# Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420 "2011-07-09T16:18:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/41 "2011-07-10T00:47:30Z")
Those Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do Can never remember Apatite & Orthoclase Feldspar, though. ---
**Author:** ![inkling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkling)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/42 "2011-07-10T02:31:43Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > “30 days hath September” is one I have always found more difficult than just remembering the structure of the year. I can never get the rest of the rhyme correct. “April, May, and December?” Thirty days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Save February, which alone Has twenty-eight and one day more We add to it one year in four. I also learned this one for determining the lengths of months: Make a fist and look at the back of your hand. Starting with your index finger and counting toward your pinky, name the months, assigning each to either a knuckle or the webbing between them as you go. When you get to your pinky knuckle, count it again, then come back until you run out of months in the year. Knuckles are 31 days, gaps are 30 (except February). Thus: January - Index knuckle, 31 days February - space between index and middle, a deep valley and so 28 days March - middle knuckle, 31 days April - space between middle and ring, 30 days May - ring knuckle, 31 days June - ring/pinky, 30 days July - pinky, 31 days August - pinky again, 31 days September - ring/pinky, 30 days October - ring, 31 days November - ring/middle, 30 days December - middle, 31 days ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/43 "2011-07-10T03:09:10Z")
Krebs cycle: Can I Keep Selling Sex For Money, Officer? Carpal bones: Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can’t Handle. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/44 "2011-07-10T03:25:58Z")
Scary Lucy tried pitching trapped trainees canned hams. …for the carpal bones. The first two letters match the first two letters in the names of the bones. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/45 "2011-07-10T03:31:01Z")
Most common elements found in nature: C Hopkins Cafe: Mighty Good Salt ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/46 "2011-07-10T04:34:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Gee, if we posted all of these that all of us know… no one would even have to go to COLLEGE, for Dog’s sake! You’d know every dad-gummed thing anyone would need to know. \ Only if they also post what the bloody things \*\*refer \*\*to. \ ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/47 "2011-07-10T04:46:11Z")
> [@audiobottle](#): > > Some Say Money Matters But My Brother Says Big Boobs Matter Most. Mnemonic for knowing which cranial nerves are (M)otor, which are (S)ensory, and which are (B)oth. Where was this mnemonic during my neuro exam three weeks ago? I love it! A friend invented “4 Neighbours Go to see (2C) REM Cooking Lobsters” for the components of a cell. Nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear membrane, nuclear pore, golgi apparatus, cytoplasm, centrioles, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, cell membrane, lisosomes. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/48 "2011-07-10T08:05:49Z")
I knew OBAFGKM from my childhood astronomy kick. Be My Little General - ranks of General Officers in the US Army, Air Force and Marine Corps : Brigadier (1-star), Major (2), Lieutenant (3), General (4). I don’t suppose ROY G BIV counts, as it’s not made of actual words. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/49 "2011-07-10T08:27:11Z")
If you have to remember the the names of the great lakes: Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior For the “Naughty Elephants Squirt Water”–please tell me this was a mnemonic for something other than the directions, because it’s a lot easier to just remember the directions. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/50 "2011-07-10T09:21:28Z")
Romance languages: FRIPS ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/51 "2011-07-10T14:53:52Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I believe the bass clef lines are GBDFA = Good Boys Do Fine Always > > EGBDF is for the treble lines. > > The gap between clefs if for BCD, and if there’s a mnemonic for that I never learned it. You’re right… that’s why I bombed out on piano lessons. :smack: Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid… anyone? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/52 "2011-07-10T15:10:50Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Anybody here remember LSMFT? We had at least one naughty version. Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits? “Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, you’re alright Jack” Coral snake vs. milk snake, others. (North America only) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/53 "2011-07-10T15:44:21Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#): > > Loose Straps Mean Floppy Tits? Bingo! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/54 "2011-07-10T15:48:33Z")
All People Seem To Need Data Processing or Please Do Not Tell Sales People Anything for the [OSI Model’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model) seven layers. These mnemonics used to be on the Wikipedia page, but were taken away. Makes the Wiki page less useful in my opinion. And isn’t the second mnemonic always true? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/55 "2011-07-10T16:09:31Z")
Years ago I was very bored once: Watching Agile Jolly Merry Monkeys Among Jungle Vines Hanging Tightly Pulled Together Fiercely Peeling Bananas Like Junkie Groupies Hollering Gaily At Clearly Hungover Celebrity Models Reminds The Wise Hearted Clear Headed Renaissance Thinker Everywhere Knowing Justice Now Freedom Can Ring Beyond Countries’ Borders, O. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/56 "2011-07-10T16:11:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My classmate made up: Eat Apples Daily Guitar Becomes Easy > for the six guitar strings > (I still use that one all the time… can’t seem to remember otherwise.) My guitar teacher (we were both in our 30s at the time) told me “every acid dealer gets busted eventually.” ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/57 "2011-07-10T16:37:18Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I learned it Kitty Put Catnip On Fido’s Ground Steak. Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species. I learned it as King Philip Cried, “Oh For Goodness’ Sake.” And I learned the order of operations as “BEDMAS.” And then there was “SOH-CAH-TOA” for the trigonometric operations (sine is opposite over hypotenuse; cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse, tangent is opposite over adjacent). We had two main mnemonics in French class in grades 8 and 9. The first was for the adjectives that precede the noun, to the tune of Frère Jacques: _Petit, grand, gros, joli, beau, Bon, mauvais, bon, mauvais, Premier, dernier, jeune, vieux, nouveau, Lo-o-ong, lo-o-ong._ And then for the verbs that take “être” in the passé composé instead of “avoir,” there was DR. MRS. VAN DER TRAMP. Now, of course, I have no idea what all the verbs in the mnemonic are, though I use them all perfectly in normal speech. My mom taught me “She cried ‘_e-e-e_!’ as she passed the _cemetery_” to remind me not to spell it “cemetary.” She had a lot of mnemonics, including one for Latin that I can only remember part of, but she still remembers perfectly: "[something something]/[…] permit, prescribe, decree/[…] the Roman way/Is an object clause with ‘ut’ or ‘ne.’ " ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/58 "2011-07-10T16:48:57Z")
Oh, and “stalac_tites_ hold \*tite \*to the ceiling.” ---
**Author:** ![inkling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkling)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/59 "2011-07-10T17:29:03Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > Please Do Not Tell Sales People Anything Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/60 "2011-07-10T17:37:03Z")
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