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!)

Scrawled in a physics textbook:

The lust of the thrust is proportionate to the angle of the dangle assuming the urge remains constant

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners we played a similar game in both French and Spanish. (We may have done it in German too but as already established, all I can remember from German is how to get to the train station.)

My DC have done it at school too. They call it 21. You go around the classroom and each person can say 1,2 or 3 numbers. If you are the person who has to say 21 then you are out. I didn’t remember the word used in French, but I do remember in Spanish it was ”¡Bomba!”

Two mad things

Poor Johnny now is dead and gone
His eyes will see no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4

And

From a French course called Éclair.

Serge and Boris were two Russian spies, who kept trying to be mean criminally minded nasties and kept getting it wrong.

"DONNEZ-MOI CENT MILLE FRANCS!"

When they robbed a bank, they only wanted one hundred thousand francs.

When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old
He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold,
With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand
For God and for valour, he rode through the land.

Never
Eat
Cake
Eat
Salmon
Sandwiches
And
Remain
Young

Pinkarsedfly

YY to 'When a Knight Won His Spurs'

If ever I can't lay my hands on the charger for my phone/laptop, I find myself mentally singing: "No charger have I and no sword by my side, yet still to adventure and battle I ride."

Isosceles: I Sat On Swanage Cliffs Eating Lovely Egg Sandwiches

Did a French past tense connect 4 game with DD last night and it was all still there, j'ai reçu, elle est restée etc

I never got the stationAry = cAr
Cars are not stationary, surely it would be better to use something that doesn't move?

With a primary school experiment to test our directional hearing, the instructions were: "Seat one of your friends comfortably in a chair. Blindfold his eyes so he cannot see. Tap a tin can in the following places:
In front
Behind
On his left
On his right
Near his feet
Above his head
Can he point to the can?
Repeat the experiment, this time with your friend covering one ear. Can he point to the can?
Repeat the experiment, with your friend tapping the can, and you blindfolded. How do your results compare with those of your friend?

I think it should have said to do the places in a random order: I'd memorised the order by the time we did the experiment!

@Thatnovembernight , it's very dangerous to quote Macbeth. Quickly spit three times and throw some salt over your left shoulder.

KittenLedWeaning so will I, from now on!

I will never forget the question "but Miss Hendry, how does the uterus know when you get married?" during Biology.

This! Surprised it’s not come up yet.

Pre - Sohcahtoa:
Silly Old Hitler Caught A Headache Through Our Airmen.

StationEry as in Envelope

The lord's prayer

I managed to miss ‘cauliflower fluffy’ when I was at school but my year 2 Dd has been driving me mad with it for weeks since they learnt it for harvest festival.

canaloed - I wish I'd learnt your mnemonic for spelling "isosceles".

I learnt it the hard way: got the spelling wrong in my maths homework, aged 12, and potty old Flossie Stephens the maths teacher made me write it out 50 times.

I can still feel the burning humiliation, every time I have to write the word isosceles.

@FoulMouthedMotherFigure

The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sun of the squares of the other two sides.

Zu nach bei mit aus von zeit gegenuber (prepositions that take the dative case in German)

Mr Damp’s Tavern (first letters of the verbs that are conjugated with être in the past tense in French)

Sex On Hard Concrete Always Hurts The Over Aged !
soh cah toa - angles in Maths

That life is like a magic penny, hold it tight or you won’t have any.

Say ‘fry end’ every time I spell friend
And ‘to get her’ for together

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners in junior school (Mr Pearson) we called it Fizz Buzz. If it was divisible by 3 you said fizz, by 5 buzz, by both FizzBuzz. So it went (eg) Buzz, 11, Fizz, 13, 14, FizzBuzz, 16.

In French (yes, younger Mrs James loved this) I can remember that the FizzBuzz equivalent was something like "coqueriquo" but I can't remember what it was for 3 or 5 alone.

@numberonecook I just taught my DTs that way of spelling together this week!

V2 = V1 + AT

My cooking teacher told me to put wet baking trays in the oven when it was cooling down because they would dry.

Burning a Mars Bar on a bunsen burner to show how much energy it has. It had the most

My RE teacher told us that one can of Coke every a day is 7 a week but one can a week is moderation.

'Twas brillig etc (did gire and gimble etc. Mimsy etc.)