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From: cyamamot@nunki.usc.edu (Cliff Yamamoto)
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Subject: Re: Resistor Color code sayings
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Date: 11 Oct 89 14:18:44 GMT
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In article <1015@mgse.UUCP> marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) writes:
>Sometime ago i learned electronics in the Army, not much but a little.
>One of the things we learned were sayings to help learn the resistor
>color code system. I only remeber part of one, something like 
>"bad booze rots our young guts ....". Does anyone know the rest of this
>or another ones? Are there any 'clean' ones?

I never knew of these sayings till a professor in one of my classes told
us this one (it's not a 'clean' one either):

bad   boys   rape  our   young  girls  but  violet  gives  willingly
 0      1      2    3      4      5     6      7      8        9
black brown  red  orange yellow green blue  violet  gray     white  

I have no idea where he picked this up from

Cliff