jrrt@hogpd.UUCP (R.MITCHELL) (02/27/84)
1) Roy G. Biv -- the colors in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. 2) Spring forward, fall back -- To remember how to set your clocks for Daylight Savings Time. 3) Every good boy deserves favor -- The lines on the treble clef, reading from top to bottom: E, G, B, D, and F. 4) Do men ever visit Boston? -- The rankings of English titles: Duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron. 5) Red right returning -- When you are entering a port, the red bouys are on the right of the channel, black bouys are on the left. Side note: when I was learning navigation, the mnemonic "Even red nuns have odd black cans" helped me remember that those red bouys were even-numbered and were generally nuns (a specific shape), while the black bouys had odd numbers and wre generally cans (a different shape). 6) Some officers have curly auburn hair to offer attraction. Trig functions: Sine=Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cosine=Adjacent/Hypotenuse, Tangent=Opposite/Adjacent 7) Never lower Tillie's pants; Mother might come home. The eight carpal (wrist) bones: navicular, lunate, triangular, pisiform, multiangular/greater, multiangular/lesser, capitate, hamate. 8) My very earnest mother just served us nine pickles. The planets in order from the sun. 9) King Philip came over for good soup. Alternate: Kindly place cover on fresh, green, spicy vegetables. Taxonomic categories: Kindom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Vegetables adds V for variety, a subdivision of species. 10) HOMES -- The Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. Joe Ramey (allegra!parsec!smu!joe) contributes "Some men hate eating onions" as a way of remembering their order from west to east. 11) Palaces evoke opulent memories of a plundered past. The ages in the Cenozoic Era: Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene. 12) D.C. Van Dissel -- The steps taken by a physician before admitting a patient to the hospital: diagnosis, conditions, vital signs, ambulation, nursing orders, diet, intake and output, symptomatic drugs, specific drugs, examinations, and laboratory. 13) Bad boys... -- The colors for electrical resistors. 14) Tall gyroscopes can fly apart, orbiting quickly to complete disintegration. -- The Mohs scale of mineral hardness: talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase, quartz, topaz, corundum, and diamond. 15) Camels often sit down carefully. Perhaps their joints creak? Possibly, early oiling might prevent permanent rheumatism. The geologic periods: Cambrian, Ordovian, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent. 16) How I wish I could recollect of circle round the exact relation Archimede unwound. -- Pi, where it's the number of letters in each word that counts. 17) PAIL -- The four types of skin cuts: puncture, abrasion, incision, and laceration. 18) Can dead men vote twice? -- The order of calculations required by a navigator to establish position: compass, deviation, magnetic, variation, and true. 19) Bless my dear Aunt Sally. -- The precedence rules for calculations: brackets, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. [No, I don't know of a mnemonic that incorporates exponentiation.] 20) On old Olympus' treeless tops A fat-assed German vends some hops. The cranial nerves from front to back: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, acoustic, glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal-accessory, hypoglossal.
gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (03/08/84)
Another taxonomic mnemonic (what?) I learned was: Kings play chess on fine-grained sand.
sheppard@parsec.UUCP (03/09/84)
#R:hogpd:-28700:parsec:35800002:000:246 parsec!sheppard Mar 8 15:00:00 1984 A mnemonic for the way to evaluate arithmetic expressions that DOES include exponentiation: Please, please, my dear Aunt Sally Parentheses, powers, multiplication, division, addition and subtraction. Andy Sheppard Convex Computer Corporation