Does Romance in your paint colours matter to you?

[woodgie2]

They painted some of the office yesterday, a nice colour too, "Moonlight Sonata".

It's BLUE, that's all, just blue. A nice shade of blue I'll admit, but blue none the less. Blue.

So why call it "Moonlight Sonata"? It's not a colour evocative of serenades, it's not a colour that would inspire great orchestrations. IT'S FUCKING BLUE!

OK, so you want to call a colour "Royal Blue" or "Sky Blue" that's fair enough. There are particular shades of blue that royal families have used, and elsewhere but the U.K. the sky does, indeed, tend to be blue. But "Moonlight Sonata"? That's just bollocks.

Why can't they call it Blue Nº.3 or something? Does Romance in your paint colours matter to you?

 

[plasticman33]

No worse than 'Passionate Purple' it's still purple

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

I might be tempted if they had

"Horney Honey" or "Seductive Scarlet".

And I would be sold on a tin of "Gaurenteed to get her to drop her knickers as soon as she walks throught the door green."

Yep, I could go for that.

 

[woodgie2]

I might be tempted if they had

"Horney Honey" or "Seductive Scarlet".

And I would be sold on a tin of "Gaurenteed to get her to drop her knickers as soon as she walks throught the door green."

Yep, I could go for that.

Cream, not Green

*lol*

But I like the way you think.

 

[Coolville]

I saw Peach and Salmon coloured paint recently. Basically, it was pink. It made me hungry, because it looked a lot like Thousand Island dressing.

 

[woodgie2]

I saw Peach and Salmon coloured paint recently. Basically, it was pink. It made me hungry, because it looked a lot like Thousand Island dressing.

*lol*

So I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Good!

I'm being lambasted in the office for even mentioning it to the others.

 

[Coolville]

I recall some others I saw on a tv advert for a paint company... they had an international theme...

Brown: Sahara Wind
White: Alaska Spring
Less White: A Scent of Rhodes
Orangey-Brown: Balinese Dreams (before the bomb!)
Dark Brown: Mokka Nights

seriously....

 

[woodgie2]

I recall some others I saw on a tv advert for a paint company... they had an international theme...

Brown: Sahara Wind
White: Alaska Spring
Less White: A Scent of Rhodes
Orangey-Brown: Balinese Dreams (before the bomb!)
Dark Brown: Mokka Nights

seriously....

*lol* at "Less White"

and

at "A Scent of Rhodes". It smells?

They do talk a crock of shit sometimes, don't they?

 

[perks]

I think people don't read, and are trying to get their prose from catalogs.

My shirt is so much better because it's a poetic color.

"That's a nice blue shirt"

"Excuse me? This is moonlight sonata."

<grin>

 

[woodgie2]

I think people don't read, and are trying to get their prose from catalogs.

My shirt is so much better because it's a poetic color.

"That's a nice blue shirt"

"Excuse me? This is moonlight sonata."

<grin>

Gods! That is pretention! You're right. It goes deeper than paint. After all, that's only a few microns thick. It extends to clothing and cars and almost anything!

Damn, it's a colour jungle out there!

 

[perks]

"what? this isn't a red shirt, it's jackie chan red"

<get it? the jackie chan means kickass>


I'm such a dork.

 

[woodgie2]

"what? this isn't a red shirt, it's jackie chan red"

<get it? the jackie chan means kickass>


I'm such a dork.

But suddenly I'm deeply and overwhelmingly in lust with you.

I haven't felt this way since you last told me you like Jackie!

 

[Ms_Lilith]

Okay, I'm not one for the 'moonlight sonata' name.. but peach and salmon are different colours, both with a base of pink, but still different colours completely.

Maybe because I'm an artist and I'm picky about the paint I use, but I just thought I'd point that out.

But like you, woodgie, I couldn't care less if it was called Blue No. 3. I mean really, 'Moonlight Sonata'? I have a brown watercolour in my art kit that is called 'Mediterranean Ship'. WTF? So not a South American Ship, but a Mediterranean one?

Oy.

 

[Sad Man]

Its all down to marketing, more people would buy a blue called Moonlight Sonata than Blue No.3, its just like cars having names like Mustang instead of car No.153,867. Not that I personally give a fuck, blues blue.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

Its all down to marketing, more people would buy a blue called Moonlight Sonata than Blue No.3, its just like cars having names like Mustang instead of car No.153,867. Not that I personally give a fuck, blues blue.

I suppose that's true... y'know, if you're selling to clueless idiots. And by that, I mean... if you're selling WALL paint to someone who knows not all that much about paint, and is using it for decoration rather than for function (like an artist would use paint for function as a part of a piece of work), the name would matter. I would prefer to skip the stupid names, and stick with a numerical system that maybe numbered the lightness or darkness of that particular paint. Whatever the name of the paint is, it looses it once it's touching my paint brush.

 

[woodgie2]

Its all down to marketing, more people would buy a blue called Moonlight Sonata than Blue No.3, its just like cars having names like Mustang instead of car No.153,867. Not that I personally give a fuck, blues blue.

Just to be a git. Porche and Astin Martin are both car manufacturers who use model numbers to name thier cars. Porche 959, Astin Martin DB5 etc.

It worked for them.

 

[TheDR4KE]

"what? this isn't a red shirt, it's jackie chan red"

<get it? the jackie chan means kickass>


I'm such a dork.

As long as they weren't 'jackie chan red' pants ...


Is there a 'fuck ass' colour name?



Quack

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