BS: SEX--(non bawdy) astral maybe?))

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From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Jun 05 - 02:40 AM

something of a crossover... bumper sticker

I (heart) G.R.I.T.S.

Girls Raised In The South

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From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 06:04 AM

Points on a compass.. Never Eat Shredded Wheat.

Arithmetic.. A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Toffee In Class.

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From: Cruiser
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 12:25 AM

Thanks brucie. I am sure to remember that. Should have known better than to ask a teacher.

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From: Peace
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 12:19 AM

Materially Nationalistic Egocentricism Manipulates Occlusive Nepotism In Children.

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From: Cruiser
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 12:05 AM

I thought of a couple more:

Musical Flats

Bead Go Catch Fish: BEADGCF

Musical Sharps

Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Bologna: FCGDAEB

The above mnemonics came from an tattered old music book I found in a small town library many years ago. The line drawings of Bead (an anthropomorphic figure) and the Fat Cats are still seared in my memory (mnememory?). The above sharps and flats helps one remember the Circle of Fifths.

Now, if I can learn a mnemonic to remember how to spell mnemonic.

Cruiser

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From: Cruiser
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 11:25 PM

Kings Play Chess on Fat Girl's Stomachs:

Kingdom, Phyllum, Class Order Family Genus Species


My Dear Aunt Sally:

Multiply Divide Add Subtract: Operation orders in mathematics.

Now brucie, I did not open this thread because of the title; I just knew it must be an educational thread because you are a teacher.

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From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 09:46 PM

the whistling gypsy rover chorus could be, bawdy do, bawdy do da dey. And roger twitticar, could fill in all the whistiley bits, when his finished flyin his tweleve string guitar, shaped plane around the scilly islands. Ps, has he left duram town yet.

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From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 02:18 PM

Yeah I learned a rhyme at school

There is there are, there was there were T H E R E
their shoes their sock,their hats their coats T H E I R

learned purely by rote - no mnemonic assistance. But it Stuck all these years.

But I would like to know why the Wells Irish Set Dancing Festival (see http://cresby.com)
has SEXS splashed across the flyers - apart frome the fact that it gets your attention. Could be Somerset EXhibition Sets if it wasn't a social dance genre.

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From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 02:08 PM

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    [e-mail]

||: If people have to work for a living, then the price of labor equals the standard of living. :||

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From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:10 PM

Sorry! It's "...to touch AND FEEL a very good vagina...."

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From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:09 PM

Another for spinal nerves: Oh, Oh, Oh, to touch a very good vagina, Ah Heaven!

That whole trigonometry thing with sines and cosines (SOHCATOA) - Some Old Hag Caught A Hippie Tripping on Acid.

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From: Micca
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 11:50 AM

"The Amoeba shuns Coition
multiplies by Binary fission
it finds this method most effectual
Dirty little Homosexual"
Prof Garstang
for remebering that amoebas reproduce asexually

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From: mack/misophist
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 10:54 AM

The English nobility: Do Men Ever Visit Boston?

Spinal nerves: On Old Olympus's Towering Tops, A Swede And A German Vaulted And Hopped.

My favourite for the planets: Mother Very Easily Made a Jam Sandwich, Using No Mayonnaise, Peanuts or Glue.

There are many.

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From: Pied Piper
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 10:06 AM

Kathleen Schlesinger wrote an important book called "The Greek Aulos" published 1936, in which she had a thing called the "Perfect Immutable System" which she abbreviated throughout the tome.

US TV System NTSC (Never Twice The Same Colour)
UK TV System PAL (Pale And Lifeless)

TTFN
PP

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From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 08:57 AM

I learned it as "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge" and me ol' pie-anner techer said, "Just put the missing letters from the alfybet in between."

The number of menomic devices seems endless, and it's been going on for ten thousand years. Even the rhythms of speech and a language are menomical.

Also: "Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest." You should be able to get most of it, but T=Terra and A=Asteroid belt.

Even pi has built-in menomics:

3.14159265. 1492, 1565. Columbus and Shakespear'es first birthday. And people say math is unapproachable.

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From: gnu
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 08:53 AM

The mnemonic I learned for EFGABCDEF in Grade 4 music class, at St. Bernard's Catholic School, from Sister Pointer Across the Knucles, was "E", which stood for Every single one of you know the alphabet and there is no need for such silliness.

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From: GUEST,Me xx
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 08:29 AM

In my English SATs exam I had to write PEE in the margin.
Point
Evidence
Explanation

Luv me xxxxx

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From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 06:05 AM

I learnt the Treble Clef as All Good Boys Deserve Favour and FACE and the Bass Clef as Good Boys Desrve favour Always for the lines and All Cows Eat Grass for the spaces . Fifty Years Ago -- AND I still cant read music !!

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From: Jeanie
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 02:11 AM

Dogwuf = prepositions that always take the Accusative Case in German
(durch, ohne, gegen, wider, um, fuer).

"Old opticians occasionally trot triumphantly about fairs auctioning glass vases and hydrangeas" = the sequence of the cranial nerves I - XII (Olfactory....to....Hypoglossal). Sometimes these kind of mnemonics seem harder to remember than the subject itself, but in this case, I've never forgotten those old opticians, learned for O Level Human Biology 35 years ago !

- jeanie

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From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 02:00 AM

Azizi, in the same way I dislike, Which part of NO don't you understand? If someone said it to me, I think I'd bite.

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From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:29 AM

There is the resistance colour code.

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly

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From: Azizi
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:19 AM

Okay!! Thanks, Brucie. The visuals helped alot.

Score one for the home team. Get it? Score?? {Ha! Ha!}

Maybe eventually I really will learn how to play that piano that I have in the room with all my African artifacts-not to mention the guitar that has been forlornly laying in my closet for years.

Where there is life, there is hope.



Azizi

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From: Peace
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:13 AM

Also, there is one to remember the Great Lakes. HOMES. Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior.

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From: Peace
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:11 AM

Cool.

The five lines and four spaces that ya see--wait.

http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory1.htm
Scrool down just a bit. You'll see two things entitled LINES and SPACES. On the lines are some whole notes. In the spaces are some whole notes.

The lines are EGBDF and the spaces are FACE. If they went line/space/line/space, etc, they would read EFGABCDEF.

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:02 AM

OH MY!!! Dangling participles and gerunds out in public!!!! *GASP*

My - Mercury
Very - Venus
Excellent - Earth
Mother - Mars
Just - Jupiter
Served - Saturn
Us - Uranus
Nine - Neptune
Pizzas - Pluto

I learned that over 23 years ago!

Here's a nifty site for more mnemonics: Nifty!

Michelle

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From: Azizi
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 12:02 AM

You talkin to me? [I love that line from that movie whatever it's name is].

Thanks, Brucie, but I haven't a clue what you just said.

Could you translate that into plain English, please?

Are you talking about the piano keys? And which ones-the black ones or the white ones?

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From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:57 PM

The names of the notes that fall on the lines of the treble clef. The spaces on the clef are FACE.

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From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:49 PM

Okay. Why did this saying just pop into my head:

"Every Good Boy Does Fine"

Does what fine?

This has something to do with music, right?

or am I wrong again?

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From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:39 PM

They are the colours of the rainbow--but you're right as to there being darned near an infinite 'number' of colours.

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From: MAG
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:29 PM

there aren't really 7 primary colors; that's from the days when 7 was the perfect number and there had to be 7 parts of everything god and pure.

Didn't I learn that here???

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From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:19 PM

ROY G BIV

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From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:18 PM

Ranks up there with, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Yeah, right.

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From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:16 PM

This may not be what you're talking about, but I absolutely HATE that KISS shorthand saying for "Keep It Simple Stupid."

This ranks on my two snaps down "Hated It" list right along with the too nicey nicey description of people as "happy campers" and the overused saying "It takes a whole village to raise a child".

All of these sayings are stupid if you ask me.

Which,in a way, you did.

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From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 10:47 PM

Beats me, Bruce. I just figured it was a neat pun. But, yes, I have noticed that too. I think it's a spinoff from John Mehlberg (sp?)--sorry John--when he was looking for the words to various songs of a bawdy nature. Some folks were hoping for a way to identify whether a thread would contain lyrics of a bawdy nature, and was there a way to alert the unwary without printing the title of the song as the thread title (if it contained words likely to be seen as offensive to some folks. I think that was the way that wise people found.

BM

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From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 10:42 PM

I dunno any acronyms or mnemonic devices or nothin' like that. I just wanna know why everbuddy's puttin' this "bawdy" and "non-bawdy" stuff on they thread titles. Somebuddy afeared somebuddy else'll git offended or sumfin'? Is it a new rule? Do I hafta put "non-bawdy" if I start a thread about tacos? How'bout a thread about balls of string? Clams? Johnson guitars?

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From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 10:32 PM

Rapaire, why did I just KNOW you'd be the first to post to this thread? Why?

"We'd dangle participles in front of folks": did you show them your gerunds, too?

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From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 10:19 PM

No, I don't.

There are the ones for the spectral colors (colours, up your way) or for the main spectral sequence of the stars (Oh be a fine girl....), for instance. And of course there is the famous "I before E..." but that's not really a mnemomic.

The most likely explanation for this defecit in my education is that I was rigorously schooled in classical literature and rhetoric, enduring the Quadrivium, the Trivium, and the rest. Back in my day, we didn't need no steenkin' mnemonics and wouldn't have used 'em if we'd had 'em. Back then, men were men and women were even tougher. We'd decline Latin verbs while standing on one foot on a fendepost chuggin' down a liter of redeye whisky. We'd dangle participles in front of folks and then snatch 'em away when somebody grabbed for 'em. My friend Steve got caught in a rhetorical maze once, trying to sort out a linguistic sorite, and wandered lost and alone for three days -- damned near starved to death in there and was only rescued when Ed wielded Occam's Razor and freed him.

I hope that this helps, but it probably doesn't.

Subject: BS: SEX--(non bawdy) astral maybe?))
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 09:46 PM

Years back I was marking a Grade 12 paper (Provincial exam) on which the student had written the letters SEX on each of his planning pages. On the last page I found out that SEX was an acronym for

Statement
Example
eXplanation

The student had been using it to ensure he wrote paragraphs. Do you know any other mnemonics of this nature to do with writing?