Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly

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.

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.

During World War II, there was a variant of this mnemonic that was more suitable for racist children: Black Bastards Rape our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls.

# 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 --- Virgins
8 Grey ----- Go
9 White ---- Without
5% Gold ---- Get
10% Silver - Some
20% None --- Now

Clearly, I didn't learn this in school. School prefers things like "Bye Bye Rosie Off You Go (to) Birmingham Via Great Western". That isn't very memorable though...