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Re: [6pack] topaz

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Subject: Re: [6pack] topaz
From: Ryan Van Luchene <dejabuzzed@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:54:19 -0800 (PST)
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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