Today, Crayola announced it will contribute to the further decline of civilization by renaming 8 crayon colors with names that aren't colors at all.
Most of us still aren't sure about "burnt sienna," nor the difference between "Violet-Blue" and "Blue-Violet" -- but at least those sound like colors! Now Crayola, celebrating its 50th anniversary since debuting crayons on the Captain Kangaroo Show in 1958, is giving "feeling" names to some crayons. Here they are:
Watermelon (old name) becomes Awesome
Laser Lemon becomes Super Happy
Wild Tangerine becomes Fun in the Sun
Screamin' Green becomes Giving Tree
Beaver becomes Bear Hug
Turquoise Blue becomes Happy Ever After
Hot Magenta becomes Famous
Orchid becomes Best Friends
(Wait ... there was a color called "Beaver"?)
Why don't we have real colors like "Burnt Texas Toast" or "Pale Undead Guy"?
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6 Gator-baiters:
Gator asks, "Why don't we have real colors like 'Burnt Texas Toast’ or 'Pale Undead Guy'?"
Weren't these colors named to memorialize the children of Waco's Branch Dravidians who were flambéed by the FBI --- as a burnt reminder of their awesome power?
Crayons taste terrible??? Why didn't anyone ever tell us little kids? I LOVED my crayons as an after school snack when I was in first grade and I turned out O.K., sort of.
Well, I can certainly understand renaming the color "beaver"
Noooo! Not my turquoise blue! Aaaauuuuggh...where will it end! Whose idea was it to ascribe feelings to inanimate objects?
I wish I still had a box of 64 crayons from my childhood--WITH their original names--just to show my future grandchildren one day!
"Happy Ever After?" "Best Friends?"
You are right on with the comment of Crayola contributing to the decline of civilization. This will further reinforce the soft-fuzzy, "deferred success", everybody-must-have-happy-feelings society we have created.
Oh, who cares?
Since when do kids read the name on the label anyway?
I thought that there were different colors of beavers anyway. (rimshot)
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