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Engineers have always been pervs. As evidence, resistor color codes are remembered by:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
As taught in college. In my situation, our professor disappeared mid semester, as he was arrested for child porn, and was the biggest supplier of child porn in Colorado at the time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_mnemonics
Pretty much everywhere has cracked down on that kind of thing for a while.
Im almost afraid to ask, but could you explain how that helps remembering resistor colors?
Black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white
I have a passing familiarity with the colors and that just helped me list them out... now I feel gross