When my mother was little, she learned to spell "geography" from "George Eliot's old grandfather rode a pig home yesterday".

George Orwell recalled from his school days that the initials of "A black Negress was my aunt: there's her house behind the barn" were the initials of the battles in the Wars of the Roses.

The digits of pi, to more accuracy than anyone needs, can be found by counting the letters in the successive words of "How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics". Likewise, for e, "To destroy a building, we detonate a quantity of hydrogen bombs".

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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