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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0872797.html

How do they come up with some of these names?

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sepia
raw sienna
raw umber
chartreuse
atomic tangerine
screamin' green
razzle dazzle rose
razzmatazz
wisteria

Just the other day my friend told me they were adding "Michael Jackson White" [Cool]

[ June 07, 2004, 05:02 PM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]

Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :

They retired maize??? I always used that color as a child. Raw sienna, however, always retained its sharp point.

space opera

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

The site is incorrect...
I had a "flesh" colour crayon up to late grade school... so they changed it to "peach" in the 80's.

(unless I had a box of crayons 20 years old!)

[ June 07, 2004, 05:12 PM: Message edited by: Telperion the Silver ]

Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :

Hey, anything's possible, Telperion. Maybe you had a box that had been hanging around the store a long time. [Wink]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I always thought that "Flesh" color should be the color of raw meat. That's what we all look like inside, isn't it?

Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :

Micheal Jackson white!

Michael Jackson white?

Did you know that Michael Jackson is living proof that any poor little black boy can grow up to be a rich white woman?

Back to crayons: The least used crayon in my box of 64 was always the white one.

Maybe the new color names are better than the ones they used 35 years ago (blue-green and green-blue were really creative names).

When I was a kid, I worked for a while at a tupperware warehouse. Instead of calling their colors names like orange, yellow, green, and brown, they used names like tangerine, daffodil, burnt orange, coffee, and apple green.

I've always wondered what third grader really needs 64 colors?

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

I thought I was the coolest person in the world for having the 106 crayon set that wouldn't fit anywhere in my schoolbag.

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

you were

Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :

the world will be a better place once tickle me pink and macaroni and cheese are retired.

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

Oh Telperion...:

quote:
1962

Partly in response to the civil rights movement, Crayola decides to change the name of the “flesh” crayon to “peach.” Renaming this crayon was a way of recognizing that skin comes in a variety of shades.