legitimate dolphin

this might be insufficiently weird but I use it every day at work:

IgG testing shows infections that are Gone
IgM shows infections that are M-mediate

my mom thought of this mnemonic to remember how to spell "icicles" for a grade school spelling test. regarding aging eyesight:

"i see... i see... less!"

a cabbie relative taught me "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest"

each word stands for two streets of downtown Seattle, going south to north: Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike, Pine

I have never forgotten the two mnemonics for geologic periods and epochs that I learned in college:

Camels Often Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak
Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous

Practically Every Other Monday, Penguins Play Hopscotch
Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene Holocene

"Standard" guitar tuning is (from low to high pitch) EADGBE: Every Aardvark Digs Great Big Excavations

My main reference for mnemonics is how people get into arguments about how you HAVE to multiply/add first because of PEMDAS. So I'm not a fan.

But I do repeat "lefty loosy, righty tighty" every damn time I screw something in. Which I learned from a damn comedy sketch in Cirque du Soleil: Varekai, of all things.

a book I read as a kid had a chapter about the protagonist's brother annoying the shit out of her by constantly repeating the phrase "eebee geebee back da freezee," which turns out to be a mnemonic for the notes on the treble clef

i had completely forgotten a thing from sixth grade: Patty Made A Taco, for the phases of mitosis, and i was like psh but it didn't work because i don't remember what it stands for but when i expended 3 seconds of thought i did actually remember prophase-metaphase-anaphase-telophase

the funny thing was that my science teacher didn't use this mnemonic because she lowkey thought it was stupid as hell. and yet here i am, remembering, just because so many other sixth graders chanted Patty Made A Taco all the time. so suck on that mrs lemon

and this isn't a mnemonic but i can also recite the entire climactic speech from The Crucible because the other english teacher was giving out a few points of extra credit on one specific test if you got it right. and, again, other tenth graders repeated it so many times (overdramatically) that it's still in my brain 15 years later. will i ever be free

There is a linux command to view every directory/file, sorted by the size it takes up on disk:

du -chx / | sort -h

Which I remember because it puts my ducks in a row. (Pronounced by Sean Connery.)

we've always liked "please excuse my dope-ass swag" for PEMDAS even though we never have trouble remembering PEMDAS

It's not really a mnemonic, but I tend to have intensely exaggerated ways of pronouncing words like beautiful in my head to remember how they're spelled.

Tho there's also one that's like...really gross for memorizing the color codes on a resistor, which I ironically enough, struggle to remember, despite people claiming that "naughty" ones are easier to remember. Guess there's a threshold before your brain just kicks it out outta spite.

i remember stalagmite for Ground, and stalactite for Ceiling. I think that's common?

but my partner remembers that stalagmites might fall, so they're the ceiling ones, and stalactites are fastened tightly in place, so they're the ground ones. And then she also remembers that it's wrong, but memorizing the wrong one and also the fact that it's wrong is somehow easier than learning a correct one. 😆

vin diesel has ten weapons

ven di sal has ten ve pon se <- the common irregular imperatives in spanish

This one, which a classmate came up with in primary school, has stuck with me for (mumblemumble) years:
My Very Expensive Mercedes Just Smashed Up Near Pinner
(Pinner being a local-ish area at the time so replaceable as necessary, because Pluto still counts in my heart)

I learned it as the phrase "King Phillip, Come Out For Good Sex!" in high school (from a classmate).

These days you probably need to add a "Damn" in front (for Domain)

In elementary school they told us Never Eat Shredded Wheat, for North South East West, the compass directions in clockwise order.

I still use it to remember east from west, especially if I'm not oriented north to begin with. It's dumb.

The other one is one I came up with myself (but maybe unconsciously stole it, I don't know for sure) to remember the grammatical difference between lay and lie.

Things can lay but only people can lie.

Although this difference isn't completely set in stone. You can lay with someone, and be laid down. But the phrase is properly "lie down" and not "lay down". You lay THINGS down, like on a table.

For the full circle of fifths: Fishes can give daddy an ear baby #Fishes #Can bAlso bEat bBabies.