Useful Mnemonics

[verytalldave]

The only one I ever learnt and used was for the resistor colour code.......


BILLY black 0

BROWN brown 1

RUNS red 2

OVER orange 3

YOUR yellow 4

GARDEN green 5

BUT blue 6

VIOLETS violet 7

GROW grey 8

WILD white 9

 

[grober]

Every Acid Dealer Gets Busted Eventually EADGBE standard guitar tuning

 

[whitenemesis]

Richard Of York Gains Battles In Vain (rainbow colours in correct order)

 

[Stratman]

Goats Can Eat Anything

Soprano ukulele tuning

CIVIL

The phase relationship between voltage and current in reactive components.

With a Capacitor, I (current) leads V (voltage)

V leads I in an inductor L

 

[Harrythedog]

God Bless You

Placement of Green,Brown and Yellow snooker balls on the table

 

[Satch]

Kangaroos Naturally Muck About in Zoos Chasing Four Purple Hippos Chasing Aardvarks.

K > Na > Mg > Al > Zn > Cr > Fe > Pd > H > Cu > Au

 

[gaz_l]

The only one I ever learnt and used was for the resistor colour code.......


BILLY black 0

BROWN brown 1

RUNS red 2

OVER orange 3

YOUR yellow 4

GARDEN green 5

BUT blue 6

VIOLETS violet 7

GROW grey 8

WILD white 9

The one I knew wasn't anywhere near as politically correct

Cheers,

Gaz

 

[Ted]

The one I knew wasn't anywhere near as politically correct

Cheers,

Gaz

Same here

Pa mend V trams

Verbs that take etre in the past tense.

 

[Dinizulu]

Poor - Physical
Dear - Data
Nelly - Network
Trout - Transport
She's - Session
Pi**ed - Presentation
Again - Application

OSI 7 Layer model - and I'm with Gaz and Ted too

 

[MOCAŠ]

Only two have really stuck with me since childhood:

"Every good boy deserves favour", which I learnt at the knee of my first piano teacher, the delectably-named Miss Honey.

And "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" for the colours of the rainbow.

 

[Charles Morgan]

Dic had a Duc it had Fer on its bac and that Eis a Fac.

Latin singular imperatives.

 

[moonloops]

"When the Mites go up the Tights come down."

As explained by a teacher long ago about Stalagmites and Stalactites

 

[MOCAŠ]

"Spring forward, fall back" is still the only way I can remember which way the clocks go.

 

[Ian Donkin]

Only two have really stuck with me since childhood:

"Every good boy deserves favour", which I learnt at the knee of my first piano teacher, the delectably-named Miss Honey.

And "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" for the colours of the rainbow.

My variant will get taken down - Every Good Boy Deserves FOOTBALL

 

[moonloops]

How about PEBCAK ?

Problem Exists between Chair and Keyboard ... !

Ideal for troubleshooting IT faults

 

[grober]

Or SNAFU or the more recent FUBAR from across the pond which decorum forbids---- Situation normal all f**** up and F***** up beyond any repair

 

[del320]

Rather more reverse mnemonics - but, being a car forum, lets not forget...

By Everyone's Experience, They Last Eternally.
Big Money Waster.
Fix It Again Tony.
Fix Or Repair Daily.
Had One, Never Did Again.
Junk Always Going Under At Repair Shop.
Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious.
Retarded Engine, No Acceleration, Ugly Lump of Trash.
Tried Repairing It Until My Parts Hurt.

 

[rascalmaster]

Bit more Niche perhaps... but amazing how a little ditty helps memorise endless streams of otherwise boring information... here are 11 (out of about 150) buoys we have to memorise along with their positions, characteristics, course and distance and depths both inside and outside etc etc.

Some Girls Give Nice Snogs, Chubby Ladies Do It Poorly

Shotley Spit, Guard, Grisle, North Shelf, South Shelf, Cliff Foot, Languard, Dean, Inner Ridge & Platters.

(Buoys in the main deep water channel around the beach End Turn on the Red Side when Departing Felixstowe)

never know when that might come in handy for you!

 

[camerafodder]

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

for the points of the compass

 

[BTB 500]

How about PEBCAK ?

Problem Exists between Chair and Keyboard ... !

Ideal for troubleshooting IT faults

The original one I remember was GIGO - garbage in, garbage out!