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Suppose your third appointment is a 2 o'clock (14.00 hours) lunch appointment with a friend, Pauline. Imagine yourself thinking all the way from the dentist that you will not be able to eat your lunch because of the numbness of your gum. You find a dart (the image for 14) in your pocket and you prick your gums to see if the feeling has come back. You find it has not. You think to yourself that if you cannot eat Pauline will be able to because she is 'poor' and 'lean' (Pauline). She needs to be built up (you imagine her as poor and thin). |
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Lorayne's Method of Remembering Weekdays of Dates in the Current Year |
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Memory tricks can impress people at parties. Harry Lorayne set out a method for quickly calculating the day of the week for any date in the current year. |
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You simply have to memorise the number 411537526416. You can use the images provided in the major image vocabulary. For example, imagine rotating (swinging round) an oily mack and then launching it into the air. You become surprised to find that it rattles as it flies. |
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Each of the 12 digits in the number are the dates on which the first Sunday of each month fall. For example, in January the first Sunday falls on the 3rd, in February it falls on the 7th, and so on. If you want to know on what day of the week the 29th February falls you just add as many sevens as you can to the number 7 without exceeding the number 29. In other words add 3 × 7 and you get to 28. 28, therefore, is a Sunday. The 29th must be a Monday. |
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Remembering Historical Dates. |
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Dates of important historical events can be memorised by making a relevant word out the sounds represented by the digits (see page 79). For example, using the sounds that represent the digits in the rules underlying the major image vocabulary, the date of the First World War started 1914 could be remembered by the phrase, tub of tar: |
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