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!)

Aus auser bei mit nach Zeit Von zu und geigernuber.
Not a clue if they’re spelt correctly. Or what they mean!!!

'They do say as the surest sign a ships accursed is when there's one aboard more than can be accounted for'

My line in the school play - Peter Pan (I was something like '4th Pirate')
Has stuck in my head for about 47 years.

Lumpi ist mein hund. Lumpi ist krank.

Igglepiggle - see GenevaMaybe's post a few before yours!

Did anyone have the Tricolore textbooks for French?

Ah, chouette!
Zut, maintenant il pleut.

"Quand je fais de la voile, je n'aime pas les filles."

They had lots of silly cartoons with characters such as Fifi Folle, Jacques Malchance, the inept detective Louis Laloupe; also lots of stories with teenagers going everywhere on motorbikes.

Medieval crop rotation, which the history teacher had us all chant in unison - wheat, barley, fallow, wheat, barley, fallow.

Caecilius est in horto

SOHCAHTOA (something to do with pythagoras... I can mainly just remember it being said in the maths teacher's thick foreign accent

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - double aide memoir - mnemonic for the rainbow that also reminds you that the House of York lost the war of the roses.

My one line from the (rather ambitious) school production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle when I was 13. I was a peasant “Actually, all they need is cement and dynamite”.

Maybe this is what influenced my future career as a civil engineer.

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

My cookery teacher put my pan of cake residue that I had deliberately left for a cheeky taste straight into the washing up bowl. I'm only just getting over it 25 years later!! 😂

emwithme coqueriquo! That was it! Thanks! Mr Pearson was ace, he came on the Paris trip with JBV and Mrs Cassidy as a chaperone.

Under Selby Abbey there is Pillar of Coal left for Conservation Purposes. All the family chant this epic piece of knowledge every time we pass the sign to Selby on the motorway.

Never Eat Shredded Wheat
North, east, south, west

One I needed today:

Oh, how embarrassing/to put two 'r' s in 'harassing'

Electric field intensity is force per unit charge. Drummed into us in physics.

I know all the lyrics for Phil the Fluter and A Spoonful of Medicine from primary school. Also lots of poems that I still remember the words for.

My geography teacher in the first year at senior school wore brown shirts, and ties that looked like they'd been knitted out of string by his mum.

@GameSetMatch Have you heard this one;
Big elephants can always understand small elephants

@OneInEight is that a mnemonic like Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain or is it a fact?

"À Biarritz, il neige."

Like a PP the whole of the Lord of the Dance, my favourite hymn from assembly. Also every single book of the Bible in order as our teacher used to make us all line up outside the room and come in and repeat them one at a time. If you got the wrong you had to stand on your chair!

sohcahtoa

'La famille Marsaud est dans la salle a manger'

Also shorthand 'I have several large desks I need to move'

All very useful in life so far....

X = -b+/- √((b^2 - 4ac)/2a) (it goes to a tune when spoken aloud)

Also
Half the sum of the parallel lines, times the distance between them,
That's the way you calculate the area of a trapezium

And

Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee, a ring round the moon is pi times D, but if a hole you want repaired, you use the formula pi r squared.

Someone has probably already put this, but I can 'parrot fashion' recall the order of the planets, starting with closest to the sun

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

Did anyone have the Tricolore textbooks for French?

Yes, we did! Monsieur Duval the baker from La Rochelle. And the teenagers who were constantly vont a la discotheque.

The Gay Gordons.

How to make Christmas garlands out of long thin strips of crepe paper.

Il y avait deux vieilles femmes qui voulaient traverser la rue.

And oxbow lakes, obviously.

Ecoutez et repetez.
Jean Paul, Marie France et Claudette Marsaud.