MNEMONICS Ron Hale-Evans (rwhe@ludism.org), 2004-03-14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JOURNEY 1: around the apartment 1. bedroom 2. back bathroom 3. front bathroom 4. computer room 5. porch 6. living room 7. dining room 8. kitchen 9. entry 10. sewing room ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RHYMES: 1. gun 2. shoe 3. tree 4. door 5. hive 6. sticks 7. Heaven 8. gate 9. wine 10. hen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SHAPES: 0. black hole 1. penis 2. swan 3. breasts 4. sailboat 5. pulley 6. lasso 7. scythe 8. sand timer 9. flag ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DOMINIC SYSTEM: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 = OO = Dennis the Menace, knocking something over ("Oh Oh!") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 = OA = Quaker Oats guy, offering bowl of oatmeal (OAts) 02 = OB = Chief O'Brien (_Star Trek_), beaming something down 03 = OC = PERSONAL 04 = OD = Jimi Hendrix, shooting up heroin (OD'ing) 05 = OE = J.R.R. Tolkien, struggling to hold complete unabridged OED (Old English and Oxford English Dictionary) 06 = OS = Richard Stallman, giving "boy scout salute" as St. Ignucius (Operating System) 07 = OG = Og ("CaveTech" sketch, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie), sharpening stick 08 = OH = Meg Ryan in _When Harry Met Sally_, faking orgasm (OH!) 09 = ON = Gerard O'Neill, floating in microgravity ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 = AO = Great Prophet Zarquon (_The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy_) nervously checking his watch (Alpha & Omega) 11 = AA = "Bill" (founder of Alcoholics Anonymous), faceless and swilling booze 12 = AB = Abba (pop group), lip-syncing and dancing (to "Dancing Queen") 13 = AC = Alastair Cooke, climbing stairs (_Upstairs, Downstairs_) 14 = AD = Jesus, being crucified (Anno Domini) 15 = AE = Albert Einstein, writing on a blackboard 16 = AS = Isaac Asimov, shaking a robot's hand 17 = AG = Art Garfunkel, singing his heart out with head thrown back ("Bridge Over Troubled Water") 18 = AH = Adolf Hitler, sieg-heiling 19 = AN = Andy Griffith, flashing sheriff's badge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 = BO = Buddha, sitting cross-legged under the Bo tree 21 = BA = Bill Atkinson (Macintosh developer), breaking into pixels 22 = BB = Bilbo Baggins, puffing pipe in bare feet 23 = BC = Thor (_B.C._), riding stone unicycle 24 = BD = BD (_Doonesbury_), crawling through jungle wearing football helmet 25 = BE = Jean-Paul Sartre, smoking cigarette and drinking coffee (_BEing and Nothingness_) 26 = BS = Bart Simpson (_The Simpsons_), riding a skateboard 27 = BG = Bill Gates, counting money and chuckling evilly 28 = BH = PERSONAL 29 = BN = Ben Franklin, flying a kite (BeN) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 = CO = Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr in _The Wizard of Oz_), bashfully fidgeting with his tail (COwardly) 31 = CA = Charles Atlas, lifting weights over his head 32 = CB = Charlie Brown, missing the football 33 = CC = Charlie Chaplin, twirling his cane and waddling 34 = CD = Charlie Daniels, fiddling like hell 35 = CE = Macron alien (Eon's Cosmic Encounter game art), towering high overhead (CE = Cosmic Encounter) 36 = CS = CS Lewis (portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in _Shadowlands_), stepping into the Wardrobe 37 = CG = Buzz Lightyear from _Toy Story_, blasting off with a jetpack (CGI = Computer-Generated Imagery) 38 = CH = Charles Hinton (wearing top hat), manipulating hypercubes 39 = CN = Charles Nelson Reilly, holding up a card on _The Match Game_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 = DO = Fred Flintstone, breaking rocks in the quarry (Yabba dabba DOo!) 41 = DA = Douglas Adams, putting a Babelfish into his ear (_The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy_) 42 = DB = PERSONAL 43 = DC = George Washington, chopping down cherry tree (Washington DC) 44 = DD = Danny Dunn (fictional character), descending in a bathysphere 45 = DE = PERSONAL 46 = DS = Ivan Stang (a.k.a. Doug Smith), ranting on a soapbox 47 = DG = PERSONAL 48 = DH = Douglas Hofstadter, recursively holding a picture of himself 49 = DN = Dan (_Roseanne_ TV show), wearing sunglasses to switch on Christmas lights ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 = EO = Ludwig Zamenhof, grinding a lens (E-o = EsperantO) 51 = EA = Eris, throwing an Apple (Eris/Apple, 51 = 3x17) 52 = EB = Stuart Little (tiny fictional mouse wearing street clothes), paddling a boat (author E.B. White) 53 = EC = Elvis Costello, looking into a bar mirror ("Beyond Belief") 54 = ED = Edward (_Cowboy Bebop_), turning a backflip 55 = EE = Reepicheep (human-sized mouse from _Chronicles of Narnia_, wearing a cloak), brandishing a rapier (rEEpichEEp) 56 = ES = PERSONAL 57 = EG = Valentine Michael Smith (_Stranger in a Strange Land_), sharing water naked ("I am only an EGg!") 58 = EH = Edward Everett Horton, tying bowtie 59 = EN = Ender (_Ender's Game_, small boy in military uniform), playing a videogame ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 60 = SO = PERSONAL 61 = SA = Samuel Adams, brewing beer in a big vat 62 = SB = Sam Beckett/Scott Bakula (_Quantum Leap_), "leaping" 63 = SC = PERSONAL 64 = SD = PERSONAL 65 = SE = Apu (_The Simpsons_), pouring a Skwishee (Seven Eleven) 66 = SS = Samantha Stevens (_Bewitched_), wiggling her nose 67 = SG = Sam Gamgee (_The Lord of the Rings_), planting a tree 68 = SH = Sparrowhawk (_A Wizard of Earthsea_), parleying with a dragon 69 = SN = Shub Niggurath (from the Cthulhu Mythos), spawning abominations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 70 = GO = God (bearded sky-god), throwing thunderbolt 71 = GA = Ray Charles, playing piano and singing ("GeorgiA") 72 = GB = George W. Bush, smirking horribly 73 = GC = Graham Chapman, throwing open windows and exposing himself (scene from _The Life of Brian_) 74 = GD = Gandhi, spinning on a wheel 75 = GE = General Electric (a robot in uniform), saluting 76 = GS = Smeagol-Gollum (_The Lord of the Rings_), falling into lava with the One Ring 77 = GG = Gandalf the Grey (_The Lord of the Rings_), barring the way with his staff 78 = GH = George Harrison, tapping his foot and playing guitar 79 = GN = Ignatius Loyola, flogging himself (iGNatius) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 80 = HO = Santa Claus, laughing until his belly shakes (HO HO HO!) 81 = HA = Julia Sweeney, dressing gender-ambiguously (_God Said HA!_) 82 = HB = Frosty the Snowman, shouting "Happy Birthday!" (as in the Rankin-Bass TV special) 83 = HC = Hagbard Celine (_Illuminatus!_), piloting golden submarine 84 = HD = Howard Dean, whooping 85 = HE = Isaac Newton (long white wig), releasing helium balloons (Newtonmas, HE HE HE!) 86 = HS = Homer Simpson (_The Simpsons_), gobbling donuts 87 = HG = Mercury (Greek god), flying with winged sandals (Hg = chemical symbol for mercury) 88 = HH = Hermann Hesse (author of _The Glass Bead Game_), telling beads 89 = HN = Han Solo (_Star Wars_), firing blaster ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 90 = NO = PERSONAL 91 = NA = Neil Armstrong, stepping onto Moon 92 = NB = Ged/Sparrowhawk's shadow (_A Wizard of Earthsea_), leaping with claws out (NoBody) 93 = NC = David Sedaris (author), chasing rolling coins down the street (North Carolina) 94 = ND = Nick Danger (Firesign Theatre, Phil Proctor), walking into a red sandstone building (oof!) 95 = NE = Neelix (_Star Trek_), cooking alien food 96 = NS = Hiro Protagonist (_Snow Crash_), cutting someone to bits with a katana (Neal Stephenson, author) 97 = NG = Morpheus (_The Sandman_), strewing sand (Neil Gaiman, author) 98 = NH = PERSONAL 99 = NN = Nick Nolte, falling into pool (scene from _Down and Out in Beverly Hills_)