So what?

PrunellaFarquar

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:08am

Ask me what year car I drive.

Answer: I don't know.

Ask me what my bra size is.

Answer: I don't know.

Ask me which style of frozen panini I like best.

Answer: I can't remember.

It's no wonder that I failed Spuff's brain test. I can't remember anything. I've come to the conclusion that the few remaining brain cells that I have represent assorted political parties and are of different genders making communication between them virtually impossible.

Despite all this chaos of the gray matter, one thing stands out in my mind.

Lions are afraid of three things:

1.) Zorilles (these are skunks)

2.) Laundry hanging on the line

3.) Children

"So what?" I hear you retort.

So...I know this because I did a report on lions for school in fifth grade.

I still remember this totally useless bit of information from 1969!!

Shouldn't I get a prize or something?

How about you? Is there any worthless bit of trivia that you've somehow retained while the really important information (like your bra size) has vanished?

178 Comments // 61 Members

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:21am

The only thing I know for sure is that I am older than Tator tots!! I never did a lion report so I found your facts fascinating. As for my gray matter--what was your name again??

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:25am

The moment I directed my mind to remembering Trivia, I promptly forgot my childhood - with one exception:

The argument I had in early elementary when they attempted to teach us the value of an assembly line when making facial-tissue flowers.

I was adamantly against it! I didn't care that more flowers could be produced in a shorter time frame, I only cared about the joy and pride of being able to create a flower!

Why this memory hangs over my head is beyond me - except I still think I was right! lol.

Britscot
Britscot
Founding Member

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:29am

How about you? Is there any worthless bit of trivia that you've somehow retained while the really important information (like your bra size) has vanished?

I never knew my bra-size but I remember the lads giggling in a history lesson:

The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious).

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:28am

The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious).

Now that I may remember, Brit!

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:30am

Lions are afraid of three things:

1.) Zorilles (these are skunks)

2.) Laundry hanging on the line

3.) Children

Lions are afraid of clotheslines? Ha! I remember Marlon Perkins and Jim. And they never mentioned this Ms Farguar. Not once.

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:30am

The Earl of Condom was a knighted personal physician to England's King Charles II in the mid-1600's. The Earl was requested to produce a method to protect the King from syphillis.(Charles the II's pleasure-loving nature was notorious).

You remember the Earl of Condom...you're older than your profile says you are.

Posted: Aug 4, 08 6:33am

Thank God I've kept myself in fairly good shape and don't have to wear a bra! I can't remember phone numbers - including my own cell phone and my wife's cell. I have to keep them written on a piece of paper. I also can't remember names of people I've been introduced to only once or twice.

I do remember to turn out lights, turn off the stove burners lock doors and turn the headlights off when I exit my car. So, I'm not ready for the Institute for the Terminally Used Up yet. But, I do not remember to water the plants in my office. I cured that one - I got all artificial flowers and cacti now! If I remember to water the cacti about once every three months, they do okay.

But I do remember who starred in the 1945 movie "Father was a Fullback. It was Fred MacMurray and Natalie Wood. I even remember word-for-word the silly song they sang in the movie, "Okle-Baby-Dockle Likle Ikle Okle You!" I also remember my elementary school, all of my teachers there and many of the students like it was yesterday. I am still sharp enough to have a book in the publishing pipeline but I can't for the life of me remember the name of my editor! She must be pretty okay though. She loves how I turn a phrase!

Leidy School.  Built 1844. I was not in the first graduating class!

Leidy School. Built 1844. I was not in the first graduating class!