True Virgins Make Dull Company?

[Skylark]

In our wonderfully politically-correct world, is there a more "acceptable" way of remembering the order of compass adjusting sequence?

 

[RobBrown]

I was given an anodyne one for the reverse- Cadbury's Dairy Milk -Very Tasty

 

[Skyva_2]

Another that seems to be in use for the PC audience:

T V Makes Dull Children. On second thoughts that may not be PC either?

 

[Poignard]

I wonder if there is a PC version of the mnemonic [is that the right word?] I learnt in the Royal Navy for remembering the colour code of resistors. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[yoty]

That
Vladdy
Method
Dont
Confuse

 

[stevebirch2002]

You must mean~:

Black B*stards Rape Our Young Girls But Virgins Grow Wise ?

 

[benjenbav]

This VAT Madness Doesn't Compute?

 

[Twister_Ken]

The Victor Must Drink Champagne

 

[NealB]

Well.....we all know that variation is the difference between true and magnetic, and that deviation is the difference between magnetic and compass.....don't we, 'cos it's obvious, innit?

So why do we need a memory aid at all?

 

[chewi]

but virgins go without...

 

[Adamastor]

Well and good- I used to teach that Twenty Vodkas Make Drunken Captains, and Captains Do Many Vicious Things but for the life of me I can't remember the mnemonic from Southampton U for the "West is Best- Add/East is Least- Subtract" aide-memoire.
Someone taught me a nice simple little rhyme to try help me remember, but after I understood WHY it worked, I promptly forgot it!

 

[ITH]

CADET was the acronym I remember being used: from Compass to True Add East.

 

[NealB]

"Error west compass best: error east compass least".

Is that the one?

I still find this useful.

 

[Rowana]

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I wonder if there is a PC version of the mnemonic [is that the right word?] I learnt in the Royal Navy for remembering the colour code of resistors. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Bye
Bye
Rosie
On
You
Go to
Birmingham
Via
Great
Western

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Adamastor]

Thanks Ian- "CADET"-that was it!
Rowana: what does Bye Bye Rosie actially stand for? Just so as I know? It looks as if Richard Of York Goes Battling (the mnemonic for the rainbow's colours) somewhere in there?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

 

[mattw]

It's black, brown, then the colours of the rainbow then white. They needed 10 colours and rainbows only have 7. Black is 0 and white is 9. There are usually 4 bands, the first two being the number, and the last being the number of zeros, so red, yellow, orange becomes 230000, 23 with 4 zeros. The forth band is the manufacturing tolerance. Occasionally there are more bands which will be of interest to electronic engineers, but few others...

Bad Boys Ravish Only Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly

I wouldn't say that out loud in case the Peadofinder General hears you.

 

[onenyala]

CERT Compass to True east is to the right

 

[breezer5012]

I have to admit that I'm happy to stick with the non pc version as I've learnt it and it is now locked in my memory! I've been taught the extended version though, which is even less pc -

True Virgins Make Dull Company (+ Willies), where 'willies ' stands for westerly variation

Cadburys Diary Milk, Very Tasty (+ Exciting).

Not pc, but works for me. I guess it comes from having an ex Royal Marine for a YM instructor /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Cornishman]

Error West - Compass Best
Error East - Compass Least

where error is the sum of variation and deviation and anything else you care to throw in like the angle of dangle!