Y'all make me want to take out the brushes and colo(u)rs and get started on something today!

O wow, I hope you DO! perhaps when the sun is setting!

I'm with you on the purple - my favourite colour.

This all reminds me of an inneresting colour chart a friend sent me - it purports to indicate what you're like in bed depending on what your favourite colour is. All I can say is, I humbly submit that they're wrong when it comes to purple....! I will try to find it and post it here, if anyone's interested.

Bill, you make an interesting point about car colours. I've no idea what they dreamed up for mine (it's a very bright blue and I bought it second-hand), but an old boyfriend of mine drove a car that the manufacturers, in their infinite wisdom, had seen fit to paint a colour they called "rusty red." When I started going out with this fellow, the car was badly rusted, so when he told me it was a rusty red car, I thought he meant it was a rusty, red car!