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nathansphase | 00:20 Tue 17th Jul 2007 | Quotes
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Ok most of us know never eat shredded wheat is a way of reminding us of th compass points and this got me thinking can anyone else provide useful phrases for remembering stuff?
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Click here and then on the various headings for multitudes of such useful mnemonics.
I have always found North East South West as an excellent means of reminding me to never eat shredded wheat Boom! Boom!
My Very Own Eduacated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets-------Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto---handy one we had 2 learn at school
I used to teach maths. My classes never had any problems remembering the order of Roman numerals because I taught them that Ivy X Loved Cadbury's Dairy Milk ;-)

Chris
A good one for remembering pi, using word lengths is
How I want a drink (alcoholic of course) after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
i.e. 3.14159265358979 to 15 s.f.
Metropolitan Police Department Sh4g Cattle. Was always useful when knowing whet animals you have to report to the police if you accidentally run over them

M= Mule
P= Pig
D= Dog
S= Sheep
H= Horse
A= Ass
G=Goat
Cattle= Cows, bulls, calves etc.

Apart from Badger (which is not part of the Road Traffic Act, as there is a Badgers Act) no other animal needs reporting to the police, not even a little puddy cat
I teach 6 year olds to spell BECAUSE by big elephants can't always understand small elaphants And W/ SH/ COULD by Oh you lucky duck!
Never Eat Cheese Eat Salad Sandwiches And Remain Young! Necessary.x
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
My brother in law repaired type-writers and this little quote was used to test whether every letter on the keyboard was working.
For the solar system I remember :

My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets
EGBDF and FACE were taught at school as mnemonics for musical notes, I think. Anyway, it is many, many years since I was at school so I may be wrong about notes, but it was something to do with music.
Sorry for the omissions. FACE is self-explanatory, and the EGBDF was Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.

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