Mnemonic Devices a/k/a My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas

my bass clef mnemonics:

-"good boys don't fuck animals"

-"all cars eat grass"

OSI 7 Layer Model:

• All People Seem To Need Data Processing
• People Don't Need To See Prince Albert

• People Can Analyse Problems

When I was learning to read music the one I was taught for the treble clef was Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge.

I don't remember what we were taught for the kingdom phylum class thing (which I wound up just memorizing) but I think it started with King Pillip.

oh and bass clef was "Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always"

Kings Play Chess On Funny Green Squares was what we learned

lol really? that was def not what would was. Damn this is bugging me.

okay I had just typed out something that was not only dirty but incomprehensibly stupid, be glad my delete key works

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PCMCIA cards (now PC cards): People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms.

Every Good Boy Does Fine

Knights Play Chess on Fridays, Generally Speaking

In my school, King Philip Cried Out For Good Sex, and lo the trumpets blared and banners unfurled, and 7th graders tittered.

how did other people deal with Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse, Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse, Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent?

the canonical mnemonic was always SOHCAHTOA, which, by an awkward stretch of the imagination, was supposed to recall the Roanoke settlers who carved CROATOAN into a tree to identify the island where they went to die.

far more evocative for 16-year-old me was the dirrty saying, "Sally can tell Oscar has a hard-on always," where the order the terms was rearranged a little bit to accommodate the lulz.

Mnemonic Devices a/k/a My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas

of course nowadays my very eager mother just serves us noodles.

...and we now know that Oscar suffered from chronic priapism. how times have changed.

We always said "SOHCAHTOA" as one word that rhymed with "soak a boa" and it just stuck, somehow.

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly - color codes for resistor values

Roy G Biv - rainbow, low -> high frequency

There was a really long one for remembering the US presidents that started "When a joke made me a joker, Van had to poke the fiery poker, but let jokes go..."

Big Dan's Big Red Crawfish Dinner

My memory device for the streets in New Orleans' French Quarter (lakeside to riverside: Burgundy, Dauphine, Bourbon, Royal, Chartres, Decatur) for finding my way I when I was wandering drunk and disoriented. I had one for Canal to Esplanade, too, but it was way too long and unmemorable.

Seattle streets: Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest
(Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike, Pine)

kingdom/phylum/class/order/family/genus/species

What happened to "subphylum?" Gone the way of Pluto?

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing

Every Girl Band Deserves Funding

For SOHCAHTOA we had Some Octopuses Have Clean And Healthy Teeth On Arrival.

Should Old Harry Catch A Herring Trawling Off America

(still can't do trig btw)

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Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

i really have done my best to live my life by this model and it is frustrating when i am not awarded fudge for all of my good behavior

Not the same as mnemonics but that old rhyme about the # of days in a month...

30 days hath September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have 31,
Excepting February alone.
Which only has but 28 days clear
And 29 in each leap year

As a kid I always found the February part buggered me up until my friend in college taught me this version:

30 Days Hath September,
April June and November:
all the Rest have 31
except Grandma Who Rides A Bike.

Just heard one today: wine-bottle sizes, from largest on down:

(M)ichael (J)ackson (R)eally (M)akes (S)mall (B)oys (N)ervous

There was a really long one for remembering the US presidents that started "When a joke made me a joker, Van had to poke the fiery poker, but let jokes go..."

― Jaq, Friday, April 1, 2011 4:34 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Jaq, should we ever meet again, I'll teach you all the presidents to the tune of "10 Little Indians".

eat good bread, dear father.

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly - color codes for resistor values

A teacher in the UK recently got in hot water for teaching an older version of this which substitutes "Black Boys."

UNUS NAUTA is about the only piece of latin i remember. no idea what it was a mnemonic for.

Cranial Nerves, classic version: On Old Olympus' Tiny Tops, A Finn (And) German Viewed Some Hops (Cranial Nerve VIII was renamed from "Acoustic" to "Vestibulocochlear" a few years ago, so the "And" part doesn't work as well.)

Cranial Nerves, teenage boy version: Oh! Oh! Oh! To Touch And Feel Virgin Girls' Vaginas, Such Heaven!

But my favorite is the sensory/motor (or both) classification of the Cranial Nerves: Some Say Marry Money, But My Brother Says Big Breasts Matter More.

(Olfactory is purely sensory, Optic is purely sensory, Oculomotor is purely motor, Trochlear is purely motor, Trigeminal is both, Abducens is Purely Motor, Facial is both, Vestibulocochlear is purely sensory, Glossopharyngeal is both, Vagus is both, Spinal Accessory is purely motor, and Hypoglossal is purely motor.)

Also, it's not an acrostic, but the Argyll-Robertson pupil is referred to as the "Prostitute's Pupil": It accomodates but doesn't react. It is associated with syphilis.

I recently learned one for the Zodiac signs order which also involves pizza! I.e.,

Any time Granny covets Leo's vegan lunch, she should cut a pizza

At uni we learned this one, still one of my favourites, for remembering the geological timescale:

Camels ordinarily sit down carefully, perhaps their joints creak, perhaps early oiling might prevent painful rheumatism.