When good mnemonics... go bad.

[conuly]

Mnemonics, when done properly, can help you remember things. Chanting "King Phillip Comes Over For Good Sex" can help you remember the order of classification: Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Saying "King Phillip Can Order Fine Gold and Silver" will cause problems if you try to add an A word in there, but should be essentially fine.

It took me several years to memorize the order of the planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and maybe Pluto) because somehow I memorized the sentence "My Very Energetic Mother Just Gave Us Nine Pizzas" where I should've said served. *sighs*

Yes. This was random.

Comments

[phibby.livejournal.com]

I personally never had a problem with the order of the planets, partly because I had an awesome Magic School Bus CD-ROM game that I used to play all the time back in kindergarten and partly because I've been a Sailormoon fan for almost half my life. ;)

[priyatelka.livejournal.com]

For me it was the Blue's Clues song about the planets that my kids drilled into my head!