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The one-l lama, he's a priest.
The two-l llama, he's a beast.
But I will bet a pink pajama
There isn't any three-l lllama!
*"

In my book it was a footnote:
" *The author's attention has been called to an urban conflagration known as a three alarmer. Pooh."

[and he didn't mean Winnie, either]

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was Nash a smoker, den??


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J, isn't that what I just said? Harumpf!


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was Nash a smoker, den??
and he wore pink pajamas, wofuholicodoc? is that the cause for disdain?

btw, I tried googling to check out your quotation, but found myself extremely distracted by some of the items produed by searching "pink pajama".

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Nope, Nash's doggerel used silk instead of pink.



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Yes, TEd -- but so much more can be discovered (shall I say uncovered?) by googling the pink version. [grin -e]


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I'm bringing this old thread back up because I'm wondering whether anybody has learned any new mnemonics during the year.

I have. In a wetlands workshop I learned how to tell sedges from grasses when out in the wilds:

"Sedges have edges and grasses have asses"
(that's because grasses have a hole up the middle)

So, if you've learned a thing or two this year and have a way of remembering it/them, please enlighten us.

If nobody's learned anything, this old thread will turn into a dead thread.


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"Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate"
....She Looks Too Pretty Try To Catch Her



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well, for one thing, I've learned to check the dates whenever I read a thread now... yikes!! some names I haven't seen for awhile...

anyway-for the order of flats in key signatures:

Bad Eggs Are Darn Good Cat Food

and for the sharps(though this is a local one):

Five Cats Got Drunk At East Barre



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Et:

I learned for flats:

BEAD Gray Cat Fish

And for sharps:

Father Can't Get Drunk At Every Bar

And for lines of the treble staff:

Elvis's Guitar Broke Down Friday


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