1. Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - approx used for resistor colour codes which add black and brown as 0 and 1 so red is 2, orange 3 etc but Indigo is omitted and grey and white added to make up the numbers 8 and 9.
An electronics engineer of my acquaintance remembered it as "bad boys roll on young girls but virgins go without". I learned the sequence by colour name since I reckon mnemonics are expensive on grey-cell real-estate (because? Chambord Royale - there, I'm doing it now).
1. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
ReplyDelete2. T Jefferson?
3. Mrs JK??
4. Lust, Envy, Greed, Sloth - have to think about the others?
1 eggsellent, 4 … three of them.
ReplyDelete1. Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - approx used for resistor colour codes which add black and brown as 0 and 1 so red is 2, orange 3 etc but Indigo is omitted and grey and white added to make up the numbers 8 and 9.
ReplyDeleteWe needed that.
DeleteI remembered the phrase and had to think what colours it gave!
Deletestill thinking about 4 - was pride another?
No ideas on 1 or 2 yet
It just occured - you wouldn't want a colourblind electronics repair man (sorry, person)!
DeleteDon't forget the tolerance bands, silver and gold. Colours 1 to 8 (I think) have been hijacked for the LBGT flag, same order.
Delete3 - Lady Randolph Churchill, Winston's mum
DeleteResistors. Billy Brown Revels On Your Gin But Values Good Whisky.
ReplyDeleteI never knew that one!
DeleteAn electronics engineer of my acquaintance remembered it as "bad boys roll on young girls but virgins go without". I learned the sequence by colour name since I reckon mnemonics are expensive on grey-cell real-estate (because? Chambord Royale - there, I'm doing it now).
DeleteYou answered 1 and n2 knew Jefferson.
ReplyDelete4) Gluttony; Pride; {Plus one)
ReplyDeleteno progress on 4 - can't get past Raquel Welch as Lillian Lust!
ReplyDeletewas 2 Benjamin Franklin?
ReplyDelete3. Jennie Jerome Churchill. Mistress of EdVII and ma of Winnie.
ReplyDelete2. I cannot tell a lie Washington.
And that, I think, completes them. Well done.
ReplyDeleteChurchill's Ma diddled him out of part of his inheritance.
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