Comments on: Knuckle (count) down

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:39:52 +0000

My dad taught me this method when I was a kid; I’ve never run across it since (I’m 60) and have wondered whether this was a lost folk “remedy,” my dad being an old Arkansas farm boy. Glad to verify that other people know about it. BTW, the method works just as well on one hand — one just starts back at the original knuckle at “August;” that’s the way I learned it.

By: Starkey7

Starkey7 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:00:02 +0000

Oh poo. I meant “…and put the seventh finger down.” I wish that I could count.

By: Starkey7

Starkey7 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:59:13 +0000

I’ve got a couple of maths ones:

Should you wish to multiply a single-digit number, for example seven, by nine, do the following. Simply hold up both hands, fingers outstretched, and put ninth finger down. Then you’ve got six fingers to the left, and three finger to the right, still stretched out. That means that the answer is sixty-three.

Should you wish to multiply a two-digit number, for example sixty-three, by eleven, do the following. Put the six on the left, the three on the right and put their sum in the middle. Hey presto – 693!
(Obviously the sum might be over ten. For example, take the number forty-seven. The four goes on the left, the seven goes on the right, and eleven goes in the middle. In this case, just carry a ten over into the hundreds, to give you 517.)

I hope that these are to your edification and delight.

By: Ida

Ida — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:23:21 +0000

Now that Pluto has been demoted from planetary status:

My Very Exotic Mistress Just Showed Up Naked.

By: Chucker

Chucker — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:17:53 +0000

So tell me one more time..when Churchill made the “V for Victory” sign, he had his thumb pointed OUT but if it is made with the thumb pointed facing him, it’s the same as “flipping the bird?” Or is it the other way around? Or is this just a British urban myth?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:36:04 +0000

I have always used only one hand for the months. When I was just yay tall,me Mum taught me and told me to count the last knuckle twice and reverse back.

By: tami

tami — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:08:47 +0000

A different spin on the months
30 days has Septemeber
April, June and November
All the rest have 31
Except February which has 28
And leap year makes it 29
And how do you like my little rhyme.

When I was in police academy we had to konw all the types of deaths and this is how we remembered
NASH- natural, accidental, suicide, and homicide

cuts APAIL- abrasion, puncture, avulsion, incision and laceration

By: geofftech

geofftech — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:15:14 +0000

No one wants to know what the C&A gag is? I’ll do it anyway…

A farmers wife was having trouble telling which was the left, and which was the right when it came to putting her big clumpy farm boots on, so the husband painted “L” and “R” on them for her…

“Thanks!” she said “And is that why my knickers have got a label with C & A in them” ?

I’ll get my coat …

By: jj

jj — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:54:07 +0000

i must say that i like the “Richard of York” mnemonic much better than thr Roy G. Biv crap they fed us here in school….

By: ian (the voice of reason)

ian (the voice of reason) — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:32:14 +0000

There was a planetary mnemonic on PM the other week… it ended …”Just Showed Up Naked”. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the first bit.

Richard of York Gave Birth In Venice.

Yes, Geoff, you may do the C&A gag.