No it's just a rocket taking off and reaching for the sky.

 

You are so quick, I have literally changed it moments ago. 

 

My observation skills are 10 out of 10

I can verbatim myself <<< see there i just did it.

 

I can do it again <<< see

Bet you can't do it three times

I can try < < < whoah !!!!

That was sheer luck

 *speechless*

Makes a change

Reams of Shakespeare hammered in at school, likewise a lump of the Ancient Mariner

and.....

Derriere le jardin de Monsieur et Madame Desgranges il y a un grand basin rond....that was my very first sentence in my very first French lesson

 

My first Latin sentence...Puella pupa portat

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled.

Scots wham Bruce has often lead.

Welcome to thy gory bed,

Or to victory!

 

Now's the day and now's the hour

See the front o' battle lour

See approach proud Edward's power

- Chains and slavery!

 

 

When I was 6, I memorised "The owl and the pussycat". Once learnt, never forgotten.

Abu Ben Adam , awoke one night from a deep dream peace, 

and within the candlelight in room,

some thing... withering doom..(thats probs not quite right)

saw an angel writing in a book of gold.

to the presence in the room he said' what writest thou?'

the presence raised his head

with a look of all sweet accord,

answered, the names of those who love the lord.

 

I have no idea why I have had this stuck in my head for at least  20 years, I think it's from the Rubyat of Omar Kayham, or possible he lesser known  sibling Victor...

 

 

I do have a number of things which have stuck in my head but many of them I cannot recite fully or correctly. One is the a war poem by Wilfred Owen which I studied at school.

 

The bit that rattles round my head is: Dulce et Decorum est 
Pro patria mori.

 

 

 

The lyrics to hundreds - if not thousands - of songs.

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat start to finish - I've been in it 14 times.

The catalogue number of every item in my Motorhead collection.

Driver number, NHS number, Nat. Ins. number, bank card number, my first year of secondary school class register, and the list goes on.

It scares me how easily I can retain strings of numbers and a mine of useless information.....

 

I wish I could remember more useful things!!

 

I could probably quote you the entire lyrics of every 1970's glam rock song, the whole of the poem that starts "Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one's eyes", and lots of other really important stuff that I have totally forgotten about!

 

Can I suggest you put your powers of recollection to good use by going onto quiz programmes and winning pots of cash?

 

 

I too know loads of song lyrics, but I could not say that I can sing them word perfect each time.

 

You have a gift sir.

 

 

Songs - yes

 

Movies - yes

 

Things i need to remember - nothing !!

.....you would not tell, with such high zest......The Old Lie......It is a fine and fitting thing to die for ones country.

 

We studied it too, along with two war poems called 'The Horses'. One was by Ted Hughes, the other may have been by Wilfred Owen - I'll look it up - and finally the book by Erich Maria Remarque - All quiet on the Western Front.

 

Edit: The second 'The Horses' was by Edwin Muir. It read to me at the time like post Neuclear War - I have just read it again and it STILL feels like post nuclear, rather than conventional, war.

I  can also quote you the lyrics of 'El Paso' by Marty Robbins, including the lines in the middle that are left out of most renditions!

 

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso

I fell in love with a mexican girl.

Night time would find me in Rose's cantina,

Music would play and Felina would whirl.

I remember Abu Ben Adhem (May his tribe increase) being used on a NTNOCN sketch. I think the point being that Rowan Atkinson was reading a Welsh translation .. Probably.

hmmmm

 

Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken

Drei Ecken hat mein Hut

und hatt er nicht drei Ecken

so war's auch nicht mein hut

 

My hat, it has three corners,
Three corners has my hat,
And had it not three corners,
It would not be my hat.

 

Learnt that in Austria with a bunch of kids that were taught English using Play away Brian Cant videos 

 

also the lines to the BBC Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle Pride and Prejudice programme and North and South with Richard Armitage - largely due to the amount of times I've watched both 

 

 

I remember that poem .It is fit and noble to die for ones country, something like that.

 

What the hell is this  

Scary, that's what it is Erin

Ain't it just

Yeah, loads of songs easily enough.

First car number plate, and first telephone number - lots of other people's phone numbers too.  Now - zilch.

 

Retained lots of tosh, rubbish and useless info from back in the day.

Couldn't tell you half of anything from yesterday though 

 

 

wine list from most public houses within staggering distance... apart from that, I can hardly remember my name 

Oh, and the calories of most things, and the old weightwatchers points, and the new propoints, and slimming world syns, and however Rosemary counted things

That's a given surely?  

 

 

Certainly is Cosi   

 

 

haha.... I have being doing the maths in my head to allow for Vodka tonight, I'm sitting here with Scottish Slimmers and weightwatchers booklets as I type 

 

It's a well known and beloved British character given the Tim Burton treatment.

 

There is a prize for who can guess who the character is.

 

 

Tom Baker's Dr Who?

 

 

Marty Feldman? 

 

Got it in one. Well done Kaffy.

 

Your prize is on it's way.

 

 

*listens for doorbell*

I did think it was Keith Richards at first...

After the explosion?  

Interesting as the prize is me cooking my signature dish for two.