My favorite color has been blue. Since blue is the most popular of all colors, that would make me just another run of the mill color dude. Cobalt blue is my favorite shade of blue, but I seem to like all of the dozens of tints.
Did I say dozens? How stupid of me!
There are said to be 72 “web safe” shades of blue. if you think that is confusing, listen to this.
Brainiacs, meaning many more than one, have deduced that there are at least 5.6 million shades of blue!
Holy blue balls! Hummmm…
Yes, the descriptive power of blue has no sense of decency. Regardless, that’s a lot of darned blues.
Quite a few of my clothes are blue, or gray, which goes well with blue. As if I had a clue about what goes well with what.
Blue jeans are blue though; thus, the name and no finer garment was ever devised.
I have brown eyes, but I have at times been enticed by a blue-eyed girl. They seem to peer into your soul, and if they don’t like what they see you know it right off the bat. The blue turns to ice and the party is over, without having begun, no further games being necessary.
I did not throw this in to pile up brownie points with blue-eyed girls. Honest I didn’t.
If it’s any consolation, my girlfriend will pound me when she reads this.
Crayola Crayons, containing eight colors, were first released in 1903. Plain old blue was rated number one from the get-go. Six of the top ten and fifteen of the top fifty are now different kinds of blue.
My boys used to love coloring faces blue, probably because they liked Star Trek and aliens seemed to be partial to the blue hide.
Blue is traditionally associated with boys, but that was not always so. Before World Ward I, blue was considered a female color. This was because it was the most expensive to use in painting and was often saved for painting pictures of St. Mary. Pink was the male color, for it was associated with fox hunting.
In their infinite wisdom, the English called their bright scarlet fox hunting suits Pinks. Yes, I am reaching for a periwinkle-colored pencil to scratch my noggin with.
I am forever grateful the world came to their senses, otherwise my closet might be filled with pink jeans. Brrrrr it gives me chills to think of it.
Blue has not always been popular. Ancient Greeks scored the color as being ugly and barbaric. I imagine they were partial to green, since they were always green with envy for their geographic neighbor’s riches.
A Frenchman named Michel Pastoureau wrote a 216-page coffee table book about the color blue in 2001. Granted that 100 pages were pictures, but that is still a lot of gab about a subject that had me worried about coming up with 1000 words.
I stand humbled.
Blues rock is my favorite music, and it does not make me blue no matter how hard it tries. Instead, they can make your toe tapping soul think that there are blue skies ahead.
Aristocrats are known as “blue bloods”, for they often avoid the sun to keep their ski pale, allowing blue-tinged veins to stand out. That may explain why their delicate, red tinted noses are constantly elevated and out of joint.
They might think that their red nose is better for sensing the heat from the ill-mannered sun. More likely, of course, is that it is caused by the over consumption of expensive liquor.
Oddly enough, people who make their living doing annual labor are known as blue-collar workers and those who boss them are called white-collar. This may be explained by the fact that British servants and licesed beggars wore blue which was considered crass compared to the white favored by snobs.
NO wonder I like blue, for I think of snobs as the crass ones.
A blue joke or a blue movie are those which refer to socially taboo subject matter, which is a fancy way of saying they are nasty. Blue laws are those that try to regulate nastiness, attempting to protect us from ourselves. Give them a blue ribbon for trying, but those who gravitate toward indecency will rarely get the blues from lack of material.
Deep Blue was the chess playing computer that Big Blue, IBM, designed to defeat chess master Gary Kasparov, making him cuss a blue streak.
Dogs that are descried as blue are primarily gray or silver, making you wonder why they are not described as gray or silver instead.
Paul Bunyan’s giant ox was named Babe and Babe was shiny blue, which would be my choice of a giant ox too. Nobody with half a brain would stand behind him for fear of getting kicked far into the wild blue yonder.
If that wouldn’t make you black and blue, I don’t know what would.
Speaking of black and blue, in Australia a flight or an argument can be described as a “Blue”. Aussie also have a quirky nickname for a man with red hair, calling them “Bluey” for reasons unknown.
I have mostly gray hair; I wonder if they would call me Red.
One thing blue is not renowned for is being a food color. Jello and Kool-aid are about the only ones I can think of except for blue cheese. There are blueberries too, but my untrained eye registers them as purple.
I like them all so percentage wise they do pretty good.
Bluebirds, blue birds, blue whales, blue diamonds, Duke Blue Devils, the list goes on and on.
There are indeed an endless number of blues in the world, partially due to many things that are not blue being labeled as blue.
Also, there is not a single blue that can describe the odiferous fog that is assaulting my nostrils right now.
What in the blue blazes did that dog cat for lunch anyway?
I presume you have not forgotten your dear old, old blue eyed mother-in-law ??????????????????????