RobertL wrote:
On Oct 22, 3:00 pm, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "John Whitworth"
saying something like:



We were taught it a little bit different. I'm sure it was 'rape' instead of
'root', and the last four words were 'but virgins go without'.
I don't remember it being 'bad' either. But can't think what it was.
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Virgins Go Without.
Throwing sensitivity to the wind, the other version substituted 'Black'
for 'Bad'. I've no doubt there's a perfectly acceptable but dead boring
version out there.

I was taught "willingly" not "without".

'Bad' Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Virgins Go Willingly.

R

Its the 7 colours of the spectrum, with black for nought, brown for one
(halfway between black and red) grey for eight and white for nine.

I never had any problems, or need for mnemonics.

After a while the coses were second nature for preferred values in the
E20 range anyway.

Had to think a bit for high precision sometimes.