I shall start with the question that has plagued mankind for half of an eternity…is blue round or square? Now we all know that yellow is round (and drinkable as Tommie himself has proven…this is a true credit to him and I encourage everyone to look into yellow elephant) and red is square, but what is blue. Now it has been purported that blue is in fact a square with rounded edges…I say that is in fact simply avoiding the real question and offers no intellectual understanding. In my opinion blue has no choice but to be round…how else can you explain a blue moon. While I’m not an expert by any means on the shapes of colors I do not believe that I am an intellectual moron…these are questions of intuition that every intelligent individual must agree upon. However I shall offer further evidence for my case for the few that might claim that blue was in deed square…I point to the sky and it testifies to the validity of my statement…if blue were square you would certainly see sharp edges in the sky…I challenge you to find me one. Not to mention the blueness of the water that surrounds us…show me square water and I will show you water that longs to be freed.
Conclusion…Blue is Round!!!
(for those that feel that you just completely wasted five minutes of your life...I may offer some explanation in my next entry...you never know)
13 comments:
Haha, this is your funniest post so far.
Yeah, we all agree that yellow is round. But blue is more string-like to me.
String-like...really? I suppose if you look at water and immediately think of polymer solutions than I would say you have a case, but that is a deception because the polymer stainds aren't actually blue. So interesting point, but to me it doesn't stand up against round.
Joel, very nice pun...I actually love puns.
Now you really put down a tough question...what COLOR is blue to me? Man I've always thought blue was, well blue.
As for how I survived myself, I responded in the comments of that blog...Brian Factoids...read it.
What about the blue water in a fish tank?? That's cubic!! But it may have round edges... plus, think of the blue pebbles at the bottom of the fishtank... okay, my vote is for square with round edges... because it's either a sphere or a cube. Put them together and what do you get??? Blueberry muffins!!!
Sorry, Brian, I would like to agree with your logic since you are my boss and you pay me the big bucks, but I have to agree with science!
Joel, excellent pun!
And what color is blue to me (I know you are all dying to know)? It's the color of defenestration. Think about that!!
Ciara if you can not see that the fish tank water is in an unnatural state and longs to be freed from the chains of oppression than there is no arguing since this is an intuitive statement. However I do enjoy your blueberry muffin conclusion, but once again is only proves my point...BLUEberries are round...I'm amazed at how blind the world is.
Brian!! The BLUEberries in blueberry muffins are smushed- hence SQUARE with ROUND edges!
Listen, I think this all relates to your blog entry on evolution: are you asking if blue was originally meant to be round naturally or does blue exist as round because of what humans have done to it? Because then we're arguing about different sides of the same coin (?), right? Or, maybe that's the same side of different coins? Whichever, it's a square coin with round edges!
Ciara, you make a good point about our reshaping of blue, but I believe you are missing a key point. Square with round edges isn't an option...round OR square. While there maybe exceptions to the rule, blue as it appears in nature is clearly round.
So if water in a fish tank longs to be freed, doesn't water in the ocean long for the same thing? Isn't it just in a larger tank? Really is there such a thing as freedom for water? Would it require a zero-gravity field? And what shape would it take then? Would it take a crystalline shape due to its polar (sometimes bi-polar) nature? Speaking of crystalline, when it freezes doesn't it take on a hexagonal shape or something? And if you ever go skiing you're bound to see blue squares all over the place.
In all seriousness, I think of blue as square because it's the color or science-fiction and organization, which is completely inorganic. Obvy.
Without even rambling I've proven my point.
Without even stammering I shook up this joint.
I wish was a sausage, I wish I was an omelette.
Cut up and fried in a big bowl, like momelette.
I am almost convinced by the blue man. The arguement is classic.
Fine I'll concede...the feeling that blue is round is certainly not the majority. I'm alright with that...I guess. While I disagree (and feel I have a strong case), I'll admit that most people feel blue isn't round. However I stress the fact that those arguing have never made a solid case for square, but only dispute the statement that it is round...other shapes are not an option.
Hey, that's what I feel. String-like (or rays)!!!
Guys! Blue Man is Kevin! Obvy!! So much for anonomimity. And for spelling things right.
I do like linear things. With curved edges!
I think I just do not like points- both points that can prick and points in conversations. :)
Now that Brian is giving up his argument, I think that blue is looking more and more round... :)
So, I know I am a little late to jump on the commenting bandwagon, but I just found this interesting bit of information in this book. "Wassily Kandinsky,an artist, teacher and believer in theosophy, spent much of his life exploring line, form and colour. While at the Bauhaus he sent a questionnaire to all the members of the school to gauge their views on the synesthetic relations between shape and color.[i am not going to link, but you really should look up synaesthasia, fascinating!] The majority of the studenst chose yellow for the triangle, red for the square, and blue for the circle. This confirmed Kandinsky's thesis."
However - the author of the book repeated the questionnaire in 2000 with 18 students with different nationalities and backgrounds. The results(abbv):
7 - y tri, r sq, b cir;
4 - b tri, r sq, y cir;
4 - r tri, b sq, y cir;
2 - y tri, r sq b cir and
1 - r tri, y sq, b cir.
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