If I might take a liberty.
I remmember my Grandmother looking after me one night so my parents could have a night out.{they went to the Pictures}.
We watched a suspence thing on telivision.
Early on I announced 'Who Done It' and Grandma said that's who the script writers want you to think,it won't be them.
The script writers couldn't deflect my Grandma.
She had lived through two World Wars and knew her way round.
The liberty I am taking is it is a concrete rememberance from my childhood.
But it falls short if I need to describe it as stupid.
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@The-only-Mr-T saidInteresting. I never had such a mnemonic taught to me as a kid. Must have made up my own.
Never (north) eat (east) shredded (south) wheat (West).
However, over here in the US as a kid I used "P.A." (as in P.A. system) to remember which sides the Atlantic and Pacific were on.
We moved around some when I was a kid, so I heard "Physical Education" abbreviated three different ways: P.E., Phys. Ed., and Phy. Ed. (that last one didn't make sense to me).
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@Paul-Martin saidOver here I think we just memorized ROYGBIV -- more efficient. And I also had a vague thought involving induced synaesthesia as a result of such a mnemonic.
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain (colours of rainbow)
Or just that red was at one end and violet at the other, and in-between was just an obvious progression, color-wise. 😉
[but I guess that wouldn't work for those who had some form of color-blindness, which I do not -- except for the other 96% of the spectrum]
I wonder how others were taught to remember that "embarrass" has two r's and "harass" only has one -- I always had difficulty with that.
@Ponderable saidIt's interesting to learn that such mnenomics are not just an Anglophone phenomenon.
Hallo liebe Nathalie, komm rüber Chips fressen (H-Li-Na-K-Rb-Cs-Fr the alkali metalls) I needed to reconstruvct the hint via the elements...
(I strongly suspect that Paul Martin might have scanned this post to see whether I might have slipped in an initialization of my own. 😉 )
@Drewnogal saidI hope they thought to teach you some Polish before they gave you that advice! 😉
Gdyby kózka nie skakala, to by nózki nie zlamala
….. which translates as ‘If the goat didn't jump, she wouldn't have broken her leg’.
I was told this by my parents whenever I fell and hurt myself.
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@mchill saidWhen I was a little kid, I used to stick knives in the wall sockets (so I have been told).
NEVER try to recharge flashlight batteries by plugging an electrical
cord into a wall outlet, then sticking the 2 wires on opposite sides
of the battery. Results:
1. The battery swells up, turns black, and starts to smoke.
2. The main breaker switch flips, turning off all the lights in
the house.
3. If you're a 10-year-old kid, you'll probably catch a whipping
f ...[text shortened]... et the record reflect this was the beginning (and end) of my
6 min. career as "Junior Scientist" 😳
I'm guessing they must have been butter knives.
I also learned that putting one's tongue on terminals of a 9V battery would give one a nice little zap or tingle, but one of my younger brothers took to that more than I did.
@Kewpie saidNot that I ever became a sight-reader, but over here we learned it as "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" and I don't remember what we had for FACEG (even though that's easy enough to remember on its own).
All Cows Eat Grass
Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit
musical key notation
I never progressed far enough to learn the Circle of Fifths or to know the key of a piece from the sharps or the flats on the staff, and which of those appear first and the order in which the others are added.
@wycoller saidSimilarly, this is also not really a stupid memory, but when I was in the single digits (maybe 4 or 5), I wandered out into the living room one night when my (now late) Mom and Dad were watching a horror movie on our black-and-white TV at the time, and they told me to go back to bed because the movie would give me nightmares.
If I might take a liberty.
I remmember my Grandmother looking after me one night so my parents could have a night out.{they went to the Pictures}.
We watched a suspence thing on telivision.
Early on I announced 'Who Done It' and Grandma said that's who the script writers want you to think,it won't be them.
The script writers couldn't deflect my Grandma.
She had lived t ...[text shortened]... s a concrete rememberance from my childhood.
But it falls short if I need to describe it as stupid.
I'm sure it was about giant radioactive ants or spiders, so it was probably "Them!" I did go back to bed, but it's nice to remember that my parents would enjoy watching such a movie together.
A little later (still in Michigan) I remember getting up before 6 AM on Saturdays and listening to the end of the farm report (on TV, but just audio with a text runner), because "Jonny Quest" came on at six.
Sometime a little after that, I learned that dragging a magnet across the TV screen would move the pixels.
