memory joggers, in the manner of those folk on TV shows where they challenge people to remember all sorts of odd information to be recalled again in order (anyone remember You Bet!).
So there is the one above and these:
Mother Visits Every Monday Just Stays Until Nine PM
the tights come down and the mites go up
And does anyone actually know how many days are in April without muttering the rhyme under their breath? Or spell receipt without doing the ‘i before e except after c’ in their head?
anyone got any more?
Are you ok?
Comment by Roslyn — 13 July 2005 @ 1:34 pm
I have never heard that mother one (wtf is it for?!), or the tights one (am I going to look really dense if I can’t work out what that’s supposed to remind me of as well?). Oh, it’s suddenly dawned on me, do you mean stalactites and stalagmites? In which case the tights just served to put me off!
Other than Richard of York … the only other ones I remember learning were the notes on the lines/spaces on a stave FACE (can’t actually remember the rhyme now though!) and EGBDF (every good boy deserves something beginning with f). Those worked well then!
What are you on, anyway?!
Comment by Sarah — 13 July 2005 @ 2:57 pm
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely
SOHCAHTOA
Comment by Chris — 13 July 2005 @ 3:16 pm
oh yes, I remember Silly Old Harry Can Always Have Toast On – but forgotten what the A is supposed to stand for.
And now her mother one makes sense, when you put planets on the end of it …!
Don’t get the other one?
Comment by Sarah — 13 July 2005 @ 3:59 pm
yeah mites and tites and planets.
Not at all sure what either of Chris’ are though!
Re: what I’m on? Nothing different to usual really 😉
Comment by Nic — 13 July 2005 @ 4:14 pm
sine = opposite/hypotenuse
cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse
tangent = opposite/adjacent
Any wiser?!!
Comment by Sarah — 13 July 2005 @ 4:24 pm
ah yes, one of those things I often use as an example of stuff you learn at school and never use in real life 😉 turns out here was my one time ever chance to demonstrate that knowledge and I missed it 😉
Comment by Nic — 13 July 2005 @ 5:01 pm
we had silly old hitler, eminently memorable.
Can tell you a rhyme about stoats and weasles?
Comment by jax — 13 July 2005 @ 5:15 pm
ooh go on then 😉
Comment by Nic — 13 July 2005 @ 5:28 pm
Nic! I’m waiting to hear about your tick boxing arse moving day!
Comment by Roslyn — 13 July 2005 @ 10:03 pm
on old olympus towering top a fawn and goat ventured a hop [the only one i have ever found useful and remebered, though there was one about scappy lucy pissing that at the time helped me remember poxy bones in the hand – forgotten both bones and mnemonic]
Comment by HelenJ — 13 July 2005 @ 11:04 pm
scabby – that p and b thing again!
Comment by HelenJ — 13 July 2005 @ 11:05 pm
‘naughty elephants squirt water’ or equivalently ‘never eat shreded wheat’ (and I still use the later)
and if we’ve got SOHCAHTOA, dare I add BODMAS and (scarier still) CAST (or All Stations To Crewe)?
And Sarah – isn’t the ‘thing beginning with F’ = ‘fruit’?
Comment by Barbara — 14 July 2005 @ 3:45 pm
Thought of another ditti that this thread reminded me of…
Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three,
Edward One, Two, Three, Dick Two,
Henry Four, Five, Six, then who?
Edward Four, Five, Dick the Bad,
Harrys twain and Ned, the lad.
Mary, Lizzie, James the Vain,
Charlie, Charlie, James again.
William and Mary, Anne o’Gloria,
Four Georges, William and Victoria.
Edward Seven, Georgie Five,
Edward, George and Liz (alive)
to which someone on an email list I’m on added…
In century number twenty-one
The thought of Charles made most folk glum!
Rather have another Wil,
Than suffer under Queen Camill.
But then, perhaps, they’re out of sync
With what the British public think.
Monarchy, Republic, Head of State?
Who could imagine our mistake?
To vote for Kennedy, Howard, Blair,
Would only make our neighbours stare!
A President for these fair Isles?
The people would surely lose their smiles!
Who’ll be the leader of this brave new world?
Whose flag will fly from pole unfurled?
The King of Kings will ever be
OUR KING for all eternity!
Comment by Barbara — 14 July 2005 @ 3:53 pm