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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.

Grunger,

I'm sorry to hear you're retiring from politics and haven't entered the Tory leadership battle. If you're concerned about drug misuse in your youth, I wouldn't worry too much - that seems almost compulsory just now.

I really liked your suggestion of Rod Stewart, very droll. (I wondered if you'd had 'Maggie May' on and that triggered off thoughts of M Thatcher and T May?) I'm not sure about Mr Stewart's prospects - when it comes to benefit caps, reduced housing benefit and so on, didn't he say 'The First Cut Is The Deepest'? That doesn't bode well.

PS I too liked Tyke's FT story, but … I had to Google to remind myself who FT was!


Jigjag,
I hope Grunger's update on supermarkets prompts you to investigate further and get back to us.

Malone

Yes I was thinking of Maggie May when I posted, but I did not see the connection to the 2 PMs. How brilliant of you to think of that!

There must be a story , or a crossword clue there, but I have not been able to think of one. I liked the "First Cut Is The Deepest", if not his policy.