Pickles by Brian Crane for November 04, 2010

Aubergine, celadon, mango, pumpkin, espresso–got any of those in the closet, Nelson?

Nice job, SillyStuff! Now I’m hungry!

ladyfingers86, they made a bigger crayon box and had to make up a lot of new names for colors

They have all sorts of crazy colors now, including Fuzzy Wuzzy Brown and Macaroni & Cheese.

I once walked into a conversation between two female co-workers over whether something was cranberry or burgundy. I offered maroon and they looked at me like I had crawled out from under a rock. Good thing I didn’t say dark red.

(Interesting science fact for you science-fact fans: According to a Scientific American article, a tiny percentage of women have FOUR types of rod cells in their retinas. However, as of a few years ago, nobody had yet studied what effect this has on their vision. For me, I thought everyone knew men can only see seven colors.)

I like it when they use “onyx” for black.

Reminds me of a Home Improvement episode where Tim points out all of his wife’s red belts - and she corrected him by giving a different name to each red.

I wouldn’t say Nelson’s shirt is “lily pad.” It looks more like “clean energy” to me.

A cranberry sweater with a lily pad shirt? Who dresses that boy? (Or perhaps I should say “bog.”)

Earl simple Earl.

Looks like it’s kelly green to me…but would that be politically incorrect?

Favourite colour - sky-blue pink

That’s a grandma for you!

Eldo, puce is actually more of a greyed out lavender, and certainly NOT “dark red”.