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Periodic table joke may cost teen her seat at graduation
New York Post ^ | 05/20/2014 | By Sophia Rosenbaum

Posted on 05/20/2014 2:36:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: SoFloFreeper

In the electronics world, the color bands on resistors show the component’s value. It’s a little ditty to help remember resistor color codes.


81 posted on 05/21/2014 8:11:06 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: raybbr

Otherwise, how do you distinguish in the mnemonic between black and brown, the first two colors?

My electronics teacher taught us this on the sly.


82 posted on 05/21/2014 8:14:17 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: dinodino; Verginius Rufus
what’s Utranium?

That might not be her mistake, but a yearbook staffer's.

Good for her. Stuffy old administrators. She'll be rid of them soon (and on to the next level of idiots).

83 posted on 06/02/2014 6:10:11 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: mware

Kites Pass Close Over Flies Going South


84 posted on 06/02/2014 7:41:42 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: FreedomPoster
Clayton County discredited and disfunctional school system ping.

Any student in Clayton County that even knows what a periodic table is should qualify as valedictorian no matter what grade they are in.

85 posted on 06/02/2014 7:57:22 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Kozak

Carpal bones mnemonic

Tough Titty Chew Harder She Loves The Pain

Trapezium Trapezoid Capitate Hamate Scaphoid Lunate Triquetral Pisiform

The one for cranial nerves is just as bad...
_____________________

On old Olympus towering tops, a Finn, a German viewed some hops?

O - olfactory nerve (CN I)
•O - optic nerve (CN II)
•O - oculomotor nerve (CN III)
•T - trochlear nerve (CN IV)
•T - trigeminal nerve(CN V)
•A - abducens nerve (CN VI)
•F - facial nerve (CN VII)
•A - auditory (or vestibulocochlear) nerve (CN VIII)
•G - glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)
•V - vagus nerve (CN X)
•S - spinal accessory nerve (CN XI)
•H - hypoglossal (CN XII)


86 posted on 06/02/2014 8:08:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

Yeah the alternate one was
Oh,oh,oh to touch and feel a glistening vagina sheer heaven....

For some horny med students it was more to the point then mount Olympus.


87 posted on 06/02/2014 8:31:50 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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