Dear Kevin
Dear Kevin
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My friend came up with almost the exact same thing during high school. The only difference is that the DK stood for "Donkey Kong".
Can't say it wasn't memorable!
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I've also said Donkey Kong for years!
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Memorable 👍
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so it was for Kevin
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When I was in 9th grade our geography teacher put us in groups and assigned each of us a group of countries to memorize. We were given the task of creating a mnemonic to help us memorize. We got central America.
Panama, Costa arica, Nicaragua Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico.
Please Call Nick He Sucks Good Butt Man.
It has been over 30 years and I've still never called Nick, but I'll never forget central America.
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Why didn't you make it "great" sex?
Great Community reference btw
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It's pride month
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I love that show, too.
I took the liberty of looking up adjectives that start with 'g' and sorted them by frequency of use. I found it amusing:
Good
Green
General
Global
Grand
Golden
Guilty
Genetic
Gentle
Grim
Genuine
Gray
Growing
Graphic
Grateful
Glaring
Gracious
Greedy
Glorious
Giant
Grave
Grumpy
Gallant
Gaudy
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Why wouldn't you use Karen...?
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I'm starting to think no one here knows this is from a TV show...
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Kevin likes to be used
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I remember telling my bio-chem mom about ‘King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti’ in middle school. Didn’t realize why she chuckled until later.
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There's a particularly horrible one people used to use to remember resistor color codes-
"Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly."
Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white
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Boomer Bigots Rely On Yellow-bellied Garbage By Vulgarizing General Wisdom
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Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace (except when I worked in VC, and those guys were JUST sexist).
So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I've heard it before, but as "Black Boys * * *").
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For those who enjoy a little racism with their misogyny, there's a way to disambiguate one of the B colors.
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The racist term I was taught when I was a young person
(Color of darkness) (fatherless children) (coerced non-consensual reproduction activities) our (new people to the world) (XX people) but (pure people) go without.
I hate reading resistor color codes because which is the correct orientation for the resistor. Band gaps and positions on real world resistors don't stand out as much as what the theoretical charts show - so I always meter them anyway.
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Black, brown, then the fucking colors of the rainbow in order, gray, white.
If you need a mnemonic to memorize that, you're gonna have some trouble actually building out your lookup table in your head of immediately knowing that red=2, yellow=4, etc.
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To add to this, my dad told me that "Get Some Now" was sometimes tacked on to indicate tolerance levels. Gold (5%), Silver (10%), Nothing (0%).
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What the fuck
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Wow, my bf's name is Kenny and we love having gay sex, so this is perfect for me!
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My GCSE bio class taught something along the lines of "Dear kinky prostitutes, come over for great sex"
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Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.
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Kevin goes both ways.
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The man loves his work. You gotta admire it.
From 20 feet away with a full NBC suit and some plastic sheeting, but you gotta.
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Remember Send Vedding Present.
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Rescind Sickening Vogon Poetry
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Literally taught my son about Prince Philip a few hours ago. And learned domains is a thing now. Wish I could show him this for the serendipity but def no lol
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due to the 'Dont Say Gay' bill my biology teacher said it was "great sex" instead of "gay sex".
literally 1984
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Great (gay) sex
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Anybody got a sexy mnemonic that includes subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder, etc? Or, more to the point, what taxonomic system gets us to the orgy the fastest?
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Didn't know Kevin was such a sub...
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Sure, just tag "and subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder" to the end, so that it's ASSSS
And you know everyone wants and ASSSS orgy
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spermy scat sometime soon
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I can never remember that. Thanks!
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I hate that I have learned this factoid.
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for classes of stars!
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Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought the top level was Kingdom, consisting of Animal and Plant. There's like 50x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?
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When I learned about taxonomy in the 90's they hadn't really sequenced many genomes, so taxonomy was still very much phenotype driven, rather than the modern genetic/molecular approaches. I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.
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See my stupid ass would remember the fun phrase but not the related factual word. So I'd just have phrases with no inkling what the original info was.
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Reminds us of how one of our teachers taught us SOHCAHTOA:
Sex On Hard Concrete Always Harms The Orgasmic Areas.
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Do these mnemonics actually help?
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Well I still remember Roy G. Biv and Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally so maybe?
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My 9th grade Spanish teacher taught us how to remember how to say who/what/when/where/why in Spanish by putting it to the tune of Jingle Bells. To this day that's the only thing I remember from Spanish class, so yes I can confidently confirm that they work:
🎵 Por qué, why,
Quando, when,
Qué, what; donde, where.
Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
Quien está, who is there?
Cuál! 🎵🎵 Por qué, why,
Quando, when,
Qué, what; donde, where.
Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
Quien está, who is there?
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I literally couldn't tell you a single biology fact from my year studying it in HS but I remember King Phillip Came Over From Germany Stoned.
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Unequivocally yes.
I got a contest going with my plant systematics cohort (8 credit hours over an academic year, that’s a lot of plant id work). We would see who could come up with the filthiest mnemonics to remember plant families and such.
Our professor, a brilliant botanist with a filthy mind and tenure, was delighted beyond measure at how well the entire cohort did on the practical plant ID exams. But mostly he enjoyed watching our classroom discussions.
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I learned Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Get Splattered about 20 years ago and I still remember, despite never needing to use it. So, the mnemonic helps to remember, but remembering doesn't really help me
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It helps you understand the world you live in and be a well rounded individual instead of cog whose only purpose is to know the things they need to make their owner more money and nothing else.
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Which is Domain? When I learned this, it only started at Kevin. Nice to see folks getting more polite regarding their gay sex.
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Archaea and Everything Else (I can't remember the other domain)
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Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
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Stuff being separated away makes sense I guess
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Ah the things I learned from TV Funhouse!
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I don't understand why you'd ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn't already tell from their characteristics?
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The new thing seems to be "clades". I'm not sure if it's a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.
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It isn't, it's just a description of evolutionary descent. An additional classification instead of a replacement.
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You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?
"Domain, Kingdom, Phy- oh no! Kevin is right there! OK, I should ask before I forget."
Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo
Hold my Kevin (gives him a smooch), I'm going in!