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There was no U-685, you n00b. Also, there was no break in the numbering from U-1 to U-100.

It was an alliteration, dumbass. [:'(] Your sure about the 'no break' between U-1 to U-100? I'll have to check on that (crosses fingers that they left ONE, just ONE out)

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Yes, the FA Cup Winners 1872 (The Wanderers) - 2013 (Wigan Athletic)

I used to be able to name all 96 English Football League teams, plus the Vauxhall Conference. Not any more though, if I could remember all those then I'd forget my name.
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I used to know all 96 Football league grounds as a kid. Then automatic promotion / relegation to the Conference (or whatever it was called then) took off + teams kept building new stadia. I mean how selfish is that? Wrecking my party-piece like that....[:@]
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...and I've just realised that doesn't count anyway as its 96 not 100
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I can name 100 integers from memory, no problem.
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Sure, it's easy to remember 100 of something -- it's just a matter of how trivial that something is. I could easily name 100 countries, probably several hundred cities outside the US (probably even 100+ in the UK), airlines through history, thousands of airport codes, etc. But who would care? [:)]

You would think it'd be a snap just rattling out 100 of something but it might actually be more difficult than you think. Give it a go.
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I used to be able to name all 96 English Football League teams, plus the Vauxhall Conference. Not any more though, if I could remember all those then I'd forget my name.
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I used to know all 96 Football league grounds as a kid. Then automatic promotion / relegation to the Conference (or whatever it was called then) took off + teams kept building new stadia. I mean how selfish is that? Wrecking my party-piece like that....[:@]
warspite1

...and I've just realised that doesn't count anyway as its 96 not 100

that's still very impressive, since as far as I know there were a maximum of only 94 clubs in the top 4 flights (92 now)
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I can name 100 integers from memory, no problem.

Can you even just name 50 shades of grey?

editor's note: gray doesn't count as a shade of grey.

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I can name 100 integers from memory, no problem.

Can you even just name 50 shades of grey?

editor's note: gray doesn't count as a shade of grey.
Oh sure, use our color-sightedness against us!
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Does that count: To remember the succession of far over 100 latin words simply by the sound of it, but having long ago forgotten the translation?

Aurea prima sata est aetas, quae vindice nullo,
sponte sua, sine lege fidem rectumque colebat.
poena metusque aberant, nec verba minantia fixo
aere legebantur, nec supplex turba timebat
iudicis ora sui, sed erant sine vindice tuti.
nondum caesa suis, peregrinum ut viseret orbem,
montibus in liquidas pinus descenderat undas,
nullaque mortales praeter sua litora norant;
nondum praecipites cingebant oppida fossae;
non tuba derecti, non aeris cornua flexi,
non galeae, non ensis erat: sine militis usu
mollia securae peragebant otia gentes.
ipsa quoque inmunis rastroque intacta nec ullis
saucia vomeribus per se dabat omnia tellus,
contentique cibis nullo cogente creatis
arbuteos fetus montanaque fraga legebant
cornaque et in duris haerentia mora rubetis
et quae deciderant patula Iovis arbore glandes.
ver erat aeternum, placidique tepentibus auris
mulcebant zephyri natos sine semine flores;
mox etiam fruges tellus inarata ferebat,
nec renovatus ager gravidis canebat aristis;
flumina iam lactis, iam flumina nectaris ibant,
flavaque de viridi stillabant ilice mella.


I have no fu**ing idea why I remember exactly the "golden age" part of Ovid´s Metamorphoses, we had to learn the whole work by heart back in school.

Pretty pathetic if you think about it.
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I used to know all 96 Football league grounds as a kid. Then automatic promotion / relegation to the Conference (or whatever it was called then) took off + teams kept building new stadia. I mean how selfish is that? Wrecking my party-piece like that....[:@]
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...and I've just realised that doesn't count anyway as its 96 not 100

that's still very impressive, since as far as I know there were a maximum of only 94 clubs in the top 4 flights (92 now)
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Lolz... which tells you how long ago it was, and how my memory is failing me in my frail dotage [:(]
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I can name 100 integers from memory, no problem.

Can you even just name 50 shades of grey?

editor's note: gray doesn't count as a shade of grey.

Are you suggesting to us, your fellow forum members, that you're interested in a spanking? [X(]
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I can name 100 integers from memory, no problem.

Can you even just name 50 shades of grey?

editor's note: gray doesn't count as a shade of grey.

Are you suggesting to us, your fellow forum members, that you're interested in a spanking? [X(]
warspite1

Did someone say spanking?? Yes please..... er I mean ahem er.... bye!
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Regiments and corps in the British Army, past and present (pre and post amalgamation, which makes it easier I must admit!)

1. Royal Artillery
2. Royal Garrison Artillery
3. Royal Horse Artillery
4. Royal Field Artillery
5. Royal Engineers.
6. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
7. Royal Army Medical Corps
8. Royal Army Service Corps
9. Royal Corps of Military Police
10. Intelligence Corps
11. Army Education Corps
12. Army Pay Corps
13. Royal Scots
14. Northumberland Fusiliers
15. Lancashire Fusiliers
16. Manchester Regiment4
17. King's Regiment
18. South Staffordshire Regiment
19. Warwickshire Regment
20. Durham Light Infantry
21. Somerset Light Infantry
22. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
23. Highland Light Infantry
24. Gordon Highlanders
25. Cameron Highlanders
26. The Cameronians
27. Argyll and Sutherland HIghlanders
28. Seaforth Highlanders
29. South Wales Borderers
30. Reconnaisance Corps
31. Glider Pilot Regiment
32. Army Air Corps
33. Hampshire Regiment
34. Artists Rifles
35. King's Royal Rifle Corps
36. The Rifle Brigade
37. East Surrey Regt
38. Royal West Kents
39. East Kents (Buffs)
40. Sussex Regiment
41. Suffolk Regiment
42. Connaught Rangers
43. Leinster Fusiliers
44. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
45. The King's Own
46. King's Own Scottish Borderers
47. The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC)
48. Blues and Royals
49. The Life Guards
50. 5th Lancers
51. 8th Hussars
52. 12th Lancers
53. 16th Lancers
54. 17th Lancers
55. 18th Hussars
56. 19th Hussars
57. 21st Lancers
58. 4th Dragoon Guards
59. 7th Dragoon Guards
60. The Border Regiment
61. Parachute Regiment
62. Special Air Service
63. West Yorkshire Regiment
64. The Green Howards
65. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
66. Wiltshire Regiment
67. Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
68. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
69. Royal Armoured Corps
70. Machine Gun Corps
71. Bicycle Corps
72. Royal Gibraltar Regiment
73. Royal Welch Fusiliers
74. Royal Norfolk Regiment
75. Cheshire Regiment
76. Army Dental Corps
77. Royal Army Ordnance Corps
78. Ulster Defence Regiment
79. Grenadier Guards
80. Coldstream Guards
81. Scots Guards
82. Irish Guards
83. Welsh Guards
84. East Yorkshire Regiment
85. The Loyal Regiment
86. 1st King's Dragoon Guards
87. East Surrey Regiment
88. The Black Watch
89. Middlesex Regiment
90. Worcestershire Regiment
91. Sherwood Foresters
92. Northamptonshire Regiment
93. Gloucestershire Regiment
94. Royal Tank Regiment
95. Army Legal Corps
96. Royal Logistics Corps
97. Lincolnshire Regiment
98. Royal Army Physical Training Corps
99. Royal Army Veterinary Corps
100. Army Catering Corps


Bugger me, that was far,far harder than I thought it would be! Only able to do it as I used to collect British Army cap badges when I was a kid. I read those collectors' books so much, the names were burned in my memory. That, plus an unhealthy/healthy interest in military history.
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The 50 states is easy but I used to be able to name all the capitals too. All the US Presidents but I can't remember the order of them between Jackson and Lincoln. Only about half of them were elected, I think. They kept dropping dead in office. I think I could ID the symbols on the periodic table up to 103 or so and even give the latin or german name where it differs from the english like wolfram, aurum, argentum, ferrium, oops I can't remember tin or mercury, hygro something I think. I used to know. Getting old. Can't remember the at. no. for each any more either, just a few. Pb for lead, I forget that one too. Used to be able to name each Hitchcock movie in order. Same for Kurosawa. I could tell you which of the fat guy's flicks were scored by Bernard Hermann. Can't anymore. That's the trouble with Harry, I guess. I'm not the man who knew too much anymore. He made that one twice, by the way. I've been in all the 48 states except Florida. I think I'll stay out of that one. It's all going to be underwater before long anyway. I've been in most of Canada's provinces too. Went to a Catholic church in Montreal on Sunday once. It was all Latin and French. Didn't understand a word of it. I remember my family was dressed like tourists, shorts and the like. There were some young men hanging around the entrance smoking cigarettes and they were all wearing black suits and ties. They looked at us like 'what the f...?' How do you say that in French? [:D]

Be sure and list Kansas first.

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100 automobile companies. Go!

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Yes, the FA Cup Winners 1872 (The Wanderers) - 2013 (Wigan Athletic)

I used to be able to name all 96 English Football League teams, plus the Vauxhall Conference. Not any more though, if I could remember all those then I'd forget my name.

Wow thats a statement that dates you. It hasn't been that name this century.
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Took a few minutes, but managed it. You'll know it's from memory by checking the spelling![;)]

1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
2. Pieter Bruegel the Younger
3. Michaelangelo Buonerotti
4. Leonardo da Vinci
5. Paolo Veronese
6. Titian
7. Fra Angelico
8. Fra Filipo Lippi
9. Raphael
10. Pontormo
11. Bruneleschi
12. Jan Vermeer
13. Franz Hals
14. Bronzino
15. Hans Holbein
16. Mathias Grunevalde
17. Martin Shoengauer
18. Carel Fabritus
19. Rembrandt Van Rijn
20. Claude Lorrain
21. Nicolas Poussain
22. Adrian Van de Velde
23. John Constable
24. Diego Valazquez
25. Francisco da Goya
26. Fransisco Zurburan
27. Diego Rivera
28. Jan Van Eyck
29. Adrian Brower
30. Lucas Cranach
31. Joachim Patinir
32. Robert Campin
33. Giotto
34. Benvenuto Cellini
35. Hieronymous Bosch
36. Theodore Gericault
37. Camille Corot
38. Francois Boucher
39. Edvard Munch
40. Eduard Manet
41. El Greco
42. Thomas Gainsborough
43. Henri Matisse
44. Claude Monet
45. Paul Cezanne
46. Paul Gaugin
47. Vincent Van Gogh
48. Roger van der Weyden
49. Petrus Christus
50. Pablo Picasso
51. George Braque
52. Salvador Dali
53. Franz Marc
54. Artimissia Gentileschi
55. Mary Cassat
56. Suzanne Valadon
57. George Grosz
58. Alfred Sisley
59. Auguste Rodin
60. Paul Signac
61. Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
62. Paolo Uccello
63. Paul Klee
64. Peter Doig
65. Andy Warhol
66. Jeff Koons
67. Damian Hirst
68. Pieter de Hooch
69. Jacob van Ruisdael
70. Jan Aertsen
71. George de La Tour
72. Simeon Chardin
73. Kasimir Mayevich
74. Vassily Kandinsky
75. Marc Chagal
76. Jaim Soutine
77. Amedeo Modigliani
78. Edgar Degas
79. Camille Pissaro
80. Eugene Boudin
81. Casper David Frederich
82. Jaque Louis David
83. Hannah Hoch
84. Rene Magritte
85. Jasper Johns
86. Richard Rauschenberg
87. Jackson Pollack
88. Claes Oldenburg
89. Max Ernst
90. Marcel Duchamp
91. Yves Klein
92. Clifford Still
93. Mark Rothko
94. Max Reinhardt
95. Tony Cragg
96. Jim Dine
97. Lucian Frued
98. Gerhardt Richter
99. Anselm Kiefer
100. Joseph Mallord William Turner

Impressive but you forgot R Crumb...


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Man, that guy is a bit hard to handle! Brilliant, but wow!

Prefer Chris Ware.



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I can name 100 integers from memory, no problem.

Can you even just name 50 shades of grey?

editor's note: gray doesn't count as a shade of grey.

Are you suggesting to us, your fellow forum members, that you're interested in a spanking? [X(]

Why do you think gorns have no tails?

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Yes, the FA Cup Winners 1872 (The Wanderers) - 2013 (Wigan Athletic)

I used to be able to name all 96 English Football League teams, plus the Vauxhall Conference. Not any more though, if I could remember all those then I'd forget my name.

Wow thats a statement that dates you. It hasn't been that name this century.

Unless you're Dan Quayle

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