Days of the week, in French

Lundi mardi mercredi jeudi vendredi samedi dimanche
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Large malignant maypoles jumble violent swollen ducks
Low magenta mathematicians judge vacant spiny dumplings

Minor Prophet books of the Old Testament

Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.

Hands jumble artists once jovial moving notes hide zealous hairy zesty men

Mature defense mechanisms

Vaillant's defense mechanisms classified as mature:
Altruism
Anticipation
Humor
Identification
Introjection
Sublimation
Thought suppression

Allergic athletic horses identify impossibly stupid tigers
Arbitrary airborne houses improve icy swirly thoughts

Ways to improve electronic devices

Increase reliability, & toughness.
Decrease size, weight, power consumption, operating voltage, & heat.

Iguanas rub trumpets.
Delightfully stiff witches power outdoor hamsters.

Inchworms race tigers.
Drab squishy wolves produce odd hummingbirds.

Hardness of gems

The Mohs scale rates the hardness of materials, and is based on these minerals (from softest to hardest):

Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite Feldspar Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond

Trumpets give chilling forms after frigid queens twirl crimson dice
Tacos grab complicated foreigners after friendly questions train creepy dietitians
Tall gleeful careless fantastic architects flail quick tiny cyan doilies

Bones of the lower extremities

Femur Patella Tibia Fibula Tarsals Metatarsals Phalanges

Famous plaid trees flatten tiny mean parsnips
Furry putrid tonsils filter toxic mad potatoes

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win-Win
5. Seek First to Understand, then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw

You could almost make the phrases into a sentence:
Proactive beginnings mind first things first when winning understandings synergize sharp saws

Or:
Blue beautiful pastors test steep swirly schedules

Elements & Principles of Art

I'm going to have two mnemonics today. No extra charge!

Elements of art: Line Shape Space Form Color Value Texture

Long shaped spaces form colorful valuable textures
Limp swirly spaceships flatten careless vacant toenails


Principles of art: Rhythm movement balance proportion unity variety emphasis

Rude melodious bathrobes praise unoriginal voluptuous earthworms
Rhythmic moving balls post united variable emphasis

Steps in a manicure

Remove polish, Soak, Shape, Cuticles, Base, Tips, Designs, Top

Ravens scrape smart chefs before trolls destroy tuna
Rakes slap slimy chains because turtles dunk tigers

Five kingdoms of life

Monera Protista Fungi Plantae Animalia

mad pseudopods flog perky artists

You could just make that second word "Protista" if you like to think of single-celled organisms as aggressive and not supportive of the arts.

Functions of skin

Or, more generally, the Integumentary system:

Regulate temperature
Store blood
Protect deeper tissues
Detect sensation
Excrete substances
Synthesize vitamin D

Red soft pandas defend extreme sweatshirts
Radioactive secretaries pluck ecstatic sunflowers

Dicarboxylic acid

These are a type of organic compound. The first six are:

Oxalic Malonic succinic glutaric adipic pimelic

The "common" mnemonic is: Oh my, such great apple pie!

We also came up with:
objective mean sponges grab athletic pajamas
odious mad shepherds gulp airborne peas

Geometric translations

Three main things you can do to a shape:

translation reflection rotation

I can't believe translation really counts as a change, but okay.

Trees reduce religions
Trolls require ranges
Trucks ruin roadblocks

SI Prefixes for numbers less than one

Just in case you want to think about really tiny numbers:

deci centi milli micro nano pioc femto atto zepto yocto

Distasteful cyan moral messy nuggets prune full allergic zealous youths

"Yocto" is 10 to the -24th power, aka one quadrillionth, aka 0.000000000000000000000001. So small, yet still not zero.

Five social institutions

Again, there's not total agreement that there are only five social institutions: mechanisms of social order that effect the behavior of individuals. There might be infinity. But at least there are these:

Family Education Religion Economic Political

Fallen elements record educated paperclips

Layers of sediment in the Grand Canyon

From the bottom up:

Tapeats, Bright Angel, Muav, Redwall, Supai, Hermit, Coconino, Toroweap, Kaibab

Tall broken mad robots strangle huge chilling toxic killers
Tainted boring malodorous ravens smoke horribly creepy thin kitties

Seven sins of memory

From the book The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers by Daniel L. Schacter

Fading, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, persistence.

Fast abstract batteries manipulate shadowy boring potatoes.
Filthy amusing bulldogs move square boring peanuts.

Four Bases of DNA

Guanine Thymine Cytosine Adenine (otherwise known as G T C & A).

Great trains crash accordions
Gentle tractors comb anteaters