Question of the day

[mrissa]

What's the most pointless mnemonic you've ever had to learn?

I think mine is HOMES, because seriously, what upper Midwestern kid can't remember the Great Lakes without a five-letter word? But then there's also PAY HERB Czechs, and that's pretty useless, because who needs to remember the Warsaw Pact countries these days? I also never liked that East Germany just got E and they couldn't come up with anything for C and so went with Czechs.

Comments

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

It's not quite a mnemonic, but... One of my coworkers asked my boss's boss how to spell his last name, because he wanted to email him something. The boss replied that if we type "moron" into the address line, Outlook will fill in the rest. So now I can't help think of that whenever I email him.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You're lucky you have the kind of boss where you hadn't already been tempted to try it.

My mother has a cousin whose married name we all learned to spell to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club song, because it is Polish and non-intuitive for wee Anglophones.

ROYGBIV

[freelikebeer.livejournal.com]

You can sing the colors of the rainbow and it is much more satisfying than the clunky acronym. I learned that from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.