February 10, 2005
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What IS it with guys and colors?
Specifically, the names of colors.
I've just returned from picking up Dmitry at school, and while driving home found myself behind an attractive Honda Civic. Gesturing toward it, I observed that I love the color it's painted. Lavender, I opined.
No, maybe it's more of a violet, I mused.
Hmmm...then again, perhaps plum?
Whereupon Dmitry removed the lollipop from his mouth (I'd been to the bank's drive-thru) and flatly stated, "It's purple."
I wouldn't want to hurt my male readers' feelings for the world, but so far's I can see, guys have absolutely no appreciation for color.
Comments (17)
rofl. i probably would have stuck with purple too. just makes it easier
i want a purple car. i need to get another van i was considering getting a car but now well i need room for 4 in the back!
It is sad... just this morning I was secretly delighting in the colors of a couple of dresses: Montego blue and Calypso pink. Language is so nifty..
Plus, there are so many shades of the spectrum that you have to have the exact word, or it's not worth mentioning at all.
Guys. ::rolleyes:
You got that right, Han_Hon.
Yeah, but call one tool or automotive part by the name of the other, and they'll take your head off!
Apparently precision matters in some thing, but in others, it doesn't.
Innit the truth? Let a person hand 'em a flat-head screwdriver when they want a Phillips-head screwdriver, and you'd think there'd been an act of sedition committed or something.
Certain devoted husbands have been known to learn certain colors and their names. One day, one of Mike's underlings, a very macho 19 or 20 year old, asked all the guys in the shop to come down to the parking lot so he could show his new car. They all went down, and while all the other guys were admiring the color, Mike said, "It's periwinkle." Angry protests from all the single guys, but the other married man present backed Mike up. "Yup. That's periwinkle all right. You've got a girl-colored car."
LOL
I've actually got a policy of physically abusing people who, in my presence, distinguish between "eggshell" and "ivory."
Personally, I blame all of this on those big boxes of Crayola crayons that had the sharpener built into them. Everyone basically needed to know ten or twelve colors until Crayola started with this "burnt sienna" nonsense.
AAMOF, I just bought one of those exact boxes for Brianna.
Taupe.
It's what separates the men from the women.
And, Kelly, that was just plain cruel of Mike! =8^o
How on earth is that poor guy going to enjoy his brand, spanking new, periwinkle car now, huh?
[whispering] Tell Mike to suggest he get some nice taupe accessories for it.
Taupe is a good one, but my favorite is mauve.
I'm more eddicated than I used to be, but ten or so years back, I was floored when a friend of mine, whom at that time I had not known long, used "mauve" perfectly naturally in a sentence.
Well, she is an amateur decorating diva, but still....I'd never heard it done. I couldn't have told you before then precisely what mauve is. Now, thanks to Debby's tutelage, I partake of that gnosis.
I wonder if there's ever been a time prior to this when "taupe", "mauve", and "gnosis" appeared in such close proximity?
And mauve?
You want Mike should suggest mauve accessories?!?
May as well put a Strawberry Shortcake decal on his bumper and have done with it.
Poor ol' Periwinkle. You're trying to get him pounded to a puddle.
No, I didn't literally mean that Mike should suggest taupe. I meant that "taupe" is a good color-word with which to tweak people, but my favorite word for the purpose is "mauve." I can't imagine mauve accessories in a car, at any rate.
However, I think Mike has little to fear -- I gather from Kelly's description that he was the senior guy in the group at the time, and there are Rules About These Things.
"I wonder if there's ever been a time prior to this when "taupe", "mauve", and "gnosis" appeared in such close proximity?"
We live to entertain.
[aggrieved] I'd have thought Googling those three words would surely lead straight here but no . . . only two hits are dredged up, one for a spelling bee and a dictionary.
Hardly seems fair, does it?
boys and color......my Bennett, the artist in training, has a fit while coloring his homework...it seems the red crayon is simply NOT the right shade of red, often he has fits over the correct shade of green or blue. It cracks me up, especially to hear my other boys or husband begging him to not be so picky about the shade or color.
I think it takes a couple of days for Google to find you. With all those millions of pages to track, it does take a while for the index to be updated.
Try again in a week or so.
Oh, no, this guy needed bringing down - one of those God's Gift to Women types. And I asked Mike just now about the details of the story, since it was four or five years ago that it happened - the person who confirmed Mike's evaluation of the car's color was the Major - a female Major.
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