Every Good Boy Does Fine
Knights Play Chess on Fridays, Generally Speaking
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
In my school, King Philip Cried Out For Good Sex, and lo the trumpets blared and banners unfurled, and 7th graders tittered.
― Spectrist, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 1 April 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
...and we now know that Oscar suffered from chronic priapism. how times have changed.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
We always said "SOHCAHTOA" as one word that rhymed with "soak a boa" and it just stuck, somehow.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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..."
― Jaq, Friday, 1 April 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Seattle streets: Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest(Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike, Pine)
― Jaq, Friday, 1 April 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
kingdom/phylum/class/order/family/genus/species
What happened to "subphylum?" Gone the way of Pluto?
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing
― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Every Girl Band Deserves Funding
For SOHCAHTOA we had Some Octopuses Have Clean And Healthy Teeth On Arrival.
― and the hint of parp (ledge), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Should Old Harry Catch A Herring Trawling Off America
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
(still can't do trig btw)
thread title is bugging me'a.k.a' --> 'e.g.'
In case it gives you relief, the second half is an alternate title for the thread, not an example.
― discursive gatorade (Eazy), Friday, 1 April 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ★ White Castl★ What You Crave ★ (donna rouge), Friday, 1 April 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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 clearAnd 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.
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 1 April 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― SB Nation (Eazy), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 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".
― kate78, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
eat good bread, dear father.
― estela, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
A teacher in the UK recently got in hot water for teaching an older version of this which substitutes "Black Boys."
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Monday, 4 April 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
UNUS NAUTA is about the only piece of latin i remember. no idea what it was a mnemonic for.
― three megabytes of hot RAM (abanana), Monday, 4 April 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― C-L, Monday, 4 April 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link