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Malone

Glad you liked the Pi, if not the Pie. I think making up your own mnemonic is more satisfying than the standard ones - easier to remember too.

At school, we had to learn a ridiculous one for the order of the planets. It started "mercifully venerable earls........." but that was all I could ever remember. I have managed for years on:

"My very elderly mother just showed us nine planets" which is neat and accurate. Of course I don't accept current nonsense that Pluto is not a planet.

grunger

I'm pleased you liked the Berger story. I knew you were joking about the food - I just had a coffee.

Your Pi/Pie posting was brilliant, and I like your mnemonics, neater than the ones I use. I agree about Pluto. The planet was named after Popeye's old adversary, so it is real enough

Grunger, I admire your creation of your own mnemonics - a word I've always liked, incidentally. The only thing is … I've never needed to know the order of the planets or the decimal places in Pi. I can vaguely remember being given one - a mnemonic - for the colours in a rainbow, but I have never needed that information either. My brain seems to weed out all superfluous stuff!

Would that have been Richard of York gained battles in vain, malone?

One of my chemistry students invented one that I thereafter used:
many elephants paint balls pink, having had over nine drinks

I'll leave it to see if anyone can work out what it was for!

That sounds about right, ChrisE - and now I'll have to delete that information all over again!

chrise, hydrocarbons.

Well done, ginge! Specifically the prefixes that give the number of carbon atoms in the chain.

Malone & Jigjag

Thanks for the invitation to share some sporting anecdotes at your prestigious event - which I am delighted to accept!

I hope your audience will have been nicely`warmed up` in the Green Room and are not easily offended. One true tale I can relate,even in mixed company, concerns my hero and fellow Tyke, Fred Trueman.

Fred`s first wife Enid was the Mayor of Scarborough`s daughter and they often visited a Pub In Scarborough at Sunday lunchtimes.
Enid was with a group of friends on one side of the bar while Fred was holding court on the other. Fred modestly said to someone `Aye, she`s married a bloody genius, ya know` (he pronounced it `genie-arse). Enid overheard this and shouted over the bar `Aye, the trouble with you, Fred, is you`re all arse and no genie`.

Tyke51,

Delighted to hear you'll be joining us at Roy and Albert's Hall. I will amend the provisional programme, though I've still to come up with a punning or silly title for your talk - I like to keep things light-hearted, to show that pedants are not dull, dreary souls.

PS I enjoyed your story, thanks.

jigjag

I know you are away but there was a lot of interesting stuff in the papers today about Ocado/ Asda/Sainsburys. Are you going to use any of it in your talk at Malone's event?

Malone/Tyke

I have decided to retire from politics and did not enter the Tory leadership battle. I hope Rod Stewart wins. I think the opium/cocaine stuff from years ago is a distraction and anyway, it has not affected his singing. Tyke - loved your Fred Trueman story.