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Draheid

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What's a funny or 'different' way you learned something?

For example:

How many of us learned to spell BOLOGNA from the old Oscar Mayer commercials?

Who thought ROLAIDS looked wrong when the announcer said that was how to spell RELIEF?

Any other stories to share?

Squaredsc

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i learned a lot from school house rocks like my times tables, how a bill becomes a law, the constitution preamble, my conjunctions, etc. i loved school house rocks.

Kaili

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I learned in third grade that the principal of the school is your PAL (not principle).

Can't think of any non-spelling one right this second...

Pamy

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Me too Square!!!! Conjunction junction what's your function!!! I'm just a bill sitting on capitol hill!!!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
movin up words, phrases, and something....

oh now its off to the whitehouse while i sit here and wait.... oh i hope someday to be a law, oh i hope and pray that they will but today i am still just a bill...

figure 8 is 4 + 4....

we the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice and ensure domestic tranquilityyyyy...

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Way back in 4th grade, we had to know all our x's tables through 12 x 12 to pass to 5th grade. Teacher gave us little gimmicks to help, & this one stuck: 8 8's fell on the floor, picked them up, they were 64.

Sia

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
A left-handed woman taught me to knit, so I knit left-handed. This is only a problem when I ask a right-handed knitter to help me locate a dropped stitch or interpret a pattern!!

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The only way I could remember that port was left and starboard was right was that the word "port" had four letters, just like the word "left".

As for learning something in an odd way...I have found at times that I have learned something WRONG, but I can't seem to UNlearn it that way and learn it right! I do this with people's names. Example - I had a neighbor but I can never remember whether his name is Joe or Tom. I had thought it was one or the other and always called him that... until one day when he finally broke down and corrected me. My problem is that TO THIS VERY DAY when I see him on the street, I don't know what his name is. It's either Joe or Tom, but when I see him I think, "Oh there's Joe. No! It's TOM, but I just *thought* it was Joe for a long time....No! It's really JOE but I just *thought* it was Tom for a long time...!" (ad infinitim)

And get this.....even though I have made it a point to find out what his name really is...at least TWICE....*since* the time he first corrected me, it will not stick in my brain! I have now learned TWO names for this guy but I can't seem to learn which one is the correct one...and UNlearn the wrong one!

I've done this with several people over the years and I'll even do this with the spellling of words, too. I'll learn a wrong way and a right way to spell a word, but everytime I need to write it down I can't remember which is which.

Bob2112

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 08:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey SanFran!

Were you really an Eddie fan and just got them mixed up?

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 08:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob2112 - LOL:)

Whoami

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 08:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was always mixing up which switch by the sink was the light, and which was the disposal. Apparantly I don't retain that kind of info too well. You'd think after a few grinded spoons and stuff, I'd remember....

But, the way I finally got it right each time was to remember the one for the light is on the right. I still find myself thinking, "right, light" when I go to hit the switch. I better never move to a place where that's reversed!

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 08:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Have grinded a few pieces of flat wear myself. Right is light is good - thanks Whoami.

Whoami

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 08:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You're welcome Texasdeb. Now lets just hope your switch panel is configured the same way as mine!

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It is. I knew this b/4 posting (actually went & ck'd to make sure) LOL

Sia

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami, I bought a cute switchplate cover with a rooster on it at Lowe's for the garbage-disposal switch. No one can make the mistake now!! No more ground-up, nicked flatware!!!

LOL, Sanfran, I learned port/starboard exactly the same way!

Meme9

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 09:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Righty tighty, leftie loosie.

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 10:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Uhhhhhh, Meme? What is that?

Jiminy Cricket taught a lot of us to spell e-n-c-y-c-l-o-p-e-d-i-a on the Mickey Mouse Club show. In fact, Jiminy Cricket taught us a lot of stuff.

Jiminy and Mickey and the gang must have been the very first electronic babysitters.

Cjr

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 11:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Meme9, I learned that also to tighten or loosen screws and lightbulbs!

A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream is how I learned to spell arithmetic.

Cathie

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 11:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles spells the very best......
chocolate!

Meli456

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 11:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I learned the states in alphabetical order in first grade in the form of a song. My brother had the same teacher and we both can sing "The Fifty Nifty U-nited States". Its a skill that has come in handy in work situations.

Cjr

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 11:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I learned to count to seven in German when I was in second grade. My teacher taught us a little song that I still remember. I leared 8, 9 and 10 all on my own!

Spygirl

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 06:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I learned to spell "Friend" from Mr. Roger's song...

"You are special to me...f-r-i-e-n-d special to me"

Meme9

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 07:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, sorry I left you hanging on that one last night, Cjr is right it's for anything the screws.

Marysafan

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 07:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Roy G. Biv is how we were taught the colors of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, Blue, Indigo and violet.

Marysafan

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 07:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
CC GG SSS is my method for remembering the original 7 astronauts. Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shephard, and Slayton.