I still remember this one from a geology course in college:

The periods of the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic eras: "Pregnant camels ordinarily sit down carefully, perhaps their joints creak."
(Precambrian Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous)

Do you have any that you wanna share?

My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.

^ ^ ^ ^
I finally figured it out, but it was astronomically difficult.

ROY G BIV, of course, for the colors of the rainbow.

I don’t have to think about standard tuning for guitar any longer, but early on I used: Every Aardvark Drinks Green Beer Everyday

Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.

Specification for the order of arithmetic operations (parentheses, exponentiation, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction). If you write code, you'd better know these.

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

Besides being the title of a Moody Blues album (where they spell it "favour"), this is a mnemonic that lists the ledger lines on the treble clef in music. (E, G, B, D, F).

Grizzly Bears Don't Fly Airplanes lists the lines (from the bottom up), G, B, D, F, A. If one wishes to better distinguish the bass from the treble, the open notes (spaces) on the bass clef can be remembered this way: All Cows Eat Grass (A, C, E, G).

King Phillip came over for good soup.

I don't need to use either one any more. One nautical, one anatomical...

Go Rub Your Balls With Grease.

Colors of the flags spaced 20’ apart on the phone/distance line used between ships during underway replenishment. Green, red, yellow, blue, white, green...

Never Lower Tilly's Pants, Momma Might Come Home

Carpal bones in the wrist. Navicular, Lunate, Triquetrium, Pisiform, Greater Multangular, (Lesser) Multangular, Capitate, and Hamate

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Originally posted by TMats:
I don’t have to think about standard tuning for guitar any longer, but early on I used: Every Aardvark Drinks Green Beer Everyday

The way I was taught was, "Eat All Dem Girls, Boy Eat'em."

I also remember, and sometimes use the ancient indian mnemonic SOHCAHTOA.

Oh be a fine girl, kiss me.

The order of star types from hottest to coolest.

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

I was taught, "Every good boy does fine."

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Originally posted by bigpond73:
I also remember, and sometimes use the ancient indian mnemonic SOHCAHTOA.

I don't think I would have made it through trig and precalc without that one.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
King Phillip came over for good soup.

Karen Phillips comes only for Guy Smiley.

(Karen Phillips was a girl in my biology class. She later became my girlfriend during college. True story! )

Bad boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly.

Resistor color-codes: Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White.

I'm sure it's been replaced by something more PC by now.

HOMES

The names of the five Great Lakes.

On Old Olympus Towering Top, A Fop And Glutton Vended Some Hops

Cranial nerves

Kings Prefer Champagne; Others Find Gin Satisfactory.

(Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species)

Tying a bowline knot: "The rabbit came out of the hole, went around the tree, and back down the hole again." (The "hole" is the first loop you make in the rope.)

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Originally posted by henryarnaud:

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

I was taught, "Every good boy does fine."

and FACE to make the rest of the notes

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
On Old Olympus Towering Top, A Fop And Glutton Vended Some Hops

Cranial nerves

Interesting. I learned, "A Finn And German Viewed Some Hops".