
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, 2006— Mercury, 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, 2006— Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
MVEMJSUNP
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Negronis.
The spectral classes of stars hot to cool— O, 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.