Bar & Cocktail Mnemonics

 

A Mnemonic is a sentence, formula, or rhyme that helps you to remember something. Here are some bar & cocktail related ones used.

 

MUSIC
Easter Bunnies Get Drunk At Easter
(Guitar tuning; E, B, G, D, A, E.)

Fat Corpulent Germans Drink And Eat Badly
(The circle of fifths. C is a fifth of F, etc.; F,C,G, D, A, E, B.)

Freddy Can Get Drunk At Every Bar
(The circle of fifths. C is a fifth of F, etc.; F, C, G, D, A, E, B.)

 

MATHMATICS
May I have a large container of Bloody Marys?
(Counting the letters of each word gives you the value of pi; 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5.)

How I like a drink, alcoholic of course after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
(Counting the letters of each word gives you the value of pi; 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 9.)

 

Astronomy
Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes
(The planets in order; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.)

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Presbyterians.
(The planets in order; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.)

On Bad Afternoons, Fermented Grapes Keep Mrs. Richard Nixon Smiling.
The spectral classes of stars; O, B, A, F, G, K, M, R, N, S.)

 

Biology
Kings play chess on Fridays, guzzling Schlitz
(The proper ordering of the biological groupings used in taxonomy; Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genius, species.)

 

Electronics
Bad beer rots our young guts, but vodka goes well.
(Ohms value of the color bands of resistors in order; Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White.

 

Geography
Eat An Aspirin After A Nightcap Stinger
(The 7 Continents; Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America.)