Funny Mnemonic Devices

Bruce Bailey

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Sep 21, 1993, 7:01:32 PM9/21/93

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The ones I learned in high school were:

For the color codes on resisters:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly
Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White

For the stellar sequence:
O Be A Fine Girl; Kiss Me Right Now; Smack!

--
Bruce W. Bailey
bailey...@tandem.com Cupertino, CA (408)285-7171

Andrew Lochart

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Sep 21, 1993, 9:15:01 PM9/21/93

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Bruce Bailey (b...@greteltsg.tandem.com) wrote:
: The ones I learned in high school were:

For the hierarchy of animals and plants:

Kings play chess on funny glass stools.
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

For the planets:

My very educated mother just showed us nine planets.
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

(of course, it doesn't work at times like this when Pluto's
elliptical orbit brings it inside Neptune's.)

Cheers,
Andrew

Prem!

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Sep 21, 1993, 10:40:40 PM9/21/93

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loc...@cup.hp.com (Andrew Lochart) writes:
>For the planets:
> My very educated mother just showed us nine planets.
> Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

>Andrew

My Mercury
Very Venus
Educated Earth
Mother Mars
Just Jupiter
Served Saturn
Us Uranus
Nine Neptune
Pizza Pluto
Pies. Poseidon.

Prem!

Philippe Benichou

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Sep 21, 1993, 11:21:47 PM9/21/93

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pr...@prem.lbl.gov (Prem!) writes:

Poseidon is an asteriod, I presume?!? Or did the solar system gain a
planet.. hahahahaha

Armstrong Jay N

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Sep 21, 1993, 11:20:27 PM9/21/93

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This one's gotta top 'em all :

From 8th grade, I'll never forget this way to remember the
periods/eras (whatever they are) of geologic time.

Queen Quaternary
Tillie Tertiary
Can Cretaceous
Juggle Jurassic
Three Triassic
Pizza Permian
Pies Pennsylvanian
Made Mississippian
During Devonian
Saturday's Silurian
Office Ordovician
Cookout Cambrian

Jay
jna...@usl.edu

Gerald Diamond

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Sep 22, 1993, 8:46:47 AM9/22/93

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From my days in Astronomy I dredge the spectral classes of stars

O oh
B be
A a
F fine
G girl,
K kiss
M me
R right
N now!
(S) (smack/slap) [your choice]

T. Kerr

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Sep 22, 1993, 9:33:02 AM9/22/93

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If you want to hear really long mnemonic devices, ask a chemist. Memorizing
the periodic table for the first time (the day before the test) can only be
done one way...

Harry
Hates
Linda
Because
Both
Can't
Negotiate
On
Flying
North
South
Maybe
At
Some
Place
Some
Country
And
Probably
California. I'll stop here and spare you the rest.

ObJoke/true story: Last night I was at the pub sitting with a friend and a
fellow, James, a class mate of hers I had just met. James doesn't seem to
have all of his pistons firing at once (or at all at times). Anyway, we were
telling jokes and James finally decided that he had one to tell. He asked, "
What does a woman say after having 18 orgasims?"
I replied, "Do I get the part?" James looked really confused by what I
meant so he shook it off, started laughing and said, "Thank-you James!" and
laughed some more. I said, " Same thing."
At this point he stopped laughing at himself and gave me a look of confusion.
I thought that he had finally understood what I was getting at but then he
started to try to explain what he had meant....
Objoke :This guy James
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T. Kerr

Bruce Bailey

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Sep 22, 1993, 11:59:27 AM9/22/93

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Bruce W. Bailey
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Thanks to ANDREW CRUSE (cru...@kai.ee.cit.ac.nz) for this one.

Here's one I heard for remembering the colours of the rainbow backwards

Virgins In Bed Give You Outstanding Results
Violet Indigo Blue Green Yellow Orange Red

Andrew Rudnick

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Sep 22, 1993, 11:57:24 AM9/22/93

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In article D...@tandem.com, b...@greteltsg.tandem.com (Bruce Bailey) writes:
>
>For the color codes on resisters:
>Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly
>Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White
>

At Penn State, one of the EE Lab TAs held a contest for the best
"politically correct" alternative mnemonic device for the resistor
color codes. In true PSU style, the winner was:

"Bad Beer Rots Out Your Gut, But Vodka Goes Well"

--
Andrew Rudnick Bell Communications Research
rud...@badlands.bellcore.com Morristown, NJ

Jamie Lubin

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Sep 22, 1993, 1:00:28 PM9/22/93

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Don't know that I agree with the truth of the above, but it is definitely
funnier than the ROY G. BIV that I was taught!

Jamie Lubin j...@donuts0.bellcore.com -- please use this address for replies,
occasionally the Reply-To info in the header is unreliable

Prem!

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Sep 22, 1993, 2:54:47 PM9/22/93

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phil...@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Philippe Benichou) writes:

|> Poseidon is an asteriod, I presume?!?
|> Or did the solar system gain a planet..

Wasn't Poseidon the name given to the tenth?
Maybe I am wrong... they only taught us the first 9 in school...

|> hahahahaha

What are you cackling about? Oh, rec.humor, I see...

Prem!

Sudhi

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Sep 22, 1993, 11:25:47 PM9/22/93

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In article <27o8ul$2...@hpscit.sc.hp.com> loc...@cup.hp.com (Andrew Lochart) writes:
...

>
>For the hierarchy of animals and plants:
>
> Kings play chess on funny glass stools.
> Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
>

Another one for this :

King Peter Came Over From Germany Seeking a Fortune.

(for Kingdom Phyllum Class Order Family Genus Species Form)

>For the planets:
>
> My very educated mother just showed us nine planets.
> Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
>

My choice :

Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful and Numerous Purposes.

>Cheers,
>Andrew
>

Regards,

--Sudhi.

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Peter Rice

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Sep 23, 1993, 5:23:27 AM9/23/93

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In article <CDrJ3...@tandem.com>, b...@greteltsg.tandem.com (Bruce Bailey) writes:
> Here's one I heard for remembering the colours of the rainbow backwards
>
> Virgins In Bed Give You Outstanding Results
> Violet Indigo Blue Green Yellow Orange Red

That's just "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" backwards.

Why have no US citizens told us how they remember the weight of a pint?
Now that *was* funny when someone tried it a year or two ago.

Jonggu Moon

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Sep 23, 1993, 8:07:24 AM9/23/93

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In article <TKERR.8....@CHEMISTRY.watstar.uwaterloo.ca> TK...@CHEMISTRY.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (T. Kerr) writes:
>If you want to hear really long mnemonic devices, ask a chemist. Memorizing
>the periodic table for the first time (the day before the test) can only be
>done one way...
>Harry>Hates>Linda>Because>Both >Can't>Negotiate>On>Flying>North>South
>Maybe>At>Some>Place>Some>Country>And>Probably>California.

Well Tom Lehrer had a Parody of the Modern Major General
that went like:

There's Antimony Arsenic Aluminum Selenium
and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen and Rhenium
and Nickel Neodynium Neptunium Germanium
and Iron Americium Ruthenium Uranium

Europeum Zirconium Ruticium? Vanadium
and Anthenum? and Ostentine? ? and Radium?
and Gold and Protactinium and Indium and Gallium
<gasp>
and Iodine Thorium and Thulium and Thalium

That's all I remember. Pardon any mistakes.

> I'll stop here and spare you the rest.

Me too.

- jon
jonggu moon

"may I have the next slide please?" - T. Lehrer

Jonggu Moon

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Sep 23, 1993, 10:32:03 AM9/23/93

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Maybe I am wrong... they only taught us the first 9 in school...

A 10TH PLANET!!!
No wonder all these astrology predictions have been wrong!

> Prem!
Merp!

- jon
jonggu moon

"But captain, I am NOT a merry man." - Lt. Worf

Bruce Bailey

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Sep 23, 1993, 1:46:30 PM9/23/93

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A pint's a pound the world around.

For the musicians:
Treble clef lines are Every Good Boy Does Fine (e-g-b-d-f)
Treble clef spaces are FACE
Base clef lines are Good Boys Do Fine Always
Base clef spaces are All Cars Eat Gas

Carl Litt u

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Sep 23, 1993, 4:57:00 PM9/23/93

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>> > My very educated mother just showed us nine planets.
>> > Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
>> >Andrew
>>
>> My Mercury
>> Very Venus
>> Educated Earth
>> Mother Mars
>> Just Jupiter
>> Served Saturn
>> Us Uranus
>> Nine Neptune
>> Pizza Pluto
>> Pies. Poseidon.
>>
>>
>> Prem!
>>
>
>Poseidon is an asteriod, I presume?!? Or did the solar system gain a
>planet.. hahahahaha

Actually, he's right. There is a tenth planet, beyond Pluto. I just
didn't know it was called Poseidon.
--
"Now I know why they call it a _terminal_..."
--
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but I'm afraid, I'll lose that feeling." --- Sammy Hagar

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Sep 23, 1993, 6:23:15 PM9/23/93

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Oooh, you're -250 years in the past, mon.
Haven't you heard of Persephone, a.k.a. Rupert? Home of the Grebulons?
Read a book.
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Boo

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Sep 23, 1993, 12:33:39 PM9/23/93

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Okay, now how about a mnemonic for remembering all the mnemonics
that people have been posting?

:*P

-Koushball

Ron Christian x1545

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Sep 24, 1993, 11:48:20 AM9/24/93

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I heard it as "Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwitch Under
No Protest". "thoughtfully" for "terra" and "A" for "asteroid belt".

There's been indications for some time that there's a tenth planet
out there. (Gravitational irregularities in the other planet's orbits
seem to indicate this, as I recall.) I had heard that the accepted names
were either "Persphone" or "Proserpine", after the wife of Pluto.
(Who stays with him only during the winter months. Mythology's version
of "seperate vacations".) I guess that would make it "Under No Protest
Perspicaciously". Or something.

However, I'm not an astronomer, and I don't even play one on tv.

Ron
--
-

"Don't rush a miracle man. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."

Prem!

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Sep 26, 1993, 2:06:33 AM9/26/93

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phil...@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Philippe Benichou) writes:
>pr...@prem.lbl.gov (Prem!) writes:
>> loc...@cup.hp.com (Andrew Lochart) writes:
>> > My very educated mother just showed us nine planets.
>> > Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
>>

>> My Mercury
>> Very Venus
>> Educated Earth
>> Mother Mars
>> Just Jupiter
>> Served Saturn
>> Us Uranus
>> Nine Neptune
>> Pizza Pluto
>> Pies. Poseidon.
>

> Poseidon is an asteriod, I presume?!?

presumptuous twit...

> Or did the solar system gain a planet..
> hahahahaha

If you would quit cackling like a flea-bitten hyena, maybe you'd
have time to read something other than rec.humor and find that
there has been plenty of discussion about a tenth planet in the
solar system... but then, I guess that is too much to expect...

FRED W. BACH

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Sep 26, 1993, 9:38:00 PM9/26/93

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In article <CDtIp...@tandem.com>, bailey...@tandem.com writes...

#For the musicians:
#Treble clef lines are Every Good Boy Does Fine (e-g-b-d-f)

Or, Every Good Boy Deserves Food

Or, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

#Treble clef spaces are FACE
#Base clef lines are Good Boys Do Fine Always
#Base clef spaces are All Cars Eat Gas

I thought that was All Cows Eat Grass.

For the order of SHARPS in musical key signatures:

Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle (F#,C#,G#,D#,A#,E#,B#)

For the order of FLATS it's exactly backwards

Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father (Bb,Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Cb,Fb)

The MAJOR key indicated by SHARPS is ONE SEMITONE HIGHER than the
last sharp (so 1 sharp is the key of G, 2 sharps is the key of D)
So with SHARPS you go UP (one semitone from the last sharp).

The MAJOR key indicated by FLATS is the SECOND LAST FLAT, and 1 flat
is the key of F. 2 flats is the key of B-flat, 3 flats is the key
of E-flat. (So with FLATS you go DOWN or BACK to the previous flat).

I won't talk much about minor keys except to say that the corresponding
Minor key is always 3 semi-tones down from the Major key.

The word "scale" could be used instead of "key" above.

Clear as mud?

#Bruce W. Bailey
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Chris Schulman

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Sep 27, 1993, 10:51:36 AM9/27/93

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No, Persephone is the name given to the postulated (but not proven) tenth planet.

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Sep 27, 1993, 11:48:07 AM9/27/93

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Or if you forget the rainbow:

Richard Red
Of Orange
York Yello
Gave Green
Battle Blue
In Indigo
Vain Violet

Seb

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Louie Louie

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Sep 28, 1993, 3:13:01 AM9/28/93

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In article <1993Sep23.0...@usl.edu>, Sudhi <sgs...@ucs.usl.edu> wrote:
>In article <27o8ul$2...@hpscit.sc.hp.com> loc...@cup.hp.com (Andrew Lochart) writes:
>...
>>
>>For the hierarchy of animals and plants:
>>
>> Kings play chess on funny glass stools.
>> Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
>>
>
>Another one for this :
>
>King Peter Came Over From Germany Seeking a Fortune.
>
>(for Kingdom Phyllum Class Order Family Genus Species Form)

And my personal favorite:

Kids Playing Cards On Freeways Get Smashed.

--Louie

Gilbert P. Gia

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Sep 28, 1993, 12:00:44 AM9/28/93

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==
Here it's "My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas."

--
\/\/\/\/\/\/ Message originating from Bakersfield, California \/\/\/\/\/\/

Jonggu Moon

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Sep 29, 1993, 7:59:48 AM9/29/93

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is it

starve a cold and feed a fever

or

feed a cold and starve a fever

?

- jon
jonggu moon

"leprosy, all my skin is falling off of me,
I'm not half the man I used to be..." - ?

Nicolas Ranald Bryant

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Sep 29, 1993, 11:02:38 AM9/29/93

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There were two we had at school, the first was for

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species,

that's King Pythons Climb Only Fairly Gentle Slopes.

The other was for the Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse trio. You can either
remember that as the word SOHCAHTOA (pronounced so-ca-toe-ah) or as

Sex On High Chairs And Hard Tables Often Aches.

There's one for the digits of pi, which I can never remember the whole of,
but it starts

How I like a drink, alcoholic of course...

with the number of letters in the word being the digit. Can anyone complete
it?
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Robert Solfanelli

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Sep 29, 1993, 2:44:38 PM9/29/93

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n...@st-andrews.ac.uk (Nicolas Ranald Bryant) writes:

>
> There were two we had at school, the first was for
>
> Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species,
>
> that's King Pythons Climb Only Fairly Gentle Slopes.

I learned this as King Phillip Came Over From Germany Slowly
-Bob

Sudhi

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Sep 29, 1993, 4:39:37 PM9/29/93

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In article <28c82e$n...@honey.st-and.ac.uk> n...@st-andrews.ac.uk (Nicolas Ranald Bryant) writes:
...

>
>There's one for the digits of pi, which I can never remember the whole of,
>but it starts
>
>How I like a drink, alcoholic of course...
>

I remember it as :

"How I wish I could recollect to places eight..."

which gives the value of pi upto *eight* decimal places :-)

i.e. 3.14159265

William Brown

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Sep 29, 1993, 10:12:28 PM9/29/93

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Music:
Empty Garbadge Before Dad Flips

Girls Buy Donuts Fresh Always

Trigonometry

Tom's Old Aunt Sat On Her Coffin And Howled.

Geologic time sequence:

Holocene Have
Pleistocene Peter,
Pliocene Paul &
Miocene Mary
Oligocene Ordered
Eocene Every
Paleocene Part?

and;
Cambrian Campbell's
Ordovician Ordinary
Silurian Soups
Devonian Do
Missippian Make
Pennsylvanian Peter
Permian Puke.

Jonathon Patrick Giddy

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Sep 30, 1993, 3:56:54 AM9/30/93

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My amazing mental powers made d...@col.hp.com (David Geiser) write:

[ Nmillions of mnemonics hremoved ]

>trig functions

>SohCahToa

>The Cat Sat On An Orange And Howled Hard (write in 3 lines and read down)

>Some Old Hulks Carry A Huge Tub Of Ale

>Some Old Hag Cracked All Her Teeth On Asparagus

>Silly Old Hitler Caused Awful Headaches To Our Airmen

>Some Old Hairy Camels Are Hairier Than Others Are

>Silly Old Harry Caught A Herring Trawling Off America

> All Slimy Toads Croak -> ( All, Sine, Tangent, Cosine )
> ( for remembering in which quadrants )
> ( Trig functions were positive. )

>The Cat Sat (Tan= Cos= Sin= )
>On An Orange (Opp./ Adj./ Opp./ )
>And Howled Horribly (Adj. Hyp. Hyp. )

> Some Old Hens Can Always Hide Their Old Ages ???

At school, we remembered it with the short and simple
SOme CAr TOyotA!!
usually said with great enthusiasm to make it sound right.

--Jon

Kenneth Moorman

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Sep 30, 1993, 10:50:24 AM9/30/93

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I know the mnemonic but I can't remember what it stands for!

On Mount Olympus' treeless top, a fast assed Goth sells some hops

For remembering the 12 cranial nerves.

- Kenneth Moorman (kenn...@cc.gatech.edu)

Mike Fiorella

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Sep 30, 1993, 5:31:42 PM9/30/93

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Since no one else seems to have this one, I just have to post it :-)

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Variation
or Variety

King Phillip Came Over From Germany Swearing Violently

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The Mad Kobold

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Sep 30, 1993, 9:53:39 PM9/30/93

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m...@col.hp.com (Mike Fiorella) writes:

> Since no one else seems to have this one, I just have to post it :-)

> Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Variation
> or Variety

> King Phillip Came Over From Germany Swearing Violently

Kings Play Chess On Fine-Grain Sand

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clar...@wronz.org.nz

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Sep 30, 1993, 5:39:44 PM9/30/93

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In article <28c82e$n...@honey.st-and.ac.uk>, n...@st-andrews.ac.uk (Nicolas Ranald Bryant) writes:

[....]

>
> There's one for the digits of pi, which I can never remember the whole of,
> but it starts
>
> How I like a drink, alcoholic of course...
>
> with the number of letters in the word being the digit. Can anyone complete
> it?

Sorry, I don't know that one, but I remember this one:

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling

in mystic force and magic spelling

celestial sprites elucidate

all my own striving can't relate

(3.14159265358979, give or take a spelling error)

objoke:

At the <local university> psychology department, an important
breakthrough in training methods has been achieved.

The department has bred a group of mice with a particular heart
defect, that causes them to have a mild heart attack under particular
circumstances.

Dr. <important researcher> has been experimenting with training
methods, and has trained another group of mice to recognise the onset
of these heart attacks. Once these trained mice realise what is
happening, they press a bar that administers a shock treatment to the
suffering mice, correcting the incipient heart failure.

Dr <important researcher> says it is the first known case of
mouse-to-mouse resuscitation.

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Oct 1, 1993, 11:32:22 AM10/1/93

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> On Mount Olympus' treeless top, a fast assed Goth sells some hops

> ^^^^^
viewed

> For remembering the 12 cranial nerves.

I learned it as

On Old Olympus' Tiny Tops, A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops.
Howie Mandel once recited it on St. Elsewhere as
Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Girl Very Sexy Hot.

Once you learn the cranial nerves, you then have to know which ones are motor
nerves (M), which are sensory nerves (S), and which are both (B). Using the
same order as in the "On Old Olympus'" mnemonic, just remember
Some Say Marry Money, But My Brother Says, "Bad Business Marry Money."

I guess my brother must be Tonto. He speakum heap funny.

Mr Ali A Salek-Haddadi

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Oct 3, 1993, 11:32:29 AM10/3/93

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Hmmm.... Doesn't look quite right... I use

Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel a virgin girl's vagina and hymen

the cranial nerves are :

Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial
Auditary/Vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory and
hypoglossal

For the branchs of the trigeminal try

Two Zebras buggered my cat

for: Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular, Cervical

Shane Hebert

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Oct 4, 1993, 11:49:21 AM10/4/93

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|> >trig functions

Some Old Hen
Caught Another Hen
Taking Oats Away

--

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John Gregory

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Oct 5, 1993, 3:58:48 PM10/5/93

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OK, this isn't a "funny" mnemonic, but...

A mnemonic that blew me away was the one my Philosophy/Logic
professor gave us to memorize the basic syllogisms. I've
forgotten most of it. (Great mnemonic, huh?) 8v) But it
started
Barbara Celarent Darii ...
He wrote it on the blackboard the first day; four lines of
four words each, as I recall. Looked like Latin gibberish
to us, but he insisted we take it home, memorize it, and
"study it with rapt adoration" (I still remember that horrid
phrase, 20+ years later). He didn't explain it for several
lectures, just kept repeating that it was the most beautiful
poem ever written.

It turned out that it was the vowels that were meaningful.
A stood for "All", as in "all men are mortal". So Barbara
was supposed to remind us that AAA, or "all a is b", and
"all b is c" implies "all a is c". I think E meant "some",
I meant "some is not", and O meant "is not". If I'm right,
then Celarent gave us "some a is b" and "all b is c" implies
"some a is c", while Darii means "all a is b" and "some b
is not c" implies "some a is not c".

Does anybody have a complete rendition of this "beautiful"
poem? 8v/

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Rachel_...@corbin.prs.k12.nj.us

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Oct 5, 1993, 5:08:53 PM10/5/93

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Music
Order of sharps
Faulty Condoms Give Debbie An Easy Baby.
(But the "official one" that our choir teachers would ADMIT to giving
us was Fast Cars Go Down An Easy Boulevard.)

Rachel Meredith Kadel

P.S. Thanks, Trego and P. I miss you.

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Mitch Crossley

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Oct 5, 1993, 11:54:27 PM10/5/93

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Mr Ali A Salek-Haddadi (zcg...@ucl.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hmmm.... Doesn't look quite right... I use

: Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel a virgin girl's vagina and hymen

: the cranial nerves are :

: Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial
: Auditary/Vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory and
: hypoglossal

So these are the thoughts likely to be running through a brain surgean's
head when he's operating?!
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John Blake

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Oct 8, 1993, 9:40:55 AM10/8/93

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Rachel_...@corbin.prs.k12.nj.us writes:

> Rachel Meredith Kadel

In an earlier life I was a gunner in an artillery regiment. It was necessary
for us to learn the sequence of orders to fire a gun, and we were taught
(as I believe everyone in the RCA is) the following mnemonic:

When (Warning order)
Tall (Type)
Texans (Trajectory)
And (Ammunition)
Long (Load)
Cocks (Converge)
Become (Bearing)
Queer (Quadrant laying)
Good (Gun correction)
For (Fuse setting)
Fuck (Fuse correction)
All (At my command)
Except (Elevation)
Muff (Method of fire/Fire for effect)
Diving (Description)

Your tax dollars hard at work.
~.

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Project Coordinator Department of Industrial Engineering
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Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4

Michael Cummings

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Oct 8, 1993, 3:52:31 PM10/8/93

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For spectral types of stars, most astronomy texts use:

Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now, Smack!

Which I don't think is funny. However, the improved version is:

Oh Big And Ferocious Gorilla, Kill My Roommate Next Saturday!

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Michael Cummings NX7E
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crushed under the wheels of the Imperial carriage." - _You Gotta Have Wa_

Andrew Lange

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Oct 10, 1993, 2:20:38 AM10/10/93

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My high school bio teacher told us that the weirder the mnemonic was,
the more likely we were to remember it. As an example, he gave us one
for the phases in cell mitosis (normal cell division, like in 'my toe',
as opposed to meiosis, which is not)

Anyways, the phases are
Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
(with the correct spellings, of course)

which spells P-MAT, which is what your brand new puppy needs.

I have been able to remember (unable to forget?) this for years, despite
the uselessness of it, while being unable to remember more useful
mnemonics, like for common engineering things (me being an engineer and
all)

Andy
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