What the hell is taxonomy? Is general science that class we had in the room with the periodic table and gas hook-ups along the walls? I remember my friend and I drawing costumes for the end-of-the-year play in that room. I think there was a replacement teacher for most of the year, too, with poor authority over his class.

I took the art classes in high school.

Your memory trick is not quite an acronym but a mnemonic phrase. The acronym would have just been the letters.

Also, I was taught the taxonomic mnemonic as:
Kings Play Chess On Fine Grain Sand

but I like Simon’s better.

Reminds me of the phrase I still remember from junior high science that had me remember the taxonomy of all living things: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

The phrase was, “Kindly Pass Course Or Fail General Science.”

Science is fun!