My very educated mother just served us...NOTHING!

What with the recent astronomical revolution, lots of folks have been tossing around new solar-system mnemonics lately--but there's one I haven't seen mentioned yet despite its seeming obviousness. The one I learned in high school, "Mary's violet eyes made Jack stay up nights, period," only needs to have the last word dropped to work perfectly well with an abbreviated solar system.

Of course, there's one problem with this. In speaking of the new mnemonic as compared with the old one, one naturally desires to emphasize the one difference between them. Now, there's only one simple way I know of to indicate or emphasize that you're leaving off the end of a sentence: if you had, for example, a mnemonic like "I don't like Dave's ugly face" and you needed to drop the last two words from it, you'd tell your friends, "So, instead of 'I don't like Dave's ugly face' we can just say 'I don't like Dave,' period."

You can see how this is problematic in the current case. I suspect the only solution is to wax British, and start telling people that "the mnemonic should go 'Mary's violet eyes made Jack stay up nights,' full stop." But I think even that could very well cause confusion.