[Gen.Blather]

The resistor code was “bad boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly.” I was about to tell a tech how to remember it at a recent job and then choked to a stop, as it would have been a write-up offense at the very least.

[pfflier]

Try “bad booze ruins our young guts but vodka goes well”

[scripter]

I don’t think I’ve heard that since 1977. Made me smile.

[raybbr]

The resistor code was “bad boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly.”

I learned it as: "Black boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly" Said they used "black" for, well, the black ring to remember it IS black.

[BRL]

When was the last time anyone saw a color coded resistor?

[Clay Moore]

I always heard it with “bad” replaced by the actual color. HR would have really flipped about that!

[Aevery_Freeman]

When I learned it, "bad" was not the mnemonic for black, black was.

Man, I am old!

[Fresh Wind]

The resistor code...

Just wait 'till the PC Nazis discover that connectors come in male and female varieties. They'll want to know why you can't have male to male and female to female connections.