What's in a name?

You know the old Shakespeare line, would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?

Here's something you might not know about me, I love Crayola crayons.  I love the smell of them.  I love opening the big box of 64 and looking at all of them in their pristine condition.  When I color I try to keep the tips as close as original as I can for as long as I can.  And you can imagine my horror if you were to try to peel the paper off my crayons or gasp, God forbid, break one!!!!


I know, OCD much?

If you go to the Crayola website and click on to this page you can see the names of all the colors from the inception of the company.  The original eight are as you might think they would be named 107 years ago. Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, and Violet.  

Then as the years went by, they introduced more and more colors.  Lots of shades of the original colors.  And then the names were Red Orange, and Orange Red, Blue Green, and Green Blue.  Specific to what they were.

Then the 1990's happened, and the names became "cute".  Not what you would look for in an art store, that's for sure.  Yellow Orange became "macaroni and cheese".  Do you think any kindergartener today knows what color Timber Wolf is?  Or why it is called that?

Purple Mountain Majesty is a pretty name for a purple.  But I am going to have to quibble with "Tickle Me Pink".  Does anyone here besides me remember Boone's Farm Tickle Pink?

I went online to find a picture of it, but it is sadly a retired flavor (may it rest in peace).  Here is a picture of it's older cousin, Strawberry Hill.

Not exactly the mental picture I want when I am choosing a crayon.

And what color exactly is "Inch Worm"?  That is one of the new 120 colors available.

Here on this page you can see all of the current 120 colors and decide which color names are good and which are stupid.  Then hop over to this page and see how your favorites rank against everyone else's choices.