My earth science teacher in high school taught us the following for remembering the hardness scale**:
"The girls can flirt and other queer things can do."
(Note that this was in the early 1970s, and interpret the adjective accordingly!)
**talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, anthracite, orthoclase, quartz, topaz, corundum, diamond
http://www.galleries.com/minerals/hardness.htm
The best that I created myself was one to remember the "seven churches of Revelation" in order. (I know, not everyone needs this one... but I found it helpful, esp. since the correspondences go beyond the first letter):
"Every smart person thinks Sartre's philosophy ludicrous"
(=Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea)
2007-08-25 07:01:01
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answered by bruhaha 7
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It is a mnemonic in an old 6809 processor chip assembly code that stands for "Sign Extend".
2007-08-24 15:43:04
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answered by steve.c_50 6
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I like the one "Two Zebras Bit My Cookie" for the nerve branches of the head: "Trigeminal, Zygomatic, Buccinator, Mandibular, Cervical."
2007-08-24 15:43:47
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answered by Rich Z 7
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