When I was in the navy (!) the mnemonic had been bowdlerized to Bad Boys Race Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls but I had learned the original in my high school electronics club.
You too? Did he try to go around selling everyone homemade beef jerky?
Ditto. My post above was meant as a response to furryman (#29) and Enjoy_Slurm (#31), who were objecting to the order the colours were in.
I was just chiming in with the mnemonic I was taught; IMO it’s much simpler and easier to remember than a whole sentence.