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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: The Tibetan Memory Trick
Message-ID: <312@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 16:11:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 16:11:51 1985
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    > From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
    > Subject: The Tibetan Memory Trick
    > Message-ID: <458@petfe.UUCP>
    > 
    > There is something called The Tibetan Memory Trick. It consists
    > of repeating increasingly long lines of weird (bizarre?) stuff. I
    > believe it starts with something like:
    > 
    > 1 duck
    > 2 squawking geese
    > 3 portulent porpoises
    > ...
    > 
    > it goes up to 10, and the lines get much much longer as you go.
    >
    > My question is, does anyone know it?  I have never been able to
    > get a copy of it.  The Turtles (Flo & Eddie) used to do it in
    > concert.

What you're thinking of is the Tibetian version of ``The Twelve Days of
Christmas''
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