Roygbiv

[scylis]

The only one I know is:

Randy Old Yorrick Got Buggered in Venice

and what the hell are they doing teaching poor, innocent kids that?!?

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[scylis]

mvemjsnup

or is that mvemjsnpu?

 

[Laurel]

Planets — My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

I learned at as

Mother Very Thoughtfully Made a Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest

Mother (mercury)
Very (venus)
Thoughtfully (terra/earth)
Made (mars)
a (asteroid belt)
Jelly (jupiter)
Sandwich (saturn)
Under (uranus)
No (neptune)
Protest (lil pluto)

 

[herpesface]

Run Or Your Girls Bum Is Virginal

 

[Hamletmaschine]

They're called mnemonics, and there are lots of them.

For the ascending musical tones on the treble clef: Every Good Boy Does Fine. . . .

The one I learned for this was: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge.

Mnemonics always troubled me as a child. I never understood how memorizing "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge" was easier than just memorizing E-G-B-D-F.

And it troubled me that good boys deserved fudge. I didn't like fudge myself, and wondered who decided that good boys had to have fudge. I would much rather have had a nice piece of cherry pie, but, no, by the logic of the music establishment, I had to have fudge. I think this explains why I never learned to play a musical instrument.