EDITOR COMES OUT OF THE CACHE

The other day we posted an item that, within hours, we discovered was a repeat of something we had run a couple of years ago. So we pulled it but when Jorn Barger - creator the term weblog - discovered this, he simply linked it to the Google cache. So we might as well let our readers in on it, too, since they might find it useful:

[Since high school, your editor has been able to recite the presidents of the United States in order thanks to a mnemonic aid taught to him by his father. I am now for the first time revealing the secret, modified by a sentence I've added to cover the more recent perps. It assumes that Obama will be our next president. If it's Clinton change 'office' to 'condo' and if it's McCain use 'mansion.'

The only additional information you need is that Tyler and Taylor and Polk and Pierce are in reverse alphabetical order.

Unnecessary but interesting additional information includes the fact that you can remember that Franklin Pierce was the 14th president because he has 14 letters in his name and his initials are F.P.

You can also remember Abraham Lincoln's first vice president by combining the last syllable of Lincoln's first name with the first syllable of his last: Hamlin - Sam]

MNEMONIC AID

Washington and Jackson made money and jack

Van Buren had ten pennies to finish practically bankrupt

Little John got hayfever going around Cleveland hoping Cleveland might raise true wealth

Harding caught horses running true East.

Kennedy joined neighbors finally clearing rose bushes carefully behind office

JORN BARGER'S ROBOT WISDOM