#49586
12/11/2001 5:27 PM
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Take the capital B from Dromedary and turn it 90 degrees to anticlockwise. It has one hump. Take the capital B from Bactrian and turn it similarly. It has two humps.
And I know if I had read the rest of the thread I would have found that someone else already answered it .
TEd
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#49587
12/11/2001 5:32 PM
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Take the capital B from Dromedary and turn it 90 degrees to anticlockwise. It has one hump....And I know if I had read the rest of the thread I would have found that someone else already answered it .and more accurately, at that. 
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#49588
12/11/2001 5:51 PM
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TEd
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12/11/2001 5:55 PM
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the capital B from Dromedaryand more accurately, at that. We all knew that TEd has a way with words, now we find out he has a way with letters, too.
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#49590
12/11/2001 6:42 PM
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OK, I finally remembered one that hasn't been posted yet.
To the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel
"X" equals negative "b"
plus or minus square root
"b" squared minus 4 "a" "c"
all over 2 "a".
This, of course, is the formula for the quadratic equation, taught to me by my AP Calculus teacher last year.
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#49591
12/11/2001 6:53 PM
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This, of course, is the formula for the quadratic equation...
Of course. [wise nod]
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#49592
12/11/2001 7:02 PM
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I finally remembered one
Great mnemonic if you have to work to remember it.* And it doesn't scan too well, does it? I still haven't quite fit it to the music.
*Course I had to work back from the square root of 6 to get Rare Bee instead of the Busy Bee that I had remembered and this with the stupid Mac calculator what I couldn't figure out how to put it in scientific mode.
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#49593
12/11/2001 8:24 PM
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I forgot one too.. even though i have been using it of late..how to treat an injury -- that hasn't broken the skin..
Rest
Ice
Ccompression
Elevation.
and as for some one who has passed out..
If the face is pale, raise the tail.
If the face is red, raise the head...
and one i only half remember.. one of the latin experts will have to fix it--the four signs of infection
Cholar (redness)
Molar (swelling)
Dolar (Pain)
Solar (Heat--fever).
Molar and solar are right.. since they came into english unchanged.. is it color (as in colorado-- the red river?) or colar..?
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#49594
12/11/2001 8:37 PM
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I still haven't quite fit it to the music. I with you, Faldage.
"X" equals negative "b" It seems to be missing the first two "pick-up" notes... if you catch my *drift.
"b" squared minus 4 "a" "c"... I got rhythm I... got rhythm I got... rhythm who could ask...etc. I can't even *make it fit...
All Cows Eat Grass (bass clef spaces)
Good Boys Do Fine Always (bass clef lines)
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#49595
12/11/2001 9:22 PM
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After screwing up one post here already, I hesitate to continue.
When I was a young kid taking first aid, we learned that PAIL described the four types of wounds, puncture, abrasion, incision, and laceration.
And one I have never forgotten, though I learned it from a children's book half a century ago, is how to spell it separate rather than seperate: there's a rat in separate. I have no idea why this particular story had such an impression on me, but I can still remember the entire plot of this book!
And Faldage's mnemonic is driving me crazy. At first I thought it might have something to do with the symbols for the elements, but two hours of sweating over it left me with zilch.
TEd
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#49596
12/11/2001 10:08 PM
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okokokok, I didn't explain it well enough. (I think my calc teacher made it up herself.)
"X" equals negative "b" Yes, you ignore the "pick-up" notes. "X" would be on the second note otherwise.
"b" squared minus 4 "a" "c" "Squared" is only one syllable, but I think the main confusion is that 4 is sung over 2 notes.
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#49597
12/12/2001 1:22 AM
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the four signs of infection
Cholar (redness)
Molar (swelling)
Dolar (Pain)
Solar (Heat--fever).
I learned them as
rubor = redness
tumor = swelling
dolor = pain
calor = heat
and
functio laese = loss of function (doesn't fit the pattern - never did. Too bad - deal with it)
The first four translate fairly directly into standard English, anyway
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#49598
12/12/2001 6:50 AM
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spelling: aborigines OR, these days, aboriginal people.
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#49599
12/12/2001 6:54 AM
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bactrian camels have a "train" of humps on their back!
(you'll know which is which now, but you'll always spell it wrong!)
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#49600
12/12/2001 3:52 PM
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Well, at long last, we have finally resolved the matter of "humps". Perhaps now we can move on to more savory subjects of mnemonic learning such as the origins of these camels.
Dromedary: Known as "the arabian camel.
Bactrian: Rearrange the letters in "a bactrian" to read "ain't arab"
Further, if challenged, I can prove mnemonically that "ain't" is proper english.
Incidentally; In mid last century rural Alabama it was quite acceptable in polite society to remark.. "Mary Ellen finally had her youn'un. It was a little nine pound humper". Then and there, people were more colorful and more direct.
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#49601
12/12/2001 8:21 PM
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Keiva: For example, one trying to recite the names of all fifty US states might begin by learning how many begin with A, with B, with C, etc.
Or you could learn the song "Fifty Nifty United States" that I learned in 5th Grade for my school's "Parade of States." I still know the damned song, and therefore can immediately rattle off all 50 states in alphabetical order. I wish I knew who wrote the thing, but maybe you could LIU if you're interested.
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#49602
12/12/2001 8:46 PM
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I ... can immediately rattle off all 50 states in alphabetical order.
Probably faster than you could rattle off the months of the year, the first ten digits or even the names of the days of the week in alphabetical order.
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#49603
12/12/2001 8:57 PM
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Yes, Flatlander, and that's a fun way. The method I mentioned (for words) parallels Faldage's-method-for-numbers, in that it is of general application.
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#49604
12/12/2001 9:25 PM
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Many thanks for staightening out the humps on the dromedary and bactrian camels. (I wish tsuwm had posted some etymological information!)
Do any of you have mnemonic devices for distinguishing among the flower parts: corolla, calyx, perianth, sepals and petals? (Petals aren't always what they seem, as in the case of the daisy...)
WW
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#49605
12/12/2001 9:47 PM
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>I wish tsuwm had posted some etymological information!
man, if I posted etyminfo for every word discussion that came along, I'd be like... a poohbah or sumptin.
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#49606
12/12/2001 9:51 PM
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If you make a fist with one hand and point at the knuckles and valleys with a finger while naming the months,either switching hands or bouncing on the last and coming back, you get which months have 31 days (the knuckles) and which don't (the valleys). Never as useful as remembering your left hand makes an L.
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#49607
12/13/2001 12:41 AM
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I've heard that blondes get "TGIF" printed on their shoes...
Nothing to do with "Thank God it's Friday".......
Toes Go In First.
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#49608
12/15/2001 1:36 PM
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In reply to:
The camel has a single hump,
The dromendary, two.
Or else the other way around...
I'm never sure. Are you?
(and btw, it is the other way around.)
Reminds me of:
The one elled lama, he's a priest,
The two elled llama, he's a beast,
I'll bet you your pyjama
You've never seen a three elled lllama.
Bingley
Bingley
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#49609
12/15/2001 2:14 PM
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Your attention is invited to an urban conflagration known as a three alarmer.
This is how Nash ended his original poem.
TEd
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#49610
12/15/2001 9:22 PM
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"etyminfo" ============================================================ And Bingley--that's pajama, or was your mama a llama? 
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#49611
12/17/2001 6:55 AM
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No, my mum's not a llama, but she has been known to get the hump [reminiscent quaking].
Bingley
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#49612
12/17/2001 12:20 PM
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to get the hump
Bingley, I confess I'm rather shocked--you seldom if ever visit the gutter. But, obviously she did--you're here, aren't you?
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#49613
12/17/2001 12:42 PM
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We have - yet again - the US-UK linguistic divide rearing its fascinating head again.
Pyjama is the usual spelling for us Brits; and "having the hump" is a very old-fashioned way of saying that you are in a foul mood.
('Tis an expression that my Mama used as well, Bingley! She used to recite a comic poem about "... you'll get the hump, the camelious hump, the hump that is black and blue." For the life of me, I can't remember the rest of it - any offers?)
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#49614
12/17/2001 4:57 PM
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Rhuby: http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/camel.htm (at the end); spelled with a double "e" He to she: Do you love Kipling? She (dumb blonde): I dunno [giggle]; I've never kippled before.
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12/17/2001 5:20 PM
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Thanks, Rhuby; I knew someone would take up the gauntlets I flung. Here's your poem, my Dear--It's from Kipling's Just So Stories, "How the Camel Got His Hump".
THE Camel's hump is an ugly lump
Which well you may see at the Zoo;
But uglier yet is the hump we get
From having too little to do.
Kiddies and grown-ups too-oo-oo,
If we haven't enough to do-oo-oo,
We get the hump--
Cameelious hump--
The hump that is black and blue!
We climb out of bed with a frouzly head
And a snarly-yarly voice.
We shiver and scowl and we grunt and we growl
At our bath and our boots and our toys;
And there ought to be a corner for me
(And I know there is one for you)
When we get the hump--
Cameelious hump--
The hump that is black and blue!
The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
Or frowst with a book by the fire;
But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
And dig till you gently perspire;
And then you will find that the sun and the wind.
And the Djinn of the Garden too,
Have lifted the hump--
The horrible hump--
The hump that is black and blue!
I get it as well as you-oo-oo--
If I haven't enough to do-oo-oo--
We all get hump--
Cameelious hump--
Kiddies and grown-ups too! You can read the story, with illustrations, here: http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/camel.htm
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12/17/2001 5:31 PM
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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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12/17/2001 5:59 PM
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12/17/2001 10:28 PM
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J, isn't that what I just said? Harumpf!
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#49619
12/17/2001 10:32 PM
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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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#49620
12/18/2001 5:58 PM
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Nope, Nash's doggerel used silk instead of pink.
TEd
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12/18/2001 10:00 PM
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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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#49622
12/07/2002 9:09 PM
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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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#49623
12/08/2002 2:04 AM
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Carpal Bones: "Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate" ....She Looks Too Pretty Try To Catch Her
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12/08/2002 3:51 AM
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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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12/08/2002 9:48 AM
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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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