When I was at school, we had a songbook.
This is the only one that stays with me, because it is just so stupid.

"One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other"

What a silly thing to remember.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:40, 4 replies)

I know the lyrics to loads of cartoons
Was an avid watcher of anything animated in the late 70's right through to the mid 90's. If the theme tune had lyrics to it then I would by default learn them off by heart.

Only this morning I found myself singing the classic theme that was Hanna Barbera's 'Godzilla'.

"Up from the depths
30 stories high
Breathing fire
His head in the sky
Godzilla (do do-do)
Godzilla (do do-do)
Godzilla (do do-do)
and Godzookie.... (slapstick section)
Godzilla (ahhhhhhhhhhhh)"
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:32, 4 replies)

all the shortcut codes for Nokia phones,
examples:
*#06# IMEI
*#0000# Date of birth and firmware version
*#92702689# Warranty information and field testing
*#100# (dial) gets you your phone number
*#104# (dial) gets you your voicemail box number
*#7780# reloads the firmware
#7370# wipes the phone completely
holding down the menu button for a few seconds got you task manager.

Forwarding SMS, 'can't be done' I always heard, yes it could, possibly still can but haven't got two phones to try it on, *21*number to forward them to*16#

(some of these work on later phones still, 100/104/06)

Sad.
(Kip, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:29, 6 replies)

Rubiks cube
cracked when I was 15, can still do one, if a little slower than I used to.
(username failed moderation, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:23, 1 reply)

2236
Resident Evil 2.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:05, 1 reply)

after 15 years
as a freelance illustrator where i have used the latest software on the latest macs i am going to university for the first time

to study 'drawing'. using pencils and that.

maybe even ink.
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:02, Reply)

Every now and then I see it in a drawer.
It shouldn't fit in drawers, unwieldy behemoth that it is. But it lays there mocking me, taunting me.
Once every couple of years or so I give in, dig out 4 aa's and watch the little Hal like red light boot up.
9:5 only.
Twenty five lines later I put it down, sated, elated. Batteries out and back into a random drawer.

Till the next time at least.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 8:01, Reply)

In BASIC,
'?' means 'PRINT'. I still use it when I'm writing notes to myself, like '? out resume'.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 7:49, 1 reply)

I can give a sheep a haircut and it'll still have most of it's ears and nipples when I'm done

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 7:28, Reply)

XFOOT
So good, you only do it once.

publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/books/c0925083609.htm
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 5:39, Reply)

Inspired by a similar post
up C, down C, left C, right C, A + Start

Also: idkfa, idbehold, dngiveall

I can also 'queue' a record to start at a particular track. Old hat to most people, though my 17 year old sibling was amazed.
(wuckfit Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 3:48, Reply)

I can sew
Ripped clothes? Nae bother.
( clockworkrat has nice pants, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 2:54, 2 replies)

probably showing my age here but
I remember bebo...
( dazbrilliantwhites has been meaning to change this..., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 2:02, Reply)

beating 'uncopyable' zx81 machine coded programs with
RAND USR 836
(f_rev, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 1:57, Reply)

Rocks.
I can knap a flint.
(uncle_bud is not the jelly roll king., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 1:37, 3 replies)

C64
I still know:

POKE 53272,21 (switch to uppercase)
POKE 53272,23 (switch to lowercase)
POKE 53280,x (change border color, x=0-15)
POKE 53281,x (change screen color, x=0-15)
POKE 646,x (change cursor color x=0-15)

With my amazing Scout skillz I also can light a fire (this is harder than it sounds), dig a wetpit, put up a patrol tent, fill a rucksack the correct way, make a sling out of a neckerchief, and make a bivouac.
(McChinaman banned, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 1:18, Reply)

Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal...
I can do maths in all of these, and I still remember how to code in assembly language (just)....does that count?
(repooc, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 0:39, 3 replies)

Film Processing
I like to shoot black and white film and process it in my darkroom. Is that obsolete?

I know that it is easier to shoot in digital, but I like the waiting to see if the shot came out right. I think that it makes me put more effort into taking the shot. Plus, it also means that the spotty oiks at Jessops dont get to know about my sheep-bothering hobbies.
( The_Commander_of_Skips wears his sunglasses at night, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 0:34, Reply)

The meaning of the latin term 'qua'
Have you ever tried using the word 'qua' in conversation? It either sounds really forced or really pretentious. So it's pretty much useless.
(Coin Operated Boy is reading the new Bravissimo catalogue on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 0:22, Reply)

Useless latin
The worst mnemonic I've ever encountered.

Soleo:
Looks kind of like sol, which means the sun
The sun is yellow
Custard is also yellow
Soleo = to be a custard (to be accustomed (to))

I can still remember it even now...

And I have a feeling that the one for my general relativity exam of "this equation has a factor of 3 in it because otherwise it would be mental" will be equally stuck in my brain...
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 0:17, 1 reply)

Useful Latin...
Ramsay Tupper reminded me:

hic, haec, hoc.
hunc, hanc, hoc
hui all genders
hiuis all genders
hoc, hac, hoc

Seemed at the time a remarkably convoluted way of saying 'this', but it did sink in!
(badgerlikespeed, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 0:05, 1 reply)

Exams this year were not great...
In pretty much all of the papers there was one question I could do fine, and then it was a matter of looking to see how many easy marks I could get for the others...

So on the Stars and Galaxies short option (I'm studying physics), one of them was "draw a diagram of the milky way with lengths indicated" (it went on to lots more technical stuff.

Now I'm terrible at remembering measurements, however I'm good at remembering lyrics.
"Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle, fifteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide"

Will hopefully stop this year from dragging my mark down too much :D
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Fri 1 Jul 2011, 0:01, 5 replies)

Undo the clip of a bra one handed
Now married. no use for that skill any more. But I still like to do it sometimes when we are out just to piss her off. :)
(waxdart hello., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 23:49, 1 reply)

Carburettors. SU Carburettors.
I can rebuild 'em. Tune 'em. Over here in the States there's hardly anybody under 35 who even knows how a carb works, let alone an SU...
(Hairy Twatter, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 23:48, 4 replies)

Nonsense poem (no, not nonce sense)
God alone knows how long ago I learned this:

On a fine September morning
In October last July
The moon lay thick upon the ground
And the snow shone in the sky
The flowers were singing gaily
The birds were in full bloom
I went down in the cellar
To clean the upstairs room
While looking out the window
In the brightness of the night
I saw ten thousand miles away
A house just out of sight
The doors projected inwards
The front was at the back
It stood alone
And joined two more
And all was whitewashed black
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 23:45, 2 replies)

I can program a felt-tip-pen-bearing robot to draw a spiral using LOGO.
Expiry date for aforementioned skill: circa 1986.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 23:44, Reply)

Useless Skills?

I can throw knives - any knives regardless of the weight or balance. If they've got a pointy end I can whip them across the room and into a tree. Assuming you have a tree in your room.

I can also juggle an egg, an apple and a bowling ball and take a bite out of the apple while juggling.

Firebreathing and fire juggling.


Bound to come in handy some day.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 23:38, 5 replies)

Line zero
POKE 16510,0
(f_rev, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 23:12, Reply)

OILRIG
Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain
(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 23:07, 3 replies)