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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