OILRIG vs LEO the lion says GER

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m in my physical chemistry class where we’re talking about electrodes and different kinds of cells. The professor starts talking about the redox reactions and mentions what all freshmen in General Chemistry learn to know the difference between losing electrons and gaining them. Everybody in the class goes “LEO the lion says GER.”
(Lose Electrons - Oxidation, Gain Electrons - Reduction) He gives us a funny look and writes OILRIG (Oxidation Is Losing electrons, Reduction Is Gaining electrons).

What have you guys heard? This can include any science anachronisms not just dealing with redox. Such as My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies. (MVEMJSUNP or the planets in our solar system going in order from closest to the sun out.)

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Would ‘Never Eat Soggy Weetbix’ for compass directions count?

Or ‘All Trains Stop at Central’ for which sin/cos/tan functions are positive in which part of an x-y graph.

Now guess where I grew up?

Didn’t have anything for Redox reactions, just learnt them.

And don’t forget ‘de x over de y is de gradient’

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You misspelled “anagrams,” I think. Anyway, the colors in the rainbow are brought to you by the famous Roy G. Biv.

As a high school freshman electronics student, we also learned the color code on resistors via the not very nice “Bad boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly”.

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Do Men Ever Visit Boston.

Which is the rankings for Nobility. Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron. Baron’s being the low end, Duke being the Top of the heap. Archdukes and the like are generally accpeted as local inventions.

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Actually, they are neither anachronyms nor anagrams, but acronyms or mnenonics.

And the only one I can think of is HOMES, for the great lakes - Huron - Ontario - Michigan - Erie - Superior

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mnenonic should be mnemonics

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Actually, it’s “acronyms”, where every letter in the word is the first letter (or couple of letters) of another word. Such as WYSIWIG for What You See Is What You Get.

Anagrams are words or sentences made from re-arranging the letters of another word or sentence. Such as turning “George Bush” into “He Bugs Gore.”

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In biology we learned the classification system: King Philip Came Over For Ginger Snaps (kingdom, phllyum, something, order, family, genus, species)

In math, sin/cos/tan functions on a graph were taught as All Students Take Classes.

In chemistry, for redox reactions we learned LEO says GER.

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Mary’s Violet Eyes Make Johnny Stay Up Nights Period

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

Every Good Boy Does Fine. EGBF - The names of the lines on a musical staff from bottom to top.

Easter Bunnies Get Drunk At Easter. EBGDAE - The strings on a standard acoustic guitar (though I’m ashamed to admit that 10 years after the last time I laid a hand on one, I can’t remember if it’s from the top of the fingerboard to bottom or vice versa).

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No, anagrams is a rearrangement of the letters in words to form new words. READ can be DARE. Anachronisms is using a letter or letters from words to create a title such as NASA or SCUBA.

Also, SOH CAH TOA when using a right triangle.

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In which direction (clockwise/anticlockwise or otherwise) did this go. Did I completely screw that up? Damn. Just checked on a calculater. Damn Damn Damn. You are right Racinchikki. The one I learnt was All Stations To Central. But it was close enough. :wink: And I call myself an engineer…

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John Corrado is right. I sort of missed his post when I posted my reply. And it is acronyms. I went to MSWord to spell check it before I started the thread and it gave me anachronism, so I used it. Silly me, I should know better than to trust MSWord.

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Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me
The spectral classification of stars.

Why I remember this, I have no earthly idea.

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Not to be a cry baby or anything, but I’m right.

We’re talking about mnemonics here.

Mnemonic is defined as: assisting or intended to assist memory. I.e. - A sentence in which the first letter of each word is associated with a completely different string of related words.

Acronyms are “words” formed from the first letter of related words, such as Wolverine pointed out.

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Because of our wacky science teacher, we learned:

Kangaroo People Can Often Find Good Spaghetti

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We learned both OIL RIG and Leo says Ger, although I remember OIL RIG much better.

My kids learned Man Very Early Made Jars Stand Up Nearly Perfect for the planetary order. I think that I learned one about pizza or something for that when I was in school, although it’s been so long I can’t remember.

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For physics (specifically, AC circuits), we had “ELI the ICEman” (voltage leads current in an inductor, current leads voltage in a capacitor).

For the Linnaean hierarchy, I learned “Kings Play Chess On Fine Gold Sets” (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)

TOA SOH CAH for remembering the basic definitions of trig functions.

Every Good Boy Does Fine (the ‘lines’ in musical notation)
All Cows Eat Grass (the ‘spaces’ in same)

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Well, I still remember the mnemonic for the twelve cranial nerves, “On old Olympus’ towering top, a fat armed girl vends snowy hops.” I don’t remember the nerves, though.

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I learned LEO the lion says GER last year. I also learned sohcahtoa last year. A few years ago I learned King Henry Decked Barney During Card Mania. That one is for the metric system prefixes - kilo, hecta, deca, base, deci, centi, mili. Ummm…for the divisions of life I leared King Philip Came On Five Gray Stallions.

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The taxonomy one I learned was “King Philip Came Over For Great Sex” - and yes, thats actually what the teacher taught. He figured we’d remember it…

We also learned SOH CAH TOA, but someone on my class elaborated on it to make it “Sailors Often Have Certain Anal Happiness to Oppose Anger”