Number four will be fascinating. Will it be ROY G. BIV for the rainbow, or “Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly” for the color bands on a resistor, or perhaps “Every Good Boy Does Fine” for the lines on a musical staff? Do they still teach “HOMES” for the Great Lakes in school? How many are there that I’ve never heard of? I await anxiously.
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Wouldn’t be the first time I got pointed and laughed at because of a smell.
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HAR! Good one! I tip my hat to you Sir!
Except mine cause I went with doormat thinkin’ it’d be the popular answer. Actually my spare key is hidden in a fake rock. However, it’s in a fake rock garden so it’d take a while to find it.
Sorry, Dolores, I misread your explanation for how to list the mnemonic device one. (That’s what I get for posting when my pupils are still dilated!) I’ll repost mine:
As in buying one at a convenience store or fast-food place, taking a few sips, placing the beverage on the roof as you enter the car, and then taking off as a sticky liquid cascades past (or, worse, into) your window…
The word HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)
Should be rivaled or exceeded only by “bread”
I occasionally have to think about what mine is, as I never call it!