USELESS THINGS YOU HAVE MEMORIZED
Reddit asked, “What is the most useless thing you still have memorized?” Some of the responses:
– “Roma tomato produce code 4087.”
– “Our phone number when I was 6 years old in 1948.”
– “My friends from high school birthdays. I look at the calendar and I’m like, oh today’s it’s his/her birthday. And I haven’t spoken to these people for years.”
– “Up, up, down,down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start.” (it’s a video game cheat code)
– “The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. Had to memorize it in high school still know it 35 years later.”
– “5th grade we could memorize the Gettysburg Address and the Preamble for the Constitution for extra credit. Those will never leave my brain.”
– “When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.”
– “A former coworker’s coffee order… It’s been at least 10 years since I worked with him. It was a quad venti peppermint mocha .”
– “The Girl Scout Law, in Swedish. I am American. I do not speak Swedish. It was something we did to earn a badge.”
– “All the words to We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
– “The first 6 Mughal emperors – Babur, Humanyun, Akbar, Jehangir, Sha Jahan and Aurengzeb. I used to use those names to gauge if I was too drunk and needed to go home. If I couldn’t name them, too drunk. Go home.”
* Oops, I just remembered… I have to go to traffic and weather.
* PHONE TOPIC: What useless thing do your listeners have memorized? Have them call and recite it. Make a talent show out of it.








