Riddle 1: How is fettucine alfredo better than buttered toast? It lands facing up.
Riddle 2: How is fettucine alfredo worse than buttered toast? It sprays fettucine around the room on the way down.
Mnemonic:
Since I cannot ever, ever spell emporer and sorceror correctly, and was too dumb to have kings and wizards instead, I have created a sentence to help me:
The emperor did
not pore
over the sorcerer's recipe for
roooooooast
geeeeeeese.
(I suppose “The sorcerer geese roasted the emperor” would work, too.)