# Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420 "2011-07-09T16:18:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/1 "2011-07-09T16:18:57Z")
This is just one of those “mnemonics” I remember learning, but damned if I haven’t forgottten what OBAFGKM was for. Help! Open field for other such things like Every Good Boy Deserves Favor All Cows Eat Grass (recently revived here at SDMB) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/2 "2011-07-09T16:22:06Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > This is just one of those “mnemonics” I remember learning, but damned if I haven’t forgottten what OBAFGKM was for. Help! Classes of stars. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/3 "2011-07-09T16:29:45Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Classes of stars. Thanks! Remember the one about the colors on resistors? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/4 "2011-07-09T16:34:09Z")
While we’re at it, can anyone remember what this one helps us remember?: “Lessen Urgent Motions To See That All Squirrels Can Be Rationally Sufficient” All I can recall is that it was for a very important test I had to take. Maybe Chemistry. Or Child Development. Maybe the DMV test. Ah, school days! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/5 "2011-07-09T16:44:08Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Classes of stars. Techically its the only way astronomy nerds even have a chance of getting laid. The classes thing is just a cover story. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/6 "2011-07-09T16:47:26Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Thanks! Remember the one about the colors on resistors? Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet goes willingly. black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white What was the one about Mark’s mother and the Canary? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/7 "2011-07-09T16:49:02Z")
Instead of opening another line of exploration into this sort of trivia, I’ll insert the question: Did you ever learn this way of singing the alphabet: [Sesame Street: ABC-DEF-GHI Song - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvhKZHAP8U) Also, can you pronounce the three lines of letters on a QWERTY keyboard? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/8 "2011-07-09T16:50:34Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet goes willingly. > black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white > > What was the one about Mark’s mother and the Canary? That’s the resisitor thing I recall! Thanks! No help on Mark and the Canary. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/9 "2011-07-09T17:02:06Z")
Mine was even more nerdy. On Old Olympus Terraced Tops, A Fin And German Vaulted A Hedge. (or Veiwed Some Hops) : The crainial nerves. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/10 "2011-07-09T17:06:03Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Mine was even more nerdy. On Old Olympus Terraced Tops, A Fin And German Vaulted A Hedge. (or Veiwed Some Hops) : The crainial nerves. There are eight million versions of this one; the one I learned was On Old Olympus’s Towering Top, A Fat-Assed German Vends Spanish Hops. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/11 "2011-07-09T17:09:44Z")
Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest: the planets ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/12 "2011-07-09T18:15:37Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Thanks! Remember the one about the colors on resistors? I prefer the one “Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West - Get Started Now” Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Grey White Gold Silver None for numbers 0 - 9, and then the tolerance bands: 5% for Gold, 10% for Silver, and 20% for none. Although nowadays the tolerance band can be a “regular” digit. Manufacturing has improved to the point that a resistor can be accurate within 1%. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/13 "2011-07-09T18:23:58Z")
Fine Chocolate Gives Delight At Every Bite Order of sharps My classmate made up: Eat Apples Daily Guitar Becomes Easy for the six guitar strings (I still use that one all the time… can’t seem to remember otherwise.) ---
**Author:** ![maisoui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/14 "2011-07-09T18:54:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Fine Chocolate Gives Delight At Every Bite > Order of sharps I learned “Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle,” which turns nicely into… “Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles’ Father” for order of flats. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/15 "2011-07-09T18:59:36Z")
> [@maisoui](#): > > I learned “Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle,” which turns nicely into… > “Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles’ Father” for order of flats. Slick! That’s one to remember. Other than FACE, did you ever have another mnemonic for the treble spaces? And have you ever perplexed an adult with OTTFFSS\_? ---
**Author:** ![maisoui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/16 "2011-07-09T19:07:59Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > And have you ever perplexed an adult with > OTTFFSS\_? I have not, but I am going with “E.” Nothing other than FACE, either… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/17 "2011-07-09T19:22:38Z")
> [@maisoui](#): > > I have not, but I am going with “E.” > > Nothing other than FACE, either… “E” is right. The FACE thing makes me think I have run across an acronym or mnemonic that is harder to remember than the thing it’s describing. But, as usual, whatever it is is not coming to me at the moment. It’s a lot like those things you would associate with the numbers 1-20 or 1-something else where in order to remember a list of things you would take the keyword you associate with the number and then associate the thing you’re trying to remember (grocery list, let’s say) with that keyword and thereby remember your list more easily. There were several proponents of those tricks, some of them appearing on Carson’s show (or the like) and they would dazzle you with their feats of memory. I just found the list itself (the keywords, that is) harder to remember then the things I was trying to use the keywords for. There were too many tricks like that that I have forgotten along the way. Like tying a string around your finger. An hour later you see the string and wonder what it was the string was for. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/18 "2011-07-09T19:23:21Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet goes willingly. > black brown red orange yellow green blue violet gray white > > What was the one about Mark’s mother and the Canary? I learned that in electrician school, but it also had “Get Some Now” tacked on the end for gold, silver, no color. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/19 "2011-07-09T19:28:45Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest: the planets I learned My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pumpkins. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420/20 "2011-07-09T19:39:48Z")
Do Keep Papers Coming Or Flunk General Science. Heard that one in eighth grade, still use it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-be-a-fine-girl-kiss-me/588420.md?page=2)