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  • Re: one hen, two ducks

    From Glenn Mantel@21:1/5 to Doug Shaw on Sun May 1 07:39:12 2022
    On Wednesday, April 20, 1994 at 9:43:46 AM UTC-7, Doug Shaw wrote:
    ...oops, I forgot to mention that this was forwarded from alt.fan.douglas_adams,
    not authored by me...
    In article <2p1ng9$c...@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>, dos...@med.umich.edu (Doug Shaw) writes:

    There's an old memory game I learnt years ago which involves
    the following:
    One hen
    two ducks
    three squawking geese
    four limerick oysters
    five pregnant pilgrim
    six pairs of Don Alfonso's Tweezers
    seven thousand macedonians in full battle array
    eight brass monkeys from the sacred sandy crypt of ancient egypt,
    and
    nine sympathetic, apathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates
    with a marked propensity for procrastination and sloth.

    I believe there is a tenth line, but I don't know it.

    Best,

    Douglas Adams

    One Hen
    Two Ducks
    Three Squawking Geese
    Four Limerick Oysters
    Five Corpulent Porpoises
    Six Pairs of Don Alverzo's Tweezers
    Seven Thousand Macedonians In Full Battle Array
    Eight Brass Monkeys from the Ancient Sacred Crypts of Egypt
    Nine Sympathetic Apathetic Diabetic Old Men On Roller Skates With A Marked Propensity For Procrastination and Sloth
    Ten Lyrical Spherical Diabolical Denizens of the Deep Who Haul and Stall Around the Quay and the Quarry All At The Same Time

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  • From Leo Frishberg@21:1/5 to Glenn Mantel on Fri Jul 1 11:26:04 2022
    On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 10:39:13 AM UTC-4, Glenn Mantel wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 20, 1994 at 9:43:46 AM UTC-7, Doug Shaw wrote:
    ...oops, I forgot to mention that this was forwarded from alt.fan.douglas_adams,
    not authored by me...
    In article <2p1ng9$c...@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>, dos...@med.umich.edu (Doug Shaw) writes:

    There's an old memory game I learnt years ago which involves
    the following:
    One hen
    two ducks
    three squawking geese
    four limerick oysters
    five pregnant pilgrim
    six pairs of Don Alfonso's Tweezers
    seven thousand macedonians in full battle array
    eight brass monkeys from the sacred sandy crypt of ancient egypt,
    and
    nine sympathetic, apathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates
    with a marked propensity for procrastination and sloth.

    I believe there is a tenth line, but I don't know it.

    Best,

    Douglas Adams
    One Hen
    Two Ducks
    Three Squawking Geese
    Four Limerick Oysters
    Five Corpulent Porpoises
    Six Pairs of Don Alverzo's Tweezers
    Seven Thousand Macedonians In Full Battle Array
    Eight Brass Monkeys from the Ancient Sacred Crypts of Egypt
    Nine Sympathetic Apathetic Diabetic Old Men On Roller Skates With A Marked Propensity For Procrastination and Sloth
    Ten Lyrical Spherical Diabolical Denizens of the Deep Who Haul and Stall Around the Quay and the Quarry All At The Same Time
    Our family has been reciting this memory test for nearly 100 years.
    Our variant differs from the Jerry Lewis version as follows:
    One duck
    Two hens
    Three squawking geese
    Four corpulent porpoises
    Five limerick oysters
    Six pairs of Don Alfonso's tweezers
    Seven hundred Macedonian warriors in full battle array
    Eight brass monkeys from the sacred and ancient crypts of Egypt
    Nine sympathetic apathetic diabetic old men on crutches
    Ten lyrical spherical heliotropes from the ilio-monastic institute

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