A Mnemonic For those Who Can't Remember the Alphabet

As bold children delve ever further, going handily into jeopardy, killing lofty meanings not of perdition, quit rigid stylistic trepidations until, verily wizened, Xerxes yells, “Zarathustra!”

oooo, my brain hurts!

djm

ABCD goldfish?
LMNO goldfish!
OSAR! CM?
LIB! MR goldfish!

Best wishes,
Jerry

A bit cautiously, disappointing every friend, giving herself insults, judging keen l-lessness, monitoring old posts querulously read, skinner tears up vain writing, x’es yadayada, zonked.

sigh

Once again, Wombat, three cheers!

Carol

I don’t even KNOW the whole stinkin’ alphabet!

Best wishes,
Jerry

This thought-provoking image reminded me of the time when my daughter, then in 3rd grade, I think, had to write sentences using her spelling words. One of the words was north. Her sentence, to my unending delight, was: The pig ran north.

Carol

One of the children somehow used the word “absurdity” at the end of a sentence.

To which Ana, then about six responded, “And BEYOND!!!”

Best wishes,
Jerry

absurdity and beyond?

She has been reading C&F over your shoulder.

I thought it appropriate for mentioning here.

I believe she was paraphrasing Buzz Lightyear, my favorite cartoon (OK, animated film) character.

Best wishes,
Jerry

well okay…I did recognize it as from the movie…

not as funny…

It’s hard to gauge how widely recognized passages from children’s movies would be.

Ana does a strikingly realistic imitation of Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies. It’s somewhat troubling that he’s her favorite character.

Best wishes,
Jerry

I could try to blame it on one of the grand kids!
…and it might be true…
or
We might have watched it cause it was supposed to be pretty good.
I remember the line 'cause I liked it so much…

We watch a lot of movies in the dark part of the year.

Malfoy is one of the easier to characterize! You’ll be fine 'till about 13…

having high jacked Wombat’s thread…

Wombat thank you for having the patience to keep at it here.

Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts on my attaining my new millstone.

I’m still giggling (and blushing) over your contributions to the mnemonic challenge; suprisingly hard to make them work isn’t it? I won’t be the judge of how many did do better than my original but I will say that Carol did so twice. :slight_smile:

Alright buddies, chiffy doesn’t ever feel gentle. However, I just keep laughing. My next one persuades quietly, reflecting superbly these uniquely unpopular views with xenophobic zen.

It gets easier!

N

A bookish crazy don, ever frenzied, goading himself incessantly, jumbling knowledge, linking materials not often paired, quite reasonably starts to undertake Vergil while xeroxing Yevtushenko zestfully.

Okay, it took more than 30 seconds. Congratulations Wombat! :party: You keep us on our toes. Thoughtful and sane—a good combination. :slight_smile:

Umm … Virgil?

djm

Latin spelling.

My Latin teacher, the wonderful Mr. Phillips, of a few years ago said it is sort of controversial. Some prefer to stick with “Virgil” and others think “Vergil” is more appropriate, being, as B. points out, closer in spelling to the Latin name. In our class we could use either but Mr. Phillips himself used Vergil. And I always did what Mr. Phillips did. :laughing:

Very nice!

Thanks!

You know the trouble with these sentences is the ending. (or should it be are the ending??) If you started there you might get a good one.