Why? Fuck knows but I remember the bloody lot 😂

The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides (I think).

me/te/se/nous/vous/
before le/la/les
before lui/leur
before y
before en

Beautiful is spelled Bee ah utiful

The ability to recite The Jabberwocky, The Listeners, Ode to Autumn and several others

deoxyribonucleic acid
puella est parva
Father Aeneas from his lofty couch began thus.

O soror et dudum agnovi.

The Odour of Chrysanthemums. God we read that one so often.

"A ceremony is a formal and stately occasion". Third year RE. We were taught to chant it en masse whenever the teacher asked "What is a ceremony?" It wasn't for a test or anything and it wasn't even useful. I suspect the whole thing was a staffroom bet. It's still a Pavlovian response if anyone happens to ask me what a ceremony is though.

Riddley... I came on specifically to say Ox bow lakes too

SohCahToa

Pilipilihoho - yes that's the one! Thank you - it was very stirring!

The Pizza song and a song about a camel called Flash from our P7 panto of Ali Baba (he worked at Pizza Tent).

BIDMAS from Maths

The hangman's noose being called Stolypin's necktie in revolutionary Russia.

How to say "your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" in German (Monty Python fan teacher)

Large chunks of Robert Burns and many Shaksperian insults (slightly mad teacher)

F=ma and s=d/t from physics.

StationAry like a cAr; StationEry like a pen

Diffusion and osmosis.

Periodic table and SOHCAHTOA

Various hymns and poems in their entirety, including 'Matilda' (... told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one's eyes).

Some very dreary facts about Forster's Education Act.

The Kuwaiti national anthem. Sung it every morning before lessons started.

I could also tell you how high a metre was off the ground and show you 30cm as it was drummed into us by showing us a metre and 30cm ruler daily so we would never forget.

Hic haec hoc
Hunc hanc hoc
Huis huis huis
Hic hac hoc

Useful on so many occasions.

Oh and

der/die/das/die
Den/die/das/die
Des/der/des/der
Dem/Der/dem/den

The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square on the opposite two sides. Tried sharing that gem with DS, he was unimpressed.
SohCahToa.....no clue what that taught me, but I remember it.

My DD is learning times tables at the moment and is amazed at how quickly I can do them

I can also calculate prices in pounds, shillings and pence- despite being only 32.

Yes to Sohcahtoa

Amo, amas, Amat, amamus, amatus, amant

Photosynthesis, osmosis and cotyledons

Strassenbaumhaltestelle is German for tram stop

"Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?"

"When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this?

The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken
And light is thy fame,
I hear thy name spoken
And share in its shame"

We did lots of poetry. At 16 I thought the Byron was something i could have written after my first heartbreak