righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
When I was about six, I remember reading "Turn Left to Open -->" on the rim of a peanut butter jar, and being terribly confused. The arrow pointed to the RIGHT. Stoopid peanut butter company!
It was much later...years, even...that I realized they meant turn the lid left like turning a car's steering wheel left. As a small kid, I didn't put my hand over the top of the lid to grip it, my hand was too small for that. I put my thumb and index finger along the lid's rim to grip it, and my other hand on the jar, so it was the lid's rim I was focused on.
It doesn't really flow but a spelling mnemonic taught by one of my HS nuns that I use to this day is:
Desert = Sahara
Dessert = Strawberry Shortcake
righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
When I was about six, I remember reading "Turn Left to Open -->" on the rim of a peanut butter jar, and being terribly confused. The arrow pointed to the RIGHT.
As a kid, all that confused me, because when you're turning something, the top is going one way and the bottom is going the other way. You might as well say "Turn Up to Open," meaning turn so the right side goes up.
I've never actually heard My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets, but it's cute.
My Dear Aunt Sally.
I thought I knew one for stationary and stationery but I can't remember it.
You're channelling Julia again, aren't you?
Channelling. Indoctrinating. Something like that.
P.S.A. Tim's in his 'verse. FOX says no more of
The Inside
will air.
Come to think of it, I learned "righty-tighty lefty-loosey" after I learned the right-hand rule for cross products. I generally use it when I'm loosening a screw, because my muscles automatically try to tighten when I hold a screwdriver
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I had nothing to do with it. Honest.
