ROYGBIV

[Wilson Gray]

I had no idea that there were so-called "mnemonics" for the order of
the planets or for the order of the colors or that anyone even gave a
Roosevelt dime whether schoolchildren knew about such matters, before
today. (I did know about Every good boy ... and Face, but that's only
because I once took private music lessons.) How'd I live seven
"dekkids" lacking such important knowledge?
It just goes to show, I guess. Different strokes, etc. ;-)

-Wilson

On 8/30/06, Brenda Lester <alphatwin2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Uh, I head that "they" took out indigo.
>   (unchecked rumour)
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> Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU> wrote:
>   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).
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> >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?
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> Beverly
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-Wilson
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
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