#49626
12/08/2002 11:53 AM
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Father Can't Get Drunk At Every Bar
Is that the one you teach the little kiddies, Dub'?
Mebbe one of these mnemonics will help. I always have to work it out from first principles. Or either I'll invent one of my own, one.
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#49627
12/08/2002 5:02 PM
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No, Faldear, I don't teach the order of sharps to the kiddies. I'd lose my job if I taught them the order the way I've learned it. Besides, we don't have to teach the circle of fifths at elementary level. But I'll tell you one thing: Father Can't Get Drunk At Every Bar has stuck in my brain for over three decades. It works. And BEAD Gray CatFish has stuck there, too, for the order of flats. I use both of those mnemonics regularly. Oh, could we see into people's brains as they figure out problems in their separate ways--what great laughs we would have! Let's say I'm figuring out the accidentals in the key of A. I already know A has three sharps--I know to stop on the pitch beneath A to get sharps., so my brain thinks up to G, "Father Can't Get; F C G" Yep. That's how I do it. Key of E? I got down to D, think, "Father Can't Get Drunk" and get my F, C, G and D. Good system. That's what mnemonics are all about. I've thought about my father at bars a lot over the decades. Thank goodness my actual father is long beyond those 3D bar years! My mother would agree with me.
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#49628
12/08/2002 5:17 PM
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I've always remembered the names of life processes like this:
Movement Respiration Sensitivity Nutrition Excretion Growth
(Mrs Nerg)
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#49629
12/08/2002 7:25 PM
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Mrs Nerg
Din't you leave out an R?
Movement Respiration Sensitivity Nutrition Excretion (What, Regurgitation?) Growth
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#49630
12/08/2002 7:41 PM
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I was surprised when I searched that I could not find prior posting of basic music mnemonic
All Good Deeds Are Ever Bearing Fruit. Can't even remember that it was for in music.
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#49631
12/08/2002 8:55 PM
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Din't you leave out an R?Oh yeah, reproduction, thanks for pointing it out - I've got a test on it tomorrow. 
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#49632
12/09/2002 1:51 AM
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the names of life processes ... Movement Respiration Sensitivity Nutrition Excretion Growth
(Mrs Nerg)
Harley Hills, my tenth grade biology teacher (1956), gave us a slightly different order:
Dr Grime = digestion, respiration, growth, reproduction, irritability, motion, excretion.
Slight differences - digestion/nutrition; irritability/sensitivity; motion/movement - but basically life goes on, doing the same things fifty years later...
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#49633
12/09/2002 3:05 AM
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The device given for the cranial nerves, 'On Old Olympus ..." was used in Baltimore in nursing schools as being suitable for ladies.
At Hopkins Med school, the device was,
Oh Oh Oh To Touch And Feel A Girl's Vagina, Sex Hurrah!
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#49634
12/09/2002 9:46 AM
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So, what is the Olympus mnemonic and what are the nerves?
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#49635
12/09/2002 2:16 PM
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My dog has fleas.
A musical tuning for ukelele (and mebbe some other instruments)
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#49636
12/09/2002 2:18 PM
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My dog has fleas.
I know H is German for B, but what's M?
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12/09/2002 2:24 PM
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Faldage, you're kidding us, right?
My dog has fleas are just intervals you use for tuning the ukelele, but they don't have any relation to the letter names. In other words, they're intervals, not specific notes. You just memorize the tune and then tune up your ukelele.
But I know you're kidding us, unless there is a pitch out there called "m" that I don't know about.
Why do the Germans have that 'b' = 'h' by the way? I never heard the reasoning behind it. Our glockenspiels here at school have removable bars, and the ones with 'b' also show 'h'.
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#49638
12/09/2002 2:31 PM
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Reminds me of the resistor color code mnemonic
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Grey White
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
That's for the first 3 bands.
I use BaRGeS for the fourth band
Brown Red Gold Silver
1% 2% 5% 10%
The first two bands are actual numbers. The third is the number of zeros. So red red orange gold would be 22 KOhms within 5%. If there's no fourth band, then the tolerance is + or - 20%. (Surprised I remember this. I've only ever used it once on the job.)
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#49639
12/09/2002 2:42 PM
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German B is our Bb. "My dog has fleas" is the lyric to the so-called tune that you get when your uke is properly tuned and could in no way be considered a mnemonic. Now "Go Count Each Asterisk" would be a mnemonic for tuning the uke (or "Don't Get Boiled Eggs" for the baritone uke).
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12/09/2002 2:44 PM
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This sort of violent imagery will not be accepted. The proper mnemonic for resistor color codes is Black Beans Really Open Your Guts But Violeta Governs Wisely.
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12/09/2002 2:52 PM
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Black Beans ... I never heard of that one. Can't say that I like the other mnemonic, but I must say that it's one of those things one never forgets - like "A beautiful, naked, blonde jumps up and down." After decades, I still can't get it out of my head.
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#49642
12/09/2002 2:53 PM
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German B is our Bb
Which is why Bach, that ol' scamp, was able to write variations on his own name.
(is this thread getting perilously long, not to mention wide, or is it me?)
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#49643
12/09/2002 2:55 PM
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I knew it wasn't a pneumonic...but is there a term for a phrase that triggers memory without acronymic lettering then? And here's an interesting word tidbit on the ukelele: http://www.gryphonstrings.com/armstrong/doguke.html
>The uke has always had a flea thing. Let's start with the name - uku meaning 'flea' and lele 'to dance.' And of course, everyone knows the one line hit song "My Dog Has Fleas." It is as catchy for its lyrics as it is useful for remembering how to tune your uke.< And click the above link to see a picture of a Poochalele! 
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#49644
12/09/2002 2:57 PM
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Faldage, did you read what I wrote? I wrote that the intervalic relationship is how you tune the ukelele. And it is a mnemonic device if you remember pitches. You wrote "My dog has fleas"--and I instantly knew the melody to which you were referring, and I've got a handy ukelele here that I just tuned up using the mnemonic.
Now if that ain't a mnemonic, then how in Sam's Hill did I tune up my uke?
Also, I still don't understand why the Germans need an H for B instead of B. It's extremely illogical if you think about it:
CDflatDEflatEFGflatGAflatABflatHC
Just plain strange to see that "h" in between B and C--like some new, weirdly evolved violation of the alphabet.
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#49645
12/09/2002 3:02 PM
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Wordwind asked:
So, what is the Olympus mnemonic and what are the nerves?
This was given in an earlier post in the thread, so I’m not being clever here, but:
The cranial nerves, in the proper order for nerves 1-12:
On Old Olympus's Towering Top
A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops.
ocularmotor; optic; olfactory; trigeminal; trochlear;
abducens; facial; acoustic; glossopharyngeal; vagus; spinal accessory; hypoglossal
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12/09/2002 10:12 PM
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So, what is the Olympus mnemonic and what are the nerves?Are you sure you really wanted to know? On Old Olympus' timbered tops, a Finn and German viewed some hops. I Olfactory II Optic III Oculomotor IV Trochlear V Trigeminal VI Abducens VII Facial VIII Auditory IX Glossopharyngeal X Vagus XI (Spinal) Accessory XII Hypoglossal They are the Official Names of the twelve cranial nerves, and are often referred to with Roman Numerals. I put "Spinal" is in parentheses, because of the variant mnemonic that ran "Oh, Oh, Oh, to touch and feel a girl's vagina, ah!" which is the one I learned, and has an A instead of an S for number XI. My sister, on the other hand, being one of only four women in her class in a different medical school, learned about Old Olympus because since she was a girl no one would tell her the "real" mnemonic. But, you know, the silly mnemonics work, and we still remember the sequence even though we haven't used it in forty years. There's also the one about which nerves innervate the muscles that move the eye, which went (let's see how this preformatted text comes out) LR (SO )
6 4 3
That's a pseudo-chemistry formula, and it is read "L R six, S O four taken three times"
and means that the Lateral Rectus muscle is moved by the sixth nerve, the Superior Oblique by the fourth nerve, and the other four by the third nerve.
Medical school, and anatomy in particular, is just chock full of such delights.
I won't even begin to tell you about the mnemonic for the five branches of the third division of the trigeminal nerve. Come up with your own, the way my classmate George did. I will say only that they are the Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular, and Cervical. (but I can PM you, if you insist.}
EDIT: This thread is continued on Mnemoniacs II - for greater ease of loading. (That's what happens with more-than-100 posts in a thread, so we transplant it!)
Post anything after this post at some risk of not being seen!
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