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Question of the day [Oct. 18th, 2011|03:24 pm]
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What's the most pointless mnemonic you've ever had to learn?

I think mine is HOMES, because seriously, what upper Midwestern kid can't remember the Great Lakes without a five-letter word? But then there's also PAY HERB Czechs, and that's pretty useless, because who needs to remember the Warsaw Pact countries these days? I also never liked that East Germany just got E and they couldn't come up with anything for C and so went with Czechs.
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[User Picture]From: sam_t
2011-10-19 01:28 pm (UTC)

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I think she's usually Matilda(-brackets-also-Maude-close-brackets), unless you're Ellis Peters and trying to avoid confusion with Matilda of Boulogne (also a Matilda worth remembering). And she wasn't actually crowned, I don't think. But yes, it's not a rhyme which embraces complexity of succession.