What was your mnemonic?

Working at home, had Scrubs on the tv, and one character sang his mnemonic to help him get through a test. Got me wondering: What was everyones?

The one that stands out in my mind was the one I used during high school biology to remember the anatomy of a grasshopper. It was to the tune of the Mike and the Mechanics song "All I Need Is a Miracle" — it's how I remembered that spiracles were used in respiration.

"All I need is a spiracle, all I need is air."

Yep, I'm that geeky.

Okay. Next?

 

geek

 

Full on, brother. Full on.

 

Mine was with numbers.

If I needed to remember a locker combination, a date on a test, whatever, because I was such a huge baseball fanatic growing up, every number became a uniform number or set of uniforms.

For instance, the War of 1812, to me, would become the War of Damon-Baker (Johnny Damon and Dusty Baker).

 

Did someone say my name?




In all seriousness, "righty tighty, lefty loosey" has served me well through the years ...

 

Not really mnemonic, but we had to recite the preamble to the Constitution in junior high. To a person, everybody basically sang the Schoolhouse Rock song, although there's at least one point in there where you have to substitute more words. The real absurdity was watching people substitue those phrases, then going back and mentally re-singing the song to get back to the point where they could sing the rest of it.

 

I've never been able to put things in alphabetical order without singing the alphabet song.

 

You guys helped me out when I was learning my station codes with some ideas.

My favorite and I use to this day?

Portly Heifers Flee for PHF, Newport News, VA.

 

This was my fave:

 

My high school physics teacher wrote a song about slopes to the tune of "America the Beautiful." I can't remember my cell phone number, but I can remember that song after 18 years.

 

Every time I go to the parts store to replace my headlight bulbs, I remember that my high beams are model number 9005 and the low beams are 9006. Therefore, "High Five."