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12 Feb 00 - 10:54 PM (#177441) Subject: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: Orwill 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? |
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12 Feb 00 - 11:03 PM (#177443) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: wysiwyg Risk your guts but venerably? |
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13 Feb 00 - 12:18 AM (#177465) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: alison 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 |
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13 Feb 00 - 12:33 AM (#177470) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: Amos The spectrum, in optics (rainbow will do). Our mnemonic for it was Roy G. Biv. Same thing. A |
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13 Feb 00 - 04:19 AM (#177514) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: Melbert How about "PCMCIA" People Can't Remember Computer Industry Acronymns |
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13 Feb 00 - 04:00 PM (#177727) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: Eric the Viking 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 |
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13 Feb 00 - 06:01 PM (#177773) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: Uncle_DaveO 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 |
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14 Feb 00 - 03:42 PM (#178218) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: GUEST,JTT |
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14 Feb 00 - 03:43 PM (#178219) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: GUEST,JTT And there's O Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now Sweetie, which I think is the bones of the foot. |
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14 Feb 00 - 03:50 PM (#178224) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: jeffp 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 |
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14 Feb 00 - 05:06 PM (#178274) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: Eric the Viking Jeffp is right. I am wrong about resistor colour codes- I had forgotten so back just to visible spectrum folks. Eric |
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14 Feb 00 - 05:37 PM (#178291) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: GUEST jeffp is correct, and I knew the rhyme quite well, but being color blind I still needed an ohmmeter. (Capacitors were more complicated) |
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14 Feb 00 - 06:51 PM (#178330) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: Gervase 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! |
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15 Feb 00 - 03:57 AM (#178594) Subject: RE: Help: Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain From: The_one_and_only_Dai Funny, I used to remember the periodic table as 'Listen to Be B C News On Friday Neights'... |