H, He, Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ar, K, Ca...

That's as far as I got

I have this headcanon that Sherlock can recite the Periodic Table backwards.

Sparrow wrote:

I meant learn the song.

I once had to listen to this song on a loop during an open day for my school (I was in the Chemistry dept. doing the same experiment over and over again, makes it look like you're turning water into wine... I would not advise drinking it though.)

But basically after 7 hours I lost the will to live. I head it in my head for days afterwards and now I think the trauma has got to me and I've blanked it from my mind.

Mnemosyne wrote:

Sparrow wrote:

I meant learn the song.

I once had to listen to this song on a loop during an open day for my school (I was in the Chemistry dept. doing the same experiment over and over again, makes it look like you're turning water into wine... I would not advise drinking it though.)

But basically after 7 hours I lost the will to live. I head it in my head for days afterwards and now I think the trauma has got to me and I've blanked it from my mind.

 
I'm so sorry, but this just made me giggle at the image.  A lot.  I've had a song worm or two...  ugh...  yeah...  *pats and offers sympathy* 

But. . .  ah. . . unless taking you literally and it was indeed completely blocked, doesn't that mean you would have it slightly memorized, as mentioned above?       Or maybe we shouldn't play it for you again and try to find out.  Here..... have a nice soothing alternative in your mind......    it's called 'John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt'...   

I know it does. Which is why I love it so much. He's a teacher called Teacher. How Doctor Who is that?

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Sparrow wrote:

I know it does. Which is why I love it so much. He's a teacher called Teacher. How Doctor Who is that?

 
And he's good at making lots of different parts of science fun, right?  Totally walks in to the room and goes "Right, physics! Physics, eh? Physics, physics, physics, physics, physics, physics. Physics! Hope you're getting all this down."  (and then lets them conduct an experiment where something gets blown up)

Russell wrote:

But. . . ah. . . unless taking you literally and it was indeed completely blocked, doesn't that mean you would have it slightly memorized

I was 15 when it happened... that was many *many* moons ago (thankfully.)

I do have a knack for getting songs stuck in my head. Recent additions have been less educational but include the song 'On the Street Where You Live' and the theme tune to Pinky and the Brain... ¬_¬' Oh god that last one, kill me, kill me now. It's been there for about a fortnight.

I can't learn songs, so I'm not going to try this one! I am, however, going to try and learn the Table by column (groups?) whenever I have time (ie never), as I think the patterns are repeated more there? So like I can imagine them getting more/less reactive as I go down the columns, and then hopefully I'll have some sort of link.
I'll have to build a new room in my Mind House, though 

Depends on the sort of mind you have I guess.

Kind of crazy this song comes up again in a totally unrelated way, after not having heard of it until here, but I was earlier looking up a similarly-geeky clip on youtube.  Not sure if you came across this already too, Sparrow, but thought you'd be amused that it also recommended to me a clip from a talk show Daniel Radcliffe was on a good while back (easily found by just searching for him + title of song).  And bless him, he said he wanted to sing it, had been practicing a lot, and despite a few mistakes, was kinda impressive seeing someone else get through the whole thing!!  ;D