Post your favorite mnemonics

[pokerfan]

(Inspired by the pi rhyme thread.)

King Philip Came Over For Good Sex:
(Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species)

ELI the ICE man:
Current (I) lags voltage (E) in an inductor (L) and current leads voltage in a capacitor (C)

Every Good Boy Does Fine:
E-G-B-D-F (music)

Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now Smack:
O, B, A, F, G, K, M, R, N, S (stellar spectral classes)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear pokerfan!

The one I really like, and still find useful:

The months on your knuckles and in the spaces between them...

You start on the forefinger with January...the months with 31 days go on the knuckles!

Then February in the space next to that knuckle...

March is next on the next knuckle...

And so on...

It works!

July and August both have 31 days...so you use two knuckles in a row for those...

Try it and you'll see!

:bounce: :bounce:

[pokerfan]

4. I know that one!

Still use it at times.

My Mom thought it was retarded and tried to get me to memorize the Thirty days hath... poem, but I figured why memorize a stupid poem when have fingers?

[FloridaJudy]

2. On Old Olympus' Towering Tops

A Fat-Assed Goddess Views All Hops (but it was "A Finn And German View.." if the instructor was nearby).

It helped me to memorize the cranial nerves. The first three are Olfactory, Optic and Oculomotor. The others I'm hard pressed to remember, and they've changed the names of a few as well - thank the gods for Google.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. Some lovers try positions that they can't handle...

it's the bones of the wrist

Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetral, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate

[kath]

28. we learned that one as Slowly Lower Tillie's Pants, Tom Terrific's Coming Home.

I can still remember that mnemonic, but can't remember the names of all those little bones for the life of me! Too many "T"s, especially!

[Gonzo Gardener]

5. Silly grade school mnemonic...

HOMES... for the 5 Great Lakes.
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

:hi:

[Inchworm]

6. thats the freakin word!

mnemonics!

Please exume my dead aunt sally
parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, add, subtract

Roy G Biv
red, orange, yeller, green, blue indigo violet

King Phillip came over for great spaghetti
gawd I have more of a buzz than I allowed for...
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, F-sumptin, Genus, Species

:yoiks:

[racaulk]

25. F = Family

You just took me back to 10th grade Biology class! :rofl:

[FloridaJudy]

7. My Very Educated Mother

Just Sat Under the North Pole.

For the order of the planets in the solar system. What kids are going to say now that Pluto has been down-graded to a "trans-Neptunian object" I don't know.

[pokerfan]

8. Just looked up some sans Pluto mnemonics

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles

Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Needs

Jugs as in I imagine.

Get your mind out of the gutter!

[Frank Cannon]

12. My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos...

is how my nephew remembers it.

[Beer Snob-50]

9. Poor Mary ate Terry's Insides

prophase, metaphase, antiphase,telaphase, intraphase

the steps of cell reproduction

[QMPMom]

10. Here's one:

I
Am
Chairman
Of
Chrysler
Corporation
America

Iacocca

Not true these days, but it used to be.

[Frank Cannon]

11. For all of you adults with carpal tunnel syndrome...

Sally licked Tom's penis. He came three times.

(Carpals of the wrist... scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, hamate, capitate, trapezoid, trapezium... starting from the first row on the thumb side, then working your way back on the second row.)

[mikeytherat]

13. All Cows Eat Grass

mikey_the_rat

[Robb]

14. Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest

...which, somehow, is supposed to help you remember the order of Seattle streets: Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike, Pine. :eyes:

My dad even swears by it. :D

[trof]

15. True Virgins Make Dull Companions

How to compute true heading from compass heading or vice-versa.

True +/- Variation = Magnetic +/- Deviation = Compass

[racaulk]

16. A Rat In Tom's House May Eat Tom's Ice Cream

A-R-I-T-H-M-E-T-I-C

Arithmetic

:hi:

[quip]

23. Holy Crap! I'd forgotten that one! I haven't heard that in over 40 years!

:hi:

Except I learned "the's" in place of "Tom".

[meegbear]

17. I Can Do All Things Through Jesus Christ ...

That was a mnemonic for a site password we'd have to connect into in a previous life. We used to say: "I Can Do All Things Through Johnny Carson".

[mitchum]

18. Every Average Dealer Gets Busted Eventually (standard guitar tuning)

[mitchum]

19. Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly...

the color band code on resistors
I actually learned that in a Boy Scouts electronics class

[Iggo]

24. I learned that at DeVry...

...but my prof swore us to secrecy.

Uh-oh. D'oh!

[pokerfan]

30. I learned that one as well as an addendum

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly for Silver & Gold

Silver and gold representing the tolerance (+/- 10% and 5%.)

I also learned the offensive version which eliminates any confusion between the first two B's. Common decency prevents me from repeating it here.

[suninvited]

20. Roy G. Biv

It helped me tremendously when I had to pass the national exam for my massage therapy license.

Colors of the chakra in order:

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

[Iggo]

21. I Dig People Like My Aunt Lori.

The modes: Ionian. Dorian. Phrygian. Lydian. Myxolydian. Aeolian. Locrian.

Oops, forgot to explain. In Western music, we use a standard 7 note scale: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti.

Ionian is a 7 note scale starting with Do. Dorian is a 7 note scale starting with Re. And so on...

[One_Life_To_Give]

22. True Virgins Make Dull Companions

True Virgins Make Dull Companions, add Whisky

Bearing Conversions

True
Variance
Magnetic
Deviation
Compass

add Westerly when converting from True to Magnetic/Compass or Magnetic to Compass.

[pokerfan]

26. Those Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do

Mohs hardness scale:
1.Talc
2.Gypsum
3.Calcite
4.Fluorite
5.Apatite
6.Orthaclase
7.Quartz
8.Topaz
9.Corondum
10.Diamond

[redqueen]

27. I heard: "Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Satin"

I think the ones I know have all been covered already.

Did someone say "All Cows Eat Grass"?

[otherlander]

29. Trapping Trains, Peter Obstructs Vehicles.

(topic, time, place, object, verb) It's the order of words in a sentence in Japanese.

[pokerfan]

31. Another one

A Tense Gray Cat Lay Very Low Sneaking Slowly Contemplating A Pounce

Constellations of the Zodiac in order.

Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces

[Crabby Appleton]

32. Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away

OSI Reference Model for data networking stack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

Physical DataLink Network Transport Session Presentation Application