Ok, Jayron, that simulpost was kinda spooky.
George Eagle’s Old Grandmother Rode A Pig Home Yesterday.
Pleasant, excited moans during anal sex.
Parentheses exponents multiplication division addition subtraction
I learned it in college.
Enginerd Alert!
I learned this one in high school. It was very valuable in engineering school when you have to find the angles of a right triangle.
Old Horses
Are Horses
Over Age
Sine of the angle = opposite / hypotenuse
Cosine of the angle = adjacent / hypotenuse
Tangent of the angle = opposite / adjacent
I bet I haven’t had to use that in 10 years and I still remember it.
Thanks Mr. McIntosh! (High school physics teacher)
robbaba, I learned something different but accomplishing the same thing during my sophomore year of high school:
SOHCAHTOA
Sine=Opposite/Hypotenuse
Cosine=Adjacent/Hypotenuse
Tangent=Opposite/Adjacent
At one point I memorized something for frosh physics about wavelengths . . . Ron Made Igoe Ugly X-G. Royally stupid, and I don’t remember if it went big to small or what . . . but it’s Radio Microwave Infrared Ultraviolet X-ray Gamma ray.
The OSI communication layers: Apple Pie Stays Trendy, Never Dated, Phil.
Now I just don’t remember what they stand for. Hmmm, Apple for Application, Dated for Data, Phil for Physical… Nope, that’s all I can remember.
My high school physics teacher gave us two mnemonics for the bands of colors on resistors, and the numbers they represent. One was clean, the other naughty. Naturally, I only remember the naughty one:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly.
for:
Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Gray White
for the numbers 0 through 9.
I also learned the “Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Susan! Kiss Me Now!” for the types of stars from an old astronomy book, but the classifications have changed since then, and so has the mnemonic.
I too learned SOHCAHTOA to remember sines, cosines, and tangents.
I also had a somewhat complicated one to help me remember the citric acid cycle in AP Biology, but I’m drawing a blank (you see how often I’ve needed this information.)
For the twelve (what?) cranial nerves:
On Old Olympus’ Towering Top, A Fat Armed Girl Vends Snowy Hops.
I don’t actually remember the nerves.
One of my classmates in beauty school couldn’t remember if a comedone was a whitehead or blackhead pimple so I told him to think of the group “The Commodores” because the members were black. I know, I know, not PC but he cracked up and it got him to remember it.
You can always do the “L” test. Palms down, index finger up and thumbs out, the left hand forms an “L”, the right hand does not. (I still have to do this one occasionally myself!)
I often use “righty-tighty, lefty loosey,” to remember which was to tighten or loosen most items that screw on, in, etc.
“I want a compliment, not a complement.”
"A is a stationAry letter, while a letter is written on stationery.
I also used to know one for all the books of the Bible, but now the only part that sticks out in my head is the “RoCoCo” part (Romans, I Corinthians, II Corinthians).
Alternatives:
English
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
Reverse Order
Virgins In Bed Give You Odd Reactions
No astronomers here?
“Oh, Be A Fine Girl/Guy, Kiss Me!” is one of the many mnemonics for the spectral classes of stars: OBAFGKM.
You all should be very thankful I cannot locate the lyrics to the song that is nothing but dozens of mnemonics for the spectral class sequence, all to the tune of “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
(Funny, this is the second time today I’ve mentioned that John Philip Sousa tune in a post. Whatever does that mean?)
For the trig functions, I learned:
Sam OverHeard
Cliff At Home
Talking Over Algebra
And to remember how many days there are in a particular month, I use my knuckles, starting with January at my left hand pinky knuckle. All the knuckle peaks are months with 31 days, and all the gaps between the knuckles are 30 days (except Feb., of course)
That was Coach, not Woody. But you got the song right.
big elephants can always understand small elephants.
“because”
There’s one about curried eggs or some such for “necessary”.
I was taught “never eat Shredded Wheat”, but my scout master bollocked me for that one, because Shreaded Wheat is tasty and healthy (which is, I admit, true). Instead, “naughty elephants squirt water”.
I was perpetually in trouble for using SOHCAHTOA, but it’s useful, dammit.
Aaah, the “reactivity” series (affinity series? I think it is. It’s a loong time since I last did any chemistry). It’s something like this, tho’ I may be smoking crack.
Pretty Sally Carter Married A Zulu In Lovely Honolulu Causing Many Strange Gazes
Potassium Sodium Calcium Magnesium Aluminium Zinc, Iron, Lead, (Hydrogen) Copper Mercury Silver Gold.
(yes, that is how you spell Aluminium)
Hmm.
I’m sure there are more.
I got BEDMAS
Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction
I guess our teachers figured we wouldn’t know a FANCY word like PARENTHESES
Two from spelling class thirty+ years ago that I still remember.
Geography- George Earlys oldest girl rode a pig home yesterday.
Arithmetic- A rat in Tommys house might eat Tommys ice cream.
To this day I can’t spell either word without those stupid sentences running through my head.
This isn’t a nmemonic but in caves I remember stalactite with a “c” for ceiling and stalagmite with a “g” for ground.
Sheesh, that’s almost harder to remember than what it stands for! Try “All People Seem To Need Data Processing” – Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data Link, Physical.
Also, for the Microsoft NT Server test I had to learn the order in which NT searches for computer names on a network: NetBIOS cache, WINS, broadcast, LMHost, Host, DNS. The mnemonic? “Norwegian Women Buy Large Hard Drives.”
I learned it as “BODMAS”
Brackets, Of, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.
(“of” being a stupid one, as it’s the exact same as multiplication/division)
(and, of course, division and multiplication, and addition and subtraction, are the same as each other anyway).
Oh, another one.
When multiplying two brackets of two terms each togethether,
“FOIL” (first, outer, inner, last) to make sure you’ve correctly multipled each term properly.
I learnt it this way:
Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Girl’s Vagina, Ah Heavenly!
O - Olfactory
O - Optic
O - Oculomotor
T - Trochlear
T - Trigeminal
A - Abducens
F - Facial
A - Acoustic
G - Glossopharyngeal
V - Vagus
A - Accessory
H - Hypoglossal
Still works after all these years!