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Comment by munificent | Hacker News Reader

That rhyme conveys virtually no information. It could just as well be:

  Steady blue, rains due.
  Flashing blue, clear view.
  Steady red, snow ahead.
  Flashing red, clouds instead.

True, but that's the case for many a rhyming mnemonic:

I never remember, is it In fourteen hundred and sixty-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue?

But of course I remember remember the ninth of November.

Sometimes, though, I'm not sure if I'm correct with I before E except before C.

But I can definitely remember the order to get drunk in using Beer before wine, all is fine; wine before beer: oh dear.

Remember remember

the fifth of November

the gun powder treason and plot.

I know of no reason

the gunpowder treason

should ever be forgot!