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| 1014.1 | | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Le not juste | Wed Nov 04 1992 13:16 | 17 |
| Try remembering the following sentence, whose first letters (and
occasionally more, up to entire words) are the same as the desired
sequence of words...
"Now only members of meetings (except children) pass amendments"
= = ======= == ======== == = == ==========
Not a bad hit rate, I daresay... Now about whether there'd be any
destructive interference between the mnemonic and the string of words
to be mnemoned, only your head knows for sure. ... :-)
Dan
PS -- rathole alert -- whence the expression "Red Tape"? I just got an
entire roll of it, for use in anti-bureaucracy propaganda, and a friend
just this moment asked exactly where the expression comes from. Was
there ever an actual bureaucracy that marked troublesome dossiers with
such tape?
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| 1014.2 | | COOKIE::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Wed Nov 04 1992 14:02 | 9 |
| Re: red tape
Perhaps it comes from the little red ribbons that are stuck with wax
onto official documents to seal them. Over a period of time, the
documents themselves, and then their procedural contents, take on the
name red tape.
"Suit" seems to be following the same path. "Oh, no! More suits!"
"Oh, no! More red tape!" They sound the same to me.
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| 1014.3 | | PEKING::RANWELLJ | knock a little louder sugar! | Thu Nov 05 1992 01:49 | 3 |
| How about "Nomomecpa" ?
;^)
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| 1014.4 | Gay bandage | FORTY2::KNOWLES | Spelling chequers ah knot the hole answer | Thu Nov 05 1992 05:34 | 10 |
| Re red tape: I have always thought (since I was told by a school-teacher
who I beilieved at the time) that the papers in a barrister's brief
were (still are?) tied up with red tape, although this discussion
should really be moved to the Fictionary note to get the Real Story.
Re mnemonic. I find the interference of the near-anagram
M-N-E-M-O-n-i-c (well, near enough for lots of cross-talk)
too strong to think straight.
b
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| 1014.5 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | It's been a lovely recession. | Thu Nov 05 1992 18:32 | 3 |
| >a barrister's brief
Ah yes, "brief", the one-word oxymoron.
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| 1014.6 | Red or pink? | KERNEL::MORRIS | Which universe did you dial? | Tue Nov 10 1992 09:18 | 15 |
| Not only barrister's briefs (how many puns can you find in there?)...
When I was at school we used to bind up sheets of paper used in
examinations with red tape. Well actually it was a shade of pink
rather than red but is the same stuff that barristers use.
We had a kind of giant darning needle with a wooden handle and the
Magister would walk up and down the line of exhausted,
brain-in-meltdown pupils, gleefully spearing bundles of paper at their
top left hand corners (the corners of the papers rather than the
pupils).
Oh, nostalgia ain't what it used to be :*)
Jon
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