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From: jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: soc.women,comp.misc
Subject: Re: (Actually, Resistor Code Mnemonic)
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 11:04:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 11:04:24 1987
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Summary: Yet another resistor code mnemonic
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In article <1172@rayssd.RAY.COM>, hxe@rayssd.RAY.COM (Heather Emanuel) writes:
> I remember when my 8th grade physics (yes, that's what they called
> the class) teacher told us the "Bad Boys..." mnemonic he turned beet
> red from neck to ears, but said there was nothing else.  I, having
> read something else in another book, responded with:
> 
> 	"Bad Booze Rots Our Young Guts But Vermouth Goes Well"
> 
> thus hopefully protecting an entire generation of high school
> students from thinking of rape each time they took a test.
> 
> The "bad booze" line is almost as `forbidden' as the "bad boys" line,
> so we all thought it was just as good.
> 
> "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that
>  sing the best." --Thoreau

the one i learned _first_ was

	"big boys race our young girls but violet generally wins"

which leads me to ask the question, who is this violet person?
if she can outrun all of the `big boys', then who come she gets
gives willingly? ...

i rather liked this one as i was into track in school and the
thought that some violet person was going to come along and
beat all of the guys on the track team seemed quite interesting ...

i can't remember the one for the planets, but i seemed to recall
one with sexual undertones.  if anyone can remember it, please
send me e-mail.  i actually collect this sort of junk.

- john.
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