I heard this years ago sing-songed out by a British physician friend. It stunned me. Do all English school kids learn it? At what age?
Nice work. Is this made up in response to the Brit one? I sensed something was off with the word “daft” and the “tricky Dick” not being likely in teaching kids.
I wish I had had one when I was a kid.
I apologize to any Coolidge fans. And to Mr. Tricky: he and Ford were better Presidents than any of the Republicans we’ve had since.
During my first weeks in the Air Force we were required to learn various ranks, including Generals. This meant we had to differentiate between one and four star Generals and used this very simple mnemonic sentence:
Be my little general.
Brigadier general
Major General
Lieutenant General
General of the Air Force
I have no idea why it stuck with me all these years.
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My friend always preferred “Farts Cause Great Damage After Eating Beans.”
This one is super specific to those students who took 9th grade biology from Mr Kolis in the 1980s, but I use it still today.
Kolis Plays Cards On Fridays and Gets Skunked
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, Species
Yes. Sorry I didn’t come back to this until now.
Strictly speaking, my mnemonic applies to a different type of glide path indicator, the name of which I couldn’t for the life of me remember last night: the VASI.
And I forgot the important last bit: “Red over white, you’re all right!”
For the above, I was taught, Oh heck, another hour of algebra. (However, the teacher insisted that it should be Oh Heaven, another hour of algebra.)
Our high school’s version of “King Philip” went “King Philip caught old fish, got sick.”
Before our biology teacher changed her name after marrying, it was “Karen Philips caught old fish, got sick.”
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Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly; get some now (as learned by my brother at a Navy school in the '50s.)
Bad boys rob our young girls behind victory garden walls (as learned by me at a Navy school in the '80s).
Colour coding on resistors (electrical components).
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In the early 80’s, my brother taught me Black boys rape only young girls behind victory garden walls. No idea where he learned it, but it is useful for distinguishing black and brown.
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Programmers Dare Not Throw Salty Pretzels Away. –
The 7-level OSI network layers model:
Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application.
(There are other similar mnemonics too, some giving them in the opposite order.)
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The one I learned is Please do not throw sausage pizza away.
I learned the classic one:
How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
Fourteen digits to your eight. 
Kids, Please Come Over for Gay Sex.
I am so [del]using[/del] NOT using this in my class this semester…
Ya know, in spite of all the things King Philip might have done, I’ll probably remember that one now.
Thirty days hath September
April June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
except February which has twenty-eight.
Thank you. There’s great stuff there.
My grandmother used “George Earl’s oldest girl”. Has a nice rhythm and rhyme to it.
I just remembered another:
People can seldom make absolute zero in tests. Long hard concentration merits something good.
It is (a selective) version of the electrochemical series of metals, in order of decreasing electronegativity.
Potassium
Calcium
Sodium
Magnesium
Aluminium
Zinc
Iron
Tin
Lead
Hydrogen
Copper
Mercury (? or maybe Manganese)
Silver
Gold
I knew a version which had the line “Except February alone/ Which only has but 28 days clear/And 29 in each leap year.”
Or, as Stephen Colbert had it:
My very educated mother just said, “Uh-oh, no Pluto!”
In a 100 level astronomy class years ago, we actually held a contest for the best mnemonic.
My entry (not the winning one): Out Back Australians Favor Grilled Kangaroo Meat.