The public school version was always, "Bad boys race our young girls, but Violet generally wins," leaving out the reference to violent sexual crime.
John, the transistor amplifier help I was taught when attending Navy "A" school at Treasure Island, San Francisco wasn't bad as long as you told a decent story to go along with the nemonic.
It had to do with a certain Italian/Moroccan sailor named Azaza Vopini who had a daughter named Becky (nicknamed Bec) who opened a bar near a popular port of call. With this overall easy-to-remember story, you can come up with the relative voltage gain, power gain, current gain, input impedance and output impedance for common emitter, common collector and common base transistor amplifiers. Cute way to do it.
Dean