When learning Spanish, I was always confused with derecho (ahead-as in direction) and derecha (right-as in direction). Well, derecha ends with a “a”, which is normally feminine in Spanish. So, women are always right.
“My very energetic mother just sold us nine pickles.”
How I was taught the order of the planets (in distance from the sun) in elementary school.
“Kings play chess on fat green stools.”
Kingdom Phylum Class etc.
A math teacher taught us “Please excuse my dear aunt Sally”, but I decided to take a more morbid route. For me, it’s “Please exhume my dead aunt Sally.”
Also, every Mainer I know had to memorize the names of all the counties, by singing them to the tune of “Yankee Doodle”.
Here is an old one, probably not very useful anymore.
Women Really Believe You’re (a) Virgin
and
Big Old Guys Bowl Saturday
Those are the color codes for the old multiple line telephones (25 pr. cable)
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White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet**
and
Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate