I was gonna say… resistor color codes in grammar school?
Jesus Christ.
Ah, a joke. I see.
Jesus. That must have been dreadful. Where the hell was this?
The OSI model of networking is composed of 7 “layers”. Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data Link, Physical in order from top to bottom.
The mnemonic I learned is: “All people seem to need data processing” which is nicely appropriate.
That got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever learned. I can’t wait to memorize it!
Thanks
Zeke
For the love of all that is innocent and good, Attack, let’s allow my poor abortion of an attempt at humor to R.I.P.
Fat cats go down alleys eating birds.
“I envy data processors” is the Divisions in a COBOL program: Identification, Environment, Data, Procedure. Well done Sue P.!
Ah, you see, I was raised in the south. I would not have put it past some of the teachers I had.
A principle is a rule.
The principal is my pal.
StalaCtites Cling to the Ceiling.
StalaGmites Grow from the Ground.
For the resistor colors, we were first taught the politically correct version: Big Buicks Run on Yellow Gas, But Volkswagens Go Without.
Then we were given the version we would actually remember, with a stern warning not to use it in mixed company.
Mine from Page 1 “Let’s Cook Textured Vegetable Protein” was the order of Declarations in PASCAL: Labels, Constants, Types, Variables, Procedures.
I remember reading that stalacTITES hold on tight to the ceiling, stalagMITES might make it to the top someday.
I learned this as I Pee on a MAT (Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase).
Sedges have edges, and Rushes are round,
and Grasses have joints all the way to the ground.
Guillan-Barre is ascending paralysis, ground to brain
Myasthenia Gravis is descending paralysis, mind to ground
Sober physicists don’t find giraffes hiding in kitchens.
The energy levels of the electron - s, p, d, etc.
My mother had a somewhat racier version of this …
“The mites go up, and the tights come down”
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