Memorizing Game

There are many different memorizing games, but this one is particularly interesting. You could do it alone, but it's more fun with a friend or in a group.

It's played like the Twelve Days of Christmas song where you say the first line; first line, second line; first line, second line, third line, etc. (i.e. one hen; one hen, two ducks; one hen, two ducks, three squawking geese, etc.).

This is the original version, known as the "Announcer's Test" as performed by Jerry Lewis:

• One hen
• Two ducks
• Three squawking geese
• Four limerick oysters
• Five corpulent porpoises
• Six pair of Don Alverzo's tweezers
• Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
• Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
• Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth
• Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time.

This is a modified and expanded version of unknown origin:

• One hand
• Two ducks
• Three squawking geese
• Four corpulent porpoises
• Five limerick oysters
• Six pairs of Don Alfonso's nose hair tweezers
• Seven hundred Macedonian warriors lined up in full battle array on tricycles
• Eight brass monkeys from the secret sacred crypts of ancient Egypt
• Nine sympathetic apathetic diabetic old men on rubber crutches
• Ten Heath police who dispelleth, dispatcheth and disperseth the riotous mob
• Eleven lovely ladies licking luscious licorice lollipops
• Twelve thousand red army ants marching single file through the crack in the stained glass window of Mama Pook's antique shop.