I walked past a store today which put these in mind.
Guess the mnemonic:
For extra credit, what kind of store did I pass?
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Oh, yeah: it was a music store.
I always remembered the Great Lakes as HOMES. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: shelley at January 7, 2005 05:28 PMI think this way is in order of size (largest first).
Posted by: Linkmeister at January 7, 2005 07:34 PMResistor color codes: Bad boys race young girls behind Victory Garden walls (black, brown, red, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white)
(somewhat sanitized)
The only ones I remember learning were ROYGBIV, FACE (I don't know if I learned a line, just FACE), EGBDF (Every good boy does fine) and ACEG (All cars eat gas). I don't recall anything for GBDFA. I wish I'd learned that Russian cases one. Might have helped. Or maybe not.
Posted by: bunny at January 10, 2005 03:16 AMOne of the only lines I remember from Russian I is ... and I'm translating this phonetically from ancient memory ... "Gospodin Professor, razhkezhitziye, prezhalsta, ov predlozhnom padezhye".
The prepositional case rears its ugly head again!
I remember Henry VIII's wives as "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived."
Posted by: Sue at January 12, 2005 10:22 PM