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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
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Posted: Fri Mar  2 17:46:46 1984
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>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
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