the other way around:
Plump Mrs. Martain Voted Very Ninth Unicorn Should Jump.
Anyone else?
Indeed.
Waiter, I’ll have what she’s having.
Monster Vines Eat Massive Jugglers Sitting Under Nine Pillars.
What do I win?
By size, eh?
Folly Wango Toxtrot?
I was just thinking about how My Very Educated Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Pizzas.
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets.
Some Men Very Easily Make Jugs Suit Useful Necessary Purposes was the incredibly dull one I learned for our solar system (sun->pluto).
Just Say U Noshed Eight Very Moreish Mincemeat Pies
June Stood Under Neville’s Enormous Very Manly Massive Penis
People Make Mnemonics Very Easily, Never Underestimate Simple Jokes!
Molly’s Very Exceptional Moose Just Spit Up Nine Politicians.
Perhaps Nigel Understands Swahili, just make Marvin Eat Veggies, Mom. (ok, that is a stretch for the reversal of MVEMJSUNP.
And, hey, isn’t there a new one after Pluto now? or has Pluto been downgraded to a moon?
Martha visits every Monday and just stays until noon, period.
Please! Not until Sharon jumps and mauls Earl’s Vegemite meatballs.
I think, yes. It is, I believe, named Xena.
And no, Pluto is still a planet as of this date.
Most Venerable Musicians Eat More, Just Saving Ultimate Networking Parsing (for the) Xylophone.
It’s Xena, but I’m pretty sure that name is unofficial.
And there’s also Sedna back there - I think that’s closer to Pluto than Xena is.
Please Nelly, Use Soap, Jackals Make Everything Vilely Malodourous
Pretty New Unicorns Seen, Just Made Extinct, Very Maudlin
Michael’s Very Excited Monkey Juggles Spoons, Unsure Next Partytrick
Made Vengeance Easy- Murder Judged Suicide, Useful New Plan
This is fun!
Mealymouthed Vanuatans Eliciting Multitudious Accolades Jury-rigged Santayana’s Unequivocal Negations (of) Protestantism
Perfectly Normal Underwear Seen Jiggling Around Marsha’s Exquisite Venus Mons
I learned My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nice Pickles in school.
Mother very thoughtfully made a jelly sandwich, under no protest.
Kings play chess on fine grained sand <–that’s a favorite!
We always used this instead of whatever lame thing the instructor gave us:
Kinky Percussionists Came Over For Great Sex
And all of a sudden, I can’t remember what the F stands for.
Oh. Duh.
can someone tell me what the OP stands for?
The OP is the Planets in order of size (I think) now, please tell me what the Kinky percussionists are for?
A favourite of medical students is: Two Zulus Buggered My Cat to remember the branches of the facial nerve (Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular, Cervical).
There’s also GET SMASHED to remember the causes of acute pancreatitits (Gallstones, Ethanol, Trauma, Steroids, Mumps, Auto-immune, Scorpion Stings, Hyperlipidaemia, ERCP, Drugs), and the rhyme to remember the nerve supply of the diaphragm and anal sphincters- “C 3,4,5, keep the diaphragm alive, S 2,3,4, keep the poop off the floor!”
Black Bastards Rape Our Young Girls But Poofs Go Without <-- possibly the most offensive mnemonic in the history of the genre.
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now Sweetheart
Unfortunately I can remember “On Mount Olympus’s flowery tops, a fat-assed German ate some hops” but not what it stands for, which would kinda defeat the purpose if I ever had been a medical student.
Then there’s:
Now I - even I - would celebrate
In rhymes unapt the great
Immortal Syracusan rivaled nevermore
Who in his wondrous lore
Passed on before
Gave men his guidance how to circles mensurate.
What’s that one about kings playing chess?
For those who don’t recognise the ones above:
The one about the black bastards is colour-coding on resistors: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, white. The fine girl one is the spectral classification of stars. The rhyme is p to 30 decimal places - count the letters.