Colours
First published 2/12/1998

My girlfriend and I are going to paint our living room. So, we went down to the store and picked up a bunch of those little paint sample cards. You know, the little cards that let you test one colour against another, and against the rug, and the couch, and the picture, and -- apparently -- every other object in the house and, in fact, the neighborhood.

There are a million different colours of paint out there, but what's really impressive is that each different colour has its own unique name. Listen to these names: shire fields, lido bay, windstream, candlebark, city loft, lombardy mist. Pretty great names, eh? But what's amazing is this: those are all just shades of white!

When you start getting into actual colours the names start to get...

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