Dear Kevin

You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?
- "Domain, Kingdom, Phy- oh no! Kevin is right there! OK, I should ask before I forget."
- Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo
  
  Hold my Kevin (gives him a smooch), I'm going in!

My friend came up with almost the exact same thing during high school. The only difference is that the DK stood for "Donkey Kong".
Can't say it wasn't memorable!
- I've also said Donkey Kong for years!

Memorable 👍
- so it was for Kevin

When I was in 9th grade our geography teacher put us in groups and assigned each of us a group of countries to memorize. We were given the task of creating a mnemonic to help us memorize. We got central America.
Panama, Costa arica, Nicaragua Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico.
Please Call Nick He Sucks Good Butt Man.
It has been over 30 years and I've still never called Nick, but I'll never forget central America.
- We had to memorise South East Asia and its capitals. You had it easy. Look up the capital of Brunei.
  We weren't advised to use mnemonics

I remember telling my bio-chem mom about ‘King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti’ in middle school. Didn’t realize why she chuckled until later.

Why wouldn't you use Karen...?
- It's gay sex, dummy.
  
  So use "great".
  
  Karen can have gay sex too, if she wants.
- Well, Kevin makes more sense to have gay sex with than Karen. At least if you are male.
  
  This is why we need more women in STEM.
  
  I think Karen is just as capable as Kevin of having gay sex.
- I'm starting to think no one here knows this is from a TV show...
  
  Clip for the uninitiated
- Kevin likes to be used

Why didn't you make it "great" sex?
Great Community reference btw
- It's pride month
- I love that show, too.
  I took the liberty of looking up adjectives that start with 'g' and sorted them by frequency of use. I found it amusing:
  Good
  Green
  General
  Global
  Grand
  Golden
  Guilty
  Genetic
  Gentle
  Grim
  Genuine
  Gray
  Growing
  Graphic
  Grateful
  Glaring
  Gracious
  Greedy
  Glorious
  Giant
  Grave
  Grumpy
  Gallant
  Gaudy
  
  Gray sex.
  You know, sex between people of Pierce's age.
  
  I choose guilty sex.
  It makes it a little raunchy, without explaining why.
  
  I don't know why Kevin would be interested with some physical XX And XY chromosomes
  
  grumpy

There's a particularly horrible one people used to use to remember resistor color codes-
"Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly."
Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white
- Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace (except when I worked in VC, and those guys were JUST sexist).
  So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I've heard it before, but as "Black Boys * * *").
  
  It's actually worse still. When I first heard it, the second B wasn't "boys". I'm Gen X and it was disgusting to hear even back then. Please don't lump us in with the boomers. A lot changed in a few short years.
- For those who enjoy a little racism with their misogyny, there's a way to disambiguate one of the B colors.
  
  The racist term I was taught when I was a young person
  (Color of darkness) (fatherless children) (coerced non-consensual reproduction activities) our (new people to the world) (XX people) but (pure people) go without.
  I hate reading resistor color codes because which is the correct orientation for the resistor. Band gaps and positions on real world resistors don't stand out as much as what the theoretical charts show - so I always meter them anyway.
- Black, brown, then the fucking colors of the rainbow in order, gray, white.
  If you need a mnemonic to memorize that, you're gonna have some trouble actually building out your lookup table in your head of immediately knowing that red=2, yellow=4, etc.
  
  I've never clocked on that the colors are in the order of the rainbow. Mind blown that it's taken your comment to highlight this for me.
  I also like that the colors surrounding are shades of lightness... cough cough let's ignore the brown.
- Boomer Bigots Rely On Yellow-bellied Garbage By Vulgarizing General Wisdom
- What the fuck
- To add to this, my dad told me that "Get Some Now" was sometimes tacked on to indicate tolerance levels. Gold (5%), Silver (10%), Nothing (0%).

Wow, my bf's name is Kenny and we love having gay sex, so this is perfect for me!
- Is he a ratfucker

Remember Send Vedding Present.
- Rescind Sickening Vogon Poetry
  
  Répondez s'il vous plaît?

My GCSE bio class taught something along the lines of "Dear kinky prostitutes, come over for great sex"
- Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.
  
  The man loves his work. You gotta admire it.
  From 20 feet away with a full NBC suit and some plastic sheeting, but you gotta.
  
  Kevin goes both ways.

Anybody got a sexy mnemonic that includes subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder, etc? Or, more to the point, what taxonomic system gets us to the orgy the fastest?
- Sure, just tag "and subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder" to the end, so that it's ASSSS
  And you know everyone wants and ASSSS orgy
- Didn't know Kevin was such a sub...
- spermy scat sometime soon

due to the 'Dont Say Gay' bill my biology teacher said it was "great sex" instead of "gay sex".
literally 1984
- Great (gay) sex

Literally taught my son about Prince Philip a few hours ago. And learned domains is a thing now. Wish I could show him this for the serendipity but def no lol
- What are learned domains?
  
  i think theyre referring to the mnemonic
  King Phillip Came Over From Great Spain
  =
  Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
  and theyre saying they should add Domains to this (that precedes Kingdom)

Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me
- for classes of stars!
  
  Yes! I learned it in astronomy class in 2008 and have never forgotten it! Lol.

See my stupid ass would remember the fun phrase but not the related factual word. So I'd just have phrases with no inkling what the original info was.

I can never remember that. Thanks!
- I feel like Community inadvertently helped so many biology students in the past 10 years.

I hate that I have learned this factoid.

Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought the top level was Kingdom, consisting of Animal and Plant. There's like 50x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?
- When I learned about taxonomy in the 90's they hadn't really sequenced many genomes, so taxonomy was still very much phenotype driven, rather than the modern genetic/molecular approaches. I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.

Do these mnemonics actually help?
- Well I still remember Roy G. Biv and Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally so maybe?
  
  PEMDAS for order of operations, we had BEDMAS which seemed memorable on it's own, since we called these '()' brackets and multiplication and division are equal so can be either way
- Unequivocally yes.
  I got a contest going with my plant systematics cohort (8 credit hours over an academic year, that’s a lot of plant id work). We would see who could come up with the filthiest mnemonics to remember plant families and such.
  Our professor, a brilliant botanist with a filthy mind and tenure, was delighted beyond measure at how well the entire cohort did on the practical plant ID exams. But mostly he enjoyed watching our classroom discussions.
- I literally couldn't tell you a single biology fact from my year studying it in HS but I remember King Phillip Came Over From Germany Stoned.
- My 9th grade Spanish teacher taught us how to remember how to say who/what/when/where/why in Spanish by putting it to the tune of Jingle Bells. To this day that's the only thing I remember from Spanish class, so yes I can confidently confirm that they work:
  🎵 Por qué, why,
  Quando, when,
  Qué, what; donde, where.
  Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
  Quien está, who is there?
  Cuál! 🎵
  🎵 Por qué, why,
  Quando, when,
  Qué, what; donde, where.
  Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
  Quien está, who is there?
  Which! 🎵
- I learned Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Get Splattered about 20 years ago and I still remember, despite never needing to use it. So, the mnemonic helps to remember, but remembering doesn't really help me
  
  It helps you understand the world you live in and be a well rounded individual instead of cog whose only purpose is to know the things they need to make their owner more money and nothing else.
- Depends on the mnemonic. It has to flow and you have to know the steps individually. Although there was one time I spent so long trying to come up with a good mnemonic for the citric acid cycle that I just learned it and gave up.

Reminds us of how one of our teachers taught us SOHCAHTOA:
Sex On Hard Concrete Always Harms The Orgasmic Areas.

Ah the things I learned from TV Funhouse!
https://youtu.be/c8d5tobSv5E
https://youtu.be/62zX5x-bgEM
https://youtu.be/7tFp674luH4

Which is Domain? When I learned this, it only started at Kevin. Nice to see folks getting more polite regarding their gay sex.
- Archaea and Everything Else (I can't remember the other domain)
  
  Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
- The kingdoms have changed several times, they're basically trying to use a more accurate system based on DNA using genotyping to decide which groups are more closely related and be less reliant on behavior and appearance.
- Stuff being separated away makes sense I guess

I don't understand why you'd ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn't already tell from their characteristics?
- The new thing seems to be "clades". I'm not sure if it's a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.
  
  It isn't, it's just a description of evolutionary descent. An additional classification instead of a replacement.