Idiocy Ad Nauseum
Remember those "Dear Master of the Universe" posts I used to write? Well that is SO over. I decided that I don't like writing to non-existent beings after all. It's like sending mail to yourself--completely futile.
Instead I'm going to start a stream entitled Idiocy Ad Nauseum, subject subject to change...
For my first entry: The in-geniousness of crayola crayon colors.
I'm not sure how and why but I ended up on the Crayola website today. More specifically it was their crayola crayon chronology, or as I like to call it: cholornology.
Asides from the overt humor, which is that certain historical colors had to be renamed due to their politically incorrect nature (i.e. Prussian Blue, Flesh -->promptly adjusted post Civil Rights Movement, and Indian Red), I realized something else. Something completely nonsensical.
Allow me to demonstrate in a few flow of logic statements:
- Humans created language in part to effectively describe their surroundings
- The word orange represents a color, as well as the fruit. However carrots are orange but to avoid confusion, we have aptly dubbed it "carrot."
- Now kindly refer back to the crayola page. Take note of certain "colors" after 1989, particuarly 1990-1992.
- E.g.s you should be looking for: Neon Carrot, Wild Watermelon, Maize, and Razzle Dazzle Rose.
First of all, what color is watermelon? Are they really creating a circular reference in language by using the very objects we couldn't assign a color equivalent name to label a color?
On the one hand it is arguably an excellent educational tool for children (Unless you're Ralph Wiggum). But from a logical perspective, this is just silly.
Instead I'm going to start a stream entitled Idiocy Ad Nauseum, subject subject to change...
For my first entry: The in-geniousness of crayola crayon colors.
I'm not sure how and why but I ended up on the Crayola website today. More specifically it was their crayola crayon chronology, or as I like to call it: cholornology.
Asides from the overt humor, which is that certain historical colors had to be renamed due to their politically incorrect nature (i.e. Prussian Blue, Flesh -->promptly adjusted post Civil Rights Movement, and Indian Red), I realized something else. Something completely nonsensical.
Allow me to demonstrate in a few flow of logic statements:
- Humans created language in part to effectively describe their surroundings
- The word orange represents a color, as well as the fruit. However carrots are orange but to avoid confusion, we have aptly dubbed it "carrot."
- Now kindly refer back to the crayola page. Take note of certain "colors" after 1989, particuarly 1990-1992.
- E.g.s you should be looking for: Neon Carrot, Wild Watermelon, Maize, and Razzle Dazzle Rose.
First of all, what color is watermelon? Are they really creating a circular reference in language by using the very objects we couldn't assign a color equivalent name to label a color?
On the one hand it is arguably an excellent educational tool for children (Unless you're Ralph Wiggum). But from a logical perspective, this is just silly.
posted by Mix at 11:25 PM
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