What was your mnemonic?

[Killick]

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?

 

[txsportsscribe]

geek

 

[Killick]

Full on, brother. Full on.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

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).

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

 

[Steak Snabler]

Did someone say my name?

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

 

[Del_B_Vista]

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.

 

[Batman]

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

 

[bydesign77]

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.

 

[fishhack2009]

This was my fave:

 

[MacDaddy]

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.

 

[Football_Bat]

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."

 

[User 1019]

Had to use them all the time to get through flight school, but I can't remember those anymore.

The one I still remember from my 7th grade science teacher?

My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas ... to remember the planets.

 

[User 1019]

Oh, and I can't remember which months have 30 days without using my knuckles. Everyone else uses the song, but I've stood my ground and just count knuckles.

 

[playthrough]

Probably not that uncommon, but in grade school we learned to recite the U.S. Presidents to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy." So I've always been able to rattle off all the presidents--yet I have to slow down at the end because when I learned the song we didn't have Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Had to use them all the time to get through flight school, but I can't remember those anymore.

The one I still remember from my 7th grade science teacher?

My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas ... to remember the planets.

Same with me with the planets. My third grade teacher taught us:

My very educated mother joyfully served us nine pickles.

 

[micropolitan guy]

"Homes" for the Great Lakes. Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.

 

[Buck]

Whenever I go to a sushi place and see or here 'spicy tuna roll,' the words plague me to the tune of 'Just a Gigalo' for days on end.

It is not helpful in any way. It's agony, but it happens every time.

 

[Webster]

My 7th grade Spanish teacher had us sing a song regarding how to conjugate a verb. It was strange, but I still remember it 25 years later.

And, while not a mnemonic, I still do the "b" and "d" with my thumb/index/middle fingers at a restaurant to know which side is my drink and which side is the bread plate.

 

[Buck]

****o, ****are, ****i, shictus?