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12/15/01 <><><>PINK BEIGE<><><> i was beginning to wonder if this crayon really existed...i had only one reference to it, a 48-count from 1957, old-48 line-up, in the earliest 2-chevron box (no "non-toxic")...at least the name was historically plausible, since there were cars in the 50's with paint called rose beige, shell beige, and cameo beige (details on request)...then i finally got one, and lo and behold!...it's actually FLESH...meaning that about 5 years before the PEACH renaming, Crayola made a half-hearted attempt to banish "flesh", altho it was back by 1958 with the introduction of the new 64-count...you saw it here first... <><><>PEACH<><><> let this be a lesson to you: don't base your findings on JUST ONE BOX!!!...i have a 64-count i purchased in 1970, and the PEACH is a very strange pinkish-orange shade, quite unlike any FLESH/PEACH before or since...i wondered if perhaps the true color had changed back in 1962 when the name changed...i have since acquired 2 hoards of loose crayons, wrapper type 6, both of which had several of each, FLESH & PEACH, indicating they were from the general transitional period of 1962 and directly after...and sure enough, the true colors are identical...so for now, my weird PEACH goes down as a freak, or as they say in botany, a "sport"... <><><> BEAVER <><><> well, they did it...Beaver College, Glenside Pa. (outside of Philladelphia), is now Arcadia University, enshrining themselves as "the school with the dirty mind"...at least they've kept the beaver name as part of their undergraduate school, citing "tradition"...and of course based on tradition they can someday change back, when smarter heads prevail...i mean, i never even hear the b-word refering to "that" anymore, do you?...a guy is "beaver-whipped"?...hello?...i appologize if any children are reading this, but let's face it: any kid intelligent enough to enjoy reading the newspaper is gonna find out about this name switch and wonder what all the fuss is about...and we're still waiting to see if Crayola will change that grey-brown color they call "beaver" to woodchuck, groundhog, muskrat?...anyhow, i e-mailed a public relations guy at the school and jabbed him a little, but he was cordial and good-natured about it...sounds like the right man in the right job... <><><> LAVENDER <><><> ...over the past 30 years...the post-Baby Boomer era...Crayola colors are a mess...an example: in 1958, what i call [old lavender] was replaced by [new lavender]...[old lav] was un-retired as PURPLE MOUNTAIN MAJESTY in 1993...it's a truer lavender in my opinion, bluish as opposed to the reddish of [new lav]...but since 1958, [new lav] has varied greatly...from varying shades of pale pink...to a stronger darker color resembling ORCHID...what's available today?...well, a 1997 120-count "giants chest" had the palest of the pale...a 1999 64-count had the deeper orchid-like shade...so who knows what you'll get...(Plaid Paint Crayons, Norcross, Ga., makes a color very close to [old lav]...they call it "english lavender"...interesting...) <><><> LILAC <><><> ...Crayola has never made a regular crayon called LILAC...they did include a lilac in their 1995 Magic Scent set...i compared the true colors with a 1997 "giant's chest", and came up with these matches: BABY POWDER=WHITE... CEDAR CHEST=MAHOGANY... DAFFODIL=YELLOW... DIRT=SEPIA... FRESH AIR=SKY BLUE... KOALA TREE (a color 'n smell crayon)=JUNGLE GREEN... LEATHER JACKET=BLACK... LUMBER=APRICOT... NEW CAR=BLUE... PINE=PINE GREEN (duh)... ROSE=RED... SHAMPOO=CARNATION PINK... SMOKE=GRAY... SOAP=PERIWINKLE... TULIP=ORANGE... LILAC=????... it looked like i'd found a new color...put wait!...turns out lilac matches the WISTERIA from a 1999 64-count box...which is far darker than the 1997 wisteria...or for that matter the original "name-that-color" wisteria from 1993...(you say wisteria isn't a 64-count color?...well it is now...the classic 64 lineup is long gone...they even took out copper, and bumped it up to the bigger boxes!...like i said, what a mess...) <><><> THAT CRAYON MAN <><><> ...for the record...if it ever comes up on a TV quiz show...that cartoon crayon-man logo-guy Crayola has used since 1993 is named Tip the Color Keeper...no no, don't thank me...that's what i'm here for... <><><> GRASS GREEN <><><> ...didja ever wonder if Crayola makes different colors for different countries?...well, i've found at least one...GRASS GREEN ("verde pasto")...this color name appears on a mexican crayon from a 16 (+2 free = 18)-count early 70's box...and a recent 12-count box...the apparent colors are different and i haven't yet compared the true colors, but grass green isn't regular green, as that's also present in both boxes...it must be a big favorite in mexico, to span 30 years, and be available in such small-count boxes too... <><><> POWDER BLUE <><><> ...episode of "the simpsons" originally aired 1/7/01 entitled "HOMR"...in a flashback we discover that homer as a child stuffed 16 crayons up his nose...then sneezed out only 15...x-rays reveal the crayon still lodged in his brain, which is why he's been stupid all these years...they remove it, and he becomes smart, to the delight of daughter lisa...but it ain't all it's cracked up to be, so homer decides to go back to dumb...the docs won't do it so he resorts to moe the bartender (who calls the procedure "the old crayola oblongata")...lisa is coloring and notices a crayon missing from her Crayola box of 64...but it's too late...the crayon in question, that went back up homer's nose, is POWDER BLUE...which of course is a color Crayola has never made...d'oh!!!!... <><><> WHAT??? GREEN <><><> ...in the early 1990s, dude named Rodney the Rat made Rat Skins brand car & truck accessories...ground-effects, tonneaus, decorative appliques, etc...his logo was a muscled-up, mohawk-coifed, Rat-Fink ripoff...colors available: hot pink... bright red... neon orange... lemon yellow... lime... electric blue... magenta... royal purple... crayola green... huh?...WHAT color green?...can you DO that?...well, i woulda taken it as a compliment...some people call all crayons "crayolas" regardless of brand... <><><> FLESH <><><> ...flesh is not an evil color, nor is "flesh" a racist word...after all, even blacks have some body-parts that are flesh-colored!...you might be surpised to learn that some producers of paints still use the word, probably because it identifies a specific color, which is neither pink nor peach...(flat flesh???...santa flesh???...i not kiddin' ya!)...some manufacturers use "caucasian", but that's equally "incorrect" since some caucasians, in India for example, have skin as dark as blacks...quoting Crayola's color chronology: "name changed voluntarily to peach in 1962, partially as a result of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement"...PARTIALLY?...so what were the OTHER reasons?...and "voluntarily"?...who did they think could have forced them?... <><><> FLESH II <><><> Crayola, thru the media, made a big deal about their politically-correct altho reality-challenged INDIAN RED/CHESTNUT name change...i mean, why not INDIA RED?...so we assume the same thing happened with FLESH/PEACH...but did it really make the headlines or was the change done quietly, noticed only by those buying & using the crayons?...what makes me wonder is that the new york times index for 1962 contains no reference to this happening!...that i can find...if you can, let me know...does this mean it wasn't covered by the paper?...not necessarily, because in the front of the index it states: "all news and editorial matter is indexed except matters of such transitory interest as to have no discernable research value"...thanx a lot!...more to come on this... <><><> PRUSSIAN BLUE <><><> ...from Crayola: "name changed to midnight blue in 1958 in response to teachers' requests"...seems the children couldn't relate to Prussia....so Crayola blames the teachers, teachers blame the students...it all sounds pretty lame, considering Prussia was a major military power in european history right up to the 1920's...just tell the kiddies they HAVE to relate to Prussia...it'll be on the test...but more importantly, PRUSSIAN BLUE, first produced in the early 1700's, was the first synthetic paint pigment of the industrial revolution...this meant it could be manufactured cheaply...was more widely available...and unlike most natural pigments, wasn't POISONOUS...ever heard of lead-based paint?...yellow ochre was made with arsenic sulfide, for cryin' out loud...so prussian blue deserves some respect...bring it back to the line-up...Baby Boomer prussian blue is much darker than any current blue, including midnight blue, so there you go...give prush its props!!... <><><> THISTLE <><><> ...sometime between 1998 and 2000 (Crayola's info conflicts) thistle was retired and replaced by INDIGO...but fear not!...thistle lives on as the ace of clubs in Crayola's "art tool playing cards" (not to be confused with the "colorable" deck that comes with crayons...actually, the U.S. Playing Card Co., the Bicycle brand, is licensing the name "Crayola")...in fact, the thistle card is even pictured on the back of the box!...memo to right hand: ask left hand what it's doing... <><><> CORNFLOWER <><><> ...this pale blue, intro'd in 1958, is called "bleuet" on the bilingual french/english quebecois crayons...this translates into "bachelor's-button" or "bluebottle", a european flower that grows in grainfields...over here in the new world, it likes to make its home in cornfields...hence CORN-flower... <><><> FUCHSIA <><><> ...HTML, the programming language of web-pages, can display 16,777,216 background colors, expressed as a 6-digit hexadecimal...from 000000 pure black to FFFFFF pure white...check out: WALLY'S BOX O' CRAYONS (http://www.rust.net/~walbea/crayon/periwink.htm) and CHUCK'S CRAYON BOX (http://www.microlink.net/~chuck/color)...note to chuck: "fuchia" should be spelled FUCHSIA...that's OK...other crayon makers have gotten it wrong, altho Crayola gets it right...easy way to remember: it's the color of a flower popularized by 16th century German botanist Leonhard Fuchs...take his last name, add "ia" and you've got it...FUCHSia... <><><> INDIGO <><><> ...Crayola has for many years made a 12-count box of regular-size crayons...their current 12-count (dated 2000) is a single-row tuck-box (i bought one at wal-mart)...which 4 colors would YOU add to the basic 8 to get 12?...Crayola adds white, gray, carnation pink and indigo, which are cool...i might substitute tan, turquoise blue, or even periwinkle if its so popular (#7 in the color census) for white...but indigo i like...it's a new color, replacing thistle in the late 90's...actually, it's the return of VIOLET BLUE, retired in 1990...but for the first time, in a small-count box, you can now get the 7 colors of the visible light spectrum...indigo was always the "forgotten color"...not any more...i say bravo Crayola!!... <><><> MACARONI AND CHEESE <><><> ...for completists only: there's a version of macaroni and cheese out there spelled "macaroni n cheese"...hold the apostrophes...(found in wizard's 120)... <><><> SCARLET <><><> ...in the late 90's (Crayola's fuzzy on the dates), TORCH RED (one of the true blue heroes colors) was renamed SCARLET...along with the replacement of THISTLE with INDIGO, this change wasn't widely publicized...still, i like this trend of getting back to old-fashioned REAL color names, unlike "purple mountain meadow majesty matazz" (see z-COLORS below)...what's next?...puce?...go for it... <><><> COLOR CENSUS 2000 RESULTS <><><> ...they included info on when & how each color was introduced...full of the expected errors & maddening inconsistancies...still, hints that maybe somebody at Crayola knows something about something*...what follows: original box (quoted exactly), then year, then core colors introduced therein... "studio and school 12" (1903)...black, blue, green, red, orange, violet, yellow, magenta, olive green, white....(i count 10?)... "gold medal 16" (1904)...brown...(a year after others?)... "rubens drawing 24" (1934)...gray, turquoise blue...(they heard of rubens!)... "stds 60"* (1949)....lavender...([old lav] or [new lav]?)... "box of 48" (1954)...burnt orange...(not the 64 in 1958?)... "box of 48" (1958)...midnight blue...(before the 64 got it?)... "can of 48" (1962)...peach...(before any boxes got it...24, 48, or 64?)... * spoke too soon?...see following... Subject: crayon census [Incident:rightnow 010212-0011] Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:48:27 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) #86 lavender said debuted in "stds 60" box in 1949...is this "students"?....and what were other 59 colors?...where did this info come from?...thanx!!!!---stolf--- Suggested Solution: At 02/16/2001 09:34 AM we wrote - Dear Crayola Consumer, I sincerely apologize, however, the information was a database/typing error. Lavender should have been debuted in the 64 box in 1958. This information comes from Binney & Smith History summaries. Thank you for letting us know, the information will be forwared to our Internet Services Group. Sincerely, BINNEY & SMITH Consumer Affairs Representative Jo Ellen Raub <><><> z-COLORS <><><> ..checking thru all 120 in the color census, i decided if i ran the show, i'd rename every color having a "z"....and just to be ornery, i'd go for more traditional color names, like... RAZZMATAZZ...renamed LIPSTICK RED... FUZZY WUZZY BROWN...renamed PERSIMMON...(or RUSSET?)... RAZZLE DAZZLE ROSE (flu.)...renamed BLUSHING PINK... BLIZZARD BLUE (flu.)...renamed ICE BLUE... PURPLE PIZZAZZ (flu.)...renamed LOCO LILAC...(OK, but something like LOLLAPALILAC puts you right back where you started.... zzzzzzzzz.....) <><><><><><><><> BLAME HALLMARK!!!! <><><><><><><><> |
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