ADS-L Digest - 29 Aug 2006 to 30 Aug 2006 (#2006-242)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:34 AM -0400 8/31/06, Geoffrey S. Nathan wrote:
>Alice wrote:
>
>>>>>>>Subject:
>>>>>>>Re: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (planet mnemonic)
>>>>>>>From:
>>>>>>>Alice Faber <mailto:faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU><faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
>>>>>>>Date:
>>>>>>>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:50:32 -0400
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Baker, John wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I have no trouble with Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid
>>>>>>>>Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, but I can
>>>>>>>>never remember the mnemonics.  Is this unusual?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>My entire mnemonic mnemory space is filled with ROYGBIV.
>>>>>>>--
>>>>>>>==============================================================================
>>>>>>>Alice Faber
>>>>>>><mailto:faber at haskins.yale.edu>faber at haskins.yale.edu
>>>>>>>Haskins Laboratories                           tel: (203) 865-6163 x258
>>>>>>>New Haven, CT 06511 USA                        fax (203) 865-8963
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>..and after others added 'Every good boy...' I recalled the pair:
>
>Father Charles goes down and ends battle

Or, for the equally but differently violence-inclined, "Fat Cats Go
Down Alleys Eating Birds", and its variants:
Fat Carmen Gets Drunk At Every Bar
Fat Cops Get Donuts After Every Bust

>
>  which is paired with
>
>Battle ends and down goes Charles' father.
>
>(decoding left as an exercise for the reader..)

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