I don’t remember any Canaries, but Mark’s Very Extravagant Mother Just Sent Us Ninety Parakeets was Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto when I was growing up.
Enjoy,
Steven
Or, to go from compass bearings to true bearings:
Can Dead Men Vote Twice (At Elections)
(Compass-Deviation-Magnetic-Variation-True (Add East))
One that has stuck in my head despite never having any need for the information:
SKILL
Excretory organs: Skin, Kidneys, Intestines, Liver, Lungs
For English speakers learning word order in German:
STOMP
How about this one:
These Memory Doohickeys Don’t Matter Anyway, Barring Increased Situational, Verifyable Mechanisms:
This mnemonic device doesn’t mean anything, but is still very meta
I learned the second half as “red to black, venom lack.”
And this is kind of stupid, but it worked for me: I learned the Indian music scale (sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni) by thinking “Sorry, grandma, pardon me.”
Forgot to add…
Subject Time Object Manner Place