My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (planet mnemonic)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:50 PM -0400 8/30/06, Alice Faber wrote:
>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.
>--
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Ah, but you have to leave roomn (maybe by loosening that asteroid
belt) for Every Good Boy Deserves Fun (or Favour).

LH

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