Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain

Subject: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: Orwill
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 10:54 PM

Right next to "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" was "Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain" in a book I was reading. Some sort of mnemonic device, but for what?

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Feb 00 - 11:03 PM

Risk your guts but venerably?

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: alison
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 12:18 AM

Colours of the rainbow...

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

How about - Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle = order sharps appear in a key signature, (reverse it for flats)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 12:33 AM

The spectrum, in optics (rainbow will do). Our mnemonic for it was Roy G. Biv. Same thing.

A

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: Melbert
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 04:19 AM

How about "PCMCIA"
People Can't Remember Computer Industry Acronymns

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 04:00 PM

Sort of- Really - colours of the visible spectrum ( that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans can see-colours of the rainbow is close enough) Also the colour code for the Bands of colour on electrical resistors plus Gold and silver for the tolerance in % (5 and 10) Eric

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 13 Feb 00 - 06:01 PM

In junior high school science I was taught VIBGYOR as an initialism/mnemonic. Not nearly as much fun as some of the above.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 03:42 PM

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 03:43 PM

And there's O Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now Sweetie, which I think is the bones of the foot.

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: jeffp
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 03:50 PM

I learned the resistor color code as "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly." (Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White for zero to 9)

Dont forget HOMES for the Great Lakes.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 05:06 PM

Jeffp is right. I am wrong about resistor colour codes- I had forgotten so back just to visible spectrum folks. Eric

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 05:37 PM

jeffp is correct, and I knew the rhyme quite well, but being color blind I still needed an ohmmeter. (Capacitors were more complicated)

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: Gervase
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 06:51 PM

I used to remember the periodic table as 'Harry, he likes bent boys clutching naughty oranges...' I knew I should have run away from that school sooner!

Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 15 Feb 00 - 03:57 AM

Funny, I used to remember the periodic table as 'Listen to Be B C News On Friday Neights'...