What memory phrases have you created?

[Baal_Houtham]

Strings of the guitar (standard tuning):
Every
Alcoholic
Drinks
Good
Beer
Everyday

I came up with that when I took lessons in the 7th grade. Occasionally I try to program myself to use the slightly more accurate
Good Booze
instead of
Good Beer
but it’s a losing battle.

[The_Devil_s_Grandmother]

@freckafree

There are female and male versions of my real-life name that differ only by a vowel, and people regularly get it wrong, so I came up with a little mnemonic to help them remember which spelling is the girl spelling and which spelling is the boy spelling. I draw a lower case “e” and a lower case “i” on a piece of paper then point out to them that the “e” has a hole in it and the “i” sticks up straight. People have later told me that they’ve never confused the two spellings since.

Heh. I teach folk dance, and there’s one dance where “the men go up and the women go down” at the same time. I tell people to think of something naughty, and they usually remember.
When doing Charleston, there’s a “woman spreads her legs and the man('s foot) goes between” figure.

[Uncle_Brother_Walker]

I don’t think this qualifies, but I’m going to put it out there anyway.

A friend of mine and I were Wii golfing one day, and he kept getting his hook and slice mixed up. I told him it was easy to remember if he just counted the letters. Both hook and left have four letters, so the hooks go to the left. A slice goes to the right, which both have five letters.

Another friend in the room heard this and thought it was neat (not amazing, just neat), as she can never remember which direction is Port or which is Starboard (her hubby is an ex-navy man). I told her it is the same thing. Port and left have four letters. Right and Starboard is a bit of a stretch, but if she just thinks of a five-pointed star, she will be right.

The alternative was to smack her in the head with my *right *hand so she would see stars, but I didn’t think hubby would have liked that.

(It’s okay, I’m allowed to do that. She thinks she’s my little sister, so I’m allowed the occasional whack once in a while.)

[Hari_Seldon]

stalaCtites come from the ceiling; stalaGmites from the ground. My wife says, “The mites go up and the tights go down”.
“Friend” ends in “end”. So does “fiend”.
And easy as pi:
Now, I have a rhyme assisting, my feeble brain its tasks resisting.

[Hampshire]

@Hari_Seldon

stalaCtites come from the ceiling; stalaGmites from the ground. My wife says, “The mites go up and the tights go down”.

We were taught in grade school that stalagmites “might” reach the ceiling while stalactites hang “tightly” to the ceiling.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Setting flatware on a table:

Fork goes on the Left (four letters)
Knife and Spoon go on the right (five letters)

Also- spelling “family” (not that it’s so hard, but anyway) Father And Mother I Love You.

[llcoolbj77]

In chemistry class:
Mary - Methane
Eats - Ethane
Peanut - Propane
Butter - Butane

The rest are easy because they have the numerical prefix, i.e., 8 - octane.

I’m here all week folks.

[california_jobcase]

Can’t remember the end products of mitosis and meiosis (correctly pronounced my-oh-sis)? Meiosis makes eggs and sperms, so it’s my OH OH OH sis! Taught high school science for 26 years- never taught the kids that one.

[E.Thorp]

I didn’t make it up, but here’s how to remember the streets in downtown Seattle, roughly from Pioneer Square to Pike Place Market (south to north, 2 streets per letter):

Jesus: Jefferson, James
Christ: Cherry, Columbia
Made: Marion, Madison
Seattle: Spring, Seneca
Under: University, Union
Protest: Pike, Pine

Of course, within a two-street set I never remember which comes first, but I’m never more than a block off when I’m walking around or giving directions.

[Clothahump]

@Baal_Houtham

Strings of the guitar (standard tuning):
Every
Alcoholic
Drinks
Good
Beer
Everyday

I came up with that when I took lessons in the 7th grade. Occasionally I try to program myself to use the slightly more accurate
Good Booze
instead of
Good Beer
but it’s a losing battle.

You had a nicer guitar teacher than I did.

Every
Adult
Dick
Gets
Big
Easy

[Zeldar]

There’s a neat card trick that depends on the qualities of this array:

GOOSE
BIBLE
ATLAS
THIGH

Each row contains a double letter and a letter in common with each other row.

The trick: (works with up to ten trickees)

-Deal out 10 2-card groups face down on a surface.

-Have your trickee(s) select a 2-card group, memorize it, and set it back down while your back is turned or you leave the room.

• Without mixing the groups together, pick all of them up

• Lay them out face-up according to the array above.

-Ask the trickee(s) to tell you which row or rows his/her/their cards are in.

-Point out, or pick up, the indicated groups and amaze all involved.

[Rain_Soaked]

@Hampshire

@Hari_Seldon

stalaCtites come from the ceiling; stalaGmites from the ground. My wife says, “The mites go up and the tights go down”.

We were taught in grade school that stalagmites “might” reach the ceiling while stalactites hang “tightly” to the ceiling.

I’ve just remembered that stalagMites are like Mountains and StalagTites come down from the Top.

[twickster]

Roman numerals: Ivy, excel, seedy, M. (I, V, X, L, C, D, M)

[drastic_quench]

@Leaking_Boot

I teach English at exam level, and for the less able students I drill into them that, when writing about poetry, they must sit STIL
S - Structure
T - Theme(s)
I - Images
L - Language

Can’t think of anything that might suit the final ‘L’ in still, though - any thoughts?

Lyricism.

[moejoe]

@Baal_Houtham

Strings of the guitar (standard tuning):
Every
Alcoholic
Drinks
Good
Beer
Everyday

Every anteater devours grass before eating.

[_mostly_Harmless]

@Hari_Seldon

stalaCtites come from the ceiling; stalaGmites from the ground. My wife says, “The mites go up and the tights go down”.
“Friend” ends in “end”. So does “fiend”.
And easy as pi:
Now, I have a rhyme assisting, my feeble brain its tasks resisting.

The part about “friend” reminded me that I do this kind of thing for lots of words. I wasn’t a great speller when I was a kid so I started saying the words how they were spelled instead of how they were pronounced. When I came across a word like “friend” I would say “fry-end” out loud so I knew how to spell it. I would change “appreciate” into “up-rek-ee-ate”. Sometimes I actually say “up-rek-ee-ate” in regular conversation and everyone looks at me like I’m crazy.

[Larry_Mudd]

The dodgy mnemonic I used to recall the seven layers of the OSI model for school was PANT SPA.

What makes it dodgy is that I had to remember that the “A” in “Pant” was actually a “D.” - but PANT SPA was easer to remember than PDNTSPA

Turns out there’s something slightly better: Please Don’t Take Sales People’s Advice.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

@Zeldar

There’s a neat card trick that depends on the qualities of this array:

GOOSE
BIBLE
ATLAS
THIGH

Each row contains a double letter and a letter in common with each other row.

The trick: (works with up to ten trickees)

-Deal out 10 2-card groups face down on a surface.

-Have your trickee(s) select a 2-card group, memorize it, and set it back down while your back is turned or you leave the room.

• Without mixing the groups together, pick all of them up

• Lay them out face-up according to the array above.

-Ask the trickee(s) to tell you which row or rows his/her/their cards are in.

-Point out, or pick up, the indicated groups and amaze all involved.

Excellent! It took me a while to master it, but I will be amazing my kids with it tonight!

[Zeldar]

@Arnold_Winkelried

@Zeldar

There’s a neat card trick that depends on the qualities of this array:

GOOSE
BIBLE
ATLAS
THIGH

Excellent! It took me a while to master it, but I will be amazing my kids with it tonight!

Good deal! It’s a fun one all right. I think I recall sharing this one before in a thread on card tricks. I’ll try to find that one (or more) thread(s).

[Zeldar]

@Zeldar

It’s a fun one all right. I think I recall sharing this one before in a thread on card tricks. I’ll try to find that one (or more) thread(s).

Found one: A neat self-working card trick. Got any? from 07-30-2005, 03:22 PM.