Last night’s episode of The Mentalist introduced me to an “acronym” (more likely, to be precise, an initialism) that it seems I should have heard before:
Had you heard (or read) this one before?
Have any more like it?
Missed the edit window where I tried to add:
If this concept looks familiar to you, you may be thinking of
Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me
which I started 07-09-2011, 11:18 AM and which has gone through Post #87 by 07-16-2011, 03:25 AM
Exactly! Nice link.
Order of taxonomy in biology:
(Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)
Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach.
was also on the show last night
Sorry for the dumb question, but what’s the difficulty in spelling “because” that it requires a lengthy mnemonic? Honest question–it’s not a word I’ve heard of being particularly difficult to spell (like “rhythm” or “vichyssoise” or something). How is it usually misspelled?
A friend is a friend until the END (friend vs freind)
Father and Mother I Love You (FAMILY)
Secretary keeps a secret (learned that a Romona and Beezus book!)
Your principal is your PAL (principal vs principle)
I’ve always used:
King Peter Could Only Fuck Golden Sheep.
Beats me, too! I just thought we could make up some of our own to be at least as silly. Have at!
Much to be preferred. 
My 9th grade teacher (Mr. Kolis, RIP) taught us:
Kolis Plays Cards On Friday and Gets Skunked.
I teach my students this, 30 years later!
Skid Tires On Pavement
My Chemistry teacher taught me this one:
Anyone got a clue on what that one is for?
Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane, Pentane, Hexane, Heptane, Octane, Nonane, Decane
Ding! Ding! Ding! Corrrect.
Had you already heard it? or did you figure it out?
FWIW, my High School Chemistry teacher in Upstate NY taught it to me, about 34 years ago.
I had never heard it before. Just looked at the initial letters, saw the connection in the run of “P-H-H-O-N-D” as Greek number prefixes (well, the “October, November, December” helped immensely here), and then tried to figure out backwards what it could be.
Since
Our
Leaders
Insist on
Denying
Adequate
Raises
It’s
Time
To
Yell
What’s in the OP (and many of the following posts) is actually an acrostic, not an acronym or initialism. Not having seen the Psyche episode in question, I have no idea if it was also a mnemonic, but either way, it’s in the form of an acrostic.
My favorite acrostic: Hidden Message on Montreal Headstone | Snopes.com
Solidaritty?