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I seem to recall one the Brazen mentioned about an excited monkey jumping up someone's pants to help her recall the order of the planets.
I used to love ROY G BIV but some jerk took indigo out of the rainbow.
:hug:
I know. That one hit me hard, too.
These are mnemonics, not acronyms :ultra:
:blush: My face is red.
Apologies. Changes have been made.
Quote from: Valmy on April 03, 2009, 09:58:41 AM
I used to love ROY G BIV but some jerk took indigo out of the rainbow.
They took Indigo out? What the Hell? Who? When?
Quote from: Razgovory on April 03, 2009, 10:23:58 AM
Quote from: Valmy on April 03, 2009, 09:58:41 AM
I used to love ROY G BIV but some jerk took indigo out of the rainbow.
They took Indigo out? What the Hell? Who? When?
I thought rainbows had been getting narrower :(
Quote from: charliebear on April 03, 2009, 09:57:06 AM
I seem to recall one the Brazen mentioned about an excited monkey jumping up someone's pants to help her recall the order of the planets.
Many Very Eager Mice Just Sit Under New Potatoes was the mnemonic I learned from that, but of course it's all fucked up now that Pluto is gone.
For kingdom phylum etc., I learned that King Patrick Can Open Five Gifts Saturday.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 03, 2009, 10:23:58 AM
Quote from: Valmy on April 03, 2009, 09:58:41 AM
I used to love ROY G BIV but some jerk took indigo out of the rainbow.
They took Indigo out? What the Hell? Who? When?
http://books.google.com/books?visbn=3527405038&id=1oDOWr_yueIC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&ots=Jrfi5sPBhk&dq=indigo+spectra+blue+violet+date:1990-2007&sig=Rm2xP5mIgyGJ1a1pbfAt65QSf0I#PPA214,M1
Newton only included Indigo because he thought there should be seven colors in the spectrum it seems. Seven was a magical number to him.
Oh Be A Fine Girl(Guy) Kiss Me
OBAFGKM - basic star classification, O is hottest, M coolest.
Bad Boys Ravage Our Young Grass But Violets Grow Wildly
For the values of resistor colors (Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White)
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 03, 2009, 11:20:51 AM
Oh Be A Fine Girl(Guy) Kiss Me
OBAFGKM - basic star classification, O is hottest, M coolest.
I like it. What do the middle ones stand for? I'm assuming the lukewarm stars, but what are the technical terms?
Every good boy does fine. Good boys do fine always.- Musical notes on the stanza for treble and bass clef.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 03, 2009, 11:23:29 AM
Bad Boys Ravage Our Young Grass But Violets Grow Wildly
Close to how I heard it:
Bad Boys Ravage Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.
*any military acronym* :bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:
The North American Marlon Brando Look-a-like Association.
"True virgins make dull company (at weddings)" converts true headings to compass headings by accounting for variation (which yields magnetic heading) and deviation (which yields compass heading), remembering to add west variation and deviation (thus subtracting those east).
"Can dead men vote twice (at elections)?" converts a compass heading to a true heading by the reverse process, adding east values.
Quote from: charliebear on April 03, 2009, 11:27:16 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 03, 2009, 11:20:51 AM
Oh Be A Fine Girl(Guy) Kiss Me
OBAFGKM - basic star classification, O is hottest, M coolest.
I like it. What do the middle ones stand for? I'm assuming the lukewarm stars, but what are the technical terms?
If you're looking for a point of reference the sun is a G-class star. O's are extraordinarily hot, blue-white, and (in astronomical terms) very short lived (ten million years, tops). M's are small, dim, red, cool, and burn for hundreds of billions of years or more. Stars inbetween are, well, inbetween.
Here's a standard Herzprung Russell diagram for reference, the mnemonic in question only applies to the main sequence stars (the ones down the middle, which are basically "normal" stars):
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg80.imageshack.us%2Fimg80%2F6408%2Fhertzsprungrusselldiagr.jpg&hash=df9ac34fb22df50cca493c03f3e6f4f9c29fcc1c)
And Wikipedia has a nice breakdown of each stellar class here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Spectral_types).
Un día ví un viejo vestido de uniforme: (Integral)udv = uv-(Integral)vdu.
FUBAR
Going back to the stellar classifications for a moment, the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram has to be one of the coolest of all diagrams :cool:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 03, 2009, 01:58:31 PM
Going back to the stellar classifications for a moment, the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram has to be one of the coolest of all diagrams :cool:
Indeed. I have a print of the one I linked up there. In addition to being informative and generally cool, it's also kind of pretty IMO. :)
No, I shall not.
I can't say that I used this one in school, but I kind of whish I had.
"Camels Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak. Possibly Early Oiling Might Prevent Premature Rheumatism"
"See You Next Tuesday!"
Quote from: fahdiz on April 03, 2009, 03:50:54 PM
"See You Next Tuesday!"
In that vein there's also "If U Seek Amy."
Quote from: The Nickname Who Was Thursday on April 03, 2009, 11:30:06 AM
Every good boy does fine. Good boys do fine always.- Musical notes on the stanza for treble and bass clef.
Interesting. I learned it as "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge".
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 03, 2009, 01:58:31 PM
Going back to the stellar classifications for a moment, the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram has to be one of the coolest of all diagrams :cool:
Indeed. Not only is it cool, but terribly interesting as well. I'm always fascinated by the idea of those class-0 stars who are as close to blasting off their own photospheres as you can get (and occasional do just that), just from the enormous energy released by their nuclear reactions. The sheer power is somewhat awe-inspiring, even for me.
If you can't use the power for something then it might as well be on the moon.
I took some astrophysics courses back in school. One of the lecturers looked like Bill Murray.
Quote from: FunkMonk on April 03, 2009, 11:38:45 AM
*any military acronym* :bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:
Nah.
They are very useful.
I prefer MLECOA or MDECOA than Most Likely Enemy Course Of Action or Most Deadly Enemy Course Of Action.
Quote from: Barrister on April 03, 2009, 02:50:20 PM
I can't say that I used this one in school, but I kind of whish I had.
"Camels Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak. Possibly Early Oiling Might Prevent Premature Rheumatism"
And this means.....?
Quote from: charliebear on April 05, 2009, 08:54:05 AM
Quote from: Barrister on April 03, 2009, 02:50:20 PM
I can't say that I used this one in school, but I kind of whish I had.
"Camels Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak. Possibly Early Oiling Might Prevent Premature Rheumatism"
And this means.....?
Rocks I think.
Quote from: charliebear on April 05, 2009, 08:54:05 AM
And this means.....?
Cambrian, Ordovician, Sirillian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurrasic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Myocene, Pileocene, Pleistocene, Recent
Google is your friend.
Quote from: grumbler on April 05, 2009, 11:40:42 AM
Quote from: charliebear on April 05, 2009, 08:54:05 AM
And this means.....?
Cambrian, Ordovician, Sirillian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurrasic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Myocene, Pileocene, Pleistocene, Recent
Google is your friend.
So was I right?
Quote from: Razgovory on April 05, 2009, 11:42:57 AM
So was I right?
Look it up. Those are geological periods. If that is what you meant by "rocks" then yes. if not, then no.
We learned in elementary school:
"Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten."
(My father explains to me every sunday our nine planets.)
I wonder what they teach them to learn the eight planets.
EDIT: apparantly they exchanged "neun Planeten" with "Nachthimmel" (night sky).
Not sure if this counts as a true mnemonic, put in identifying evergreens:
Firs have flat needles
Spruce has square needles
Quote from: grumbler on April 05, 2009, 11:50:44 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 05, 2009, 11:42:57 AM
So was I right?
Look it up. Those are geological periods. If that is what you meant by "rocks" then yes. if not, then no.
I like try to remember if I know something with googling it. Just to see if I can remember stuff. Geological periods was what I meant. So I'm happy.
Quote from: grumbler on April 05, 2009, 11:40:42 AM
Quote from: charliebear on April 05, 2009, 08:54:05 AM
And this means.....?
Cambrian, Ordovician, Sirillian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurrasic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Myocene, Pileocene, Pleistocene, Recent
Google is your friend.
Amazing. Totally amazing. Raz, how in the world did you know something like that? Without google, that is.
Quote from: charliebear on April 05, 2009, 12:37:08 PM
Quote from: grumbler on April 05, 2009, 11:40:42 AM
Quote from: charliebear on April 05, 2009, 08:54:05 AM
And this means.....?
Cambrian, Ordovician, Sirillian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurrasic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Myocene, Pileocene, Pleistocene, Recent
Google is your friend.
Amazing. Totally amazing. Raz, how in the world did you know something like that? Without google, that is.
I also do preform for bithday parties.
Didn't King Philip Come Over For Good Sex?
Quote from: Valmy on April 03, 2009, 11:01:12 AMNewton only included Indigo because he thought there should be seven colors in the spectrum it seems. Seven was a magical number to him.
It wasn't magical, you cretin. He was very pious. There's a difference, you fag.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 05, 2009, 12:41:32 PM
I also do preform for bithday parties.
What exactly do you
preform into?
Sergeant Majors Eat Sugar Cokies.
The 5 paragraphs of an oporder, Situation, Mission, Execution, Service and Support, Command and Signal.
I have never understood why americans do this. I mean, isn't it easier to just remember the actual meaning of the words?
Oh, at military we had, when relieving another unit/watch the following thing:
LANGEMAARKS
Lage (Situation)
Auftrag (Mission/orders)
Nachbarn (neighbours)
Grenzen (borders)
Eröffnungslinie (distance at which you open fire)
Meldeweg (path for reports)
Alarmierung (how is the rest of the unit alarmed in case of emergency)
Ablösung (when is relief due)
Rückwärtiger Raum (what units in the rear, how quickly can reinforcements be there, etc.)
Kennwort (password)
Sperren (obstacles - mines, wires, etc.)
Quote from: Siege on April 05, 2009, 10:33:44 PM
Sergeant Majors Eat Sugar Cokies.
The 5 paragraphs of an oporder, Situation, Mission, Execution, Service and Support, Command and Signal.
I have never understood why americans do this. I mean, isn't it easier to just remember the actual meaning of the words?
No, that's the point.
Quote from: Siege on April 05, 2009, 10:33:44 PM
I have never understood why americans do this. I mean, isn't it easier to just remember the actual meaning of the words?
It is to remember their order, not their meaning. You have to know their meaning to use the mnemonics.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 05, 2009, 02:27:07 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 03, 2009, 11:01:12 AMNewton only included Indigo because he thought there should be seven colors in the spectrum it seems. Seven was a magical number to him.
It wasn't magical, you cretin. He was very pious. There's a difference, you fag.
He was also an alchemist.
Quote from: ulmont on April 03, 2009, 11:35:53 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 03, 2009, 11:23:29 AM
Bad Boys Ravage Our Young Grass But Violets Grow Wildly
Close to how I heard it:
Bad Boys Ravage Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.
Yeah, that's the one I've always heard.
The only one I remember is:
King Hecter died by drinking chocolate milk.
Kilo, Hecto, Deca, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli
I always used My very excellent mother just sent us nine pizzas. to remember the planets but apparently it's be changed to My very easy method just seems useless now.
MAD Cap Horse
When identifying deciduous trees, these are the ones that have opposite branching (as opposed to alternate branching):
Maple
Ash
Dogwood
Caprifoliacea (Latin name for Honeysuckle)
Horsechestnut