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1O2 Some Pegs for Emergencies
ber; you don't have to make them up and remember them
in advance, either, you can make them up when, or as, you
need them.
The two ideas I've suggested to you here, however, can
be useful if you need a short list quickly, or, if you want to
use one of them in conjunction with your basic peg words.
The latter idea can be used for some amazing memory feats,
as you will learn in a later chapter.
Before closing this chapter, I just want to remind you
again that none of these ideas arc too far fetched. Any one
of them will work for you if you make up your mind to use
them. The two listed here, are as far as I'm concerned, the
best of the lot; but any list of words that you happen to
know in sequence, can serve as a peg list. I know one man
who uses his own body for this purpose. From head down,
he uses, hair, forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, chin, neck, chest,
all the way down to toe, for his peg list. So, if an object to
be remembered were #3, he would associate it to "eyes,"
if it were #7, he would associate it to "neck," and so on.
Some of the old time memory experts who performed in
vaudeville would use the theatre itself to help them do the
stunt of memorizing objects called by the audience. They
might have used the stage for #1, the footlights for #2,
the orchestra for #3, divans for #4, balcony for #5, etc.
Anything in the theatre was utilized; the draperies, chande-
liers, exit signs, men's room, ladies' room, etc.
And, of course, one of the most common, (and most lim-
ited) peg lists is the one which uses words that sound like
the numbers. Such as, gun for one, shoe for two, tree for
three, door for four, and so on, up to hen for ten, which is
about as far as you can go.
Well, I guess my main reason for telling you about all
these other ideas for word lists, was to show off the effective-
ness of the phonetic alphabet. As far as I know, there is no