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

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Wed Aug 30 21:37:13 UTC 2006


At 04:18 PM 8/30/2006, you wrote:
>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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Ah, that's a new one to me; I learned Every Good Boy Does Fine.  But your
version is more appealing, I suppose.  Where'd you get that British
spelling though?

Beverly

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