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lagizma

A random fact about me

Jul 24, 2006 22:00

I was just reading deerdeedle's response to my five question meme, and it made me laugh when she told me to learn to count to 20 in Italian.

When I was nine(?) my friend chloeasilver could say the alphabet backwards. So I memorized it, too. I did it in groups of three, and it has stuck with me forever ( Read more... )

memories, childhood, alcohol, chloeasilver, deardeedle

Comments 6

somethinghead July 25 2006, 05:02:38 UTC

I had a friend like that. Ditto for everything you said. "I'm not drunk! I can say the alphabet backwards!" Yeah, right.

lagizma July 25 2006, 05:07:26 UTC

Well, could she?

Because I CAN!

kathkelch July 25 2006, 06:12:05 UTC

Hahaha, I memorized the alphabet backwards when I was in middle-school. Nowadays I flaunt my smarts by reciting the "military" alphabet... alpha, bravo, charlie, delta...

blozor July 25 2006, 13:07:18 UTC

That's nothing. When I was around that age, I saw a stand-up comedian who made a joke about sobriety tests that the cop wanted him to recite the alphabet backwards, and when he did, the cop told him, "Okay, now sing it." So I took it upon myself to learn to sing the alphabet backwards. I could for a good number of years. I haven't done it for a long time though, and I seriously doubt I still could.

Anyway, there's something you could do in the next couple of months: learn to sing the alphabet backwards. You're already halfway there if you can recite it backwards.

chloeasilver July 25 2006, 13:51:21 UTC

love it! i can't even fucking talk right when i get drunk. i have a major slurring problem.

helpimarock July 25 2006, 18:00:25 UTC

LOL, my friends test me similarly with the Greek alphabet. When I was in a fraternity (technically I still am though I deactivated year ago) one pledge is picked each year to recite the Greek alphabet in a certain time limit. I ended up being that pledge. Specifically one of the senior brothers would light a match and you had to finish before the match burned the thumb and finger they were holding the match with. To this day I can go from alpha to omega in five seconds flat.

But like you, when I'm drinking with friends and I start *volunteering* to do recite the Greek alphabet to prove my soberness, they're like "shut up, Mr. Alphabetagammadelta, you're drunk!"