Strong Verbs Are Just Better

It is a fine old classical/medieval tradition to have your memory all sorted out with triggers, so that you can remember long speeches or texts easily. The Memory palace is an old trick for visualising your mind as a series of rooms and storage places.
If, on the other hand, you have a neatly catalogued and alphabetised mental filing cabinet, you might remember this post by Carl Pyrdum as either:
Monkey Butt-Trumpet
or, if you're a particularly neat person, Butt-Trumpet, Monkey.

Moving on to a different kind of memory, if you're wondering which of your dead relatives to pray first for, you could adopt the "spiritual lottery" method. Fr Nicholas has discovered something like a bingo apparatus to help make your prayer time simpler. I have a feeling I heard this via the Cranky Proffessor, but have lost the intermediary link.

While you're at it, you might want to pray for Michael Drout, who clearly treats his Anglo-Saxon literature class with too much levity. He thinks this is educational:

(In Yoda voice): Told you I did. Listen you did not. Now screwed we all shall be. There. I just showed you why natural languages don't use VSO order and summarized the Star Wars I-III.

The question is, can he beat my classmate of last year, who can read the sermons of Wulfstan in the voice of C3PO?

And to round off... a classic piece of Chaucer Blog goodness for those about to set off on the conference round in the northern hemisphere: Middle English Pickup lines.
If, for example, you hear Jennifer Lynn Jordan's paper at NEMSC you might say to her:
-Ich loved thy papere, but yt wolde looke much better yscattred across the floore of myn rentede dorme roome at dawne.
If you should meet a sexy scholar in your field, you might greet them thus:
-Ich notyce that myn demense and thyn do abutte. Wolde yt plese thee to consolidate ovre powere-base in the midlands?

good luck and happy holidays :)