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!)

Latin is a dead language,
As dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans
And now it's killing me.

I also did the Noah musical. I only remember one verse:

Noah! Noah!
Don't do any more
Your boat's a laughing stock (ha, ha)
But Noah went right on building his ark
And his hammer went knock, knock, knock
Noah's hammer went knock, knock, knock.

Was that the same one?

Bam, bas, bat, bamus Batus bant
Bo bis bit bimus bitus bunt
Eram eras erat eramus eratus erant

@Stickytoffeeprodding

Oh I always liked that one. Can also recite the lord's prayer word for word because we chanted it every day in assembly.

Nowt useful though! 😂

I never learned about oxbow lakes at school. dh enlightened me many years later.

did anyone here take GCSE French in 1991? The thing that has most stuck in my mind for 28 years is one word from my aural comprehension exam which I did not understand and still have no idea what it means but it was so frustrating not to know it that I can still "hear" it in my memory.

Phonetically I would transcribe it as
La Laxiotoute
I don't expect to ever know but just hearing that phrase has stuck in my head ever since.

We learned (French school)

Rien ne se cree, rien ne se detruit, tout se change.

Ooh! The alphabet in French!
Specifically pronouncing
A, E, J, Q, W and Y

Bam, bas, bat, bamus, batus, bant

We had to invent our own mnemonic for the planets - Mickey Victor Eats Mango Jam Sitting Under Nextdoor's Patio

The alphabet song and bon anniversaire in French

All the hymns. If it's a hymn we sang at school, I can recall every last word, despite seldom darkening the door of a church since I last went to Sunday school.
Mohs' scale of hardness, and other assorted iffy mnemonics.

This thread has made me very nostalgic for Ecce Romani! Mensa Mensa Mensam mensae mensae Mensa etc

@Pristine ... we always sang "the broad beans are sleeping in a blankety bed ssshhhh!"

Nowadays I can't remember where I put my car keys 5 mins ago, but I can recall the words of all the hymns we sang in assembly.
I always liked "Glad that I live am I, that the sky is blue".... because it was short!

a nativity play called "Holy Boy"

intro song started

"Not so long ago
2000 years, nearly.
Down in Bethlehem
a saviour born, really.
Not a royal bed
No king and queen in splendour
but manger lowly
for the Holy Boy."

I was 5 years old. lyrics tend to stick in my brain.

IPMATI cell division

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - from my typing class

All words from Oliver

All lyrics from Joseph

Never cut towards yourself then you’ll never cut yourself from woodwork classes and all the words to Joseph (we sang it in the school choir for a concert)

African Crib Carol
“Bayou, Christie Bayou,
Christie Bay Banou,
Oh Christie Bayou”

The most beautiful song. It was in one of our Carol concerts at primary school around 1989. I might have to YouTube it now...

I have never forgotten gems from the 'Come and Praise' hymn book such as 'I was cold, I was naked, were you there', 'Would you walk by on the other side, when someone called for AIDS (this was the mid 80s...) and 'The earth is yours O God, you nouriSHIT with rain'

Then, at grammar school there was 'Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds, genoux pieds...les yeux, l'oreilles, la bouche, la nez'

I studied Latin for 3 years in secondary and this is the sum total of what I remember, the first few lines from our first Latin book 'Ecce! In pictura est puella, nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est puella Romana quae in Italia habitat.'

Does anyone remember a game that French teachers used to play with (I think) numbers where you went round the room saying the numbers in French then every now and then you shouted out a word like 'pipou' or something? I have a vague recollection of this but don't remember it fully. Its been driving me mad all day trying to bring it to the front of my mind. emwithme can you remember this? I think it was Mrs James (the younger) and Mrs Howes.

Poor old Gregory
He is no more.
What he thought was h20
Was h2so4

Mein Igel ist krank am Dienstags.

Verrrrry useful 😂

And..
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Duteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth....etc!!!

Also,
Osmosis is the movement of fluid from an area of low concentration to an area of high concentration through a semi permeable membrane.

The less helpful stuff I remember, scrawled in all folders..
Classy school I went to!

Kissing is a habit,
Fu*ing is a game
Boys get all the pleasure
Girls get all the pain.

He tell you he love you
You believe it's true
When your belly starts to rise
He says to hell with you

Fifteen minutes of pleasure
Then nine months of pain
Something something (can't remember!)
Something (still can't remember) kid with not last name

Baby is a b*
Mother is a wh*
This never would have happened
If the rubber hadn't tore.

Classy school. Real classy

@Stickytoffeeprodding
I was hugely disappointed to realise that it wasn't a dance settee.
My childhood impression of Jesus was ruined when I realised he wasn't dancing all over sofas

The difference between its (belonging to it) and it’s (it is or it has).

Natural fibres burn, synthetics melt.

You can find out how much humus (organic matter and shit) is in a given quantity of dry soil by burning it. Weigh before and after. Difference is weight of humus.