Colo(u)r Connotations

[David]

I have a grandson whose middle name is Dashiell.

[Ken, Moderator]

Hammett time! (My dog red his mind.)

[David]

I nominate Elmoore Leonard for the Nobel.

[Ken, Moderator]

Benjamin Moore's colorful cousin?

[David]

His Moroccan cousin, El Moro.

[Ken, Moderator]

Third cousin twice removed from El Toro.

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

Redd Foxx used to do a commentary listing the various shades of complexion among "persons of color" (the politically correct term at the time) that I wish I could insert here. Aside from the exigencies of lenghth, the memory has dimmed with time, but I do remember that it ended with:
light, bright, and damn-near white."

[Ken, Moderator]

I wonder what they called him when he was blushing: "Reddd Foxxx"?

[David]

My Blue Heaven (why is it blue?)

[Ruth]

It's only blue once in a blue moon.

[Savvy]

and nobody wears "Blue Suede Shoes" anymore! :-(

[Ken, Moderator]

I could never be suede to do so.

[David]

I was persuaded to sue the suede-shoed seller of suet, but I soon came to rue it.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

*Give me strength*!!

black dogs

[Ken, Moderator]

black holes

[Ruth]

bluestockings

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

bluebottles

[Ruth]

wild blue yonder...

[Savvy]

Out of the Blue

[David]

Le Rouge et le Noir

[Ruth]

Red Asphalt

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Red Buttons

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

the red shoes
red light district
red dragons

[David]

Black and white and read all over

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Sunburned zebra!!

jade-ed!

[David]

a nun falling down stairs

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Wouldn't that be white-black-white-black-white-black? Are you implying that nuns wear red undergarments?!!

[David]

Doth not a nun bleed?

[Savvy]

The Red Violin

[Ruth]

The Red Shoes

[Ken, Moderator]

The Unread Shoes

[David]

A not unblack rabbit runs not unrapidly across a not ungreen field.

[Ruth]

Whatever David's smoking, I want some too.

[Ken, Moderator]

Clearly not skunk.

[Catamorandi]

to black ball someone
white as the driven snow
blue period
green thumb
brown thumb

If these have already been mentioned, I am sorry.

[Ken, Moderator]

The eight ball is a black ball. If you're behind it, it's even blacker.

[Ruth]

film noir

[Catamorandi]

Red dirt (Hawaii)

[Ruth]

Redlands

(I used to live there.)

[Ken, Moderator]

Yellow River (Red China)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yellow peril

[Catamorandi]

itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini

[Catamorandi]

Blue Moon

[David]

purple prose

[Catamorandi]

The Scarlet Letter

[Catamorandi]

yellow rose of Texas

[Ruth]

yellow livered

[David]

lily livered

[Ruth]

liver-colored

(to get back on topic)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

liver spots