Sensational Color Pro Kate Smith

Kate Smith on Color

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Just Purple

23rd Sep. '08 • Color Humor • Tags: humor, purple

Filed as Color fun

Speaking of purple…

…I’ve visited purple.com many, many times and still it makes me smile. I think it is brilliant especially if you remember the Internet circa 1994 when this was launched.

Just the idea of arriving at a page with nothing but the color purple to me is so amusing. I can almost hear the unsuspecting visitor saying, “Huh?” can’t you?

Click on the purple rectangle to visit purple.com

If you share my sense of humor and love of self expression you will understand this site. For the rest there are FAQ’s

The Color of Demotivation

24th Apr. '08 • Color Humor • Tags: gold, silver

Filed as Color fun

How many times have you seen motivational posters hung within the walls of a company whose leadership is anything but motivating?

Well Loyalis has come up with some perfect replacement posters in his Demotivational series. Check them out here…

Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.

I bet without me telling you would have figured out my favorite. Color and duct tape…my kind of humor.

City Officials Push to Make Green a Primary Color

3rd Apr. '08 • Color Humor • Tags: blue, green, humor, red, yellow

Filed as Color fun

As part of the city of Minneapolis’ ever-growing commitment to sustainability and the environment, Mayor R.T. Rybak and the City Council began an earnest campaign on April 1 to add the color green to the list of primary colors, which currently includes only the colors red, yellow and blue.

“With the coming of spring, and the rapidly deteriorating state of our global ecosystem, the time has come to give green its due,” announced Rybak outside City Hall on April 1, wearing a forest-green suit, mint-green shirt and socks of mismatched verdant hues to mark the occasion.

“Green is the most prevalent color in the natural world,” stated Ward 2 Council Member Cam Gordon at the ceremonial event. “Consider all the trees and plant life that are so key to our planet’s survival,” he said, adding that the ocean isn’t really blue, if you think about it.

Ward 3 Council Member Diane Hofstede echoed Gordon’s sentiments about the color’s prevalence and importance. “If that isn’t the definition of a primary color, I don’t know what is,” she said.

Ward 7 Council Member Lisa Goodman angrily dismissed skeptics, who criticized the resolution as political posturing and a scientific fallacy. “That’s the kind of outdated, enlightenment-era thinking that got us into this global mess,” said Goodman in response to assertions that green is, in fact, a secondary color formed by combining the colors yellow and blue.

Ward 9 Council Member Gary Schiff agreed. “At one time, we believed the earth was flat,” he said, referring to Western society as a whole, not the Council specifically. “It’s time to look forward, not back.”

Kate’s note: Thanks for a good laugh Jeremy! (The writer that came up with this April Fool’s Day piece for The Bridge.)

MLB: Fear of Blue

26th Mar. '08 • Color Humor • Tags: blue, sports

Filed as Just read

From the Bleacher Report talking LA Dodgers:

By the way, if you believe in trends, then Loaiza pitches miserably for any team associated with the color blue: On team’s with the predominant color as blue (so not Washington), Loaiza is 43-49 with an average 5.51 ERA over those seven seasons. Tossing in Washington (just for the sake of argument) Loaiza ends up being 55-59, with an ERA average over those seasons of 4.64.