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but there are a number of reasons for it:
Our vision developed for just such an environment; all green and gloomy.
It's restful on the eyes
It would solve unemployment problems for a very long time
It would cut down on maintenance and cleaning costs, as swimming pools, sidewalks and
the skin between your toes all begin to recover their natural coatings of lichen, mould or fungus.
Color and Vision Questions and Answers
http://www.cis.rit....mcsl/faq/faq1.shtml
Nice FAQ on human vision and color discrimination. [bristolz, Mar 30 2002]
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my favourite colour UB, exactly what shade of green are we talking about here. pretty little lime tone perhaps, not some horrid municipal Harrods green.
no croissant for this extraordinarily thoughtful idea until you are more explicit. |
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[po] is right, too many shades. The world would become camouflaged and disappear, thus ending humankind. |
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Thousands, millions of shades of green. |
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Sealy, that's not baked, that's just pathetic. I said everything, not just your mantelpiece. |
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The way to do this is, of course, to make water green so that the rain will do all the hard work of painting... hang on, water *is* green. Oh no, wait... it's not, is it. |
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As long as we have tags on things indicating the original colo(u)r. As my favorite color is blue, I'll want to know which items used to be blue when out shopping. |
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I'm so glad someone [po] suggested lime green before I did, as it has to be the best colour on this planet (apart from maybe bright orange or yellow). |
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Oh waugs! You'd still have the sky and the moon... occasionally. |
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I bagsied the sky already, it's going green. |
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Kermit the Frog starring in: You're In The Army Now
In '83 I went to Hawaii for 1 month - Island of Oahu - took photos, of course - and am still always amazed at the huge variety of shades of green in any one photo... |
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have any of you seen the bit in 'the cube' when that guy said 'this room is ...green' |
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Aren't most paints toxic? If so, this idea sure wouldn't be very, um, ecologically friendly, for want of a better term. |
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Not really. You could use non-toxic dyes. |
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Can't go for this. Too much confusion at sporting events: "Who's the bastard in the green?" (a) doesn't have the same ring and (b) isn't specific enough. |
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end of snooker I am afraid |
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I'm sorry to throw a monkey into the wrench, UB, but unless your plan also includes doing away with cars, a fishbone is coming your way. It would no longer be safe to drive (or at least a lot less safe) in a world where there are only green lights at every intersection. And how would we see oncoming vehicles if they blend in? |
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What effect would this have on the colourblind? And the fashion-impaired? And people who just hate green? |
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A brand new underground industry would emerge where people could go for a glimpse of colour. A sort of speakeasy that serves up a veritable rainbow of optical sensory stimuli. The password would be Roy G. Biv. |
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"Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls
But Violet Gives Willingly" No,
not really. Mnemonic for
remembering the colour code,
used for labelling component
values. |
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And with what shall I label it,
dear UB, dear UB? |
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Being a gastronome, UnaBubba, you should be well aware that large quantities of greens leads to excessive flatulence. Glowing green fishbone for this particularly pongy idea. Phew! Someone open a window. |
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This is a rant, not an idea. |
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How is it a rant, pray tell? It's not contentious. |
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I just like the *idea* of seeing the whole world in green. In fact, my favourite colour is blue, but you have to admit that everything being green would be desirable. |
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We all love the sight of green valleys and rainforests, of dappled light in gloomy, green forest glades, of emerald swards of rolling lawns. Why? Because they're green. Green says lush; it says comfort; it says plenty; it says abundance; it says contentment. |
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We imagine Paradise to be green. I'm simply trying to bring a little paradise to the lives of us all. I had hoped not to have to spell it out in such quotidian terms, but the imagination seems to have been squeezed out of many of us here. |
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If this is a rant then just about everything on the HB is a rant. But if it is a rant then it is, at least, a verdant rant. |
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If everything in the world was green, including the lens tint in sunglasses, would said sunglasses filter out the green? |
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yeah... then we'd live in a greyscale world. Baaad. |
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Gadzooks, waugs. You're right.
What would The Green Lantern do? |
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Nhah--a verdant rant. Or a plaintive paint complaint. |
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Prepare for an angry army of colour-blind people/bulls etc. |
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A good excuse (as if any were needed) to play New Order's "Everything's Gone Green" |
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One of my favourite stories hinges on this principle. |
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A company was experimenting with colour film and gave all their UK employees colour film to use on their holidays. Off everyone went and in time people got their film back except for one person. He enquired to see what was wrong and discoved that there was a problem as a post pox (which should be red) had come out green in one of his pictures. He was able to tell the team that had worked on this "problem" that he had gone to the Republic of Ireland for their holiday where post boxes are just the same as ours ... except that they are green! |
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Post pox...now that sounds like a name for a halfbaked idea. |
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I'm afraid that was kinda baked during the Anthrax scare. |
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"Roll Over You Great Big
Innocent Virgin" - mnemonic to
remember the colours of the
rainbow. But you've painted it
all green, UB. |
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But do you like green eggs and ham? |
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Would you, could you in green rain?
Would you, should you on a train? |
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would you like it in a car, would you like it going far? |
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I would! I would! Ha ha ha! |
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