Anyone got any good mnemonics?

[LauderSyme]

Yesterday I found myself telling ds the mnemonic I was taught when learning the order of sharps in musical key signatures: Father Christmas Goes Down An Escalator Backwards.

It prompted me to remember some others I learned, like Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty, Stalactites Hold On Tight while Stalagmites Grow Tall With Might, and Some Men Hate Every One: Great Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario.

They must work cos I am well old now and clearly haven't forgotten! What mnemonics (useful or otherwise) are indelibly imprinted on your brain?

Father Charles goes down and ends battle. (Sharps)
Battle ends and down goes Charles's father. (Flats)

Haven't needed these for decades!

So do I even after 40 years! 😄

Diana
Is
A
Rampant
Rabbit
Hopping
Over
Every
Ant

These are great! Priam's made me snort. I also literally have to say Never Eat Shredded Wheat when looking at a map.

Mr Vans Tramped rang a bell but I also couldn't remember why. Google tells me it is the most common verbs that take etre instead of avoir (can't type the little hat on the e)

I just remembered Rejoice Heartily Your Teacher Has Measles!

SOH CAH TOA = sex on hard concrete always hurts the other's arse.

All kids entering here change muddy boots first.

@CareerQuestioner Am being dense, what is this one for please?

Mr Vans Tramped was something I learned in French but I have completely forgotten what.

French 'est' (irregular?) past tense verbs - our version was Drapers Van MMT

@LauderSyme it’s letters inside a horse riding arena

I learned another version from someone on here years ago:

Dash
In
A
Rush
Real
Hurry
Or
Else
Accident

Elephants And Donkeys Grow Big Ears. Notes for each string on a six-string guitar.

Please send Charlie MacLean a zebra if the lean horse cannot munch sweet grass.

Port and starboard, or which is the left and right side of a vessel when facing forward and what are their colours, green or red.

If you use "No red port left", you'll know Port is left and red, so starboard has to be right and green.

Very funny one. I was just told Soh Cah Toa

I sat on Swanage cliffs eating lovely egg sandwiches

No had much use for it since year 7, but knowing how to spell isosceles correctly has stuck with me for 30+ years.

Mrs Gren - movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrition

Richard of York gave battle in vain 🌈

I also learned "my very easy method just speeds up naming planets" but now Pluto's been reclassified it doesn't work as well!

Rhythm helps your two hips move. To spell rhythm.

Good Boys Don't Fight Aunts and All Cows Eat Grass for the notes in bass clef.

The Geologist Can’t Find Any Ordinary Quartz To Cut Diamond (Moh’s scale of hardness for minerals).

Camels Often Sit Down Carefully Perhaps Their Joints Creak (Geological periods).

On old Olympus mountain top a fin and German brewed some hops

Along these lines anyway

Taught during nurse training to help remember different types of nerves.

Cats Always Eat Sardines and Rabbit.

To remember how to spell Caesar.

It's not a particularly difficult word to spell but was when I was in primary school and we learned about the Romans. I still think it whenever I see it!! Thanks Mrs Smith

Dave in Aberdeen ran riot he ordered eleven ambulances

Amused there's so many for this!

I learned almost the same @WarningToTheCurious

Pregnant Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak

followed by

Persistent Early Oiling Might Prevent Permanent Rheumatism (for Palaeocene, Oligocene, Miocene etc.)

For sharps and flats I learned:

Father Christmas Gave David An Electric Blanket, Because Every Afternoon David Got Cold Feet

How I wish I could calculate pi(e)
3.141592 (or 3 rounded up which is why you have to have a whole pie)

Very local but some on here will recognise it.

I Put Some Water In Charlie’s Hat.