Yeah, I just came online to say the same thing! 
I think the weetbix/crispix is the best one yet!! Thanks jU!!

mikau wrote:

Hey, John E. Franklin! I play the clarinet too!

And me too!

Two times four, at the door, we're late, eight.
Two times five, let's jive, dancing hen, ten.
Two times six, pick up sticks, dig and delve, twelve.
Two times seven, is that Kevin? No, it's Dean, fourteen.
Two times eight, we just ate. Nice cuisine, sixteen.
Two times nine, it's breakfast time! Baked beans, eighteen.

Hmmm ... maybe we can just "power 'em in" and then re-work them as we get inspirations?

We now have:
2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 2x5, 2x6, 2x7, 2x8, 2x9
3x4, 3x5, 3x6
4x8, 4x9
5x5, 5x6, 5x9
6x6
7x7
8x8, 8x9
9x9
... oh, and three clarinet players

Two times six, you have sticks, so dig and delve, twelve ... ?

precisly math is fun! We have to ryhme with BOTH factors. Thats not quite as easy. But it will work.

RECALL!

Yup.  My best instrument by far is the clarinet.  I've played for 29 years.

John E. Franklin wrote:

Long ago, I also played alto and tenor sax.
I just started trying the trombone a little.
And I fiddle around on the violin, no pun intended, very rudimentary.
I can make up a few easy tunes on a flute I have too.

Well, I play flute, saxophone and clarinet as my main instruments. I can pick out some chords on my guitar and play the piano a little. And my ukulele playing started the other day in the music store...

mikau wrote:

We have to ryhme with BOTH factors

Like this?

Three times eight, he's my mate, let's play more, twenty-four.

It's fun to hear about everyone being involved with music!  I also can whistle a strange way I discovered which is really loud, but still very musical.  You can form a diamond shaped hole with both index fingers and both thumbs and blow through.  You have to cut your fingernails short to do it well, at least I do.  At first I learned this forming a triangular hole with one thumb and two index fingers and blowing through, but the sound isn't quite as nice a timbre.  It took a lot of practice to perfect...

Here's somemore silly ones:

    See me skate forever more, three eights, twenty-four.        3x8

    Ski with Kevin, plenty of fun, three sevens, twenty-one.     3x7

    Trees, bridges, shady scene, three sixes is eighteen.        3x6

bois plank crayons trois cinq quinze (lumberyard crayons)    3x5

At a lumberyard, wood (bois) is turned into boards (planks), and they may be marked with crayons, which rhymes with three (trois), five (cinq), fifteen (quinze).
I can't forget this one, so it works for me!  Everyone is different.

Or maybe it's my English, that might sound different too.
When I say crayons, it rhymes with pans and cans.
There are three ways to pronounce crayons according to my dictionary.

Last edited by John E. Franklin (2006-03-02 06:39:36)

Tree cat snooze, three quatre douze  3x4

    See me sign, three three nine (sign language)  3x3
   
    Shine, shine, hazy sun, nine nines eighty-one   9x9
   
    Straight line, lengthy too, eight nines seventy-two  8x9
    Meat boeuf croissant booze, huit neuf soixante-douze  8x9
   
    Skate, skate, slippery floor, eight eight sixty-four  8x8
   
    Fête wine croissant boire, sept nine soixante-troi 7x9

    Wet feet, wake aunt niece, sept huit, cinquante-six   7x8
   
    Seventh Heaven, storytime, seven sevens forty-nine.  7x7

    Je drank tea deux cinq dix  2x5

Ahhhh!!!! Mixed langauges. So not good