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['The Favourite Game' - Leonard Cohen]

thin green candles, in crayon

When I saw your subject line, I expected a picture involving green candles, but I had wrongly also expected a line from "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong". Silly me!

Playing with crayons today, I see. Do they still have the cool names for the colours? That was my favourite thing about crayons as a kid, names like magenta and aquamarine: it seemed so exotic!

LisaLCFan wrote:Playing with crayons today, I see. Do they still have the cool names for the colours? That was my favourite thing about crayons as a kid, names like magenta and aquamarine: it seemed so exotic!

mine are nameless. my printer, however, uses black, yellow, red and blue. the red is called 'magenta' and the blue (wait for it . . .) 'cyan'! ha ha ha!!!

Geoffrey wrote:

LisaLCFan wrote:Playing with crayons today, I see. Do they still have the cool names for the colours? That was my favourite thing about crayons as a kid, names like magenta and aquamarine: it seemed so exotic!

mine are nameless. my printer, however, uses black, yellow, red and blue. the red is called 'magenta' and the blue (wait for it . . .) 'cyan'! ha ha ha!!!

Just take it as a cyan from an HP (Higher Power)

Sue (once considered a total Babe Magenta)

Sideways wrote:Just take it as a cyan from an HP (Higher Power)

all right. here is one of the green tubes of paint from my atelier. i have always wondered: what is a hooker?

Geoffrey wrote:

Sideways wrote:Just take it as a cyan from an HP (Higher Power)

all right. here is one of the green tubes of paint from my atelier. i have always wondered: what is a hooker?

hooker's green.jpg

Sorry, I can't help. I'm a broad at the moment.

Sue ( proper job titties are very important)

Geoffrey wrote:i have always wondered: what is a hooker?

There are numerous ways that one could answer this question, including various attempts at humour.

However, I shall instead be serious. Some brief research has led me to conclude that your question is, in fact, in error. The proper question, with regards to this particular colour of green paint, ought to be: "Who is Hooker?"

Geoffrey wrote:my printer uses black, yellow, red and blue. the red is called 'magenta' and the blue 'cyan'!

Still on a serious note, I feel sorry for "yellow". Why couldn't it be "lemon" or "daffodil" or some such thing, why just plain old "yellow", whilst its colourful ink-mates have their hoity-toity names? Why discriminate against the golden hue, for doing so may make it blue? (In which case, one may end up with Hooker's Green!)

LisaLCFan wrote

However, I shall instead be serious. Some brief research has led me to conclude that your question is, in fact, in error. The proper question, with regards to this particular colour of green paint, ought to be: "Who is Hooker?"

William Hooker was the finest English painter of fruit and subtlest transcriber of structure through technique. The Pomona Londinensis is his masterwork, a collection of 49 hand-colored aquatint engravings of the choicest fruits to be found in the markets, private gardens, and nurseries of Regency London. Hooker was official draughtsman to the Horticultural Society of London, precursor of today’s Royal Horticultural Society, a post that required some attention to flowers, but fruit was his specialty – fruit on the bough, not as museum or market specimens. Seldom has the weight of suspended fruit, the spring of cherry stems, or the background of foliage been so unerringly conveyed. Hooker even compounded a special pigment for the leaves, still sold to artists as “Hooker’s Green.”

Karren B wrote:William Hooker was the finest English painter of fruit

That's the guy! You win the prize!

LisaLCFan wrote:

Karren B wrote:William Hooker was the finest English painter of fruit

That's the guy! You win the prize!

She does indeed win the Serious Category prize. Meanwhile, Dr Curmudgeon, ("attempted humour"!),and others, I win the Entertainment Prize for the "a broad" post typed in bed in the dark, on vacation in Poland.

I am, on Tuesday, commencing an intensive course in tap-dancing Philosophy and look forward to seeing you all again on June 17th

Sue

Sue wrote

She does indeed win the Serious Category prize. Meanwhile, Dr Curmudgeon, ("attempted humour"!),and others, I win the Entertainment Prize for the "a broad" post typed in bed in the dark, on vacation in Poland.

I am, on Tuesday, commencing an intensive course in tap-dancing Philosophy and look forward to seeing you all again on June 17th
Sue

Yes Sue you definitely win the entertainment prize (as always)… I did resist explaining in great detail what a Hooker was, but I don’t think there are many Rugby fans round here.

You are indeed the Mistress of word play, “a broad” like no other! And you can type in the dark too! (Doesn’t your computer screen light up?).

Tap dancing Philosophy? I imagine you could be quite good at syncopation and rhythmically beating out tunes, though I hope the course is not too intensive.

Sideways wrote:Meanwhile, Dr Curmudgeon, ("attempted humour"!), and others, I win the Entertainment Prize for the "a broad" post typed in bed in the dark, on vacation in Poland.

Sue, you were paying attention, how nice! So was I: I miss none of your plays on words.

Enjoy your tap-dance philosophy course. I will be curious to learn whether it was taught from a phenomenological perspective, a pragmatic/process philosophy approach, or something more analytical.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dance/

(I did mention, once, that you can't make any of this stuff up anymore! )

A hooker is somebody who makes rugs.

Sue, enjoy your philosophical dance class!

LisaLCFan wrote:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dance/

(I did mention, once, that you can't make any of this stuff up anymore! )

Dance is underrepresented in philosophical aesthetics. This means that, as a whole, the philosophical aesthetics of dance lacks the full range of views that one can find in more developed field of aesthetics such as literature or music.

that's true, maybe there's something to this philosophical dance class.

LisaLCFan wrote:Playing with crayons today, I see.

new version. playing with paint today

I love the chandelier and thin green candles but the background detracts from the picture.

Would love to see this in the darkest of nights with the thin green candles lighting up the filigree chandelier.
But that's just me!...