One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for October 11, 2020

Nice system you’ve got there, Joe!

A rip in the hosiery makes Emma take it careful!Getting end of gut rates a pretty high yell!Hate it, so take off red yarmulke!

We never did that for spelling lists, but we did have ROY G BIV for colors of the rainbow…

Ours was, a rat in the house may eat the ice cream. That’s the extent of my math education.

That’s all new to me.

George Elliot’s old grandma rode a pig home yesterday. That’s what I remember.

Continually Having Optional Rounds Even Open Gratuitous Repetition Always Pleases Her Youth

I have long forgotten the sayings we had for algebraic formulas we were taught to figure out electronics components in tech school, but were never used when we got in the field

George E’s Old Grandfather Road A Pig Home Yesterday,….Dad taught me

Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie (not a math mnemonic, but the notes of properly tuned guitar). That’s the only one I can call to mind. I always found the mnemonics more troublesome than the actual information. But as to the extra credit for choreography,

“Instead of dance it’s choreography / Jakes who did breaks they’re not breaking anymore / They’re doing choreography / Chicks who did kicks aren’t kicking anymore / They’re doing choreography.” Thanks and apologies to “Choreography” from the movie White Christmas (1954).

Ours in 3rd grade was the very un-PC: A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Tamales In Church.

It took me a moment to realize what the kids were doing!

George wouldn’t eat the kind of “raisin” Simon ate in the movie “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (2007, would he? LOL! XD!

Unintended tribute to Eddie Van Halen and his album For Unlawful Carnal …?

Funny, last night I was recalling how other kids had trouble spelling “arithmetic,” but I knew because I used to mispronounce it.

How to make spelling far more difficult than necessary.

I do not remember learning spelling as Joe did, they both caught on fast.

When music lessons start, remember Every Good Boy Does Fine, and FACE.

[WARNING: Unsuitable for younger readers] My anatomy professor started to give us a mnemonic for the cranial nerves, “Oh, oh, oh, to touch and feel a girl’s …” but broke it off there just before the vagus nerve.

I never learned to spell that way.