When my wife was a nursing student in the early 90s, the mnemonic she was taught for the cranial nerves was so catchy even I've remembered it: "Ooh, ooh, ooh, to touch and feel various girls' vaginas, and hump."

A lot better than "On old Olympus...," if you ask me.

For card-carrying members of the Nitpick Squad, differences between my the version my wife learned and the standard form (cited above) are due to using alternate names for the 7th and 11th nerves. It works for me.

As for days, months, the spectrum, the Great Lakes, the bones of the wrist and other essentials, well, let's just say that having lived through the 60s and 70s, I'm routinely grateful for any handy memory aid.

Pooby