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From: barry@hprmokg.HP.COM (Barry Fowler)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Resistor Color code sayings
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Date: 11 Oct 89 22:59:27 GMT
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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?

>-- 
>Mark Seiffert,  Metairie, LA.
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Well, I know one and no "sexist flames", please.  I forgot the clean
version ('shows you how effective that was).

Bad       Black
Boy       Brown
Rape      Red 
Our       Orange 
Young     Yellow
Girls     Green
But       Blue
Violet    Violet
Gives     Gray
Willingly White

This was taught to us in high school by an instructor that was previously 
an Air Force OJT instructor.