Resistor color code (Warning: PG rated)

Lan Barnes lbarnes at san.rr.com
Sun Mar 10 17:37:31 PST 2002


On  9 Mar, Dick Lewis wrote:
> THE FOLLOWING IS POLITICALLY INCORRECT AND MAY OFFEND SENSITIVE VIEWERS.
> READER DISCRETION ADVISED. (Blame me, not Lan)
> 
> On Sat, Mar 9 Lan Barnes owned up to the fact that his memory (like mine)
> is in decline, to wit:
> 
> "Heck, I can't even remember the resistor color code -- what is the 
>  color stripe pattern for 10 kilo-Ohm?"
> 
> This should help:
> 
> Bad       0   Black
> Boys      1   Brown
> Rape      2   Red
> Our       3   Orange
> Young     4   Yellow
> Girls     5   Green
> But       6   Blue
> Violet    7   Violet
> Gives     8   Gray
> Willingly 9   White
> 

_My_ only concern is that some of our gentler members may be
permanently damaged by this post, and become rapists and
pedophiles :-)

-- 
Lan Barnes                 lbarnes at san.rr.com
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