Remember these mnemonics? (Collection)
Carl G.
received are listed below in approximately alphabetical order. I couldn't
figure out all of the mnemonics, but perhaps you can help fill in the blanks
and offer corrections (see ?'s). The answers to my original questions are
also listed below.
By the way, if someone could come up with a mnemonic that starts with the
letter Q, X and Z, then all of these mnemonics could be memorized by
reciting the alphabet. :-)
To all of the contributors: Thanks!
Carl G.
=============================================================
A rat in the house might eat the ice cream.
A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream.
= Spelling of "Arithmetic"
A red I_____ thought he might eat tobacco in church.
= ?
A Tense Gray Cat Lay Very Low Sneaking Slowly Contemplating A Pounce
= Signs of the Zodiac (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,
Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces)
All Chaperones Must Previously Have Had Sex
= Man's taxonomy (Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Primata, Hominidae, Homo,
Sapiens)
All Cows Eat Grass
= notes on spaces of Bass clef
Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes Well.
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly, Get Some Now
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet goes willingly.
Bad boys rape our young girls but virgins go without.
Biloxi booze rots our young guts but vodka goes well.
= resistor color codes (some with tolerances)
Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father.
Bottle Empty And Down Goes Charlie's Father.
= Flats
Be careful driving Edsels into small Ford garages.
= ?
CaReFuL
= ?
Cary Grant eXpects Unanimous Votes In Movie Reviews Tonight.
= EM Spectrum (Cosmic Gamma X-rays Ultraviolet Visible Infrared Microwave
Radio Television)
CBSIFTCB
= ?
Come on, see daring men play polo.
Campbell's Onion Soup Does Make People Puke.
CAMpus ORDered SILicon DEVices, MISsed PENcil PERmits.
= Geological Eras (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian,
Pennsylvanian, Permian)
Divorced, beheaded, died
= ?
Divorced, beheaded, survived
= ?
Every Good Boy Does Fine.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor.
= Notes on the lines of the treble clef.
Every good hunter knows where sits the pheasant.
= translation of Russian version of ROY G. BIV
evil al did get hot eventually
= ?
FACE
= Notes in spaces on treble clef
Father Charlie Goes Down And Empties Bottle.
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle.
= Sharps
First you wax your car and then it "wanes".
= Phases of the Moon (waxing comes before waning).
FIVEC
= ?
FOIL
= binomial expansion (First terms, Outside Terms, Inside Terms, Last Terms)
FORD
= ?
Good boys deserve football always.
Good Boys Do Fine Always.
= Notes on Bass clef
Half tainted wolves renamed Oswald's Irish plate (in) golden mercenary
tales.
= Elements (hafnium to thallium)
HASSLL
= ?
He likes beer by the cupful not over frothing. Nelly Nancy and Maggy always
simper passing sweets to Clarry and 'arry"
= Elements (from helium to argon)
HOMES
= Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)
How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving
quantum mechanics.
= approximation of pi
I Easily Get Confused
I Eat Green Caterpillars.
= Gallilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto)
I passed my anatomy test.
= ?
It enables a dullhead to memorize a quantity of numerals.
= approximation of exponential base, e
Just remember he's your pal.
= spelling of princiPAL (instead of principle)
Kids Pick Cooties Off Fat Girl Scouts.
Kind People Call Oliver For Good Sausage.
King Phillip Came Over For Ginger Snaps.
King Phillip Comes Over From Germany Soon.
Kids Playing Catch On Freeway Get Squished.
King Phillip Comes Over (to) Fight General Specious: Victorious
Kings Play Cards On Fat Girls Stomachs.
Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Sand.
Kings Play Chess On (Sixty)-Four Golden Squares.
= taxonomic classifications (Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus
Species[, Variety])
King Hector Doesn't Usually Drink Cold Milk.
= metric prefixes (Kilo, Hecto, Deca, Units, Deci, Centi, Milli)
Let me now help out your punctuation with commas.
= ?
Many Very Eager Men Just Sat Under Nine Pines.
Many very early men ate juicy steaks using no plates.
Many voters earn money just showing up near polls.
My very eager mother just served us nothing.
My very earnest mother (makes) jelly sandwiches under no pressure.
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Pickled Nectarines.
My Very Excited Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.
= The order of planets from the Sun outward (some include asteroids, and
adjust for Neptune/Pluto ordering.)
May I have a large container of coffee?
= approximation of pi
MET DR THIP
= Saturn's moons (Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion,
Iapetus and Phoebe)
Mnemonics Neatly Eliminate Mans Only Nemesis - Insufficient Cerebral
Storage.
= Spelling of mnemonics
Mr Vans Tramped
= French related?
My Friend Flicka Has Hairy Balls.
= Mixture, Fuel, Flaps, Harness, Hood, Brakes
My ingenious astronomy student remembers an easy light mnemonic.
= speed of light (=299792458 m/s)
My Nasty Editor Might Occasionally Not Interpret Commas.
= Spelling of mnemonic
Naughty Elephants Squirt Water.
Never Eat Shredded Wheat.
= compass points
Neptune's tiny dancing girls look pretty to-night.
= Neptune's moons (Naiad, Thalassa, Despina , Galatea, Larissa, Proteus,
Triton, Nereid)
Never lower Tillie's pants. Grandmother might come home.
= Wrist bones (Navicular, Lunate, Triquetral, Pisiform, Greater,
Multangular, Lesser, Multangular, Capitate, Hamate)
Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me! (Right now, sweetheart!)
= Spectral classes
Oh, oh, oh! To touch and feel very good velvet! Absolutely Heavenly!
On old Olympus' towering tops A French and German picked some hops.
= Cranial nerves
Phooey! Even old men play polo, right?
= Geological Eras (Palaeocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene,
Pleistocene, and Recent)
Please Excuse my Dear Aunt Sally.
Please my dear aunt Sally.
= arithmetic operator precedence
presidents newly promenade samurai-like (in) Europe. God (has) TB, dysentery
& Holy Urges, through jittery lusting.
= Elements (Lanthanide series from praseodynium to lutetium)
Really Beautiful Babes Should Never Freak By Headlights
= ?
ROY G. BIV
Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain
Richard of York gave battle in vein
= Colors of the rainbow (Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet)
Scandalous Titania vandalized completely many iron goblets - Nick copped
Zeke's gall.
Scandalous Titania vandalized completely many iron cobras - Nick copped
Zeke's gall.
= Elements (metals scandium to gallium).
SOAP
= Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan (used by doctors)
Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair Till Old Age
Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair To Offer Attraction
Some Old Horse Caught Another Horse Taking Oats Away
= Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cosine = Adjacent/H, Tangent = O/A
STAB
= four voices in a quartet (Soprano, Tenor, Alto, Bass)
SWANK - SHOW
= ?
The girls can flirt and other queer things can do.
Terrible Giants Can Find Alligators Or Quaint Tigers Conveniently
Digestible.
= hardness scale (Talc, Gypsum, Calcite, Fluorite, Apatite, Orthoclase
feldspar, Quartz, Topaz, Corundum, Diamond)
There's no red port wine left.
= ? navigation light colors.
Tommy Tickled Mary for forty glorious hours.
= ?
USTALL
= ?
VIBGYOR
= Colors of the rainbow (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red)
Villains usually turn and run.
= ?
We guarantee certainty, clearly referring to this light mnemonic.
= speed of light (=299792458 m/s)
Yellow zircons nearby Molly (are) technically Ruth's. Rhody palls (of)
silly caddish Indians.
= Elements (yttrium to indium)
Blondie
wrong. It should be OOOTTAFAGVSH
I learned it as Oh! Oh! Oh! To Touch And Feel A Girl's V_____! Such Heaven!
Also: Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded Survived is what happened
to each of Henry VIII"s wives.
Loved reading all of the mnemonics! I still make up some occasionally for
the tests that I have to take.
Carl G. wrote in message <78dre7$ure$1...@camel0.mindspring.com>...
Faugh
>
List snipped
> CaReFuL
> = ?
In French, these are the pronounced letters at the end of words. CRFL
Hans
or
God Destroyed Earth By Flood Charles
Order of the sharp keys
2. Fat Boys Eat Apple Dumplings, Girls Cook.
Order of the flat keys
3. My Elf Dances In The Earth's Red Rain And Now Eats Apples Nightly
Spelling of the word mediterranean
4. RICE
R___, Ice, Compression, Elevation
(first-aid procedure)
5. RACE
Rescue, Alarm, Close, Exit
(Hospital Fire procedure)
6. I Photographed Many Antelopes Today
Cell Division
Kent Parks wrote:
> In rec.puzzles Carl G. <cgi...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> : I collected the responses to my question about mnemonics. The mnemonics I
> : received are listed below in approximately alphabetical order. I couldn't
> : figure out all of the mnemonics, but perhaps you can help fill in the blanks
> : and offer corrections (see ?'s). The answers to my original questions are
> : also listed below.
>
> : =============================================================
>
> : A rat in the house might eat the ice cream.
> : A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream.
> : = Spelling of "Arithmetic"
>
> : A red I_____ thought he might eat tobacco in church.
> : = ?
>
> See above! :)
>
> : CaReFuL
> : = ?
>
> The 4 consonants, in French, that are NOT silent at the end of a word.
>
> : Divorced, beheaded, died
> : = ?
>
> : Divorced, beheaded, survived
> : = ?
>
> These all go together (one line, not two), and represent the fates of
> Henry VIII's wives
>
> : Every good hunter knows where sits the pheasant.
> : = translation of Russian version of ROY G. BIV
>
> I submitted this: the Russian (maybe someone can help me out) is:
>
> Kazhdii Ochotnik Zh_____ Znat Gde Sidyet Fesant [Sorry, I can't remember
> the adjective for "good"(or similar) starting with "zh____"]
>
> signifying
>
> Krasnii(red), oranzhevii(orange), zholtii(yellow), zelyonii(green),
> galuboi(teal), sinii(blue), fiolettii(violet)
>
> : I passed my anatomy test.
> : = ?
>
> (I submitted this, too :)): It's the phases of cell division:
> Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telephase.
>
> : Just remember he's your pal.
> : = spelling of princiPAL (instead of principle)
>
> Reminds me of another one: "Separate" has A RAT in the middle.
>
> Kent (anxiously awaiting the other answers)!
Kent Parks
: received are listed below in approximately alphabetical order. I couldn't
: figure out all of the mnemonics, but perhaps you can help fill in the blanks
: and offer corrections (see ?'s). The answers to my original questions are
: also listed below.
: =============================================================
: A rat in the house might eat the ice cream.
: A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream.
: = Spelling of "Arithmetic"
: A red I_____ thought he might eat tobacco in church.
: = ?
See above! :)
: CaReFuL
: = ?
The 4 consonants, in French, that are NOT silent at the end of a word.
: Divorced, beheaded, died
: = ?
: Divorced, beheaded, survived
: = ?
These all go together (one line, not two), and represent the fates of
Henry VIII's wives
: Every good hunter knows where sits the pheasant.
: = translation of Russian version of ROY G. BIV
I submitted this: the Russian (maybe someone can help me out) is:
Kazhdii Ochotnik Zh_____ Znat Gde Sidyet Fesant [Sorry, I can't remember
the adjective for "good"(or similar) starting with "zh____"]
signifying
Krasnii(red), oranzhevii(orange), zholtii(yellow), zelyonii(green),
galuboi(teal), sinii(blue), fiolettii(violet)
: I passed my anatomy test.
: = ?
(I submitted this, too :)): It's the phases of cell division:
Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telephase.
: Just remember he's your pal.
: = spelling of princiPAL (instead of principle)
Reminds me of another one: "Separate" has A RAT in the middle.
mst
--
Teri
++++
"Well, since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable
to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking."
Tock the Watchdog
Carl G. wrote in message <78dre7$ure$1...@camel0.mindspring.com>...
Noam D. Elkies
Carl G. <cgi...@mindspring.com> wrote:
There's also Kirchhoff's third [sic] law (which I saw in the
American Math Montly some years back):
(K)IRC(H)HOF(F):
IRC = Inductance/Resistance/Capacitance;
HOF = Henry/Ohm/Farad
A few comments about Carl G.'s list:
>A rat in the house might eat the ice cream.
>A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream.
>= Spelling of "Arithmetic"
>
>A red I_____ thought he might eat tobacco in church.
>= ?
Same thing, surely (I for Indian). But it's hard to believe
that this one needs a mnemonic.
>Divorced, beheaded, died
>= ?
>
>Divorced, beheaded, survived
>= ?
The fates of Henry VIII's six wives?
>FOIL
>= binomial expansion (First terms, Outside Terms, Inside Terms, Last Terms)
That is, the expansion of (a+b)(c+d)
>Mnemonics Neatly Eliminate Mans Only Nemesis - Insufficient Cerebral
>Storage.
>= Spelling of mnemonics
Cute, but what if you think it's spelled Pnemonic? :-)
>Never Eat Shredded Wheat.
>= compass points
Or simply NEWS (which comes from all directions).
>Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair Till Old Age
>Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair To Offer Attraction
>Some Old Horse Caught Another Horse Taking Oats Away
>= Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cosine = Adjacent/H, Tangent = O/A
I saw this as the name of that famous Indian (nowadays
"Native American") princess, Sohcahtoa...
>STAB
>= four voices in a quartet (Soprano, Tenor, Alto, Bass)
Except that Alto usually comes before Tenor.
--Noam D. Elkies
(replace some words in the phony e-mail address by their initials)
Noam D. Elkies
Keeps Good Christians Singing Along.
Movements in [the Ordinary of] the Mass:
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
NDE
Dave Bell
: 4. RICE
: R___, Ice, Compression, Elevation
: (first-aid procedure)
Rest...
I *really* distrust synchronicity! I just got around to reading this
thread this evening. I didn't know 'RICE', either - until hearing am
MD character in a TV show use, and explain, the mnemonic, about 10 minutes
later!
Dave
> In rec.puzzles Carl G. <cgi...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> : I collected the responses to my question about mnemonics. The mnemonics I
Derrick Donaldson
Here's one I haven't seen yet.....
ELI the ICE man......
Used for remembering that Voltage (E) leads Current (I) in an inductive
(L) circuit, while Current (I) leads Voltage (E) in a Capcative (C)
circuit....
Jan Merolant
Carl G. heeft geschreven in bericht <78dre7$ure$1...@camel0.mindspring.com>...
>I collected the responses to my question about mnemonics. The mnemonics I
>received are listed below in approximately alphabetical order. I couldn't
>figure out all of the mnemonics, but perhaps you can help fill in the
blanks
>and offer corrections (see ?'s). The answers to my original questions are
>also listed below.
>
>By the way, if someone could come up with a mnemonic that starts with the
>letter Q, X and Z, then all of these mnemonics could be memorized by
>reciting the alphabet. :-)
>
>To all of the contributors: Thanks!
>
>Carl G.
>
>=============================================================
>Many Very Eager Men Just Sat Under Nine Pines.
>Many very early men ate juicy steaks using no plates.
>Many voters earn money just showing up near polls.
>My very eager mother just served us nothing.
>My very earnest mother (makes) jelly sandwiches under no pressure.
>My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.
>My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Pickled Nectarines.
>My Very Excited Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.
>= The order of planets from the Sun outward (some include asteroids, and
>adjust for Neptune/Pluto ordering.)
also:
Many Volcanoes Erupt Mulberry Jam Sandwiches Under Normal Pressure
>Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me! (Right now, sweetheart!)
>= Spectral classes
Although the W-class stars are rare they have to be
included in the mnemonic, I submitted this:
Wow, Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now, Smack
= spectral sequence to classify stars (e.g. the sun is a G type star)
Jan
Leigh Trahan
>
> I collected the responses to my question about mnemonics. The mnemonics I
> received are listed below in approximately alphabetical order. I couldn't
> figure out all of the mnemonics, but perhaps you can help fill in the blanks
> and offer corrections (see ?'s). The answers to my original questions are
> also listed below.
>
> FORD
> = ?
= Fix Or Repair Daily
Not really a mnemonic, more a commentary on the quality, and especially
the lack thereof, of automotive products produced by Ford in the 70s and
80s.
--
Leigh Trahan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
bu...@pac2.berkeley.edu
tell this one hasn't been mentioned yet:
"Do men ever visit Boston?"
-Ted
Fred W. Helenius
on mnemonics; unfortunately, it's out of print. (It's not so
good on facts; e.g., he says Pluto was discovered by Percival
Lowell and is larger than Mercury.)
"Carl G." <cgi...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Mr Vans Tramped
>= French related?
Benne has it as "MRS R D VANDERTRAMP"; initials of the French verbs
conjugated with "etre": monter, rester, sortir, retourner, devenir,
venir, aller, naitre, descendre, entrer, rentrer, tomber, revenir,
arriver, mourir, partir. [Presumably the shorter version considers
devenir, revenir and rentrer redundant, given venir and entrer.]
ObPuzzle: What is WASPLEG a mnemonic for?
--
Fred W. Helenius <fr...@ix.netcom.com>
Joe Kilner
China Owls Seldom Devour Clay Pidgeons, They Just Chase Past Each Other
Making Preposterous Puns! (Ha! - optional)
Rein
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, mst wrote:
> StationEry comes with Envelopes, stationAry stAnds still.
Along the same lines:
a calenDAr is used to find the DAte or the DAy of the week.
(By the way, there is also "calendEr" in English, but it means
something else.)
> Carl G. wrote in message <78dre7$ure$1...@camel0.mindspring.com>...
> >
> >A Tense Gray Cat Lay Very Low Sneaking Slowly Contemplating A Pounce
> >= Signs of the Zodiac (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,
> >Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces)
Does anyone know of something similar for remembering the Chinese Zodiac?
> >Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes Well.
> >Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly, Get Some Now
> >Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet goes willingly.
> >Bad boys rape our young girls but virgins go without.
> >Biloxi booze rots our young guts but vodka goes well.
> >= resistor color codes (some with tolerances)
The cleanest version I have heard: "Better be ready or your great
big venture go wrong".
> >First you wax your car and then it "wanes".
> >= Phases of the Moon (waxing comes before waning).
In the Northern Hemisphere, "What's up, DOC?" describes the waxing (or
growing) phase as looking like the letter D (well, sort of), then the
full moon as O, then the waning as C. I think it is reversed in the
Southern Hemisphere (i.e., waxing looks like C, etc., for COD).
> >Just remember he's your pal.
> >= spelling of princiPAL (instead of principle)
And a principLE is a ruLE.
> >Mr Vans Tramped
> >= French related?
I recall it as "Mrs. Vandertamp". I think it gave the initials of
those verbs which took "etre" instead of "avoir" as their auxiliary
verb in forming some of the tenses. I think they were verbs of
"being" (etre, naitre, mourir) and of motion (venir, partir). But
I would have to find a French grammar to give a complete answer.
> >There's no red port wine left.
> >= ? navigation light colors.
And note that "port" and "left" have 4 letters each.
Some etymology might help here also. "Starboard" is from "steering
board". In some early boats (perhaps some of the Viking longboats,
though I am not sure), steering was not done by a rudder attached
directly behind the boat, but rather by a large oar or board on one
side of the stern. Since most people are right-handed, it would be
natural to have this on the right side of the boat, and hence this
became its steering board side, or "starboard" side.
Furthermore, when coming in to a dock or port, it would be natural
to keep this steering board facing out to sea, both to protect it
from banging against the dock, and to have more room for loading &
unloading from the port. So the left side became the "port side".
Well, so I've heard, anyways.
Rein
Kent Parks
:>Mr Vans Tramped
:>= French related?
: Benne has it as "MRS R D VANDERTRAMP"; initials of the French verbs
: conjugated with "etre": monter, rester, sortir, retourner, devenir,
: venir, aller, naitre, descendre, entrer, rentrer, tomber, revenir,
: arriver, mourir, partir. [Presumably the shorter version considers
: devenir, revenir and rentrer redundant, given venir and entrer.]
I've heard this as "DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP"; virtually the same, of course.
: ObPuzzle: What is WASPLEG a mnemonic for?
Argh! As soon as I saw "waspleg" I recognized it as an acronym, but can't
recall!
Kent
Major M
Roman numerals
MEan VEronica EAgerly MAkes JUicy SAusages URge NEw PLaces.
Planets.
Major M
Ian MacDonald
writes
MEan VEronica EAgerly MAkes JUicy SAusages URge PLaces NEw
as it is at the moment. (If you're listing them in order from the sun).
--
Ian MacDonald
Chairman of the Bored.
Kent Parks
: the adjective for "good"(or similar) starting with "zh____"]
:
: signifying
: Krasnii(red), oranzhevii(orange), zholtii(yellow), zelyonii(green),
: galuboi(teal), sinii(blue), fiolettii(violet)
I have just spoken with a native Russian person who tells me the third
word in this, for those who want to know, is "zhelaet", meaning "wishes".
Thus the translation, slightly off what I originally said, is "Every
hunter wishes to know where sits the pheasant". I'm also told that the
last two words transcribe to "sidit fasan", for the truly nit-picky!
Kent, last "word" on the subject! :)
D.J. Schreffler
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Carl G. wrote:
> Really Beautiful Babes Should Never Freak By Headlights
> = ?
Order of steps in evaluating a casualty:
Responsiveness, Breathing, Bleeding, Shock, Neck, Fractures, Burns, Head
injuries
D.J. Schreffler
D.J. Schreffler
Ranks of nobility: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron
Fred W. Helenius
>Bart Benne, "Waspleg and Other Mnemonics" (1988) is a good book
>on mnemonics; unfortunately, it's out of print.
>ObPuzzle: What is WASPLEG a mnemonic for?
And Kent Parks <kmp...@nina.pagesz.net> wrote in reply:
>Argh! As soon as I saw "waspleg" I recognized it as an acronym, but can't
>recall!
I guess I'd better tell you, then (and Carl G. can remove one of those
question marks from his list).
SPOILER below...
SPOILER:
WASPLEG is a mnemonic for the Seven Deadly Sins:
Wrath, Avarice, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, Gluttony.
(If you learned "covetousness" or "greed" instead of "avarice",
complain to Benne, not to me.)
Jonathan
Which one is higher, Duke or Baron?
Kent Parks
: WASPLEG is a mnemonic for the Seven Deadly Sins:
: Wrath, Avarice, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, Gluttony.
: (If you learned "covetousness" or "greed" instead of "avarice",
: complain to Benne, not to me.)
Actually, I learned it as PALE GAS: with "anger" instead of "wrath" :)
(But that's another one for the list, anyway!)
Kent
Major M
order of the planets. Is your jury in enough for you to give me a big
tsk-tsk regarding Pluto?
yu...@email.uc.edu
"Carl G." wrote:
> I collected the responses to my question about mnemonics. The mnemonics I
> received are listed below in approximately alphabetical order. I couldn't
> figure out all of the mnemonics, but perhaps you can help fill in the blanks
> and offer corrections (see ?'s). The answers to my original questions are
> also listed below.
>
> I passed my anatomy test.
> = ?
(This is a medical one...) IPMAT are the 5 phases of cell division
interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
Also "Some lover try position that they cannot handle"
- how to remember the 8 bones of the wrist
there are plenty of other "med school" mnemonics such as this one, but not quite
as applicable if you are not employed in a health related field...
Finally, one with a Q (I am positive of the first 4, but the last 3 may be in
the wrong order)
Queen Victoria Eats Cold Apple Pie Calmly
Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aquiline, Palatine, Capitoline
Ian MacDonald
writes
--
Ian MacDonald
D.J. Schreffler
Duke is highest, the Marquis. Baron is lowest.
Beneath them are Baronet and Knight.
Mike
>Also: Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded Survived is what
happened
>to each of Henry VIII"s wives.
>
And to follow:
Camels Are Always Bad Judges So All Camels Completely Hate King Prawns
Jonathan
> > > > "Do men ever visit Boston?"
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> > > Ranks of nobility: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron
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> > Which one is higher, Duke or Baron?
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> Duke is highest, the Marquis. Baron is lowest.
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> Beneath them are Baronet and Knight.
Is this the hierarchy used in the British system? My understanding is
that it varies from court to court. Where do Princes fit in? What is the
underlying meaning of these titles, that is, does each title signify a
specific relationship to the King or Queen? Do you happen to know of a
site where I can get more information on this topic? I have tried
searching, but have come up with very limited results.
Thanks very much!
Jonathan
D.J. Schreffler
This is indeed British (as elsewhere they have Counts intead of Earls).
Princes are part of Royalty which are above the mere Nobility.
Duke, Marquis, Viscount, and Baron are all French terms IIRC, Viscount, of
course meaning Vice-Count. Britain kept Earl though because of the
distinction between then man of nobility and the low-born churl.
D.J. Schreffler, who says to take this with a grain of MSG
Michael C.
my two favourite mnemonics for the same sequence:
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now, Sweetie
or
On Bad Afternoons, Fermented Grapes Keep Mrs. Richard Nixon Smiling
--
Michael C.