Oops, lost track of things. So let's finish up this November Meme with the last two entries merged into one, courtesy of sskipstress and sskipstress. Convenient, wot wot
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Deep down, I knew that you would remind me of the Bass Clef. I have to admit, I never played an instrument that used the bass clef, and never learned the corresponding mnemonics. Thank you for this new knowledge!
I also suddenly recall another mnemonic for the treble clef, "Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips".
Perhaps I'm also ashamed at studying the F-clef notes and thinking "Get Behind Dat Fine Ass". Then again, maybe I'm not.
We do indeed need to know the answers to all those pressing turkey questions.
Many of us know the poem "30 Days Hath November" to remember the number of days in every month. - Okay, one? I've never heard of that poem. Two? You don't need mnemonics for this if you have both your hands! Start with one hand and name one month per knuckle or depressions between the knuckles going from index finger to pinky, then continue the same on the other hand (again, index to pinky). The knuckles are months with 31 days, the depressions are 30 days (or freaky February). And voila! Months all sorted.
How about FOIL - first, outer, inner, last? From algebra, a mnemonic for distributing two binomials.
And there are some things you just have to straight-up memorize, like the quadratic formula. Negative b plus or minus the square root of b-squared minus 4ac, all over 2a. Burrrrned into my memory.
Dammit, I was going to include FOIL and then I got distracted. I always liked that one.
The quadratic formula just can't be mnemonicized. It just is. I did learn a mnemonic for the Krebs Cycle once, but that vanished with all my other biological knowledge in high school.
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I also suddenly recall another mnemonic for the treble clef, "Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips".
Perhaps I'm also ashamed at studying the F-clef notes and thinking "Get Behind Dat Fine Ass". Then again, maybe I'm not.
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It's not like I have one tattooed on my right arm. Oh wait....I do.
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...ok, I got nothing. I admit it. Could have been worse, could have used the CLEFt of your chin, nyuk nyuk.
Yes, I'll stop now.
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Many of us know the poem "30 Days Hath November" to remember the number of days in every month. - Okay, one? I've never heard of that poem. Two? You don't need mnemonics for this if you have both your hands! Start with one hand and name one month per knuckle or depressions between the knuckles going from index finger to pinky, then continue the same on the other hand (again, index to pinky). The knuckles are months with 31 days, the depressions are 30 days (or freaky February). And voila! Months all sorted.
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And there are some things you just have to straight-up memorize, like the quadratic formula. Negative b plus or minus the square root of b-squared minus 4ac, all over 2a. Burrrrned into my memory.
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The quadratic formula just can't be mnemonicized. It just is. I did learn a mnemonic for the Krebs Cycle once, but that vanished with all my other biological knowledge in high school.
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