Weird and Unique Mnemonics

I couldn’t remember which character was right and which was left when I first started Japanese. They’re the same except right has a box component and left has a capital I looking thing. Since the word for right is migi, I figured that a MiG (Russian fighter plane) would use a box for targeting rather than an I.

Slightly wrong; it should be: “On Old Olympus’ Towering Tops, A Fat-Assed German Vends SOME Hops”. I learned it “…*Viewed *Some Hops”. (Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Spinal, Hypoglossal.) But it’s not unique as per the OP.

Fair enough. I checked and it seems nearly everyone else does it differently from this, though. Most seem to have the backslash to the right of the top row zero; a few (including UK) have it next to the left shift key.

Think of an itchy girl with a infestation problem: If the mites go up, your tights go down…

I once (In 1984, for 20 minutes) memorized the periodic table up to Zinc to the tune of Karma Chameleon. It made people look at me oddly when I took Organic Chemistry for my degree in 2005. Some of the rhymes are forced, but I know them really well, enough to sing along if I am listening to an oldies station!

When learning about the skeleton for something in high school I was able to remember that ligaments connect muscle to bone and tendons connect muscle to muscle because “tendon” and “muscle” have the same number of letters.

Mucus is a noun. Mucous is an adjective. “Noun” is a shorter word than “adjective” so I remembered that the shorter word, mucus, is the noun. A couple of years ago when all the cold/cough medications (in Canada, anyway) started to advertise their “Cough and Mucous” formula, I was constantly telling the TV that they were using the wrong word… I did notice this year that they are calling it “Mucus” and I figure somebody complained over the TV’s head to a human being… :0)

And post 21.:slight_smile:

Go Dog, Go Bad Dog
Open G tuning on a banjo.

The key to this is palms out. I knew someone who would do this palms in. :smack:

You misspelled - Good-looking Dog, Goood-looking Bubba Dog

You’re Welcome

I was always partial to “Spectacles Testicles Wallet and Watch” - but I see in the current Poll in IMHO that it doesn’t work any longer :frowning:

I remember the difference between “affect” and “effect” because A comes before E. You have to affect something before you can have an effect.

You realize, of course, that the gas gauge icon always shows which side the gas cap is on?

Affect vs. Effect: The Effect

I always learned the clock tightens things. When you’re tightening, you’re going forward in time; when you’re loosening, you’re going backward in time to when they was no nut on the bolt.

There is always a rat in separate.

From my years in real estate, I remember the legal description of properties: the Biggest number is the Block; the Little number is the Lot and the Smallest number is the Sub-lot.

Two "A"s separate two "E"s. – This may not be unique since a teacher taught it to me, but no one has ever heard it before when I say it.

Using your left hand to make an “L” reminded me that if if you make a circle with your thumb and index finger on each hand, the left one makes a lower case “b” and the right one makes a lower case “d.” The B comes before the D reading your hands left to right, and B comes before D in the alphabet. When I volunteered in my kids’ classrooms, it helped a lot of early readers to know which side of the stick the ball goes on for each letter… “Which one is the “d,” again???”

The geologic time scale:
Camels often sit down carefully, perhaps their joints creak, possibly early oiling might prevent painful rheumatism.
This one includes the Cenozoic epochs, but has the disadvantage of lumping the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian together into Carboniferous. So, I had to remember that Pennsylvania is “above” Mississippi.

I don’t use this one myself (never had any reason to), but this thread immediately reminded me of Potsie’s “Pump Your Blood” song from Happy Days :slight_smile:

My version of the whole port/starboard was “Red left port.” Most likely for nefarious purposes…
The PC version of the resistor code is also Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well, Get Smirnoff Now.

Always is such an infinate word. As difficult as it may be to beleive, neither of my vehicles has an arrow anywhere that indicates the location of the gas cap. Honest!

It may be that, on the gas pump icon itself, the side that the handle is on correlates to the gas cap side. That holds true in one of my vehicles. I’ll check the other later. Doesn’t seem very intuitive, though.

Just thought of another:

“How many cardinals are there in the ordinal position?”

Chip ‘n’ Dale

Chip --> Chocolate Chip --> Dark --> Dark nose

Dale has the red nose.

Also, Chip is usually standing to the left of Dale. From left to right, “C” comes before “D”.

Also, Chip has two teeth that look as one, while Dale has two teeth separated by a gap. “1” comes before “2”.