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Mnemonic Devices
Last night while at Christine's house, the original version of Trivial Pursuit came up. I was thinking about it on my way home and was pretty sure that it was called the Genus Edition (it was). That made me think of genus species (the name that all creatures have to identify them; humans are Homo sapiens, you know) and I flashed back to freshman honors biology with Mr. Borg. I remember having to know stuff like that for tests and it made me wonder if I could remember the entire nomenclature. Suddenly the phrase King Phillip Comes Over For Good Sex (we learned it as Spaghetti, but being high school kids, changed it to sex) and I knew it was kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species. Talk about a good mnemonic device! I remember that from almost fifteen years ago.
At the last Tiara Happy Hour, though, I was talking to Mac and a few other people (I think one of them was Natalie) about how Mr. Air Force had given me directions to meet him the first time which included north and west. I told him, "Hypothetically, let's say that one doesn't know which directions north and west are. What would that be with lefts and rights?" (Hey, I wasn't in the Air Force; I have no idea. I still have to make an L with my left hand to make sure I've got left and right correct despite having a genius level IQ.) That discussion brought up how, in third grade, our teacher taught us Never Eat Soggy Waffles (going clockwise) to remember which way the directions are. To this day I still think of it and that was twenty years ago or so.
Anyone else have any mnemonic devices they use?
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Katie Put Catsup On Fuzzy Green Spiders and Never Eat Shredded Wheat for the two you mentioned. In piano lessons we had some, but I can't recall those. Something about cows and grass.
.: NinaKaye said on April 1, 2004 05:10 PM :: link it :.Nelly Eats Sour Watermellon
I swear I'll never forget that! :)
.: D said on April 1, 2004 05:56 PM :: link it :.I alwasy use NSWE in my directions too along with L & R. I prefer both so that the masses would understand ;-)
.: irfan said on April 2, 2004 10:45 AM :: link it :.Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls
Black - 0
Brown - 1
Red - 2
Orange - 3
Yellow - 4
Green - 5
Blue - 6
Violet - 7
Grey - 8
White - 9
Color coding for resistors. Three bands of colors, first two for numbers and the last for number of zeros following. i.e 800 ohms would be Grey/Black/Brown
That's from 30 years ago...I can't remeber the clean version, so please forgive me here, I was an 18 year old sailor then.
.: Brian the Red said on April 2, 2004 08:43 PM :: link it :.Roy G. Biv (the colors of the spectrum, in order of length: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo violet)
The musical ones were like Every Good Boy Does Fine for the lines on the treble clef and FACE for the spaces.
We had one for the planets, too, but I don't remember it, so it must not have been that good.
.: kalisah said on April 2, 2004 10:55 PM :: link it :.My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets for the planets, I also heard Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge for the lines on treble clef. You left out Family in your scientific names, though. For some reason, that one always stuck in my head with the actual names, no device needed. Odd. Mickey Gave Pluto Some Puppy Dog Treats is the 7 guest service guidelines at Walt Disney World, but I don't think I could remember what they all are.
.: Crankydragon said on April 2, 2004 11:47 PM :: link it :.George Eli's Old Grandfather Rode A Pig Home Yesterday (geography)
HOMES to remember the five Great Lakes
.: grace said on April 5, 2004 03:23 PM :: link it :.i still remember how to spell "mediterranean" by singing the letters to the tune of "yankee doodle"...
.: dljpdx said on May 16, 2004 02:04 PM :: link it :. 
well i know one very common one known for math......a hard subject..SOH CAH TOA..which sounds like saok a toe....
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