On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:33:19 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

One wonders, with the new co-ed service, how they now teach the resistor
color code :)

We had wave ETs back then too. So as to balance the sexual
connotation:

Well back into a non-PC mnemonic for trigonometric identities:

Sally Could Tell Oscar Had A Hard On Always

O
S = ---
H

A
C = ---
H

O
T = ---
A

S, Sine (of angle of interest)
C, Cosine (of angle of interest)
T, Tangent (of angle of interest)
O, Opposite (side opposite from angle of interest)
H, Hypotenuses (longest side, next to angle of interest)
A, Adjacent (side next to angle of interest)