NP: Mnemonics

[Anville Azote]

On 6/18/06, Henry Musikar <hmusikar at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Don't flame the messenger:
>
> Bad     Black
> Boys    Brown
> Rape    Red
> Our     Orange
> Young   Yellow
> Girls,  Green
> But     Blue
> Violet  Violet?
> Gives   Gray
> Willingly       White
>
> Henry
>
> Blame Joe, not me!

Astronomers are all familiar with the spectral classes of the stars,
as seen on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.  From hottest to coldest,
the classifications go O, B, A, F, G, K, M.  That's "Oh Be A Fine
Girl, Kiss Me!"  (Sometimes one sees "right now" appended to give the
R and N classes, which aren't used as often.)

I'm still trying to come up with a better reply than "Only Boys
Advocating Feminism Get Kissed Meaningfully"; perhaps a P-lister can
do better and, in the process, do astronomy a favor.  To get you
started:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_mnemonics#Astronomy

Mnemonics for resistor color-codes can be found on the same page:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_mnemonics#Electrical_color_codes

-anv.