Re: Mother Very Easily ...

In article <1134418143.044333.120090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Amethyst <adoptsoldcats@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Morris M. Keesan wrote:
>> Recently, while reading books about the solar system to Joseph, I
>> realized that my acronym for remembering the order of the planets
>> (Mother Very Easily Made [A] Jelly Sandwich Under No Pressure) no longer
>> works. I don't expect the names "Xena" or "Planet X" to last, but in
>> the meantime, any suggestions? Here's what I've come up with with
>> almost no work:
>>
>> Mother Very Easily Made [A] Jelly Sandwich; Uncle Noah Played Xylophone
>
>I learned it as My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.
>
>I also learned Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives
>Willingly, Get Some Now.

That's color-coding for electric wires? I know I've heard
variants on it, but not in any context that would cause me to
remember what it was about.
>
>Also, Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Now Sweetie, except that "N" and "S"
>were later dropped from the main sequence listing of stars

So did the R, before which it was Kiss Me Right Now Sweetheart
(back in my distant youth, say 1950).

Let's see, there's On Old Olympus' Towering Tops A Finn And
German Viewed Some Hops, which is the twelve cranial nerves,
olfactory, optic, oculomotor, uh ... it's been too long.

And there's Never Lower Tillie's Pants, Mamma Might Come Home,
which is the name of all the little bones in your wrist.

Peg Bracken gave one for remembering the order of things you put
in a cake batter. I forget what it was, but the order is butter
sugar eggs milk flour.

A lot of these mnemonics I remember, if at all, from their
referents instead of the other way around. Like Cellini and the
salamander.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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