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Re: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (planet mnemonic)</td>
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Alice Faber <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:faber@HASKINS.YALE.EDU"><faber@HASKINS.YALE.EDU></a></td>
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Baker, John wrote:
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid
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Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, but I can
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My entire mnemonic mnemory space is filled with ROYGBIV.
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Alice Faber <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:faber@haskins.yale.edu">faber@haskins.yale.edu</a>
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..and after others added 'Every good boy...' I recalled the pair:<br>
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Father Charles goes down and ends battle<br>
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which is paired with<br>
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Battle ends and down goes Charles' father.<br>
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(decoding left as an exercise for the reader..)<br>
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Geoff
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