User talk:Benjamin Mako Hill

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mnemonics

This is the other way around, really: I remember the acronym for the Seven hills of Rome (which I just added to the official List of mnemonics) very well, but only about half of the hills' actual names. — Aaron M. Ucko 19:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about one for remembering the EM spectrum?:

Randy Men   In       Very Little   Underwear   X-Ray Girls
Radio Micro Infrared Visible-Light Ultraviolet X-ray Gamma

— Matt M 22:26, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Stalactites / Stalagmites

I've always remembered these because stalactites have to hold on tight. —midg3t 08:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stereotype threat

Thanks for the smart edit! futurebird 01:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you thought it was thoughtful! —mako (talk•contribs) 14:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

stalactites and stalagmites

An elementary school teacher of mine evoked insects crawling up your pants, and what you would do about it, with When the mites go up, the tights come down. --ESP 02:41, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

World, flesh, and devil

I think my main concern with the article is the possibility that there is a fundamental classical Christian source for the phrase that I'm completely ignorant of, so the article might be misleading if I didn't find it. So I think I should do a little more research. Schoen 19:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

vegetarian

perfect! go ahead and add that statement, as well as cite your source. this is, after all, an encyclopedia.