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I just heard an ad for paint on the radio. It ended with a woman exclaiming delightedly "I just found my perfect shade -- 'Ocean Breeze!'"
Maybe I'm a bit too literal-minded, but does it really make sense to define color -- a visual phenomenon -- after something that not only appeals to two different sense (smell and touch), but is actually invisible?
J.
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Comments (14)
How else would you define c... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Schwerv | March 17, 2005 8:27 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How else would you define color. Try to define green without saying green. That is pretty hard to do. Also, Have been to Home Depot lately?? They have semmingly endless amounts of shades and hues. You cant name all the greens...green.
By the way. I think ocean breeze is a blue. What do you think.
1. Posted by Schwerv | March 17, 2005 8:27 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 08:27
2. Posted by McGehee | March 17, 2005 8:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Father: "What's your favorite color?"
Five-year-old daughter: "Sweet satin mist!"
2. Posted by McGehee | March 17, 2005 8:38 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 08:38
3. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 8:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
In theory, it can IF done correctly.....this example is not exactly square with what you are discussing- but, for example, there is a Japanese poem about running water where the Japanese words (characters) containing the poem content are visually dripping-there is no question it enhances the mental image the poem attempts to convey....it's just that we don't do it too well.
3. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 8:48 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 08:48
4. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 9:03 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mary Jo Kopeckne Blue
Teddy Kennedy Green (after too much Chevas)
Robert Byrd Linen
Michael Jackson Beige
4. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 9:03 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 09:03
5. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 9:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hamas Red
Clinton Cream
5. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 9:11 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 09:11
6. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 9:23 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ted Kennedy Aquamarine
6. Posted by bsp | March 17, 2005 9:23 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 09:23
7. Posted by Rightwingsparkle | March 17, 2005 10:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I blogged today on playing board games with guys like you Jay. So literal.
Does one literally "fly out the door?"
Does one literally "laugh their ass off?"
;-)
The creative language of painting. You gotta wonder who's job it is to come up with the names.
7. Posted by Rightwingsparkle | March 17, 2005 10:50 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 10:50
8. Posted by LJD | March 17, 2005 11:51 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Maybe the can's just empty, which explains why the paint is so easy to apply....
8. Posted by LJD | March 17, 2005 11:51 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 11:51
9. Posted by Rightwingsparkle | March 17, 2005 11:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
McGehee, you have a future interior decorater on your hands, no doubt.
9. Posted by Rightwingsparkle | March 17, 2005 11:57 AM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 11:57
10. Posted by GeoBandy | March 17, 2005 12:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yep, it's probably a blue...and it almost certainly SMELLS nothing like an "Ocean Breeze"
10. Posted by GeoBandy | March 17, 2005 12:35 PM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 12:35
11. Posted by Raina | March 17, 2005 12:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Clinton Cream"
Ewwwwww.....Is that what color Monica painted her house?
11. Posted by Raina | March 17, 2005 12:43 PM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 12:43
12. Posted by KBiel | March 17, 2005 1:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Perhaps they were trying to conjure images of crusted salt and rust, the results of letting your car sit too long in the "ocean breeze".
12. Posted by KBiel | March 17, 2005 1:51 PM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 13:51
13. Posted by McGehee | March 17, 2005 3:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The conversation was hypothetical... ;-)
13. Posted by McGehee | March 17, 2005 3:05 PM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 15:05
14. Posted by firstbrokenangel | March 17, 2005 5:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Shut off the radio.
Cindy
14. Posted by firstbrokenangel | March 17, 2005 5:38 PM |
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Posted on March 17, 2005 17:38