The song is ‘Colonel Bogey’s March’, and the tune is the one they whistle (as Tommy Smothers said “‘cuz the words are dirty.”)in the movie ‘The Bridge Over The River Quai’.

“Hitler has only got one ball,
Georing has two but very small,
Himmler has something sim’lar,
and poor old Geobbels has no balls at all”

I was an army brat and lived on-base during most of the sixties, and that song was almost as popular with the eight-to-ten set as ‘Great Green Gobs of Greasey Grimey Gopher Guts’.
Makes me wonder if the maroons that “wrote” that book overheard some kid singing and took it from there.

Sir,

You’re right - the 3-second-memory thing is bull puckey.

I keep all manner of carp, tench and sterlets. The sterlets are incredibly bright, (and friendly, so easy to train) but all of the fish remember me and the missus as a source of food from day to day. They recognise our footsteps. So that’s at least 24 hours’ memory.

After winter, (when they’re not fed) they remember me in the spring. So that’s at least 4 months’ memory.

But more importantly, mostly they remember the heron that tries to eat them every spring. This means that I have a 30-foot pond full of hard-arse fish with year-long memories who know where dinner comes from.

Think if it as evolution in action.