Oil Rig!

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2007-10-16 08:44pm

What are your most handy cute sayings or abbreviations or whatnot for memorizing random scientific concepts?

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-16 09:05pm

On Old Olympus' Towering Top, a Finn and German Viewed and Hopped (cranial nerves: Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory and Hypoglassal)

and

Never Lower Tillie's Pants; Grandmother Might Come Home. (wrist bones: Navicular, Lunate, Triquetral, Pisiform, Multangular, Capitate and Hamate)

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-10-16 09:12pm

King Phillip Chews Onions For Great Sex
(Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species)

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Valerie Goes Willingly
(resistor colour codes; black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white)

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-16 09:19pm

aerius wrote:King Phillip Chews Onions For Great Sex
(Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species)

We were taught Kings Play Chess On Fine Grained Sand.

I like your version *much* better.

Eris · Post by **Eris** » 2007-10-17 02:28am

Kanastrous wrote:
aerius wrote:King Phillip Chews Onions For Great Sex
(Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species)

We were taught Kings Play Chess On Fine Grained Sand.

I like your version *much* better.

Mine was King Philip Came On Foot, Gathering Species Very Rare. Which is the same thing, just adding variety and race.

Also, LEO the lion says GER. That is, Loss of Electrons is Oxidation. Gain of Electrons is Reduction.

Another one was Saddle Our Horses. Canter Away Happily. To Other Adventures. Which are all the trigonometric functions.

sin = opposite/hypotenuse
cos = adjacent/hypotenuse
tan = opposite/adjacent

I'm sure there are others I could think up given time. (Ironically, I can't remember them at the moment.)

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-10-17 10:00am

Orders By A Fat General Kills Many nice soldiers.

The spectral classes of stars, from hottest to coolest. This ends at M, so "nice solders" is just to make the mnemonic snappy. (That's what you're talking about are called, BTW.)

This, sadly, is the only one I remember that does any good now. All the rest of the stuff I learned is through brute-force memorization, or is stuff I have to look up.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-17 12:05pm

Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me is the star-sequence one as I learned it.

It's fun to see so many variations of familiar mnemonics.

...and...

why Oil Rig?

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2007-10-17 01:54pm

aerius wrote:Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Valerie Goes Willingly
(resistor colour codes; black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white)

How do you remember which of the B-words maps to which color? I learned the racist motherfucker version:

Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly.

If you don't mind using anachronistic racist propaganda as a mnemonic device, it's better than the one you said.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2007-10-17 02:05pm

Kanastrous wrote:Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me is the star-sequence one as I learned it.

It's fun to see so many variations of familiar mnemonics.

...and...

why Oil Rig?

An alternate version of Eris' "Leo the lion says GER"; Oxidation Is Loss, Reduction Is Gain (of electrons).

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2007-10-17 02:06pm

The one I always remember is Big Elephants Are Useful To Indians For Unloading Logs; it's how to remember how to spell beautiful.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-17 02:09pm

andrewgpaul wrote:The one I always remember is Big Elephants Are Useful To Indians For Unloading Logs; it's how to remember how to spell beautiful.

I'm almost afraid to ask how you remember the spelling of antidisestablishmentarianism.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2007-10-17 02:11pm

superior intellect

Coriolis · Post by **Coriolis** » 2007-10-17 02:22pm

I Don't Play Lacrosse Much After Lunch. Used for the 7 musical nodes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrean.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-10-17 02:29pm

sketerpot wrote:
aerius wrote:Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Valerie Goes Willingly
(resistor colour codes; black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white)
How do you remember which of the B-words maps to which color?

Black has an A like Bad, and Brown has an O like Boys.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-17 02:30pm

Do I Choose To Create?

The classic orders of architecture: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Composite/

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-10-17 02:58pm

MR. GREEN. It stands for... hang on... no, lost me.

Anyone got a biology textbook link handy?

The trig one I always remembered by SohCahToa.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2007-10-17 03:59pm

One that a mate of mine came up with for remembering the OSI network layer model:

Anal Pleasure Soon Turns Nasty, Double Penetration (Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data-link, Physical)

No-one forgot that one.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-10-17 04:03pm

Some Old Hippie
Caught Another Hippie
Tripping On Acid.

This in my high school from a bigass science teacher with a similarly bigass beard.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-10-17 04:13pm

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets for the solar system. Ofcourse I think new shit has been discovered since I did GCSE Science.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-10-17 05:03pm

Vendetta wrote:One that a mate of mine came up with for remembering the OSI network layer model:

Anal Pleasure Soon Turns Nasty, Double Penetration (Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data-link, Physical)

No-one forgot that one.

I'll be trying, for the next few days...

Metatwaddle · Post by **Metatwaddle** » 2007-10-18 01:43am

Coriolis wrote:I Don't Play Lacrosse Much After Lunch. Used for the 7 musical nodes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrean.

I was always taught "I Don't Play Loud Music Any Longer".

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2007-10-18 01:50am

Please excuse my dear aunt sally

To remember how mathematical operators take precedence: Parentheses, exponentials, multiplication and division, addition and subtraction

Darth Holbytlan · Post by **Darth Holbytlan** » 2007-10-18 01:57am

Wyrm wrote:Orders By A Fat General Kills Many nice soldiers.

The spectral classes of stars, from hottest to coolest. This ends at M, so "nice solders" is just to make the mnemonic snappy. (That's what you're talking about are called, BTW.)

No, you just learned a corrupted version of the mnemonic. The original is "Orders By A Fat General Kill Many Really Nice Soldiers". The RNS at the end are more obscure spectral types. The traditional "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now, Smack!" works the same way.

Minor point of interest: This mnemonic was created by yours truly at a young age after being taught the traditional version.

The_Saint · Post by **The_Saint** » 2007-10-20 09:16am

sketerpot wrote:If you don't mind using anachronistic racist propaganda as a mnemonic device, it's better than the one you said.

Black Bastard's Raped Our Young Girls, Blessed Virginity Gone West.

Taught to me by my father who, when learning his trade, was told "don't bother with transistor's, they'll never replace the vacuum tube" (along with this mnemonic). Yes it was a while ago 'bout 50 years give or take.

For some reason it's the only mnemonic I ever remembered, I always just used brute force for memorising things.