Comments on: Honour Your Ancestors http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/ All the crazies, none of the calories Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:36:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Kim http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Kim Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:52:20 +0000 http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/#comment-222 Mmm, nachos. Mmm, nachos.

]]> By: Premee http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Premee Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:20:47 +0000 http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/#comment-216 At my elementary school, we did the solar system in about grade 5 (1990?), and they never *once* mentioned that Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune, which is why I had the mnemonic memorized. I also still have the entire list of 'helping verbs' memorized from grade 9. Stupid memory. How about 'My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nachos?' At my elementary school, we did the solar system in about grade 5 (1990?), and they never *once* mentioned that Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune, which is why I had the mnemonic memorized. I also still have the entire list of ‘helping verbs’ memorized from grade 9. Stupid memory.

How about ‘My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nachos?’

]]> By: Warren http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Warren Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:54:13 +0000 http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/#comment-211 'My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas' was wrong from 1979-1999 anyway (which was most of my schooled life), so that's probably why I've never heard of it. Now that we don't have to account for our friend of irregular elliptical orbit, all we need is a foodstuff that starts with N. Hmm...Nuts...Nutella...I'm out. ‘My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas’ was wrong from 1979-1999 anyway (which was most of my schooled life), so that’s probably why I’ve never heard of it. Now that we don’t have to account for our friend of irregular elliptical orbit, all we need is a foodstuff that starts with N. Hmm…Nuts…Nutella…I’m out.

]]> By: Premee http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Premee Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:09:40 +0000 http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/#comment-210 That sounds very likely... but the Wonders of the Universe are insanely interesting when they're narrated by someone with a British accent. :-) Incidentally, my brother is taking that Dinosaurs course right now. He says he would love it if not for the memorization. (For the midterm, he had a deck of flashcards practically two inches thick!) That sounds very likely… but the Wonders of the Universe are insanely interesting when they’re narrated by someone with a British accent. :-)

Incidentally, my brother is taking that Dinosaurs course right now. He says he would love it if not for the memorization. (For the midterm, he had a deck of flashcards practically two inches thick!)

]]> By: Mark http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Mark Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:55:23 +0000 http://www.sodacraze.com/2007/02/19/honour-your-ancestors/#comment-209 I took a course called "Geology of the Solar System" back in my undergrad. Strangely, I don't think we ever covered the alternate theory to Accretion. Or perhaps we did, but my brain happily discarded the information (along with everything else I learned in that course) as soon as I stepped out from the final exam. The course was taught by the memorization-is-the-same-as-learning "Dinosaurs" prof that I detested so much. Somehow the <em>Wonders of the Universe™</em> don't seem so interesting when it involves memorizing the densities of the moons of Jupiter. I took a course called “Geology of the Solar System” back in my undergrad. Strangely, I don’t think we ever covered the alternate theory to Accretion. Or perhaps we did, but my brain happily discarded the information (along with everything else I learned in that course) as soon as I stepped out from the final exam.

The course was taught by the memorization-is-the-same-as-learning “Dinosaurs” prof that I detested so much. Somehow the Wonders of the Universe™ don’t seem so interesting when it involves memorizing the densities of the moons of Jupiter.

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