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[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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Straight-out memorizing works just as well, too.  

But you have three B-colors (black, brown, blue), and pinning one of them down with the mnemonic is somewhat helpful

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> You'll have noticed that "Bad boys" would have done just as well....
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> JL
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> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 3:20 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
> CCDC AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu>
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> > > In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail
> > > in
> > the
> > > coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
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> > >  For people with degrees anyhow.
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> > Oh, I have a degree - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
> > But the standard mnemonic for color codes on resistors was taught to
> > us with a straight face ("Black boys rape our young girls but Violet gives
> willingly"
> > -- black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey,
> > white)), so whether or not "oriental" was offensive was completely off the
> radar.
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> > (Wikipedia has a number of mnemonics which are not so racist or
> > sexist, but are also much less memorable.)
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