Muriel Blandings : I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin’s egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don’t let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I’d like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you’ll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can’t go wrong! Now, this is the paper we’re going to use in the hall. It’s flowered, but I don’t want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There’s some little dots in the background, and it’s these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room – in here – I want you to match this thread, and don’t lose it. It’s the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it’s practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me…
That’s why Dirk and his storm troopers never succeed, they get too bogged down on details. Of course the fact that they are a bunch of idiots helps too.
LookingGlass Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’d go with Shocking Chartreuse!!
/SHNARK/
PoodleGroomer over 3 years ago
Carbon nanotube black. It is darker than background space. Look for the blackest moving thing that you can not see.
Ratkin Premium Member over 3 years ago
Auburn. Make it auburn so the big baboon by the light of the deathmoon can comb his auburn hair.
Imagine over 3 years ago
Why paint it at all?
Doug K over 3 years ago
“Stormy gray. It matches your eyes, sir.”
GoComicsGo! over 3 years ago
What ever you, don’t say that they both look the same to you. Don’t!
Sanspareil over 3 years ago
Ungoliant death web black!
What other choice is there!!
Bilan over 3 years ago
In deep space, everything is black.
Algolei I over 3 years ago
Despite the names, Silver Peony is far more menacing.
danketaz Premium Member over 3 years ago
Electric Banana.
bikamper over 3 years ago
Trooper-X13 is me when in the same situation. Yet when an opinion is voiced, it’s deemed wrong.
LawrenceS over 3 years ago
Go to your local home decor center. Fifty-seven variations on white.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago
Go Astral Silver or go home. ;-)
Nuliajuk over 3 years ago
It’s Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Jogger2 over 3 years ago
Why not Stormy Gray, since it’s full of Storm Troopers.
darcyandsimon over 3 years ago
These guys are so funny…!
Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member over 3 years ago
Pick the wrong colour and you probably won’t make it back alive.
ChessPirate over 3 years ago
From “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House”:
Muriel Blandings : I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin’s egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. Now, the only sample I could get is a little too yellow, but don’t let whoever does it go to the other extreme and get it too blue. It should just be a sort of grayish-yellow-green. Now, the dining room. I’d like yellow. Not just yellow; a very gay yellow. Something bright and sunshine-y. I tell you, Mr. PeDelford, if you’ll send one of your men to the grocer for a pound of their best butter, and match that exactly, you can’t go wrong! Now, this is the paper we’re going to use in the hall. It’s flowered, but I don’t want the ceiling to match any of the colors of the flowers. There’s some little dots in the background, and it’s these dots I want you to match. Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf, but the little bluish dot between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. Is that clear? Now the kitchen is to be white. Not a cold, antiseptic hospital white. A little warmer, but still, not to suggest any other color but white. Now for the powder room – in here – I want you to match this thread, and don’t lose it. It’s the only spool I have and I had an awful time finding it! As you can see, it’s practically an apple red. Somewhere between a healthy winesap and an unripened Jonathan. Oh, excuse me…
Mr. PeDelford : You got that Charlie?
Charlie : Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
Mr. PeDelford : Check.
Buckeye67 over 3 years ago
That’s why Dirk and his storm troopers never succeed, they get too bogged down on details. Of course the fact that they are a bunch of idiots helps too.
Oakwood13 over 3 years ago
Sounds like my wife picking furniture. 2 hours later pick the first one she looked at.
The Orange Mailman over 3 years ago
One of your coworkers could TRY to shoot you….
Stephen Gilberg over 3 years ago
Near as I can tell, silver peonies do not exist in nature. Sherwin-Williams made it up.
And when you consider the company’s logo, it’s no wonder Dirk Raider picks them.
bakana over 3 years ago
Silver Peony.
No one expects a Silver Peony Death Moon.
AKA: Pale Purple.
geese28 over 3 years ago
That IS terrible. You know how incredibly time consuming it is to pick those colors in Home Depot?
Chalres over 3 years ago
But is it worse than Vogon poetry?