wow, nice chauvinistic, bigoted response there, ed.
ryan
--- Ed Bratt <bratt@sasktel.net> wrote:
> What really gets to me is the goofy names applied to
> some of the colors.
>
> Any normal man knows there are just eight colors.
> They are red, orange,
> yellow, black, white, green, blue, and brown. Red
> is like a fire engine,
> orange like a common citrus fruit with a similar
> name, black is like coal,
> white is like cotton balls, blue is like the sky,
> and green is like grass,
> brown is like (well, you know what that has flys
> swarming it).
>
> Any divergence from these male comprehensive eight
> basic colors indicate
> someone is nearing abnormality reserved for
> "interior decorators" and others
> wearing "chartreuse" velvet jackets and pointy toed
> "gamboge" boots, while
> driving their Morris Minors "trimmed" with curtains.
> Perhaps the Triumph
> employment policies were a bit too futuristic in
> regard to hiring "social
> minorities" and erred by putting them in charge of
> color naming.
>
> Mimosa, topaz, inca, russet, delft and maple are
> "hues" or "shades" of one
> or another of the aforementioned eight "real
> colors". But do not ask me to
> identify them. I think I had one of those "colors"
> in a spot on my shirt
> where some mustard mixed with some barbecue sauce
> from my burger, but it
> beats me which "color" it actually looks like.
>
> From another perspective, these "colors" could be
> called "non-colors"
> because they are not incuded in the Wikipedia list
> of existing colors.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors
>
> The list states that it is "incomplete" and that
> "sourced revisions" are
> welcome.
>
> I, fortunately, have a "red TR 6" with a "black"
> interior, and no black
> "back". Whenever someone asks what color my sports
> car is I can answer with
> a single syllable word, "red".
>
> There is a neat quiz helpful in learning basic olors
> at
> http://www.manythings.org/fq/1/8996.html
>
> Ed Bratt
> Regina, Saskatchewan
> 1976 RED TR6
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