Bad boys ravish our young girls behind victory garden walls.
Angel: Lorne, you're— Lorne: Reliable as a cheap fortune cookie? Angel: I was gonna say a guy with good contacts…
'Shells'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DXMachina - Jul 29, 2005 10:42:20 am PDT #4115 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Volans - Jul 29, 2005 10:42:56 am PDT #4116 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I had "one collar, two socks" to remember that there's one "c" and two "s's" in "necessary."
And a friend's SIG was "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms" for a while.
DXMachina - Jul 29, 2005 10:43:45 am PDT #4117 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
But the vowels are the vowels! You don't need a mnemonic!
Exactly. That goes for the planets, too.
tommyrot - Jul 29, 2005 10:43:51 am PDT #4118 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But the vowels are the vowels! You don't need a mnemonic!
Yeah, but you gotta learn the vowels at some point.
§ ita § - Jul 29, 2005 10:45:03 am PDT #4119 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
but you gotta learn the vowels at some point
They're the ones that aren't consonants. Next you'll be telling me they have a mnemonic for the alphabet.
tommyrot - Jul 29, 2005 10:46:31 am PDT #4120 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think I need a mnemonic for 'ita.'
bon bon - Jul 29, 2005 10:46:40 am PDT #4121 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The villain has a villa in the mountains.
This is a great one.
I wish everyone would tell me what they're mnemonizing/acronymizing! Bees In Arbors Add Mystery!*
- Because It's All About Me
Volans - Jul 29, 2005 10:46:47 am PDT #4122 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I just pasted
Bad boys ravish our young girls behind victory garden walls
into Google to see what it stood for (it's late here), and the number 1 hit is a Buffy/Spike fanfic.
Anyway, I did find some for the Genus-Species list: [link]
§ ita § - Jul 29, 2005 10:48:28 am PDT #4123 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm more likely to have to remember what acronyms stand for than use those mnemonics. The full words work best for me.
DXMachina - Jul 29, 2005 10:48:34 am PDT #4124 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Raq, it's the order of the colored lines on a resistor.