## 11. MNEMONICS

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- 11. mnemonics - general
- 11.1 mnemonics
- 11.2 mathematics
- 11.3 computer science
- 11.4 physics
- 11.5 chemistry
- 11.6 biology and medicine
- 11.7 earth sciences
- 11.8 miscellany

### 11.8 MISCELLANY

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    From: "Marcus Harman" <marcusharman@ukonline.co.uk>

    Here's one from my year 8 class in Sevenoaks kent for how to spell
    'hypothesis'

    Heavy Yaks Prance On The Hill Every Saturday In Summer!

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    From: davek@microware.com (Dave Kimble)
    MUSIC: order of sharps:

    Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle

    order of flats: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father

    From: Frederick Rabin <rabin@fr.com>
    Order of sharps:
    Fat Cats Get Dizzy After Eating Beans.

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    From: Richard F. Drushel <rfd@po.CWRU.Edu>

     Every good boy does fine = line
    notes, treble clef, bottom to top

    From: harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper)

            Every good boy deserves food though girls quoted it as:
            Every good boy deserves flogging.

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    From: "Dolores" <ttbb2@capital.net>

     FACE = the notes of the spaces of the right hand musical staff.  "Great
    big dogs frighten Aunt Carrie" (GBDFAC) = the notes of the lines of the
    left hand musical staff.  (That one was my own invention.)

    From: weeks-g@dircon.co.uk (Graham Weeks)
    All cows eat grass, says my wife,

    who also has, = left hand spaces [ACEG].

    Great big ducks fly away, for the other, but no C, as the middle C is
    between the two clefs she says.

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    From: "David McKay" <musicke@ozemail.com.au>

     Music mnemonics

    Great Big Dreams For Australia [bass lines]

    spaces All Cows Eat Grass

    Lines treble Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit spaces F A C E [face]

    Sharps and flats order [sharp order is flat order backwards] Father
    Christmas Gave Dad An Electric Blanket [sharps] Blanket Exploded And Dad
    Gto Charred Feet [flats]

    OR a reversible one Father Charles Goes Down aAnd Ends Battle and Battle
    Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father

    The acronym to end all acronyms [by a cynical Aussie] Association Concerned
    with Removal Of Nauseating Yankee Mimickry

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    From: wstevens@cix.compulink.co.uk (Will Stevens)

    Music mnemonics. Not mine, alas - I think they came from a Frank Muir and
    Dennis Norden radio programme:

    Spaces in the bass clef, ACEG: Auntie Clara Entertains Gentlemen

    Lines in the treble clef, EGBDF: Erotic Gum Boots Delight Fetishists

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    From: jmpierce@medea.gp.usm.edu (Jim M. Pierce)
    Color codes resistors:

    'Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly, Get Some
    Now.'

    black brown red yellow green blue violet grey white gold silver GSN stands
    for the plus or minus bit... 5 percent, 10 percent, and 20
    percent. i.e. 100 ohms, plus or minus 5 percent.

    From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
    Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly, for Gold or Silver.

    From: "Pete Peterson" <peterson@usaor.net>

    Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls.

    From: tonyg@kcbbs.gen.nz (Tony Garnock-Jones)
    : Yes, but I always get stuck

    trying to remember is "bad" black or is : "boys"?  I always forget without
    difficulty.  Blue and the two g's I can : remember no problem.

    BlAck -> BAd BrOwn -> BOys BlUe -> BUt

    The second letter of each B-word is the _third_ letter of the word it
    stands for :-) Neat pattern...

    From: rcsacw@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Christ van Willegen)

    Black bastards Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.
    (offending, but easier to remember black, brown)

    From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)

    This alternative version solves that problem:
    Blackie Brown rapes our young girls but Violet gives willingly.

    From: Quentin Grady
    The clean variation: Bad Betty runs over your garden but Violet Gray
    won't.

    From: Lawrence R Glickman <lglickman@ameritech.net>

    Big boys race our young girls, but violet generally wins

    ( color code for resistors ) Black brown red yellow blue violet, and then
    the tolerance ( silver or gold )

    From: woodman@bnr.ca (Dave Woodman)
    "Billy Brown Revives On Your Gin, But

    Values Good Whisky."

    From: jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (Fritz Lowrey)
    Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes Well

    From: Mike Nalbone <nalbone@pluto.njcc.com>
    Blackberry Brandy Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well.

    Grant Edwards <grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com> wrote:
     Better Be Ready, Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West.
    (goes west = fails, dies)

    From: eeyimkn@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (M. Knell)
    My eternal favourite (and the one that nobody's mentioned yet):

    Black Beetles Running On Your Garden Bring Very Good Weather

    From: Suzanne Sarlette/Gerald Pearson <suegerry@mut1.muscanet.com>
    Here's a G rated British mnemonic for the resistor color code:
     Bye bye Rosie, off you go, Bristol via Great Western.

    From: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot)
    French version : Ne Mangez Rien Ou Jeunez, Voila Bien Votre Grande Betise.

    From: quentin@inhb.co.nz (Quentin Grady)
    I prefer rhymes for individual colours

    black hero ...  zero brown bun ...  one red shoe ...  two.  orange tree ...
    three yellow door ...  four

    (picture + rhyme) is equivalent to having random access.

    From: *sathe_dilip@bah.com* (Dilip)
    The one I know has some extra words in it to make it a sentence.
      It goes like...
    B. B. ROY of Great Britain has a Very Good Wife.

    From: David Montag (DJMONTAG@aol.com)
     Beloved Brethren Remember Our Yoke God Brings Victory God's Way Black
    Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White

    "Bowling Balls Roll Over Your Grandpa But Victim Gets Well "
    "Busy boys rest on Yale ground, but Vassar girls work."

    "Batman Bests Robin On Yonder Gotham Bridge;
    Very Good,  Will Get Superman Next!"

    From: "Stoiantschewsky, Spass O" <spass.o.stoiantschewsky@intel.com>
    A classmate of mine at CMU (Mike Hammerschlag?) came up with this for a
    contest:
    "Badly burnt resistors on your ground bus void general warrantee".

    From: Steven Minichiello <paclogic@attbi.com>
    Black Boys Race Our Young Gents, But Victor Generally Wins.

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    From: Chuk Gleason <kb4mdz@earthlink.net>

    And lastly, I've had to learn the U.S. Telephone companies' supposed
    standard for multiple-pair telephone cables - up to twenty-five pairs
    in one cable.  It's based on a '5 and 5' scheme; 5 base colors, 5
    trace colors, designating the 'Tip' and 'Ring' of each pair; First the
    Base color is used as the wire insulation, with all the trace or
    stripe colors in their sequence, then the next base color is used, and
    the traces are repeated.  I'll try to do this ;

    "We Rape Beautiful Young Virgins,
    But Only Girls Beyond Sixteen"

    This transposes to "White Red Black Yellow Violet" and "Blue Orange Green
    Brown Slate"

    In a multipair cable, the first wire in the first pair is White, Blue
    tracer (called WH/BL) then the second wire is Blue with White tracer
    (BL/WH).  Next pair is White/Orange and Orange/White, next is
    White/Green and Green/White, next White/Brown and Brown/White, and
    finally White/Slate and Slate/White. This takes care of 5 pairs; the
    next 5 are Red with tracers Blue thru Slate, then 5 pairs of Black
    with tracers Blue thru Slate. Pair 24 would thus end up as
    Violet/Brown//Brown/Violet, and pair 25 would be
    Violet/Slate//Slate/Violet.
    See http://www.aptcommunications.com/ccode.htm for a better graphic.

    In standard US house telephone wiring, two-pair wire is most common; with
    the sequence Green/Red/Yellow/Black; Line 1 is the Green-Red pair and a
    Line 2 would be on Yellow-Black

    Tip and Ring, for what it's worth, come from the old days of live operators
    who had plugs and jacks; a two-conductor cord (one pair) was Tip - the apex
    of the plug, and Ring, right behind it.  At Idle, the Tip is Ground, and
    the Ring is at -48VDC.  Various combinations of polarity reversals and
    circuit opens are part of the 'supervision' of a telephone calls stages -
    on-hook, off-hook, dialing, call setup, answer, hangup, etc.  Too much to
    go into here.  In the previous paragraph, the Tip is Green and the Ring, at
    -48VDC, Red, for Line 1, and Line 2 its Yellow (Tip) and Black (Ring).
    I've read long ago that the reason for Ground on Tip is that if a plug
    drops to the floor, the tip will be the most likley thing to contact a
    grounded surface, so ideally no current should flow.  As for the -48VDC,
    that's provided by huge banks of batteries which provide the current to run
    hundreds of phones, and do it in the event of an AC Mains power outage.

    Clear as mud?

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    From: "Yves MERIADEC" <yves@meriadec.com>
     The right sentence says that those sailors having a chilly memory, will
    wear: "un tricot noir et deux bas si rouges" (That is : "one black jersey
    and two red stockings") That means that when entering a river or a harbour
    channel, you will see

    un : with odd numbers tri : on "tribord" (starboard) co : cones (seen as
    triangles) noir: black

    et : and

    deux : with even numbers bas : on "babord" (port side) si : cylinders (seen
    as rectangles) rouge : red

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    From: Click Joshua W Civ AEDC/SDV <Joshua.Click@arnold.af.mil> How to
    remember port is left and starboard is right.  There are four letters in
    port and left, and starboard is the only one left with right!

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    From Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca: There's no red port wine left.
    (navigation light colours)

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    From: Matthew Rowles <rowlesmr@ses.curtin.edu.au>

     This is almost a mnemonic.

    The four cycles of a four stroke engine: Suck, squeeze, bang & blow
    (intake, compression, ignition & exhaust)

    From: "Sam Cardinal" <Sam_Cardinal@inter-tel.com> A slightly diferent (and
    to us amusing) Mnemonic for the 4 cycles of combustion we used in school
    was: Suck (Intake), Squeeze (Compression), Pop (Ignition), Phooey
    (Exhaust).

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    From: jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com (Jeff Zeitlin)
    From navigation, for

    converting between True, Magnetic, and Compass directi applying variation
    and deviation: True virgins make dull company Or backwards: can dead men
    vote twice

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    From: dloucks@primenet.com (Donovan Loucks)

    Joan found Mark and Mike jumping Janet and Susan outside Nora's Drugstore .
    = months of the year

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    From: GemOfLight@aol.com

     For all the psycholinguists who can't remember the difference between
    phonemes (the smallest units of sound in the spoken form of a language) and
    morphemes (the smallest units of meaning in a language):

    m is for "meaning" -- p is for "ptttthb"

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    From: "Daniel P. B. Smith" <dpbsmith@bellatlantic.net>
        Columbus sailed the ocean blue
        In fourteen hundred and ninety-two
        Divide the son-of-a-bitch by two
        And that's how many watts are in a horsepower.

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#### Subsections

- 11. mnemonics - general
- 11.1 mnemonics
- 11.2 mathematics
- 11.3 computer science
- 11.4 physics
- 11.5 chemistry
- 11.6 biology and medicine
- 11.7 earth sciences
- 11.8 miscellany

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