Detective Ferret!

[arch_schatten]

My brother comes whistling to the door of my room, and asks "Do you remember that song?" and, after staring at him for a moment, I nod. "Yeah. Nanana nana..." and I begin to sing the tune.

"Do you remember where it's from?" he says.

Comments

[quiet__tiger]

They really should teach grown up stuff with cartoons, old/classical music, and catchy songs. Learning would be a cinch.

Or maybe it's just our little kid brains are just *so* much better at absorbing information. Stuff really gets taught out of order. Advanced physics, then multiplication. :D

That's cool you figured it out, though!

[arch_schatten]

Cartoons have taught me a lot during the years! ..maybe? It's really ridiculous how I can still sing songs I learned when I was like 4, but I can't remember things I studied for a lot -like history, urg, I suck at it so hard. They really have to improve teaching methods to include the pop culture methods!

LOL, child brains are pretty impressive. Still, that doesn't explain how I can narrate, say, DCU comics timelines, with all their convoluted crap, and be completely in the dark about world history. In theory it's the same kind of learning! and I learned DC even older than when I was learning world history! so.. what is up with that?

I'm so proud of my google fu there! still I couldn't remember a name of a Marvel event earlier this morning while talking to my brother (House of M, thanks, brain, 2 hours too late), so I guess it's just... that I'm not very reliable with knowledge! sometimes it all escapes...

[quiet__tiger]

DC comics: hot guys and interesting storylines, and some good crack.

World history: mostly unattractive guys in weird outfits doing things we now take for granted. Less crack.

It's just a matter of what we *want* to learn being what we put effort into. Fall of 2006 I had to write the research part of my master's project. What did I spend time studying? Bel Ami model profiles.

We just want to have fun. :D

And believe me, you are not alone!

[skund]

Yes! There's nothing like childhood memories. :D I bought season one of The Muppet Show on DVD a few weeks back. I used to have the episodes on betamax for god's sake, but I can still sing half the songs word for word as soon as I hear them. Which is retarded, since I had to look up the title of my own thesis which I spent all last year writing last night when I was updating my resume.

[arch_schatten]

LOL, the Muppet Show! I never got to watch it until I was much older... haha, betamax! I had Disney movies in Beta, and I remember being very sad when I couldn't watch them anymore 'cause the beta player didn't work anymore..

LOL at having to look up your own thesis title! that sucks, man, our brains really need priority tags for information. Surely all those jingles I learned when I was a kid are more useful than my first aid classes, brain! that's why I remember those and not the other..

[starsandsea]

Popeye! I remember watching that as a kid... :) It's really weird what we can remember! I know it's not quite the same but I can remember word for word a lot of Dinsey songs, especially after being part of a kinda musical that had a whole load of them in. Not that I can sing, they just needed more people! :p

[arch_schatten]

I don't even remember liking Popeye that much? but you know, as a kid I watched pretty much anything! knowing the Disney songs word for word counts as the same in my book! Like, if someone quotes a bit of a movie without remembering where the lines is from? Being able to remember the rest of the dialog/scene/song and what movie it's from it's so bizarre, considering all the important things I can never remember..