# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/61 "2011-07-10T17:38:22Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > You’re right… that’s why I bombed out on piano lessons. :smack: > > Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid… anyone? 😃 Sine Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cosine Adjacent/Hypotenuse, Tangent Opposite/Adjacent. Most of us just learned SOHCAHTOA. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/62 "2011-07-10T17:39:25Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Oh, and “stalac_tites_ hold \*tite \*to the ceiling.” Stala_ **c** _tites: ceiling Stala_ **g** _mites: ground ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/63 "2011-07-10T19:06:51Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > Sine Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cosine Adjacent/Hypotenuse, Tangent Opposite/Adjacent. Most of us just learned SOHCAHTOA. 🙂 Sohcahtoa. The great, fictional, mathematically inclined Iroquois chief. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/64 "2011-07-10T19:23:56Z")
Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest Order of downtown Seattle street names (South to North) ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/65 "2011-07-10T21:07:11Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > 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. My daughter was pretty young when they learned this. It was probably more to help them remember what order they went in. And it’s more fun for a kid. ---
**Author:** ![maisoui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/66 "2011-07-11T00:16:06Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > … > > My mom taught me “She cried ‘_e-e-e_!’ as she passed the _cemetery_” to remind me not to spell it “cemetary.”… More spelling: Two "A"s separate two "E"s… ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/67 "2011-07-11T00:32:09Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > …My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pumpkins. Now amended to: “My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nothing”? 🙂 Poor Pluto… I liked Pluto… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/68 "2011-07-11T01:29:01Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Oh, and “stalac_tites_ hold \*tite \*to the ceiling.” > [@ENugent](#): > > Stala_ **c** _tites: ceiling > Stala_ **g** _mites: ground Stala **c** tites **c** ling to the **c** eiling. Stala **g** mites **g** row from the **g** round. When I was taught resistor markings, the officially approved mnemonic was “Big Buicks Run On Yellow Gas But Volkswagens Go Without”. Although the lab instructors always added the “Bad Boys Raped Our Young Girls But Violet Gave Willingly”, with a warning not to use it in mixed company. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/69 "2011-07-11T06:11:35Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > When I was taught resistor markings, the officially approved mnemonic was “Big Buicks Run On Yellow Gas But Volkswagens Go Without”. Although the lab instructors always added the “Bad Boys Raped Our Young Girls But Violet Gave Willingly”, with a warning not to use it in mixed company. Substitute “Black bastards” for “Bad boys” and the mnemonic is strengthened by distinguishing between the black and brown bands, while bumping the offensiveness up by a \*large \*factor. :eek: One of my dad’s training manuals from the war gave this mnemonic for causes of machine-gun stoppages: “Freddie fêtes Elsie 'cos she expects enjoyment”. If the version the instructor quoted orally was “fêtes”, I’ll eat my fêteing hat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/70 "2011-07-11T08:24:50Z")
Late College Parties Never Produce Sexy European Girls That Drink Heavily Even Though You Look For the Lanthanide elements ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/71 "2011-07-11T08:41:03Z")
We learned GRACE in History for the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. Guilt, Reparations, Alsace-Lorraine, Colonies… and the last once which I have long since forgotten ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/72 "2011-07-11T11:06:26Z")
TV Makes Dull Children or True Virgins Make Dull Companions Used for navigation ---
**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 11, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/73 "2011-07-11T13:06:07Z")
For astronomy: “Follow the arc to Arcturus, then speed on to Spica.” If you extend the curve of the arc of the Big Dipper’s “handle,” you can find Arcturus (Alpha Boötis) and Spica (Alpha Virginis). (You can also find Polaris by taking the two stars at the end of the “bowl” - Dubhe and Merak (Alpha and Beta Ursae Majoris) - and extending the distance between them five times.) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/74 "2011-07-11T16:11:12Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest > > Order of downtown Seattle street names (South to North) Two streets per letter. 🙂 My favorite memnonic is “I before E except after C, or when sounded like A as in “neighbor” and “sleigh” or in certain other **weird** words.” ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/75 "2011-07-12T00:04:52Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > I heard King Phillip Came Over For Some Good Spaghetti. LOL, it helped me pass Biology! I guess we never needed to know the kingdom - for us it was “Please Come Over For Gay Sex”. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/76 "2011-07-12T01:04:57Z")
Hi Everyone. Let’s Pitch In ‘N’ Get Cracking Here In Louisiana Doing Right, Eh? Now Then, Hateful Rich Overbearing Ugly Guys Hurt Royally Everytime Someone Eats A Radish Carrot Hor’derve And Never Does Dishes. Eventually Victor Eats Lunch Over Peoria Mit Ein Noyesburger Tod. Please give generously. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/77 "2011-07-12T01:06:20Z")
> [@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.) I learned: Easter Bunny Gets Drunk After Easter. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/78 "2011-07-12T01:30:05Z")
The solar system one I learned was: Soon, Many Very Early Men Ate Juicy Steaks Using No Plates. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/79 "2011-07-12T05:42:34Z")
Sir, I send a rhyme excelling, In sacred truth and rigid spelling, Numerical sprites elucidate, For me the lexicon’s full weight, If nature gain, not you complain Tho’ Dr Johnson fulminate. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/80 "2011-07-12T11:26:01Z")
My Very Easy Method Just Sums Up naming Planets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420.md?page=5)