Lyrics - the Tibetian Memory Test?
Pyotr Filipivich
the first 11 verses of the 12 verse Jerry Lewis Memory Test,
aka The Tibetian Memory Test by Flo & Eddie. I was impressed.
What I have is:
One hand!
Two Ducks!
Three squawking geese!
Four Limrick Oysters!
Five corpulent porpoises
Six pairs of Don ALvera Tweezers
Seven Macedonian warriors dressed in full battle array.
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient scared crypts of Egypt.
Nine sympathetic apathetic diabetic old men on roller skates with a
marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth.
Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep swimming around in
the que quay quivy and all at the very same time.
Eleven infitestimal magnitudinal metro goldwin meyer records hanging
around in the gardern of Eden in the eighteenth century prior to the
American Revolution.
So, does anyone know the last verse?
chus
pyotr
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"Eight brass monkeys from the sacred,secret crypts of Egypt"
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Brian Leibowitz
Pyotr Filipivich <py...@coho.halcyon.com> wrote:
>Ome time back I had a erudite friend rattle off, from memory
>the first 11 verses of the 12 verse Jerry Lewis Memory Test,
>aka The Tibetian Memory Test by Flo & Eddie. I was impressed.
Here is the post about the lyrics I did a while ago:
This is on Flo and Eddie - Illegal, Immoral and Fattening
It is the Tibetan Memory Trick in the cut The Sanzini Brothers Return.
One Hen
Two Ducks
Three Squalking geese
Four Limerick oysters
Five corpulent porpoises
Six pairs of Don Alvarsos' tweezers
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
Nine apathetic, sypathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked
propensity toward procrastination and sloth
Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep, who haul quay
around the quo of the quivvy of the quarry all at the same time
the credits read *Special thanks to Jerry Lewis and Del Moore for the use
of The Tibetan Memory Trick*
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
There are some differences and Flo and Eddie stoped at ten.
Brian
VFricke
Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul crud
around the corner with a quay and a quo and a queasy at the very same
time.
Bill Gascoyne
One hen;
Two ducks;
Three squawking geese;
Four limerick oysters;
Five corpulent porpises;
Six pairs of Don Elvira's tweezers;
Seven thousand marching Macedonians in full battle array;
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt;
Nine apathetic sypathetic diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked
propensity for procrastination and sloth;
Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who have gathered at
the core of the quivy at the corner of the quay all at the same time.
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Pyotr Filipivich
hubby again.
chus
pyotr
Thanks anyway.
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|Brian
Chuck Stevens
Brian Leibowitz (b...@netcom.com) wrote:
:
: One Hen
: Two Ducks
: Three Squalking geese
: Four Limerick oysters
: Five corpulent porpoises
Five corporal porpoises, I seem to remember..
: Six pairs of Don Alvarsos' tweezers
Don L. Visser's tweezers...
: Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
: Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
: Nine apathetic, sypathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked
: propensity toward procrastination and sloth
: Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep, who haul quay
: around the quo of the quivvy of the quarry all at the same time
My version of it simply didn't make any sense, but that wasn't a major
problem...it sounded something like "Ten denizens of the deep, haul stall
around the corner, the queue, the quo, and the quivy, all at the same time."
Plus:
Eleven long lean lockermoose lamb legs, lying along long lean lanes, laden
with lack.
Twelve trains transporting twenty-two Tahitian trees toward the town of
Tasmar, Tasmania, terminating at the top of the Tiber.
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According to my newsreader (which has found three postings in alt.q), at
least two people FAILED the Tibetan Memory Test. Will someone please
post an ABSOLUTELY VERBATIM reprint of it for me? My guess is that the
person who finds the original test word-for-word will also know where I
can go to find it myself....
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Jo Ann Malina
|>
|> According to my newsreader (which has found three postings in alt.q), at
|> least two people FAILED the Tibetan Memory Test. Will someone please
|> post an ABSOLUTELY VERBATIM reprint of it for me? My guess is that the
|> person who finds the original test word-for-word will also know where I
|> can go to find it myself....
Write to Johnny Carson or Ed McMahon. I remember them doing this on
the Tonight Show sometime in the 60's. I couldn't remember it past the
porpoises (I do have the excuse that I was too young at the time to
know a lot of the words). But reading it here did tickle some memories.
When did it get the name Tibetan Memory Test? Don't remember that at
all.
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Jo Ann Malina <jo...@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>In article <3lfut4$g...@news.iastate.edu>,
npba...@iastate.edu (Nathan P Battan) writes:
>|>
>|> According to my newsreader (which has found three postings in alt.q), at
>|> least two people FAILED the Tibetan Memory Test. Will someone please
>|> post an ABSOLUTELY VERBATIM reprint of it for me? My guess is that the
>|> person who finds the original test word-for-word will also know where I
>|> can go to find it myself....
>
>
>Write to Johnny Carson or Ed McMahon. I remember them doing this on
>the Tonight Show sometime in the 60's. I couldn't remember it past the
>porpoises (I do have the excuse that I was too young at the time to
>know a lot of the words). But reading it here did tickle some memories.
>
>When did it get the name Tibetan Memory Test? Don't remember that at
>all.
We used to use this as a vocal warm-up in High School for Theatre
productions. There was a correct (as to what we used) version
posted here last week. The Quivy & the Quay is what I remember
although we seldom got that far. You may want to check with
a local theatre group or in that section of the library.
Curt
Pyotr Filipivich
|In article <3lfut4$g...@news.iastate.edu>, npba...@iastate.edu (Nathan P Battan) writes:
||> According to my newsreader (which has found three postings in alt.q), at
||> least two people FAILED the Tibetan Memory Test. Will someone please
||> post an ABSOLUTELY VERBATIM reprint of it for me? My guess is that the
||> person who finds the original test word-for-word will also know where I
||> can go to find it myself....
|Write to Johnny Carson or Ed McMahon. I remember them doing this on
|the Tonight Show sometime in the 60's. I couldn't remember it past the
|porpoises (I do have the excuse that I was too young at the time to
|know a lot of the words). But reading it here did tickle some memories.
|When did it get the name Tibetan Memory Test? Don't remember that at
|all.
This got tacked on by Flo & Eddie in their recording of it.
I got it from Mike Frison who heard Jerry Lewis reel it off on on of his
telethons. Sort of "Jerry, you used to do this, can you still do it?"
"Yah shur" and away he goes ...
So, someone must write Jerry, or call in with a pledge on the next MDA
Telethon.
chus
pyotr
who now has enough variant versions to confuse the scholars.