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Re: Color Change - color names
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lugnet.lego
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Date:
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Thu, 6 May 2004 01:42:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Salm wrote:
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I have tried to use the new Nazi grays and muddy chocolate brown colors for
making my creations and I still find those colors unacceptable.
PS. I don’t care what the offical names for the new colors are, I will
always refer to them as Nazi Grays and Muddy Brown. Those names are suitably
evil for colors that truly deserve them. If TLC wants to be known as the
company the produces toys in Nazi Gray colors, so be it!
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Awesome naming method! I had just gotten used to calling old/classic Grays &
Browns “True Gray” & “True Brown,” and the new grays and browns “false gray” and
“false brown.” I like your nomenclature better though. I think I’ll start
using it.
We could also call the new dark gray “Confederate gray” and thus
equate it with the evilness of slavery.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Color Change - color names - a more serious note
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| (...) I have been having a bit of trouble with the Bricklink convention, that is the use of "bluish grey" (less with "reddish brown" however). It seems to me like a better solution would be to call them *cold* greys--which they really do seem to me (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.lego)
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Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Color Change - SLOPES WANTED
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| The solid news is appreciated. Personally, I still don't believe that the Lugnet community knows the true reasons for the color change. Also, I don't think we have heard of the "good" effects these changes were supposed to produce. I have been (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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