Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!daemon From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: More on the mystery list ... Message-ID: <6151@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 11:06:35 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.6151 Posted: Fri Mar 9 11:06:35 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 13:21:53 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 14 From: via::schuetz (Chris Schuetz - @ 2R04, DTN 381-2647) From: LANDAU "Rick Landau DTN 381-2428" 8-MAR-1984 18:36 To: SCHUETZ ! SENT TO CS Subj: No mystery. The "1 hen, 2 ducks, 3 squawking geese, . . ." thing was not just a memory test, but was widely used as an enunciation test for radio announcers, at least at some college radio stations. I remember that I had to (try to) repeat it half a dozen times without faltering within some absurd time limit. Few passed. Done quickly, it's worse than "rubber baby buggy bumpers" and so forth. rick