Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!ariels From: ariels@orca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Counting numbers from 1 to 10 Message-ID: <666@orca.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 17:46:46 EST Article-I.D.: orca.666 Posted: Fri Mar 2 17:46:46 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 04:25:17 EST References: <862@cvl.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 31 >Found in an old musty drawer this afternoon: > > 1 hen. > 2 ducks. > 3 squawking geese. > 4 limerick oysters. > 5 corpulent porpoises. > 6 revlon tweezers. > 7 thousand 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, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep that > stalk about the corners of the cave all at the same time. > >I don't understand either... Ahhh, but I do... This is a memory test. You tell the subject one item at a time, and s/he must repeat to you that line and all preceding lines in ascending order. By the way, when I heard it, it was 4 LYRICAL oysters and 6 pairs of Don Alberso's tweezers. Ariel (I used to be pretty good at these things) Shattan ..!tektronix!orca!ariels