majka (04/27/83)
Here is a summary of the mnemonics (acronymics?) I have received to date.
My thanks to those who contributed to this list. A few mnemonics, such
as the "Bad Boys..." resistor colour code list, were so popular that I
only kept the longest version (below). Others appear in several versions.
I am still collecting these things, so if you remember a new one, please
send it along to me. I will post updates to the net as new ones appear.
Marc Majka
UBC Lab for Computational Vision (ubc-vision!majka)
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King Phillip came over for good soup
King Phillip come out for god sake
King Phillip ? ordered five greasy steaks
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species (Taxononic classification)
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Toronto girls can flirt and only quit to chase dwarves.
Talc Gypsum Calcite Flurite Appetite Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corumdum
Diamond (Hardness scale 1-10 for minerals)
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Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
Reading from left to right, it tells you the order in which sharps
occur in major scales. That is, the scale with one sharp has F sharp,
the scale with two sharps has F sharp and C sharp, and so on. Also, the
name of the scale is the note immediately following its last sharp in
the list. For example, the scale with four sharps -- F, C, G, and D --
is E major.
Reading the sentence backwards
Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father
gives you the order in which flats occur in major scales. You can tell
the name of the scale by using the list entry just to the left of the
last flat, wrapping around if need be. For example, the scale with four
flats -- B, E, A, and D -- is A-flat major.
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Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now Sweetheart
Only Beer And Fine Grass Keep My Rattled Nerves Sane.
OBAFGKMRNS (Star classes on a stellar evolution diagram)
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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto (Planets)
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Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest
Mercury Venus Terra Mars Asteroids Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
(Planets)
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All cows eat grass
All cars eat gas
ACEG are the staff space notes for bass clef from bottom to top
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Every Good Bird Does Fly
Every good boy does fine
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
EGBDF are the line notes for treble clef
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King Hector died miserable death caught measles
Kilometer Hectometer Decameter Meter Decimeter Centimeter Millimeter
(Metric prefixes)
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Some old hen caught another hen taking one away
S(in) = O(pposite)/H(ypotenuse)
C(os) = A(djacent)/H(ypotenuse)
T(an) = O(pposite)/A(djacent) (Trigonometric equations)
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Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly - get some now.
black brown red orange yellow green blue violet grey white gold silver none
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 5% 10% 20%
(Resistor colour codes)
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can dead men vote twice at elections.
which stands for the transformation from compass reading to true
compass + deviation = magnetic; magnetic + variation = true; add east(ie
subtract west)
also in the other direction the slightly sexist.
true virgins make dull companions
which was
true + variation = magnetic; magnetic + deviation = compass
(and in this direction easterly variation and deviation is subtracted)
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Camels often sit down carefully. Perhaps their joints creak. Possibly
early oiling might prevent premature rhumatism.
Cambrian Ordovician Sirillian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic
Jurrasic Cretatious Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Myocene Pileocene
Pleistocene Recent (Geolocical ages)
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Practically every old man plays poker regularly.
Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Myocene Pileocene Pleistocene Recent
(Geolocical ages)
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Roy G. Biv
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet (Rainbow colours in order)
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May I have a large container of coffee? ...
How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters
involving quantum mechanics. One is, yes, adequate even enough to
produce some fun and pleasure for an instant, miserably brief.
pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795... (Word lengths are digits)
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Old people from Texas eat spiders
Occipital parietal frontal temporal ephnoid sphenoid
(Bones of the skull)
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Every Bible Gets Dusty After Easter
E B G D A E (Standard guitar tuning)
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Prime Minister - a toad!
Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase (Stages in cell division)
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Oh my, such good apple pie, sweet as sugar.
Oh my sagging gonads, aching, pulsating, sore as shit.
oxalic, malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, pimelic, suberic,
azelaic, sebacic - the (alpha, omega) dicaarboxylic acids
from C2-C10.
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Spring forward - Fall back
Tells you how to adjust your clock for standard and daylight saving time.
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MeDiCaL
The roman numerals for 1000 500 100 and 50
--------------------------------------------------mjb (04/29/83)
HOMES Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior (Great Lakes) -Mike
minow (05/02/83)
Kind Souls Never Judge Fair Ladys KSNJFL The order of the hexadecimal digits (K == 10, ... L == 15) on Illiac I. (The reason had to do with the mechanics of Illiac I five-channel paper tape -- be happy you're too young to remember.) Martin Minow decvax!minow
mabgarstin (05/04/83)
Another for the sharps and flats:
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle (sharps)
Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father (flats)
A double wammy, you get two for the price of one.
MAB