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The value of electrical components are color-coded: Bad Boys Rape Our
Young Girls But Violet... You are a sexist pig!

Well... Violet USED to give willingly but she got shot outta the
saddle about 1958, at least for Navy schools. Usta go like this:

Bad = Black = 0 (ie, Zero)
Boys = Brown = 1
Rape = Red = 2
Our = Orange = 3
Young = Yellow = 4
Girls = Green = 5
But = Blue = 6
Violet = Purple = 7
Gives = Grey = 8
Willingly = White = 9

Back in the 1960s and early 1970s, before the 1% and 2% resistors were
common, the memonic for the tolerance bands was Get Some Now:

Get=Gold=5%
Some=Silver=10%
Now=None=20%