A resistor colour code mnemonic.

The first letters of each word corresponds to the first letter of each colour in order.

# Colour - Mnemonic
0 Black -- Bad
1 Brown -- Boys
2 Red ---- Rape
3 Orange - Our
4 Yellow - Young
5 Green -- Girls
6 Blue --- But
7 Violet - Violet
8 Grey --- Gives
9 White -- Willingly

Not covered by this mnemonic are gold and silver which are used to indicate multipliers of 0.1 and 0.01 respectively.


Update: April 12, 2000

Thank you bitter engineer for the 'Get Some Now' part of the mnemonic. Tolerance bands (or lack thereof) are addressed in the tolerance band code node.