By: Annna
[2003-02-28]
Mnemonic Failure
you fool, staniel is DEAD
For the longest time I was unable to remember whether my landlord was named Bob Whitman or Bob Chapman. I'd gotten confused when we were apartment-hunting, seeing his sign and then later trying to remember the URL (with his last name in it, natch).
So I thought of a mnemonic device (it's Whitman, after all), picturing my landlord in that Texas clock tower, gleefully shooting at passers-by.
Sadly, this is confusingly similar to the image I'd have used if his name had turned out to be
Chapman.
I worked in California with a guy named Chapman; we were doing engineering for Operating Engineers Local #3. Usually, this ran 8 or ten months a year, leaving us time to go fishing or some second job. Chapman was a surfer/musclehead looking guy who said that sometimes he was a weight trainer during the slack time. But once I was driving aut past Sausalito and saw them filming a movie, and Chapman was manipulating the dollies and other equipment. That, and that at the end of films during the credits, I often see
Dollies by Chapman will make "dollies" the mnemonic for Chapman in my meme system.
Oh! Whitman would have to be either Walt, or Slim-Gawd help me. Now, I'll be yodelling Slim Whitman tunes all day.
There's a lot of neumonic activity in here.
I either have a buildup of fluid in my ear that will soon become infected, or my jaw is about to break due to wisdom teeth shifting. This is not my excuse for not updating, it is just whining.
I think that's called "clockjaw" when it's time to get your wisdom teeth pulled.
I think you're thinking of "clocking one in the jaw", which is a method of removing wisdom teeth.
That's what my dentist told me, anyway. Who knew my wisdom teeth were in the front?
You're wiser already.
When I saw this I was sorely disappointed by its brevity, until I got totally engrossed in the linked article and ended up spending a couple of hours at work in the minds of various serial killers.
You shouldn't click on any of the links in a thingihate update. The last time I did I got sent to a site about porn stars and my little pony tales.
I can't think of any reason you'd say that, except that you are very stupid. You can expect to be confused about a lot of things through your life.
That's a good link for mobsters and spies, too. Lucky Luciano, for example, became involved with the US Navy due to American efforts to recruit Sicilians during WWII for maintaining order on the waterfront and for intelligence relating to the Italian invasion. Basically, they took out a contract on Il Duce--even today, the entire offshore supply line for Chicklets would come to a halt without the OK of Guido Santucci and a certain amount of US Navy budget.
Lattivit svolta dalla CGIL, nel corso degli anni, a difesa e tutela degli oltre 600.000 addetti del settore stata premiata dai lavoratori con un consenso , che ha posto la nostra organizzazione in una posizione di assoluta preminenza, sia in termini di voti alle elezioni per le RSU che discrizioni alla CGIL, rispetto agli altri sindacati. Capiche? Ba-da-boombabinga! Wassamattafayou?
There are 600,000 addicts shooting up in the lavatory.
