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DocKurtz wrote: Spring ahead and fall back for Day Light Savings time.
Oh, I love that one!
This is one thing I can never remember, so now I'll have a trick. A pity it does not translate into french!
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tollbaby wrote:Can anybody give me a trick to remember what I did five minutes ago?
I only wish I had a trick for that myself! :? :slap: :wall: :cry:
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DocKurtz wrote:Rereading this reminds me ... a lot of people can't remember how to spell Michael; they confuse the a and e ... those that care to remember just need to remember it is alphabetical ;)
I remember it by imagining the ae ligature (æ)- you simply can't write ea bound together.


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DocKurtz wrote:Spring ahead and fall back for Day Light Savings time.
One I've seen or heard somewhere? esp. for Antipodeans is:

SAAB (the car company)

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voralfred wrote:
tollbaby wrote:Can anybody give me a trick to remember what I did five minutes ago?
I only wish I had a trick for that myself! :? :slap: :wall: :cry:
Oh, but that's easy!

1. I remember what I was, ten minutes ago, intending to do in five minutes. :idea:
or
2. Listen to/look at the recording of your personal sound/video recorder that records and loops in a cycle of 5 minutes. You can see right now what you did five minutes ago.
or
3. Put a mirror at a distance of five lightminutes. The image of what you were doing five minutes ago is just now being reflected. Wait five more minutes and look at the mirror. Ten minutes after you did it, you can see what you did five minutes ago.

Is your head hurting yet?
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tollbaby wrote:
voralfred wrote:
AREA: Speleology

WHAT: Stalactites and stalagmites, you know what they are, projections of calcium carbonates that go either down from the ceiling or up from the floor in caves. But which are which?

MEMORY TRICK: Unfortunately only works for french speakers: stalacTites "Tombent" (fall down), stalagMites "Montent" (go up).
Can anyone find and english equivalent? I am at a loss for words
From the Berenstain Bears:

Stalactites and stalagmites, only caves have got'em.
Stalactites are on the top, and 'mites are on the bottom!
So stalactites hang, right?

So why hasn't anyone thought of 'stalactits'?
Isn't it obvious?
To me it is very much so. 'Stalactites' in Dutch is stalactieten, and the Dutch word for 'tits' is tieten. Also the Dutch word for 'hang' is ... hang (in the 1st person present conjugation of the verb hangen).

Is it because you English-speakers think in terms of boobs, these days? Of course, nobody would associate epoch-old stalactites with the meaningless word 'stalacboobs', would they?

Unfortunately, general acceptance of 'stalactits', a very simple mnemonic, is still pending (pun intended).

BTW.
'Mnemonic aid' in Dutch is ezelsbruggetje (ass's bridge). The Dutch must consider an ass to be a smart animal to use such a memorisation trick. Still, one wonders where they got that association.
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I always remembered it this way: stalactites have to hang on tight (to keep from falling)
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That's how I remember it too! I learned that waaaaaay back in elementry school.
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This thread reminded me of all of those North, East, South, West memorization tips. But in Chinese it is really confusing. It goes dong-xi-nan-bei which translates to East, West, South, North.

I, as an ecology geek, know tons for memorizing trees, shrubs, and birds. My favorite is the one for Western hemlock: One day, Mother Nature decided to hand out cones to all of the great evergreen trees. The Western hemlock thought that Mother Nature would hand out the biggest cones first, so he cut towards the front. But Mother Nature caught him and gave him the smallest cone of all. So that is why you see the hemlock drooping its top in disappointment on the horizon.
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I used to have a ton of these, way back when I was a bartender, then as a law school student. Damned if I can remember a single one now.
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moonwolf021 wrote:I, as an ecology geek, know tons for memorizing trees, shrubs, and birds. My favorite is the one for Western hemlock: One day, Mother Nature decided to hand out cones to all of the great evergreen trees. The Western hemlock thought that Mother Nature would hand out the biggest cones first, so he cut towards the front. But Mother Nature caught him and gave him the smallest cone of all. So that is why you see the hemlock drooping its top in disappointment on the horizon.
Way back when I was still active in Scouting, I used to know a few regarding the number of needles for the different varieties of pine, but I've forgotten them all.
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Darb wrote:... the different varieties of pine, but I've forgotten them all.
If I accidentally touch a conifer's needles with exposed skin, I don't actually get a rash, but my skin starts itching horrendously, for about an hour. And scratching makes it worse. :cry:

So I learned one single mnemonic for ALL conifers: "KEEP AWAY! DON'T TOUCH!"
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Aww, that's terrible.

/Me quietly scribbles EPS's allergy info little black notebook of nefarious secret lore. :butter:
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Darb wrote:... little black notebook of nefarious secret lore. :butter:
Are you planning to publish it? :clap: 8) :banana:
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I think a better question would be what are various affected people willing to pay me to NOT publish it. :wink:
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Darb wrote:I think a better question would be what are various affected people willing to pay me to NOT publish it. :wink:
Well now, if you publish, all the Sues and others in this forum may sue you, they have my blessing. :twisted:
But I myself certainly would not. You already know my opinion. :D
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One of these days, we'll have to kick off a new volleyball thread (not the last one that died under the weight of it's railroaded plot), and post an excerpt. ;)

Ok, back on topic ... Memorization Tricks and Tips, if I recall.
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I do recall learning the albaphet by singing it to a specially written score (when I was 6 or so), with our teacher playing the piona. Unfortunately I don't recall the musical theme, but I never forgot the correct sequence of the albaphet.
I have no trouble slepping correctly or sorting in albaphetical order.
Even my albapharts, while I'm speeling, are coccertly slepped.
Yeah, I can hear you saying "How could you know if you were speeling?".
Well, it was my wife who insistered I did too.
I'm very sad she dicorved me, I miss her slepping coccertions.
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Was it by any chance the Mozart tune?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZrj1UMk ... re=related

I was unable to find the german lyrics, these are italians.
But maybe I should try Flemish lyrics? Though from your slepping when you are speeling, I'd epxcet that you mezorhymed the fuegian aphbalet as inpertreded by a mesanielan chorus.
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Note to self:

EPS would NOT like a vial of pine oil for Christmas.
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