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

[sagehen]

>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..)
>
 looks like musical fourths
AM


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