# Share your Mnemonics Here ! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987 "2003-12-09T19:03:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/21 "2003-12-10T09:02:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\* “My very early mother just served us nine pizzas”. Planets, baby! \*\* I learned this as “earthly mother… nine pickles.” ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/22 "2003-12-10T09:07:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*My favorite: > > How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the tough lectures involving quantum mechanics \*\* The version I learned goes: Now, I will a rhyme construct, by chosen words the young instruct. Cunningly devised endeavour Con it, and remember ever! Width in circle here you see, Sketched out in strange obscurity. …which gets you to 30 digits!! Grim ---
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/23 "2003-12-10T10:56:40Z")
My Very Expensive Mercedes Just Smashed Up Near Pymble Planets, and it’ll only make sense if you’re from Sydney, Australia. **Ex Machina** , does it help if I mention that “Canberra” is pronounced more like “canbra?” ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/24 "2003-12-10T12:48:10Z")
When I was on the quiz team in high school, our coach gave us a few to remember some geography facts, which countries share which boundaries, and so on: Mary Ate The Little Eels: countries in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt) General Electric Has New Corporate Rating Procedures: countries in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama) Never Smoke Fish: Norway, Sweden, Finland And one other: - Pilgrim’s Progress\*, by John Bunyan. Remember a bunch of pilgrims who have been walking so long that they have bunyons. ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/25 "2003-12-10T13:10:40Z")
The resistor color code (rather sexist and violent): “ **Ba** d **bo** ys **r** ape **o** ur **y** oung **g** irls, **bu** t **V** iolet **g** ives **w** illingly” 0= **B** l **a** ck 1= **B** r **o** wn 2= **R** ed 3= **O** range 4= **Y** ellow 5= **G** reen 6= **B** l **u** e 7= **Violet** 8= **G** ray 9= **W** hite ---
**Author:** ![PbZep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58f4c7/32.png) [@PbZep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PbZep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/26 "2003-12-10T15:09:45Z")
Great Lakes: HOMES (huron, ontario, michigan, erie, superior) Testing a typewriter: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. And I’ll never forgive my bio prof for remembering the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Eu-kary-it in a bag (i.e. nucleus). And my **least** favorite and most useless (if you can’t remember this without thinking, hire someone how knows how to use a wrench or screw driver!): Righty tighty, lefty loosey There were more, but I’ve forgetten them. ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/27 "2003-12-10T16:36:17Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by LSLGuy_ > On Old Olympus’ Thorny Top A Finn And German Vaulted And Hopped. The names of the 12 cranial nerves exiting from the gaps between the top human vertebrae. > > I don’t remember all the nerves’ names any more, but I think (without Googling) that it goes Optic, Ocular, Olfactory, T???, T???, Auditory, Facial, A???, G???, Vagus, A???, H???. 5 of 12 isn’t too bad since it’s been 29 years since I took that class. Heh, in veterinary medicine, the cranial nerve mnemonic was slightly different: Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch A Fresh Virgin Girls Vagina - Ah, Happiness! and the cranial nerves are Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Vestibulococchlear, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal. And I even still remember what they all do. Obviously an effective mnemonic 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/28 "2003-12-10T17:54:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ex Machina \* > \*\*She made him egg omelets. > > What is that a mnemonic for? I forget. \*\* The Great Lakes, maybe? My favorite is one I came up with myself for remembering Roman numerals, which are, from smallest to largest, I, V, X, L, C, D, and M – or, ivy, excel, seedy, and M. ---
**Author:** ![Matchka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Matchka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matchka)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/29 "2003-12-10T19:17:47Z")
For Grammar: “Keep your hands on your **genitives** ” to remember what the genitive case is. For emergency combat first aid/triage, check for and treat in the following order: **R** esponsiveness really **B** reathing beautiful **B** leeding babes **S** hock should **F** ractures f\_\_k **B** urns by **H** ead Injuries headlights Um…gee. Thanks Drill Sgt. Arabic: "Jareeda the newspaper today? (Jareeda=newspaper) “Wirka it baby” (irka = hips) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/30 "2003-12-10T19:55:39Z")
On the music theme, there’s the strings of a guitar: Elephants And Dogs Giggle Before Eating; and how to tell what key a song is in by the number of sharps, starting with zero: Cool Girls Don’t Ask Excited Boys For Cookies. On the geographic tip, I always remembered Montevideo, Uruguay by something like “You’re at Monty’s Video Store.” When seen side by side, Vermont looks more like a V than New Hampshire does, and my friend Ann was from Maryland, making the capital Annapolis. I’m sure I have more … but I can’t remember them. _insert cheesy comic rim-shot here_ ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/31 "2003-12-10T20:07:45Z")
Working a job makes money. A job very happily toiled pays twice. I made this one up for the first twelve presidents of the U.S. (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor) If you can add an F-P-B-L phrase it will get you all the way to Lincoln. (Fat paychecks beat laziness?) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/32 "2003-12-10T20:11:39Z")
Periodic table: Li Be B C N O F Ne “Liebeebuhcuhnoffknee” Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar “Nahmigalsipsklar” repeat them often enough, they start to sound like real words. ---
**Author:** ![agiantdwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@agiantdwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agiantdwarf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/33 "2003-12-10T21:07:17Z")
Hebrew: If he is she, then who is he? Chemistry: **POT** assium is sold in **K** ilos. Biology: A and T (adenine and thymine) match because A and T have sharp edges. G and C go together because they have curves. Math: **A** ll **S** tudents **T** ake **C** alculus. In the first quadrant of a cartesian graph, **a** ll six trig functions are positive. In the second quadrant, only **s** in and cosecant are positive. In the third quadrant, only **t** an and cot are positive. In the fourth quadrant, only **c** os and secant are positive. Latin: **The GNC Rule** : adjectives must match nouns in gender, number, and case. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/34 "2003-12-10T21:23:17Z")
Dr. and Mrs. R.D. Vandertramp The verbs in French that, in the past tense, are conjugated with etre instead of avoir. I haven’t studied French in a couple of years, so I only remember a few of them–mourir, aller, etc. And the one I made up 30 minutes before my astronomy final last night: TeSTEs (thermosphere, stratosphere, toposphere, and exosphere). ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/35 "2003-12-10T22:09:25Z")
To remember the basic and positively charged amino acids (at physiological pH): HIStory Likes ARGentina because it’s basically positive (Histidine, Lysine, arginine) The acidic and negative ones: I ATE acid and it was bad (negative) - glutamATE and aspartATE I actually had other mnemonics for the rest of the amino acids, but I only used them for the one course, 3 years ago. Those two have stuck with me, though, and I’ve used them. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/36 "2003-12-11T02:21:00Z")
For Spanish, I remember “you can’t lay low in Mexico,” because when you have lo/la/las/los as the direct object you can’t use le for the indirect one. To remember the guitar strings, I decided on “Elephants Aren’t Dumb; God Blessed Elephants.” I’m kinda weird. ---
**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987/37 "2003-12-11T03:15:22Z")
the nasal sounds in French: un bon vin blanc [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-mnemonics-here/217987.md?page=1)