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Bar & Cocktail-Related Mnemonics

A mnemonic is a sentence, formula, or rhyme that helps you to remember something. Because Apparently Alcohol Helps You Remember Things. Followed immediately by: Except where you left your keys.

Music

Guitar tuning E, A, D, G, B, E.

Every Alcoholic Drink Gets Better Eventually.

Every Afternoon, Drink Gin Before Eating.

The circle of fifths (C is a fifth of F, etc.) F, C, G, D, A, E, B.

Fat Corpulent Germans Drink And Eat Badly.

Freddy Can Get Drunk At Every Bar.

Mathematics

Counting the letters of each word gives you the value of pi 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5.

May I have a large container of Bloody Marys?

​Metric Prefixes Kilo, Hecto, Deka, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli KHDBDCM

Keep Her Daiquiris Behind Da Cocktail Menu.

Kind Hosts Drink Bourbon During Cocktail Meetings.

Order of Operations — Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction — PEMDAS

Please Enjoy Martinis During Afternoon Service.

Please Empty My Daiquiri And Shaker.

Pour Every Martini, Daiquiri And Sidecar.

Astronomy

The planets in order before Aug. 24, 2006Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
MVEMJSUNP

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Paloma's.
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pints.
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Painkillers.

 

The planets in order after Aug. 24, 2006Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
MVEMJSUNP

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Negronis.

 

The spectral classes of stars hot to coolO, B, A, F, G, K, M, R, N, S.

On bad afternoons, fermented grapes keep Mrs. Richard Nixon smiling.

Biology

Biological groupings used in taxonomy: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species KPCOFGS

Kings play chess on Fridays, guzzling Schlitz.

Mitosis— Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase — PMAT

Pour Me Another Tequila.

Electronics

Ohm values of the color bands of resistors in order black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white

BBROYGBVGW

Bad beer rots our young guts, but vodka goes well.

Bad Beer Really Offends Young Guests, But Vodka Goes Well.
 


Geography

The seven continents  Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America —EAAAANS

Eat an aspirin after a nightcap Stinger.

Great Lakes  Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior HOMES

Hangovers Often Make Everyone Sorry.

Compass Directions —  North, East, South, West —NESW

​​Never Enter Sober, Walter.

Never Enjoy Sour Whiskey.

Colors of the Rainbow

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet — ROYGBIV

Rum Or Your Gin? Bartender, I'll Vote.

Really Old Yellow Gin Belongs In Venice.

Atmosphere

Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere — T-S-M-T-E

Tequila Shots Make Terrible Endings.

Geological Eras —  Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic — PMC

Pour More Cognac.

Simple. Educational. Civilized.

The Oceans — Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic — PAISA

Pour Another IPA, Sally, Again.

Please Add Ice, Spirits, Alcohol.​​

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