evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (08/28/85)
There is something called The Tibetan Memory Trick. It consists of repeating
increasingly long lines of weird (bizarre?) stuff. I believe it starts with
something like:
1 duck
2 squawking geese
3 portulent porpoises
...
it goes up to 10, and the lines get much much longer as you go.
My question is, does anyone know it? I have never been able to get a copy of
it. The Turtles (Flo & Eddie) used to do it in concert.
--Evan Marcus
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> There is something called The Tibetan Memory Trick. > The Turtles (Flo & Eddie) used to do it in concert. > > --Evan Marcus With all apologies to Flo and Eddie, and with fear from their agent because this is posted without permission: One Hen Two Ducks Three Squawking Geese Four Limerick Oysters Five Corpulent Porpoises Six Pairs of Don Alversos Tweezeers Seven Thoudand Macedonians in Full Battle Array Eight Brass Monkeys from the Ancient Sacred Crypt of Egypt Nine Apathetic, Sympathetic, Diabetic Old Men on Roller Skates \ with a Marked Propensity toward Procrastination and Sloth Ten Lyrical, Spherical, Diabolical Denizens of the Deep, who hold Quay among the Quo in the Quivvy of the Quarry, \ ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!! <is this bizarre? If not, do I win the LEAST BIZARRE POSTING contest?>
jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) (09/01/85)
In article <458@petfe.UUCP> evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes: >There is something called The Tibetan Memory Trick. It consists of repeating >increasingly long lines of weird (bizarre?) stuff. I believe it starts with >something like: > >1 duck >2 squawking geese >3 portulent porpoises >... > >it goes up to 10, and the lines get much much longer as you go. > >My question is, does anyone know it? I have never been able to get a copy of >it. The Turtles (Flo & Eddie) used to do it in concert. Yes. It's: 1 duck 2 squawking geese 3 portulent porpoises 4 leaping lemmings 5 I forget.
sam@bu-cs.UUCP (Shelli Meyers) (09/04/85)
Actually, we use the "Tibetan Memory Trick" as a drinking game.
Whenever I drink with people I don't know very well I suggest
we play it...inasmuch as *I* already know it (and lead it), everybody
else gets plowed.
The leader starts out and says "one hen". The next person then says
"one hen" and so on around the circle until you get back to the leader.
Then the leader says "one hen, two ducks". You get the rest. If you
screw up you CONSUME!
One hen
Two ducks
Three cackling geese
Four corpulent porpoises
Five limerick oysters
Six hundred pairs of Dr. Freemanoid's famous eyebrow tweezers
Seven hundred Macedonian warriors in full battle dress ready to fight
Eight hundred pregnant penguins pushing their perambulators through
Palasades Park
Nine hundred mortal morphodites practicing their magic in the
precipitation of rain
...Well, I never stayed straight long enough to learn Ten.
--
"Time flies... when you're asleep."
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*******************************************allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert) (09/04/85)
> With all apologies to Flo and Eddie, and with fear from their agent because > this is posted without permission: > > One Hen > Two Ducks > Three Squawking Geese > Four Limerick Oysters > Five Corpulent Porpoises > Six Pairs of Don Alversos Tweezeers > Seven Thoudand Macedonians in Full Battle Array > Eight Brass Monkeys from the Ancient Sacred Crypt of Egypt > Nine Apathetic, Sympathetic, Diabetic Old Men on Roller Skates \ > with a Marked Propensity toward Procrastination and Sloth > Ten Lyrical, Spherical, Diabolical Denizens of the Deep, who hold > Quay among the Quo in the Quivvy of the Quarry, \ > ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!! > Of course, this reminds me of the title of an old Pink Floyd song, namely (recalling from memory) "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict". It is on the fringes of music (oops, I got in trouble once before for passing judgement on what constitutes music...) Just imagine a Top 40 DJ: 'All right, boss jocks, that was this week's number ten hit, "Several Species of Small Furry Animals..."' -- Back on the freeway, which is already in progress, Allen Grabert (...ittatc!bunker!allen)
fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (09/04/85)
> From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) > Subject: The Tibetan Memory Trick > Message-ID: <458@petfe.UUCP> > > There is something called The Tibetan Memory Trick. It consists > of repeating increasingly long lines of weird (bizarre?) stuff. I > believe it starts with something like: > > 1 duck > 2 squawking geese > 3 portulent porpoises > ... > > it goes up to 10, and the lines get much much longer as you go. > > My question is, does anyone know it? I have never been able to > get a copy of it. The Turtles (Flo & Eddie) used to do it in > concert. What you're thinking of is the Tibetian version of ``The Twelve Days of Christmas'' -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} seismo!umcp-cs!fred
st175@sdcc13.UUCP (st175) (09/05/85)
In article <458@petfe.UUCP>, evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes:
you'll like Post Raisin Bran mo-o-ore.
Well, when in Tibet.......here goes.
One hen
Two ducks
Three squacking geese
Four limeric oysters
Five corpulant porposes
Six pairs of Don Alveriso (Amichi's?) tweesers
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
Nine dispicable diabolical desmonds (Osmonds? I'm a little bit
country.......) of the deep who quequay around the privy all at the
same time,
and..........
Ten parenthetic sympathetic diabetic old men on rollerskates with a
marked propensity toward the provarication and procrastination of
sloth.
Wholly Mackeral, what a show!
(*ding*)
Lone Strangerknight@nmtvax.UUCP (09/13/85)
>> With all apologies to Flo and Eddie, and with fear from their agent because >> this is posted without permission: Actually, you should apologize to Jerry Lewis, as he came up with it. However, "Illegal, Immoral, and Fattening", the album that the TMT appears on, is one of my all-time faves. I still kick myself when I remind myself that I was living in LA at the time and missed the concerts that it was (mostly) recorded from. "And then, of course, there's the emaciated, white, shriveled up John Denver model..." (peals of laughter from the audience) "How would YOU know?!?" Bob