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# sadly I do not have that excuse
not even looked at a periodic table since I finished my GCSEs.
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Fri 29 Aug 2003, 20:10, archived)
# the song's by Tom Lehrer,
to the tune of 'I am the very model of a modern Major-General' by gilbert and sullivan.
I'm sad to (say I) know it off by heart.
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Fri 29 Aug 2003, 20:16, archived)
# that's the one!
I'm so glad it wasn't just me!

theeeeere's hydrogen and helium and lithium, beryllium, there's boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon...
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Fri 29 Aug 2003, 20:19, archived)
# hehehe
that would be handy :)

I know one like that for the us states, so I can say them all in alphabetical order.
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Fri 29 Aug 2003, 20:21, archived)
# but you remembered them in order,
which is much better. Lehrer jiggled them around so they rhyme.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminIum, selenium...
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Fri 29 Aug 2003, 20:23, archived)
# ah right
the one I'm thinking of relied more on rhythm, but it was that modern major general crap.
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Fri 29 Aug 2003, 20:26, archived)
# I could list them all
but I won't, because I'm lazy and it would bore you
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Fri 29 Aug 2003, 20:26, archived)