NP: Mnemonics

[Joe Allonby]

C'mon. Now you have to share.

On 6/18/06, Henry Musikar <hmusikar at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> When I taught myself the color of the visual spectrum, I said to myself as
> if it was a word from an extraterrestrial language: vibgyor, long before I
> was taught Roy G Biv.  And I have to memory of the phrase that I was
> taught
> in the Air Force re how to read resistors, as I had learned one that the
> Air
> Force couldn't teach in the modern, co-ed military.
>
> Henry Mu
>
> How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy --
> Nietzsche. So...
> For most eclectic music on the WWW and a list of my favorite 50 movies,
> check out my media page:
>
> http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htmhttp://members.dsli.com/cyberia/scufflin
> g.htm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf
> Of bekah
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 3:15 PM
> To: Anville Azote; Toby G Levy
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: MD3PAD 454-456
>
> At 1:50 PM -0400 6/18/06, Anville Azote wrote:
> >On 6/18/06, Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> >>         Stig, a swedish axman who speaks no english, is having trouble
> >>with a prostitute, Mrs. Eggslap, who keeps raising her prices.  Overseer
> >>Barnes tells him to talk to Nathaniel McClean, who has a reputation of
> >>being a kind of protector of the women, even though Nathaniel is just a
> >>college kid working a summer job. Nate talks to Mrs. Eggslap and gets
> >>her to lower her prices with Stig.
> >>
> >
> >"EGGSLAP" is the mnemonic we learned in Quiz Bowl team for the seven
> >deadly sins:  envy, greed, gluttony, sloth, lust, anger and pride.
> >
>
>
> That's pretty good!   I learned PAGGLES  (pride, anger, greed,
> gluttony, lust, envy and sloth)
>
> Bekah
>
>
>
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