Phrases/Ditties and such.

CACTUSWENDY · Apr 29, 2008

For hundreds of years man has found ways to remember facts. Sometimes it is easier to put data/information to a musical beat, sometimes better in a poem/rhyme.

Please share one you might know of. The one I have is the only way I can tell the amount of days in a month. (Sad, huh?)

Mine is;
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November: All the rest have thirty-one, Except For February, Which hath twenty-eight days clear, And twenty-nine in each leap year.

HeronW · Apr 29, 2008

Each Good Boy Does Fine --1/2 the notational musical range: egbdf then stick 'face' in between so you get efgabcdef
Though I do better with that song from Sound of Music for the note levels: do--a deer etc., re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do

HOMES: The Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

COHN: the 4 main building blocks of life: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen

BRAT: for diarrhea: bananas, rice, applesauce, toast

CACTUSWENDY · Apr 29, 2008

lol
BRAT.....that is a new one for me. Thanks for sharing them.

Kathie Freeman · Apr 29, 2008

HeronW said:
Each Good Boy Does Fine --1/2 the notational musical range: egbdf then stick 'face' in between so you get efgabcdef

Part of the lower staff is ACEG - All cows eat grass (or all cars eat gas)

czjaba · Apr 29, 2008

To know which months have 31 days, I start with my first knuckle (as Jan), the space between knuckles (as Feb), then the next knuckle (as Mar). Go all the way to the pinky knuckle and start back with the pointer knuckle. If the months lands on the knuckle, it has 31 days; if not, it has less.

brainstrains · Apr 29, 2008

I live on mnemoic devices:

ROY G BIV
I Before E Except After C...
Red Sky at Night...

Zelenka · Apr 29, 2008

Monkeys Eat Peeled Bananas - for remembering the alkanes in chemistry; Methane, Ethane, Propane Butane (only thing I remember from chemistry)

Great Cormorants Swim in Water - (okay, so that one is rubbish, but I made it up and it did help me remember) - The guardsmen on duty at the palaces in London have different numbers of buttons on their tunics which lets you figure out the regiment at a glance. It goes; Grenadier - buttons evenly spaced in groups of 1; Coldstream - buttons in groups of 2; Scots Guards - buttons in 3s; Irish Guards - buttons in 4s; and Welsh Guards, buttons in 5s.

I used to teach that one to the kids on my tours to the changing of the guards then do a quiz to see if they could tell what regiment was on duty. They always got it right.

dirtsider · Apr 29, 2008

Ring Around the Rosie - about the Black Death.

slcboston · Apr 29, 2008

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Rules of Operation in mathematics - parentheses exponents multiplication division addition subtraction)

slcboston · Apr 29, 2008

Also, now that I'm thinking about 'em:

My Very Ancient Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza-pies (for the planets.. though now that Pluto's been deposed I suspect that no longer works so well.

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Cranky · Apr 29, 2008

slcboston said:
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Rules of Operation in mathematics - parentheses exponents multiplication division addition subtraction)

Also FOIL for doing simple equations. First Outside Inside Last

CACTUSWENDY · Apr 29, 2008

Very interesting...

IceCreamEmpress · Apr 29, 2008

dirtsider said:
Ring Around the Rosie - about the Black Death.

That's an urban legend, actually.

I usually find it easier to remember the things themselves than the mnemonics.

However, two that were drummed into me in high school were Big Chief Sohcahtoa from trigonometry class (for "Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse, Cosine equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse, and Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent") and Dr. & Mrs. Vandertramp (for the French verbs that take "être" in the perfect tense--descendre, rentrer, mourir, rester, etc.)

Oh, and King Philip Came Over for Grape Soda: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, Species.

Shwebb · Apr 29, 2008

For a strain/sprain, RICE:

Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation

Mike Martyn · Apr 29, 2008

Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me

I remember this from my dim scientific past.

It is either the resisior clour code sequence or the
stellar evolution sequence!

There's another one for memorizing the 7 cranial nerves but I don't remember that either!

Mike Martyn · Apr 29, 2008

HeronW said:
Each Good Boy Does Fine --1/2 the notational musical range:....

I learned as Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge.

I never got any fudge froim my piano teacher since I never praticed. I got the steel ruler across the knuckles instead!

Cranky · Apr 29, 2008

The way I learned it was Every Good Boy Does Fine. Interesting the differences.

Keyan · Apr 29, 2008

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor...

Zelenka · Apr 29, 2008

Cranky said:
The way I learned it was Every Good Boy Does Fine. Interesting the differences.

Mine was 'Every good boy deserves football'.

paprikapink · Apr 29, 2008

Leftie Loosie, Rightie Tightie.

Cranky · Apr 29, 2008

JessRamage said:
Mine was 'Every good boy deserves football'.

I shoulda been a Good Boy. He gets all kinds of stuff!

oneblindmouse · Apr 29, 2008

IceCreamEmpress said:
Dr. & Mrs. Vandertramp (for the French verbs that take "être" in the perfect tense--descendre, rentrer, mourir, rester, etc.)quote]

I was tought: draper's van MMT, for the French verbs that take être in the perfect tense.

paprikapink · Apr 29, 2008

I make them up for license plates, against my will almost.

My first car was CRW626, which to me meant "Car Really Wanted 626" because for some reason I thought a Mazda 626 would be a cool car but the one I could actually afford was a Ford Escort.

My husband's plate is NSW, which I always remember as NorthSouthWest. It comes in handy because every third car around here is a blue Civic. I'd think he was everywhere if I didn't check the plate.

Kunery · Apr 29, 2008

Red Right Returning (Red-colored navigational aids are kept to your right as you Return upstream to harbor from open sea.)

Even Red Nuns have Odd Black Cans. (Even-numbered nav aids will be Red-colored and Nun-buoy shaped, i.e. with conical tops. Odd-numbered nav aids will be Black-colored and have cylindrical or Can-shaped tops.)

The ship Left Port; and Port wine is Red. (Left/port; right/starboard; Portside lights are red; starboardside lights are green.)

Horseshoes · Apr 29, 2008

over old olympus towering tops a finn and german viewed some hops
they also taught us a blue version
oh, oh, oh, to touch and feel a girl's ...

didn't anyone else have to remember the 12 cranial nerves?

Phrases/Ditties and such.

An old, sappy, and happy one.

Down Under Fan

An old, sappy, and happy one.

That Crazy Cat Lady

dreaming of the day...

4-8-8-4

Going home!

Not so new, really

Pasture-ized

Pasture-ized

An old, sappy, and happy one.

Hapless Virago

She's the creepy-looking dude

ubiquitous

Going home!

Bored fanatic

The new me

Bored fanatic

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