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

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:36 PM -0400 9/5/06, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On 9/5/06, Steve Kl. <stevekl at panix.com> wrote:
>>in trig class in high school, I concocted "Seventy Cold Tenors of Hawaii
>>Are Having Operatic Arias" to get my trig fucntions right, writing S C T
>>down one column, and the remainder of the initials, two at a time, in the
>>right to give
>>
>>S(ine) = Opposite (over)
>>         Hypotenuse
>>
>>C(osine) = Adjacent (over)
>>         Hypotenuse
>>
>>T(angent) = Opposite (over)
>>         Adjacent
>>
>>Ridiculous, but I remember this some 25 years later.
>>
>>I also devised "the King of Poland Cannot Order French Grapes on Sunday"
>>
>>for Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
>>
>>I was really big on mnemonics.
>
>Twenty years after high school biology class, I still remember this
>handy mnemonic I came up with for embryonic development:
>
>Zbigniew Brzezinski Goosed Ella Fitzgerald
>(Zygote, Blastula, Gastrula, Embryo, Fetus)
>
Very nice.  Wonder what mnemonics are out there for the extended
development, continuing on through Infant and Toddler, via Grad
Student, to Professor Emeritus (and Alzheimer's, if one wishes to
push the Z to A motif).

LH

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