I remember when mods chose QOTW topics

(McChinaman banned, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:24, 3 replies)

I remember when baldmonkey was allowed to post here.
THOSE WERE BETTER DAYS.
BALDMONKEY FOR MOD!
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:18, 7 replies)

I used to know how to guarantee a cheque by writing my card number on the back
But that skill has been obsolete for several hours now.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:15, 1 reply)

I still know what this place looked like when it were all fields.

( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:13, 12 replies)

I used to be able to do all my own car / motorcycle maintenance
Now I open the bonnet, stare at the sealed unit gloomily for a moment, sigh, close the bonnet and get out my chequebook.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:13, 3 replies)

fkd clutch and TURBO SFII
i can drive a car with a fktup clutch pretty smoothly.

Down, R, Up, L, Y, B on player 2s control. 10 STARS TURBO, FTW.

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(ajarn_B, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:02, 1 reply)

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Virgins Go Without
Sequence of colour codes on a resistor;

Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White

Learnt it while I was an apprentice, over 25 years ago. I'm sure it's not obsolete, there's still resistors being used nowadays, I just haven't used it for over 24 years, so why I would still remember it is beyond me.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:57, 7 replies)

I still remember
All of Bloc Party's songs.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:47, 3 replies)

The square root of 27 to 7 decimal places is 5.1961524
I don't know why my brain thought I needed to carry that information around with me for 25+ years, but there it is.

I also can still quote most of the lyrics to both parts of the ZX Spectrum game "Deus Ex Machina". Egg warm and spinning. Spinning, spinning.
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:37, 7 replies)

I can remember 'The Ian Rush Milk Advert' word for word, my BT chargecard number from when I was 12 and the serial number on the glass of my Dad's Sierra!
But I really can't be bothered to recite them, just take my word for it!

Oh and I can remember the programme that turns the Amstrad Notepad into a keyboard, I still have two of them.
(ickledoozer last played ball-in-a-cup on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:35, 5 replies)

you and I just lost
'The Game'
(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:29, 13 replies)

No idea why I remembered this
but your card was the 4 of Clubs.
(TitanLX, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:26, Reply)

Loads of cheat codes to the game DOOM
IDDQD made you invincible. IDKFA gave you all the weapons/ammo/keys. IDPISPOPD let you walk through walls (changed to IDCLIP in Doom II).

Haven't played Doom for about 11 or 12 years...

Ironically, I've been married for 9 years and still can't memorise her mobile number.
(themarginwalker, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:24, 3 replies)

You'll have to trust me that I'm typing this from memory, not googling it
Pi = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:12, 8 replies)

One last post before I go out
Not me, but my dad. A few years ago, I took my kids round to see my parents and my dad recited the first half of Robert Browning's Pied Piper of Hamlyn. He learned this at school some 65 years ago or so. I asked him why he didn't know the second half and he said he didn't need to learn it as that was Arthur Clements' part (who I assume wa the kid he sat next to).

Also, I've just been for a piss and it smelt like chicken & mushroom Pot Noodle, of which I've not eaten one of in maybe 20 years.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:11, 1 reply)

Whatever an English city or town is mentioned, I silently name the postal district and county it's in
having been a postal sorter as a teenager.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:09, 2 replies)

Do y'member the 80's, eh? Rubics cubes! 'Member them, eh?
What were all that about, eh?!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:06, 11 replies)

Just recently
I found a Speccy emulator with Manic Miner, and got all the way to Skylab Landing Bay without losing a life.

And that Eugene was a right cunt.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 13:00, 2 replies)

I know that an orange circle is worth two, a red square is four, while the mighty blue hexagon is thirty.
drogna
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:49, 8 replies)

Dialling codes
Derby: 01DE2
Manchester: 01M1
Glasgow: 01G1
Edinburgh: 01E1
Hull: 01HU2
Wakefield: 01WA4
Warrington: 01WA6

etc.
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:36, 10 replies)

Oh, and if you want an example
of an absolutely pointless waste of memory synapses, when I was 14, inbetween furious bouts of trying to drain my bollocks, I read about the memory association trick whereby you remember a list of words by making an association with the next/previous. Consequently I still know a list of 20 random words:

Wasp, Table, Penguin, Paper, Bottle, Umbrella, Typewriter, Walking stick, Knife, Wellingtons, Sausages, Keys, Kitchen scales, Bus ticket, Biro, Stool, Petrol pump, Marmalade, Bicycle lights, Stepladder.


Also about the same sort of time, I went to Bridlington on the train with a couple of mates and met some girls on the train home. I got one of their numbers, 43760, and phoned her up to meet her the next day outside ABC cinema. She showed up, we walked about town, I got my first proper kiss with tongues and that, saw her off on her bus home and that was the last I saw of her.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:35, 3 replies)

Phone numbers
Remember those, when you had to dial a number and not look up a name in your address book?
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:34, 5 replies)

Um-Bongo
Way down deep in the middle of the congo,
A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango,
He stuck it with the others and he danced a dainty tango,
The rhino said "I know! We'll call it Um-Bongo",

Um-bongo, Um-bongo, they drink it in the Congo.

The python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the mandarin,
The parrot painted packets that the whole caboodle landed it,
So when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle,
We all prefer the sunny, funny one we call UM-BONGO!

Um-bongo, Um-bongo, they drink it in the Congo.
Um-bongo, Um-bongo, they drink it in the Congo.

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I'll be your dog!!!!
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:33, 6 replies)

Temple of Doom
I can (and often do) sing Cole Porters' Anything Goes in Cantonese.
(onemunki Down there for dancing, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:32, 4 replies)

not me but my pa
can remember all the numbers for army bases from when he was working in the phone exchange in WW2. i doubt they are much use now.
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:27, Reply)

I can remember and recreate the exact sound of my modem
beep bop beep bop beep bop bop deep deep deep
hundung hudung hudung
err
sisssisiiisssssisisisisisisss
click
( WormuIus, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:25, 6 replies)

19, 65, 09, 17
If you played those sounds on the Mega Drive game Sonic the Hedgehog 2, you were rewarded with a level select.

I played Sonic 2 on an emulator last week and still remembered it after all these years.
(mingeswingers, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:24, 2 replies)

Black Dragon / Tiger & Double Dragon
clocked with 10p. knee to face, knee to the face, through over head. hoo yaa.
(Peno Lives In a Coal Bunker, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 12:20, Reply)