🚀 go-pugleaf

flamer@mithril.intel.com (Jim Trethewey @mithril) writes:

>    1.  The man "Roy G. Biv" allows you to remember the colors of
>	the spectrum: Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet.

Or "Richard of York gained battles in vain".

>    2.  In Chemistry, part of the Periodic Table was represented
>	by "Al Sipsclar" (Al-Si-P-S-Cl-Ar) and his girlfriend 
>	"Phoebe Bicnofne" (Fe-Be-B-C-N-O-F-Ne).

The second one must be wrong, since iron (Fe) doesn't belong in that
sequence.  My father used to pronounce the first eighteen elements as
"H-helibeb-cnof, nenamgal sipsclar".

>    4.  And another sentence for remembering the sequence of the
>	planets: Mercury-Venus-Earth-etc.

The one I know is "Men very easily make jugs serve useful nocturnal
purposes".

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