REQ: Tibetan Memory Trick

[Richard Snyder]

Geff King wrote:
>
> I'm talking about
>
> One hen
> Two ducks
> Three squawking geese
> Four corpulent porpoises
> etc.
>
> I have 9 out of 10. Cannot remember the 10th for the life of me.
>
> Half a dozen search engines have yielded nothing. Can anyone assist?
>
> --
> Geff King * Librarian by Day - Bassist by Night * gk...@ari.net
> "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your
> editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
> -- Mark Twain

Since you're referring to the "Tibetan Memory Trick", then I'll assume
that you are referring to the FLO & EDDIE version, which used "Ten
lyrical, spherical, diabolical, denizens of the deep who haul quay
around the quo of the quivy of the quarry..all at the same time!". The
original song, "One Hen" (by a group whose name escapes me at the
moment), has been aired on Dr. D from time to time... 8-{)} Rick

[Stortz]

In article <5avpev$f...@ari.ari.net>, gk...@ari.net (Geff King) wrote:
>I'm talking about
>
>One hen
>Two ducks
>Three squawking geese
>Four corpulent porpoises
>etc.
>
>I have 9 out of 10. Cannot remember the 10th for the life of me.
>
>Half a dozen search engines have yielded nothing. Can anyone assist?
>

10 - Lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who haul SOMETHING
around the SOMETHING of the SOMETHING of the quay and are queasy at the very
same time.

That's as well as I remember it, sorry.

-Steve

[Geff King]

I'm talking about

One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four corpulent porpoises
etc.

I have 9 out of 10. Cannot remember the 10th for the life of me.

Half a dozen search engines have yielded nothing. Can anyone assist?

--

[Mark Lacatena]

gk...@ari.net (Geff King) wrote:

>I'm talking about

>One hen
>Two ducks
>Three squawking geese
>Four corpulent porpoises
>etc.

>I have 9 out of 10. Cannot remember the 10th for the life of me.

>Half a dozen search engines have yielded nothing. Can anyone assist?

Altavista comes through again! I searched for "memory" and "full
battle array". A number of pages were listed, I chose

http://www.thecoo.edu/~mmmeyer/trivia/onehen.html

I remember a sightly different version that the one given,

10 lyrical sphyrical diabolical denizens of the deep blue sea who
stalk about in the corners of the cove all at the very same time.

>From: Myron=Meyer%Student%S...@cs1.thecoo.edu
>Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
>Subject: re: One Hen....
>Date: 12 Jun 1995 19:56:30 +0100
>
>Although I am dubious of its Tibetian origin, the
>November/December 1978 issue of Games magazine calls it the Tibetian Memory
>Trick. It goes a little something like this:
>
>1 hen,
>2 ducks,
>3 squawking geese,
>4 limerick oysters,
>5 corpulent porpoises,
>6 pairs of Revlon tweezers,
>7000 Macedonians in full battle array,
>8 brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt,
>9 apathetic sympathetic diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked
>propensity towards procrastination and sloth,
>10 lyrical sphyrical diabolical denizens of the deep who stalk about the
>corners of the cove all at the same time.
>
>The game is played where one person who knows the memory trick recites the
>items one at a time. The other person must then recite the full list up to
>that point with no mistakes or stammering.
>
>article credit: Alan M. Newman.
>
>Cordially,
>
>Myron M. Meyer
>myron...@thecoo.edu
>The University of Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
>___________________________________________________________________________