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#49556 12/09/01 09:37 AM
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Along the same line, my daughter's home made version - well, it helps her remember it and that is the point

Many volcanoes erupt mulberry jam sandwiches under no pressure.

I thought of changing the middle to "marbles, jasper and stones" but she wasn't impressed!

PM me with other improvements if you don't want to clutter up the board.

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Bingley:

About "Oh be a fine girl and kiss me..." what are the types? The phrase is positively memorable.

And colors of the rainbow: They're the person called,
"Roy G. Biv," too.

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My two rats leap no jelly meal fopcap, my name for John Shar's mama famine kitchen police. Luzon Fifi.

OK, Faldage, I'll bite.


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Now I need a large container of coffee.
The number of letters, in each words, provides 3.1415926.


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About "Oh be a fine girl and kiss me..." what are the types?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/startypes.shtml: "Stars are classified by their spectra (the elements that they absorb) and their temperature. There are seven main types of stars. In order of decreasing temperature, O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
O and B stars are uncommon but very bright; M stars are common but dim.

An easy mnemonic for remembering these is: "Oh be a fine girl, kiss me."
The Sun is a as a G2V type star, a yellow dwarf and a main sequence star. [sic]"

Great phrase, bingley!


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In the days of Cicero, there were complicated ways by which long speeches could be remembered by a complicated mnemonic process. I can't remember where I read about it, most likely in Scientific American. Maybe some of our Latin and Greek scholars can tell us about it.

A sample might be the orator enters a room, the door reminds him of his first paragraph, the table reminds him of the second, each item on the table reminds him of successive sentences or paragraphs.


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my two rats leap...

The number of letters, in each word

I get 2344254624345467654. Is this pi in heptasemigisemal?


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This from Google about pi:

3.142857

My two rats leap no jelly meal fopcap, my name for John Shar's mama famine kitchen police. Luzon Fifi.

I fail to see how we get even 3.1 from the above. (My has two letters; two has three letters....

Please throw me a line here, somebody. What am I not seeing that everybody else here is seeing and, apparently, happy taking bites out of?

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[Sigh] Sorting out the above confusion: if I have a large piece of π, "Now I need a large container of coffee." Count the letters in each word of the italicized mnemonic, to recall that π (to 8 significant digits) is 3.1415926:

3 - n o w
1 - I
4 - n e e d
1 - a
5 - l a r g e
9 - c o n t a i n e r
2 - o f
6 - c o f f e e

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This is less sophisticated than the others, but I remember my neighbor's phone number because the first three numbers are the same as mine, and the last four are the date of the Battle of Hastings. The association is enhanced by my neighbor's being an English teacher.


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