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FYI - Crayola Crayons...........

gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2012 in General Discussion
....have been PC since 1962.

LA Times crossword puzzle clue -

Crayola color renamed Peach in 1962?

Answer - FLESH

[;)][:D]
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books

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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gesshots
    ....have been PC since 1962.

    LA Times crossword puzzle clue -

    Crayola color renamed Peach in 1962?

    Answer - FLESH

    [;)][:D]


    Actually to be policly correct they would have to rename it and four others.... Peach = Caucasian flesh, Black = African flesh, Brown = Hispanic flesh, Red = Native American flesh, Yellow = Asian or Confederate belly flesh[:D][:D][:D]
  • 17tobyracing17tobyracing Member Posts: 3,429 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Other name cahnges include:

    Prussian Blue to Midnight Blue
    Indian Red to Chestnut
  • stegsteg Member Posts: 871 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The funny thing about the color title Indian Red is that it has nothing to do with Red Indians. Originally the pigment for this color was a red iron oxide imported from India; hence, its color title.
    The change of crayola color titles was due to the efforts of a couple of hippy left wing artists in New York City, in the early '60's, who created a letter writing and mass media stink about color title racism that spread to idiot school teachers who pressured the crayola people.
  • countryfarmercountryfarmer Member Posts: 4,552
    edited November -1
    I may be going senile early but I could have sworn some of my early Crayolas had Flesh color in them.....[?]
  • CSI21CSI21 Member Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Prussian blue was part of the gas chamber gas used by the Nazis, no wonder they changed the name.
  • SperrySperry Member Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crayola is in Easton.
  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    What about Burnt Sienna? Lotsa Siennas around here, don't want to pizoff the wrong ones....
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