Crayola party game

Something we got into last night: trying to brainstorm how many of the 64 Crayola crayon set we could remember. It’s quite a memory test, because surely it’s been well over 30 years since I picked up a crayon. (If you have kids of your own, no fair, because you’ll have seen the crayons recently.)

I remembered burnt umber, but had completely forgotten periwinkle. The most annoying color? Easily, white. I remember trying it a couple of time on black construction paper, but even that wasn’t very satisfying.

Most un-PC color? Flesh, of course.

I went and looked at the latest set of colors, and some of the names are pretty stupid gimmicks now.

Also, I remember thinking it was cute back in the 1990’s when I read that “macaroni and cheese” was one of the winnning new color names submitted by a child. But I finally saw it this morning, and personally I think it in no way resembles the color of macaroni and cheese. But perhaps there was a problem with my screen.

(As you may be able to tell, I’m killing some time at CDG right now. It is usually the world’s most stressful and terrible airport, in my opinion, but today it’s relaxed and empty for some reason, at least in this particular terminal.)