New Crayola Crayon "Colors"
The Irascible Professor's commentary on the new names given to the Crayola crayon colors.
Color Me Ishmael.
Guest commentary by Carolyn Foster Segal.
Color me annoyed. Color me exasperated. Or despairing. Or frustrated. Just don't -- even though it would be the most precise description--color me blue.
Crayola, in honor of the 50th anniversary of its 64-box, recently sponsored a contest inviting children to send in their ideas for new names for eight of its crayons.
The company supposedly received over 20,000 entries. So, color me baffled -- I just can't figure out why, out of all those entries, the judges chose the eight new names announced last Wednesday. Color me confused -- because I can't find a single color mentioned. ...
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1 comments:
What i don't understand about it, is why people need to make colors even more complicated than what it is. I don't know, its just probably me. We as a country have way too many colors, and making up all these names for crayons to me is unnecessary to me. Why not just stick to the regular words like blue, red, orange, yellow and so forth?Why it has to be complicated like the word "JUICY"....
-KRYSTLE RAMPERSAD
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