From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-06-22 03:49:30 +0000, Joy Beeson said:   
      
   > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:11:34 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> And she hates yellow.  She wishes there was absolutely nothing yellow in th=   
   >> e entire world.  "Yellow is perfect for a nursery because it can go either =   
   >> way--boy or girl, yellow," the tennis guy's wife had said.  Screw her, impr=   
   >> egnate her, paint her life yellow.   
   >>   
   >> Did you understand that?   
   >   
   > She has been advised to paint the nursery a color she dislikes, and   
   > that has set off an exaggerated repugnance for the color and made it   
   > into a symbol for everything she hates and can't escape.   
   >   
   > Tangent:   
   >   
   > When I was a Junior in college, I was assigned a trendy new dorm room   
   > decorated in "deep yellow", which was in fact bright orange:   
   > orange-print curtains, red-orange plastic chairs, orange bedspreads .   
   > . . To this day, orange looks ugly to me.   
   >   
   > Doesn't stop me from wearing a "taxicab"-color shirt when I ride my   
   > diamond-frame.  But I'm looking for safety-yellow linen to make the   
   > next one.   
   >   
   > And on a total tangent:  why is it that when yellow is the only color   
   > that can be seen through heavy rain, umbrellas come in every color   
   > *except* yellow?   
      
   My mother's main umbrella when I was a kid was yellow. And let's not   
   forget "How I Met Your Mother".   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That.   
   ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because   
   it humiliates.  You may come to think murder wrong, because it is   
   violent, and not because it is unjust."   
     -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)