Why didn't we have crayon colours like this when I was a kid?
I finally cracked open the big box of 96 crayons today. Amid the old stand-bys are colours like "Cyber Grape," "Razzmatazz," and "Denim."
And this one:
Wild Blue Yonder? What exactly do you colour "Wild Blue Yonder"? And how do I explain to my toddler that no, this isn't blue, or even blue-grey, but is wild blue yonder?
Am I just getting old?
And this one:
Wild Blue Yonder? What exactly do you colour "Wild Blue Yonder"? And how do I explain to my toddler that no, this isn't blue, or even blue-grey, but is wild blue yonder?
Am I just getting old?
posted by carrie at 12/31/2004 11:10:00 a.m.
4 Comments:
Wild blue yonder...I love that name! It reminds me of only part of a song I can remember...I am not even entirely sure it was a real song, may have been one of my mom's made up songs..LOL!:)
BTW..I am curious why you spell colour the correct way? (the Canadian/British way and not the American way)
Katrina: I spell colour the way I do because, well, it feels right. Call me crazy, and my husband did on his blog today, but I spell a lot of words the British way.
Robert: I think there's a separate periwinkle blue in the box. And yes, a periwinkle is a type of flower.
Maybe this is the special patriotism pack, cause there's also a crayon colour called "Purple Mountains' Majesty".
But I think my favourite has to be "Mauvelous". :)
If anyone is interested, I browsed over to crayola.com and found a chronology of when different colours were introduced.
My mom, from whom I inherit all my packrat tendencies, has saved almost every crayon that either my sister or I ever owned. She has crayons whose colour is named "flesh". I just read on the crayola site that colour was changed to "peach" in 1962 due to the civil rights movement. So that means my mom has crayons that are over 40 years old. Scary.
And for the record, I always wondered about that flesh colour, since I didn't know anyone whose skin was that colour. It's kind of like Band-Aids. Why not make them all either clear, or weird psychedelic colours, so they're either virtually invisible or they stick out like a sore thumb.
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