>See what you can do with these neumonic devices:
> My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas.
> Roy G. Biv is a colorful character.

First, I think you mean "mnemonic" devices. :-)

Second, I would have never understood the "mother serving pizzas" sentence if I hadn't read an article in NewsWeek last night, which astonished me by reporting that some astronomers' colloquium or other is expected soon to demote Pluto from full status as a planet in our solar system. It is smaller than many moons, including Earth's, and its orbit and other factors are more characteristic of other non-planetary masses out beyond Neptune, then of a true planet. So it may be that soon, the article concluded, we won't be able to use that mnemonic device "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" to remember the names of the planets. Weird, huh?

Third, everyone knows ROYGBIV--Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Apple Computers developed this clever mnemonic device to help us remember which attractive colors their iMac is available in. :-)

Iss "'I just said something funny.' (dunno if that concords with the rules for How to Be Funny, but hey-I tried)" achar