Universal teachings?

BODMAS

Can’t remember what the O stands for.

Never Eat Shredded Wheat here.

Smelly Old Hippies

Can Always Have

Trips On Acid

I ate and I ate and I was sick on the floor
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8×8=64

Never Entertain Sexy Women

Tuning my guitar

Every
Acid
Dealer
Gets
Busted
Eventually

The Frog With Big Penis Stands Still
A Dog Likes Custard With Toast.

I still remember OILRIG from chemistry class.

Oxidation is Loss, Reduction in Gain. Something to do with electrons apparently.

Measure twice, cut once, is about as universal as teachings get though

necessary

One coat and two shoes are necessary.

I remember a lot of these mnemonics, I don’t remember what they are for…

I ate and I ate and I was sick on the floor
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8×8=64

I’d be impressed if you had one of those for the other 143 as well 🙂

Dash
In
A
Rush
Really
Hurry
Or
Else
Accident

Good one to remember! 😀

The four stages of a 4 stroke engine…

suck, squeeze, bang, blow.

“I before E except after C.” Only problem with this is it’s complete rubbish, there are so many common exceptions (science, vein, species, weird, eight, policies, I could go on) that you may as well not bother. Stupid, stupid rule.

BODMAS

Can’t remember what the O stands for.Order, (sometimes BIDMAS for Indices)

Only one she could brig herself to tell me was “Oh, Oh, Oh, To TOuch A Girl’s Vagina”

There’s a bit more to that one… 😉

How I wish I could calculate Pi = 3.141592

‘Mr Vans Tramped’ sticks in the mind from French lessons – verbs that go with Etre in the perfect tense IIRC.

“I before E except after C.” Only problem with this is it’s complete rubbish, there are so many common exceptions (science, vein, species, weird, eight, policies, I could go on) that you may as well not bother. Stupid, stupid rule.

It works for a lot more cases in the form, “when the vowel sounds like ‘eee’, it’s I before the E except after C.”

Richard of York gave battle in vein.

He must have had a well developed cardio vascular system

I used to remember the ancient astronomer Roy G. Biv.

…or from playing Paranoia. I use that one too.

lilchris – Member
BODMAS
Can’t remember what the O stands for.

Order, (sometimes BIDMAS for Indices)

Thought it was “of” (to mean multiplication for reasons which escape me)? Definitely not order, though.

Just checked.
Definately Orders!

Multiple powers/roots etc

My Very Easy Method Just Speeded Up Naming Planets.

Shame Pluto has been down-graded.

BODMAS

Yeah it is “Order”.

See also

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

(Parenthesis, Exponent, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction)

Yeah it is “Order”.

Thinking about it, I take back what I said. Order makes more sense.

Princess
Diana
Never
Talked
Sex
with
Prince
Andrew

OSI model!

Scatty Tickles Veronicas Crotch Meanwhile Feeling Coreens Nipples Copper Zinc

Transition metals, innit.

For GMT/ BST clock change: Spring forward, Fall back.

The Cat Sat
On An Orange
And Howled Horribly

in a cave and cant tell your stalagmites from your stalagtites?

…mites crawl up, tights! come down.

Not universal, but the diving buddy check is BCD, weights, releases, air & final ok. Sometimes given as Bangkok Women Really Are Fellas.

Fix Or Repair Daily

Fix It Again Tomorrow
Lots of Trouble, Usually Serious