A new one on me
Today's Final Jeopardy clue:
"Kings play chess on finely grained sand" is a mnemonic for a system devised by this scientist.It's Linnaeus, because the system is taxonomy (kingdom phylum class order family genus species).
What's odd is that I never heard that mnemonic before. Staring at it, I figured out what it had to be in about 15 seconds, so I got the answer right. But it's a new one to me - absolutely new. There are only 19 ghits for it, and some of them don't count (they're just a "kings" page in some listing of words).
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At 7:46 PM, February 25, 2010
AbbotOfUnreason had this to say...
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At 8:25 PM, February 25, 2010
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 8:09 AM, February 26, 2010
Q. Pheevr had this to say...
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At 6:30 PM, February 27, 2010
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Maybe it's made up. Made me think of the current Wondermark comic.
I, too, have never heard of it. And I never saw the need for a mnemonic for that one; it was easy for me to remember "kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species."
"Eli the ice man," on the other hand, was a mnemonic I couldn't have lived without.
King Philip cussed out five Girl Scouts!
I don't like these sorts of mnemonics much, but as they go this isn't a bad one. It's metaphorically appropriate that it starts off with kings and ends up talking about fine grained sand to represent fine grained divisions. Playing chess doesn't represent anything much, though; could just as easily be "kings party continuously".
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