OBAFGKMLT is one of those things I remember but don't know what the actual letters stand for, other than stars...
Perhaps Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak, Prehaps Easing Oil Might Provide Relief is another one... I can just about remember what some of it stands for...
Trigonometric ratios - I only remember it because I had a maths teacher who told us that it was his preferred menmonic, and I couldn't understand why anyone would want to remember anything longer than sohcahtoa.
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-15 08:37 am (UTC)Didn't know that one...
I assume that L=R, T=N and S is something about as hot as a cup of tea?
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:35 am (UTC)Perhaps Camels Ordinarily Sit Down Carefully, Perhaps Their Joints Creak, Prehaps Easing Oil Might Provide Relief is another one... I can just about remember what some of it stands for...
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:40 am (UTC)Now I look at it, OBAFGKMLT (or rather, OBAFGKMLT!!?!) looks like something you'd find written in a thirteen year old's livejournal.
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:43 am (UTC)[ahem]
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Date: 2004-03-18 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-19 01:18 am (UTC)It's actually that pout that most makes me want to pat flick on the head.
I suspect that this sort of reaction may prove injurious to my health.
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Date: 2004-03-22 02:09 pm (UTC)[pokes tongue out]
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-15 08:52 am (UTC)The camel one is geological eras.
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:56 am (UTC)It's the classification for stars by temperature, in order from hottest to coolest:
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Date: 2004-03-15 08:58 am (UTC)Oh, and Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain...
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Date: 2004-03-15 09:00 am (UTC)And the old favourite "Senior Officers Have Curling Auburn Hair 'Til Old Age"
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Date: 2004-03-15 09:03 am (UTC)Nope, don't know that one...
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Date: 2004-03-15 09:06 am (UTC)Trigonometric ratios - I only remember it because I had a maths teacher who told us that it was his preferred menmonic, and I couldn't understand why anyone would want to remember anything longer than sohcahtoa.
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