jrrt@hogpd.UUCP (R.MITCHELL) (02/20/84)
In the March 1980 issue of OMNI, Scot Morris devoted half his Games
column to a quiz on mnemonics. The following is lifted without
permission from that column; see how many you can identify. Answers
will be posted in a week.
1) Roy G. Biv
2) Spring forward, fall back.
3) Every good boy deserves favor.
4) Do men ever visit Boston?
5) Red right returning.
6) Some officers have curly auburn hair to offer attraction.
7) Never lower Tillie's pants; Mother might come home.
8) My very earnest mother just served us nine pickles.
9) King Philip came over for good soup.
Alternate: Kindly place cover on fresh, green, spicy vegatables.
10) HOMES
11) Palaces evoke opulent memories of a plundered past.
12) D.C. Van Dissel
13) Bad boys...
14) Tall gyroscopes can fly apart, orbiting quickly to complete
disintegration.
15) Camels often sit down carefully. Perhaps their joints creak?
Possibly, early oiling might prevent permanent rheumatism.
16) How I wish I could recollect of circle round the exact relation
Archimede unwound.
17) PAIL
18) Can dead men vote twice?
19) Bless my dear Aunt Sally.
20) On old Olympus' treeless tops
A fat-assed German vends some hops.spam@eneevax.UUCP (02/23/84)
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I heard the planets mnemonic as
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza Pies. This was in
an animated flick.
Another one is:
How I need a drink after all those heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics
(or something like that). The number of letters in each word
gives that digit of Pi. (neat, eh?)
--
--Alea iacta est,
John ("Spam") Rehwinkel
uucp: ..!seismo!rlgvax!umcp-cs!eneevax!spam
(I love getting mail!)chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (02/23/84)
How about some additions to the list? "Eli the Ice Man" has been running around in some other news group. Of course, there is the famous: Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips There are dozens of other mnemonics which also represent this concept, but that's my favorite.
pat@pyuxqq.UUCP (Pat M. Iurilli) (03/01/84)
How about
Georgie Eats Old Gray Rats And Paints Houses Yellow
for geography
A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Tobacco In Church
for arithmetic
Mr. Venus Eats Meat. Jim Smith Understands New Planets
for the planet order
Father Charlie Goes Down And Ends Battle
for the order of sharps
Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father
for the order of flats in music
and finally to remember the order of colors on resisters for electronic techs:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
(black,brown,red,orange,young,green,blue,violet,gray,white)
Pat Iurilli Bell Communications Research Piscataway, NJ
{ihnp4,harpo}!pyuxqq!pat
NO FLAMES PLEASE!!!!!!!vange@stolaf.UUCP (Erin L. Vang) (03/04/84)
Another more logical and hence more easily remembered mmnemonic for the order of the sharps in music: FRIED CHICKEN, GOOD DISH! ALWAYS EAT BEANS. It makes a lot more sense than "Father Charles Goes Down and Ends Battle." Flame if you feel the need.... Erin Vang ...ihnp4!stolaf!vange
berry@zehntel.UUCP (03/06/84)
#R:hogpd:-28200:zinfandel:5600013:000:387 zinfandel!berry Mar 5 12:55:00 1984 Here's another mnemonic, but please don't flame about it like they have over in net.flame PAIN is the mnemonic for the four most common first declension Latin nons that are masculine -- almost all others are feminine, They are Paeninsula - peninsula Agricola - farmer Insula - island Nauta - sailor Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900
gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) (03/09/84)
[Living sacrifice to assuage the gods of first lines . . .] >Here's another mnemonic, but please don't flame about it like they have >over in net.flame > > PAIN is the mnemonic for the four most common first declension >Latin nons that are masculine -- almost all others are feminine, > >They are > Paeninsula - peninsula > Agricola - farmer > Insula - island > Nauta - sailor > > >Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) >(415)932-6900 As I learned it (and without digging into boxes of books to find a Latin dictionary), the mnemonic was PPAIN, for Poeta - poet Perfuga - fugitive Agricola - farmer Incola - inhabitant Nauta - sailor Of course, I last heard that in 1954, so accuracy may have decayed. FROM: Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems USENET: {ucbvax, ihnp4, decvax!decwrl}!amd70!cae780!gordon {qubix, hplabs}!cae780!gordon USNAIL: 1333 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 AT&T: (408)745-1440 From the world of the middle of four-part harmony.
leblanc@ucbvax.UUCP (Emile LeBlanc) (03/16/84)
First Line Second Line Re: PAIN mnemonic Insula was listed as a feminine noun in the dictionary I checked.